With companies, tech execs, and outlets such as yours truly telling everyone over and over again—sometimes very literally—that it’s difficult to get your hands on memory right now and will be for some time, it can be a bit jarring to think about what the AI bigwigs are getting up to. I picture that scene…
Ratamatazz. Released at the height of the rhythm-action boom and following the march of peripheral-based music games, Patapon was a visually unique treat. The result of a collaboration between game designer Hiroyuki Kotani and French artist Rolito Giuli, this curio had you control a tribe of tiny eyeball creatures by tapping out rhythms on face…
Life is better on two wheels! This year saw the surprising news that Software Creations’ cancelled Barbie game, Barbie: Vacation Adventure, would finally be getting a commercial release, after more than 30 years (as part of Digital Eclipse’s Barbie Rewind collection). Remarkably, though, it seems that this isn’t the only cancelled title from the Plok!…
Last week, Gigabyte suggested Intel was working on a new wave of LGA1700 processors—likely a Raptor Lake refresh for expanded DDR4 support during these memory-constrained times. It has even been busy releasing BIOS files for B760 and H610 motherboards to ensure full compatibility once those chips arrive, which it expected was around “early 2027”. This…
Digital Switch owners will also get a discount. Publisher Neos has confirmed that two Shin-Chan games on Switch will receive Switch 2 ports on 4th March 2027. The two titles in question – Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation – The Endless Seven-Day Journey and Shiro and the Coal Town – will also receive…
‘Ah, finally, Super Mario 32 + 32’. I’m probably burying the lede a little. While front-facing Chain Chomp is undeniably nightmarish, the focal point should be that modder “BudFolk” has created a rudimentary build of the iconic N64 platformer Super Mario 64 for Atari’s insolvent console, the Jaguar. A video, uploaded by BudFolk this past…
What’s better than giving the hardware you already own a fresh lease on life? Dedicating your older tech to resurrecting even older supercomputers. At least, that’s if you ask the Museo de Historia de la Computación in Spain. The hardware history museum recently used 30 Mac Minis dating between 2012 and 2014 to resurrect the…
“It was kind of out of left field”. Former Nintendo employees Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang have stated that a 2021 Saturday Night Live skit involving Elon Musk dressed as Wario “was not received well” by Nintendo. This comes via the duo’s latest YouTube video in which they dive into SNL’s recent skit exploring the…
‘I’m still trying to make this work for around $100’. It’s a day ending in “y”, and so RetroRemake founder Taki Udon is excitedly sharing updates from their big batch of hardware dev projects. This time around, it’s in-game footage pulled from the FPGA SP – a handheld emulation console capable of running original Game…