Good news for Malaysia video game development: Lemon Sky Studio (LSS) announced that it had a hand in making Naughty Dog's action-adventure bleakfest The Last of Us Part 2 look the way it is and ship on time. Of course, this is another in a long line of stories where Malaysia's game development scene is nothing more th

Review written by Tenoq. Follow him on Twitter. It’s a brave new world for the anime industry and securing production deals with streaming platforms like Netflix is quickly becoming the norm. For a property as old as Ghost in The Shell, ditching the antiquated production committee system in favour of the Origin

Malaysia loves marsupials, at least the fictional kind. That's what developer/publisher King assume as they recently soft-launched Crash Bandicoot Mobile to select users in Malaysia. It's a small-scale playtest setting, but it may expand to more players over the coming weeks or months. So what is Crash Bandicoot Mobi

Few games out there have a cultural footprint as significant as Final Fantasy. Originally a fantasy role-playing game inspired by western titles such as Ultima and Wizardry, the first Final Fantasy in 1987 was a small project that followed four Warriors of Light as they set off on a grand adventure to save their world.

I don't usually play survival games.I've played and enjoyed shooters with survival elements, like Metro: Last Light and Stalker: Call of Pripyat. But if it's a full-on survival game with resource-gathering, crafting, constantly-draining meters, and (shudders) other people, I tend to stay clear. It's why I'm not writing

It's the middle of the week, and Steam has decided that it's the time to launch a brief visual novel sale (March 3 to March 6, 10 am PST; it ends on March 7, 2 am in Malaysia). Don't know what to pick? Don't worry, we've picked out some highly-rated visual novels and personal recommendations to help you out. Higurashi

When's the last time you've seen a film that pays proper respect to Gary Gygax's Dungeons & Dragons and LARPing? I'm waiting. While Pixar's latest 3D animation offering Onward doesn't outright focus on D&D, but it does pay homage to its numerous established fantasy tropes from tabletop fantasy games to collect

The 3rd of March is supposed to be the release date of the Final Fantasy VII Remake. Due to some extra polishing, the long-awaited title will take an extra month. Which is fine for fans, since they are used to waiting for Final Fantasy titles to drop. But a total refurbishing of a classic 1997 JRPG that made the genre

Aniplex USA has announced its new Aniplex.exe brand, which will focus on the wonderful world of visual novels. Their Twitter page also revealed that it will be publishing two visual novels on Steam this year. https://twitter.com/aniplexUSA/status/1232032516111863809 One of these visual novels is ATRI -My Dear Moments

The 14th of February is the day of love. Not just for your significant other or family, but also for a certain blue hedgehog whose movie recently came out and is seemingly better than Mario's live-action outing. Sega's capitalizing on that love with Steam deals for the weekend. From today onwards until 22nd February,

The Sonic The Hedgehog movie is out this week. Seeing the blue furball in action did trigger some unpleasant memories. No, we're not talking about the first draft Sonic we saw with the human teeth. This turn of events reminded me of the number of video game clones made to cash in on the success of Sega's first-ever So

Netflix recently announced the Locke & Key miniseries, which is an adaptation of the horror comic book series from co-creators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. Here's the trailer, which showcases a mansion, a group of kids, and some supernatural shenanigans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EonRi0yQOE And here's a

We are aware that the American football sport annual event known as the Super Bowl is considered a niche thing in Southeast Asia (except for expats). However, the event houses some of the most pop culture-savvy and most bizarre 30-second ads you'll see. True, there's a grand finals sport probably worth watching here,

Nintendo has published its latest financial report for last year that ended on 31 December 2019, revealing new sales milestones for the Nintendo Switch consoles and several titles. The Nintendo Switch has now officially sold 52.48 million units, overtaking the SNES' 49.1 million units and becoming the company’s

Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC via Epic Genre: A proper and fun No Man's Sky, with actual co-op at launch! Despite its backlash post-launch and its eventual "fix-er-upping", the sci-fi exploration game No Man's Sky had promise. It had players explore to the edges of the universe for new planets and places; it'

A true adventure has to incorporate elements of exploration. One of the reasons why we love video games is because they let us explore places and time periods that aren't accessible to us in reality. Outer Wilds is a game that nails that feeling of exploration. A lot of games try to create the experience of discove

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the PlayStation, in case you couldn't tell from your game-fuelled Facebook feed or on our front page of the website. 25 years ago this week, the first PlayStation was launched in Japan. It was the first home console to surpass 100 million units sold globally. Since then, PlayStation

You know a game is notorious and/or popular when it has its own cookbook. The Destiny series now has one courtesy of an Amazon listing, because why not? The book is written by author Victoria Rosenthal, who also did the Fallout cookbook. First off, we weren't aware that Guardians who hang around in The Tower eat at

Malaysia’s biggest gaming convention will be returning next month in less than two weeks. Level Up KL 2019 is set to take place at the following: Business Days: 6 to 8 November 2019 at CCEC Bangsar KL Public Days: 9 to 10 November 2019 at KL Convention Center The first three days of the Level Up KL 201

Platforms: Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC Genre: Another Konami travesty to outsuck Contra Returns It's honestly easy to pick on a company like Konami these days, what with their past questionable decisions and the way they're treating their game franchises as of late. Then again, they're making more money from their pachi