I doubt it satisfies your definition of "modern", but the GCW Zero[0] from some year ago was a Linux-based handheld with a MIPS CPU. You could make games in C +

I doubt it satisfies your definition of "modern", but the GCW Zero[0] from some year ago was a Linux-based handheld with a MIPS CPU. You could make games in C + SDL or Python + PyGame. Too bad they seem to have stopped development, but I still have mine and mainly use it to emulate 8- and 16-bit era consoles. [0] http://www.gcw-zero.com http://www.gcw-zero.com