Rave Racer? Time Crisis? Alpine Racer? Cast your vote! One of the most welcome retro-related events of 2025 so far has to be Hamster’s recent Arcade Archives releases, which now include 3D games made for Namco’s legendary System 22 arcade board. So far, we’ve had Ridge Racer (1993), Air Combat 22 (1995) and Aqua Jet…
It’s a classic videogame story: an exciting announcement trailer gets everyone foaming at the mouth and then… nothing. For absolutely ages. There’s a common refrain from developers and publishers: “We announced the game too early.” But the marketing machine cares not. In related news, we’ve finally heard a bit more about Jurassic Park: Survival, largely…
The tech world has been going wild over AI since we first started hearing about generative language models and the likes. Things have only escalated with more companies adopting AI powered computing, driving demand for capable hardware. We’ve seen this with Nvidia’s AI GPUs coming under hot demand for data centres, and now Samsung appears…
Those of us running Intel CPUs have had a bit to worry about in recent years. The company has not been doing too well with huge losses, layoffs, and disappointments surrounding some of its recent technologies. Anyone keeping an eye on the Intel Application Optimisation tool (APO) may have also noticed there’s been a lack…
The world of 4K webcams feels like it’s come on leaps and bounds in the last year or so. Despite this, 4K is still a mostly superfluous resolution for webcams to support right now. With some apps not even supporting 4K and other apps (looking at you, Discord) requiring you to pay more just for…
It’s no secret that the M87A1, the only shotgun in the Battlefield 6 open beta, is completely broken, especially with slug rounds that let it cross-map players in one tap. In fact, Battlefield community lead Kevin Johnson has confirmed that this weapon has already been toned down on the latest internal build. Ignoring the elephant…
It’s been a confusing couple of weeks regarding the US governments position on Intel. President Trump heavily criticised its new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan last week, calling for his resignation, before changing his mind after a face-to-face meeting mere days later and singing his praises instead. Now Bloomberg is reporting that sources have said the Trump…
“A high-difficulty 3D dungeon RPG”. Hummingbird Soft’s PC-88 horror RPG Diable De Laplace is coming to Nintendo Switch next week, as part of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues. First launching in 1987, Diable De Laplace (which is also referred to in various places online as Laplace No Mia and Laplace’s Demon) originally debuted…
Three Who’sthis? Cast your mind back to 2022 and you might remember Dark Deity, the fantasy turn-based RPG that took more than a little inspiration from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Fast forward to the present day and we have Dark Deity 2, the second entry in the series which looks just as tied to the…
Toaplan’s classic flies again. Toaplan’s Tiger-Heli is rightly regarded as one of the most influential shmups of all time, so it’s somewhat surprising that it hasn’t been ported to more home consoles. For many years, Micronics’ much-maligned NES port was the only way to experience it outside of the arcade, and while it has made…