Occasionally, retro-publishers Hamster drop a title onto modern platforms that raises an eyebrow. I'm not sure where the market necessarily lies for Front Line, for example. But today is not one of those days, today sees one of the greatest...

A neat treat is coming this week for fight fans, as Hamster continue their odyssey to bring all of th Neo Geo classics to the Switch. Thursday will see the great Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers arrive on the Nintendo platform.Original...

Hamster have reached into their big bag of oddites this, pulling out a new retro release for Switch owners. Available now for your Nintendo console, its that well-known arcade classic Kid's Horehore Daisakusen.What is that? I can't really h...

Killer Queen is one of the best times you can have at an arcade, but right now it's pretty hard to find a game. It's a lot tougher to distribute arcade machines around the country than it used to be, so you've probably never had the opportu...

It may seem pointless to put time and effort into a video game just for it to award you with a virtual chicken dinner win...

Everyone enjoys Metal Slug, right? I don't think I've met anyone who doesn't. The simple, cool and addictive shooters are great time-killers and perfect for casual two-player action. Today you can find out for yourself, as Hamster have re-r...

Thanks to the retro-gaming fans over at Hamster, Arcade fans have a chance to revisit one of the oddest shmups of the late '90s, as SNK's Prehistoric Isle 2 is now available to download on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Released in 1999,...

This weekend contained a wealth of good news for fans of Arika's recently-released PS4 title Fighting EX Layer. Not only did we get some new characters teased, including a very special guest star, but we also received news of an arcade rele...

"This would be great on Nintendo Switch" is an over-used and often-derided statement, but sometimes its more than apt. This is one of those times, as DotEmu's port of classic '90s Frisbee title Windjammers is finally making its way to the N...

Arika has dropped a selection of exciting news beats in regards to their one-on-one fighter Fighting EX Layer. The news was revealed during this weekend's ongoing EVO 2018 festivities.First up, SNK's Terry Bogard (the male iteration this ti...

Konami's madcap multiplayer title Super Bomberman R has passed a total of one million sales across all formats. Bomberman himself decided to celebrate this milestone in style, by bungee-jumping off of a bridge in Japan.In the novel PR stunt...

SNK have revealed the final roster member of SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy and, as predicted, its none other than a genderbent version of Fatal Fury's lead hero, Terry Bogard.Terry, sporting her all new look and modified costume, joins the ...

Today the Gundam Base Tokyo, the largest Gundam store in the world and home to the life-sized Gundam, held a livestream. While its main purpose was to show the Hong Kong entries for the Gunpla Builders World Cup, a big surprise was revealed...

One of the lesser-referenced entries of SNK's classic King of Fighters series is now available to download on Switch, as Hamster re-release King of Fighters '97 on the Nintendo console.KoF '97 is the climax of a story arc that began proper ...

It is a rare thing that I would ever purchase a console for one game, and it’s usually for some pretty strange titles. Back when Katamari Damacy came out on the PlayStation 2, I bought the game before I even owned the system fearing i...

One of the reasons shmups were such a prevalent genre in the '80s arcade scene was the simplicity of creating an in-game universe. Just grab yourself a black screen to represent space, dot in some pixel stars, overlay your sprites and you'r...

This week sees one of the most niche, but coolest one-on-one fighters from the SNK back catalogue return on PS4 and Xbox One, as Hamster bring us Art of Fighting 3: The Path of the Warrior.The final mainline title in the Art of Fighting ser...

Pre-orders have opened for a line of 3/4 scale arcade cabinets from Arcade1Up featuring games like Centipede, Rampage, Ghosts N' Goblins, and Super Street Fighter II Turbo. The machines are a little under four feet tall, use a 17" LCD scree...

There are two kinds of people. And maybe sometimes some overlap in between. There are people who think Top Gear is a UK television show where the host punched a man on the face and now is on Amazon Prime instead. And then there are those wh...

A weird and wonderful '80s classic returned to the Nintendo Switch this week, courtesy of retro-enthusiasts Hamster. Buckle up and put the pedal to the metal as we take a look at Jaleco's bizarre racing/platformer hybrid City Connection.Fir...

Hamster dip into their big bag of sporting titles for this week's SNK re-release, as the supremely silly League Bowling returns for PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Originally available in the arcades 1990 before coming to the Neo Geo hom...

SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy will be upon us in just a couple of months now. NIS America have dropped a new trailer featuring almost the entire revealed roster, some info on gameplay and little bit of barely-discernible information on the ...

Razer (popular PC peripheral maker) and Capcom are teaming up to create the official Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite arcade stick. Priced at $219.99/€239.99, this PS4 exclusive piece of tech will be based on the Razer Panthera and include ...

The Strong National Museum of Play, located in Rochester, New York, is the home of the Video Game Hall of Fame, a collection of games, both arcade games and home titles, comprising of the glorious history of our favourite hobby. It also has...

Pop-up books were all the rage back when I was a kid. They were a lot of fun, until they got replaced by... I dunno... Screamer videos? Regardless, it was a lot of fun turning the page slowly and watching all of the cleverly-constructed pap...

While many of the Neo Geo titles Hamster have bestowed upon us weekly could be considered classics, this week's offering; The Super Spy, is unfortunately not one of them.First released in 1990, for arcades and the home Neo Geo platform, The...