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By Melvyn Tan|November 18, 2021|0 Comment
Old-school shooters, retro shooters, boomer shooters. Whatever you call them, first-person shooters inspired by the 90s have been making a comeback in the last few years. Some of these are revivals of classics like Doom and Wolfenstein with fancy graphics and a modernized feel, while many others like Dusk, Amid Evil, and Project Warlock emulate the...
By Melvyn Tan|August 10, 2020|1 Comment
Originally published on 6th January, 2020. With 2020 on the horizon, now is the perfect time to look back at the anime this decade has brought us. Thus, this listicle will list 50 titles - in no particular order, and including movies as well as series - from the 2010s that totally deserve to be watched. Of course, a single viewpoint and a mer...
By Melvyn Tan|April 28, 2020|0 Comment
The upcoming Sword Art Online Alicization Lycoris game has been postponed thanks to the COVID-19 coronavirus. Originally due to release on 21 May for consoles and 22 May for Steam, it will now be out on 9 July for the former and 10 July for the latter. https://twitter.com/sao_gameinfo/status/1253579428480901121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweet...
By Melvyn Tan|April 24, 2020|1 Comment
Fortnite may be a ridiculously massive gaming phenomenon, but here in Malaysia, where I've yet to stumble on any Fortnite streams, it feels almost non-existent to me. And while Travis Scott seems to be quite the successful rapper - his third album, Astroworld, peaked at #1 on the Billboard charts - and has a child with Kylie Jenner, I wasn't very f...
By Melvyn Tan|April 24, 2020|0 Comment
Destiny 2 seems to be having a cheating problem right now, with developer Bungie saying that cheating "is up roughly 50 percent since January, and significantly more in the highest skill echelons". The information comes via a new blog post, where Bungie said that most of the cheating happened on PC ("unsurprisingly"). Currently, they're working on...
By Melvyn Tan|April 24, 2020|0 Comment
The COVID-19 pandemic is certainly messing up physical events. Over here in Malaysia, we've already had AMG-Chan being postponed, while the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League Malaysia and Singapore tournament is going for an online format. Despite all this, Level Up is teasing something for June 2020. ""Guess who is having meetings or i...
By Melvyn Tan|April 24, 2020|0 Comment
Ubisoft's The Division 2 now has a free trial, letting interested players sample up to eight hours of the base game on Xbox One, PS4, Uplay, and the Epic Games Store. The trial will give players access to both solo and co-op play, and progression will carry over if you end up buying the game. The trial also has a level cap of level eight, which un...
By Melvyn Tan|April 24, 2020|0 Comment
If you were bummed about Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0's second postponement, here's some good news: the first three Evangelion Rebuild movies are currently free to watch on YouTube, and legally too. You can also watch them on the EVA-EXTRA app, and the official website says that audio commentaries are on the way too (thanks for the translation, Anime New...
By Melvyn Tan|April 23, 2020|0 Comment
Zephyr, an ex-Advent and ex-Skirmisher hybrid who eschews guns for her fists, is a badass. When she first joins my XCOM: Chimera Squad team, all she has is a mean punch that takes out squishy grunts in one hit, while tougher enemies lose a nice chunk of their health and receive a negative status effect. 12 hours in, she’s got the ability to ...
By Melvyn Tan|April 23, 2020|0 Comment
I don't own a Switch, but it's easy to see how the latest Animal Crossing game has taken over the world based on all the memes and social media posts. So it's also no surprise to hear that the game has broken a sales record. According to Superdata, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 5 million digital units within a single month (this was based on ...
By Melvyn Tan|April 23, 2020|0 Comment
GPD have made an 8-inch handheld gaming laptop called the GPD Win Max, something which makes my mind go blank and my eyes blink in confusion. But it's real indeed, and it can apparently run games ranging from Rainbow Six: Siege and Apex Legends to Metro: Exodus and Red Dead Redemption 2. Of course, it's not running those games at 1080p 60 FPS, but...
By Melvyn Tan|April 23, 2020|0 Comment
Warhammer Underworlds Online, the video game adaptation of Games Workshop's Warhammer Underworlds deck-building board game hybrid, has left Steam Early Access. Set in the Mirrored City of Shadespire, the setting of the board game's first season, the video game currently contains all of the warbands found in that season, with more to be added as DL...
By Melvyn Tan|April 23, 2020|0 Comment
The Season 5 Playoffs of the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) Professional League Malaysia and Singapore will be held from 1 May to 3 May. The tournament will be happening online, just as others have done during this COVID-19 pandemic, with Yoodo as the official digital telco. The matches, which will be played every day from 2pm, will be streamed ...
By Melvyn Tan|April 23, 2020|0 Comment
The Mandalorian Season 2 isn't out yet (it's due in October 2020), but it seems that a third season is already in the works. As reported by Variety, pre-production for the third season is already underway. It seems that creator Jon Favreau has been "writing season 3 for a while", while the art department started working on Season 3 concepts a few ...
By Melvyn Tan|April 23, 2020|0 Comment
Fallout 76's wasteland - now on Steam - is finally populated by NPCs, breathing more life into it. Unfortunately, these NPCs seem to be different from the usual Fallout NPC, as they seem to have a habit of taking dead players' weapons. The issue was brought up in a recent Reddit thread. Lizardinosaurus wrote that events involving NPCs sometimes re...
By Melvyn Tan|April 22, 2020|0 Comment
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has added some stuff to its multiplayer, including a playlist whose name is rather apt considering our current circumstances. https://twitter.com/CallofDuty/status/1252703683235557376 3v3 Gunfights were introduced earlier this year, but Gunfight Trios is a "single elimination bracket style tournament where you must be...
By Melvyn Tan|April 22, 2020|0 Comment
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused numerous events to be affected, but that's not stopping PAX West 2020, which will be held in Seattle, from going ahead for now. In a blog post, they wrote that they were "still planning on putting together a great PAX West this coming Labor Day Weekend (4 to 7 September 2020) for you, and we will be updating our we...
By Melvyn Tan|April 22, 2020|0 Comment
A new Hunger Games movie is in the works, and it'll be a prequel focused on the series' main villain, President Coriolanus Snow. Francis Lawrence, who helmed all of the Hunger Games movies but the first, is returning to direct, Variety reported. In addition, producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, along with Catching Fire writer Michael Arnd...
By Melvyn Tan|April 22, 2020|0 Comment
The popular One Punch Man manga is apparently getting a live-action Hollywood adaptation. Variety reports that the movie will be written by Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner. According to their respective IMDb profiles, the two of them did the writing for Jumanji: The Next Level and the screenplay for Venom, while Pinkner also did the screenplay...
By Melvyn Tan|April 22, 2020|0 Comment
Infinity Ward is implementing new measures to handle cheaters in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone, with two features in particular standing out. https://twitter.com/InfinityWard/status/1252754414542061568 The first is that with the updated matchmaking system, suspected cheaters will be matched with other suspected cheaters. So if you want...
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