“I was surprised at how it felt almost exactly like playing back then”. Aqua Jet is available now as part of Hamster’s Arcade Archive range, bringing Namco’s 1996 jet ski coin-op to the home for the very first time. Arcade buff @yggdrasill_SIM / AEX-RYU has revealed that he was involved with play testing the Arcade…
MicroSD cards feel a bit behind the times, don’t they? While I’ll always be impressed by just how much storage can be squeezed into such a tiny footprint, they’re rather slow, ponderous affairs to use in practice, particularly in regards to gaming devices. Enter Biwin, a giant in the space of memory and storage that…
Smooth sailing on Switch 2. Pokémon Legends: Arceus isn’t a perfect game by any means, but that didn’t stop it from syphoning all of my free time when it launched back in 2022. This was the first time in a while where I truly felt the desire to “catch ’em all”. While Arceus still borrowed…
Are you the sort of person who really, really likes to know what your PC is doing at all times? Good, we can be friends. Ordinarily, I rely on a host of third-party apps to see exactly what my machine is up to while gaming—but according to Valve, the latest beta update to its in-game…
While I do love my PC gaming, my affinity for hardware doesn’t stop there. It extends into most facets of my life, but one of my favourites has to be music. Synthesisors are easily one of the coolest things humanity has ever developed. I love seeing these machines that change the shape of sound to…
Right at the front of your PC sits one of the most personalised peripherals of all time, the gaming keyboard. There’s not a device out that comes with more options, be it type, switch, keycap, size, lighting, and more. Something we haven’t seen a tonne of in recent times is low profile boards, which seem…
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…