2019 is looking sharp and stellar for Gears of War fans. The trio of projects announced during last year's E3 may be out end of the year. We have the next mothership instalment called Gears 5 (they officially dropped "of War" this time around) for Xbox One and PC as well as a strategy title called Gears Tactics which i

These days, it’s not that hard to open up a tiny-as-heck video game company provided you have funds and you have your country’s current government having entertainment and media bodies supporting them with facilities and, you guessed it, even more funds. That’s pretty much Singapore’s Info-

It's the new year. Birds are chirping anew. The Malaysian King just resigned. A new ruling party is in charge. Singapore's still our neighbours, for good and ill. And we now have more games to look forward to because it's what we love to do to escape from real life if only for a fleeting moment. Here's a list of all t

In case you missed it, we did a pretty lengthy and bombastic awards feature spanning across 6 days just before 2018 ended. Why? Because we're timely and crazy like that. If you'd like to find out what the best and worst games/gaming trends are, just check out Days One to Five below. Just remember; it's just our opinio

It’s time to make merry, grab some Steam discounts, and hammer out those "Best of 2018" lists. As my fellow Kakuchopurei pals dig out their Year of the Dog highlights, I’d like to spend this time sniffing out five positive developments from the industry so far. It’s all too easy to count our losse

The dust has settled and we're ready to discuss the results of The Game Awards 2018. AAA and indie games alike won awards, with Red Dead Redemption 2 turning out to win the most awards but failing to win the (arguably) biggest award of them all (Game of The Year, which went to God of War). Here's what I thought of some

I took the PlayStation Classic for a spin recently. And while a few of the games deserved to be on the retro-throwback cube, I felt that there should be other worthy titles in the mix. As it stands, the motley of games on the mini retro console is, how shall I put it, lacking. I'm not saying I know better, but as some

Geoff Keighley's patented Game Awards show is going to be a thing this December. As such, we're curious about the nominees for this year's showing. We've got them now; turns out these picks aren't big surprises if you've kept up with your gaming. What's really cool is that you can also pick your favourite esports host

There are rumours abound involving Capcom changing up last year's fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite, clearly a fan favourite for FGC folks everywhere since last year, and rebrand it as Marvel vs Capcom 4. Let's be a tad fair: MvCI had some good points overshadowed by some major flaws, namely its aesthetics, r

Just a heads up: in this review, we will be treating Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout as a standalone game and compare it against other games of its genre such as PUBG and Fortnite. Having said that, is this brand new battle royale entry any good? Where does it stand compared to the two behemoths monopolizin

Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC Genre: 3D fighting game where weapons don't instantly maim people Update: I have tried out network play and so far it's good stuff when fighting against Japanese/Singaporean/Malaysian players on LAN cable. No disconnects save for some rage quit moments because some people cannot deal with m

From this mid-August until mid-October, we'll be releasing an SNK-themed retrospective per week as part of our tribute to SNK's 40th anniversary. This is in conjunction with the folks at Retro DNA & Versus City.  When you think the arcades and the 90s, what do you remember? Street Fighter? The King of Fighters?

Nintendo recently sold over 20 million units of the Switch; congratulations! That's definitely a far cry from the sales numbers of the Wii U, which is probably the worst-selling console next to the Virtual Boy. Hell, we're not sure if we should even count it in this grand scheme of equations. No disrespect to the late-

To say that the world is currently lacking in pirate games, or games set during the Golden Age of Piracy, is an understatement. We have like, what, a couple of them that are worth our time & investment? Sid Meier's Pirates!, the 2004 reboot of the previous game, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, the Monkey Island ti

You've seen the news and coverage about the big titles of E3 like that one Halo Infinite game and that one action game with Nero and his mechanical arm. But what about the smaller indie titles or the quirky games that were on the show floor? We're going to miss out on a lot of them; it happens, right? Have no fear: we

Last year, Tekken 7 and Marvel vs Capcom Infinite had single-player story modes that, for better or worse, felt a little different and tried to be a little cohesive with its made-up lore. Where did they rip the "play as different characters in the game's narrative" concept off from? Well, from the Injustice series of

2017 is done and over with. Let's celebrate this lovely new year with, what else, a list of games confirmed for 2018. Or at least, the ones we know of since the past few months. We'll break it down into quarters so that it's easier for us to refer to. As for games that don't have anything more than a "2018" stamp on i