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Asia Gaming Beat: 10 May 2025
This week, a big game from 2K Games gets delayed, making many publishers breathe a sigh of relief.
The Evolution Championship Series Japan 2025 takes place this weekend. It is a fighting game tournament where the best players compete with one another in fighting game titles like Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8. Its US counterpart will take place later this year.
Historically, these major fighting game tournaments have a low prize pool when compared to their peers like Dota 2 and League of Legends. And yet, I see a lot more hype for fighting game tournaments when compared to other big league MOBA or battle royale tournaments.
Nothing against them, but fighting game tournaments are the equivalent of seeing double elimination mixed martial arts tournaments, but with more fantastical moves you only see in kung fu action flicks.
Also, video game company SNK is hosting an end-of-year fighting game tournament with their own titles -the newly-released Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, The King of Fighters XV, and Samurai Shodown- with a grand total prize pool of US$3.5 million dollars.
It took fighting games a long time to reach that goal of a comparable prize pool to DOTA 2 Internationals or League of Legends Worlds, but they’re finally there. Let’s hope for a brighter future for fighting game tournaments!
Rockstar Games has released a new Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay trailer showcasing the characters and locales in Vice City. The game will be out on 26 May 2026; it’s been pushed back from its Fall 2025 release window.
Palworld is patching out various features in its gameplay due to the Pokémon lawsuit.
The FTC has lost its appeal against Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, meaning they’re allowing the now-completed deal.
After 19 years, the first Gears of War third-person shooter title will be out on PlayStation platforms this August in remastered form.
Indonesian developer Game Changers has announced a new title called 1998: The Toll Keeper Story, an adventure game where you play a toll keeper working during the late 90s’ Southeast Asian financial crisis.
The upcoming remake of classic Japanese role-playing game Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky First Chapter will be out in English on 19th September.
2K Games’ upcoming action-adventure crime title Mafia: The Old Country will be out on 8 August for PC, Xbox Series, and PlayStation 5.
During EVO Japan 2025, Kadokawa has announced the anime adaptation of Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games. The original 2020 manga is about a bunch of female students in a private school who practice and play fighting games in a place that forbids video games.
To celebrate Vesak Day, we bring up our favourite monks in video games.
We cherry-picked the best parts of the Borderlands 4 presentation from Gearbox Software during Penny Arcade Expo East 2025.
We also reviewed Doom: The Dark Ages, which will be out next week.
Captain Blood is a pirate-themed action game that was in development hell for 10 years, before seeing the light of day this week for PC and consoles. Expect adventures with cannon firing, pistol shooting, swashbuckling sword fights, and plenty of pirate shenanigans in a game stuck in the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 era.
Revenge of the Savage Planet is a first-person co-op sci-fi shooter where you jump, shoot, and collect your way across vibrant alien worlds. You also gain powers and unlock areas ala a Metroidvania title. Out for PC, Xbox Series, and PlayStation consoles.
Spirit of the North 2 is a third-person adventure title where you play an isolated fox on a quest to restore the lost guardians of the wild and return home.
Kotaku and Polygon creator/co-founder Brian Crecente has published an insightful editorial on the latter publication’s fitful birth and sudden “death”.
If you have 3 hours to kill, here’s a video of YouTube content creator Caddicarus talking about the good old days of PlayStation 1 game cheat codes. Yes, there was a time you didn’t have to pay for these.
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