HAMSTER Corporation (Head Office: Tokyo-to, Setagaya-ku; CEO: Satoshi HAMADA; referred to below as “HAMSTER”) is happy to announce that “KARATE BLAZERS” will be released for Nintendo Switch TM and PlayStation®4 on November 27th, 2025, available digitally for Arcade Archives series by HAMSTER. “KARATE BLAZERS” is an action game released by VIDEO SYSTEM in 1991. Choose…
From a certain point of view. With a name like Viewfinder, you might be forgiven for thinking that somebody finally decided to capitalise on the picture-hunting format perfected by Pokémon Snap. Perhaps a chilling new instalment in the Fatal Frame series? Developer Sad Owl Studios is going for a different vibe here. The viewfinder in…
The game originally released in Japan back in 1994. If you’ve been looking for a new PC-98 title from the past to get stuck into and have an affinity for strategy games, then you’re in luck. “BNK” has just released a new translation patch for the space adventure game Progenitor, allowing players to experience Koei’s…
17 years later. When we first caught wind of Beyond Good and Evil 2 back in May 2008(!), we have to say, even then, we wondered if the stellar original wasn’t already getting a little old in the tooth to command a sequel. It’s never too late, of course, but would the interest be there?…
“I didn’t necessarily see them as a rival back then”. Final Fantasy arguably has the edge over Dragon Quest when it comes to global fame, so much so that it’s easy to forget that Yuji Horii’s series came out before Hironobu Sakaguchi’s. The early rivalry between the two franchises was quite heated in Japan, but,…
When I was a youngster I had the pleasure of playing the fantastic platformer of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Megadrive. A game which featured a ring collecting blue hedgehog, that could spin, run, jump and roll about, at the fastest of speeds in a battle against a number of menacing enemies and the…
You’ll need an original N64 to install the update, though. When we reviewed the excellent Analogue 3D recently, one negative we picked up on was the fact that flash cart compatibility was inconsistent. Some Analogue 3D owners have reported that older flash carts work fine, while others have said that more recent examples, like the…
This is the best CPU you can buy for gaming, though it’s also a very good all-round processor. If you need any other reason to buy one, you should know that this is as cheap as it’s ever been right now. Key specs: 8 cores | 16 threads | 5.2 GHz boost | 96 MB…
I got too greedy. My clone marines had purged the xeno hive, taking minimal damage, and were ready to extract. But as a faceless desk jockey working for a corporation in a grim capitalist retro-future, I wouldn’t let them. No, not when there was more loot to be found. On the bulbous screen of my…
Resident Evil Requiem’s director, Koshi Nakanishi, has made it abundantly clear that the two games which most closely relate to his latest work are Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 7, both of which you can buy right now at a sizeable discount via the Fanatical Capcom All-Stars Bundle. Requiem is a new continuation of…