The mecca of competitive fighting game is back again for 2023. Now with a few new games in tow, Evolution Championship Series, or EVO 2023, will be happening next week. With many fighting games and presentations ready, it's going to be a treat for fans of the long-running genre. Plus, this is the debut of Capcom's S

EVO 2022 is already making history with crazy fighting game plays like a Street Fighter 5 pools match featuring Caba versus Uzura. The craziest so far is a player beating another with an unorthodox controller for a fighting game. A participant named My Wife's Son was competing in the Melty Blood: Type Lumina EVO 202

Platform(s): PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC Genre: FPS, Open-World At this point, the Far Cry franchise has been running for almost two decades now, but the open-world FPS formula has pretty much stayed the same. The series arguably reached its peak with 2012's Far Cry 3 (and its spinoff, Far Cry 3 Blood D

Remember the horror game Devotion? It was released in February of 2019 and was praised by many before it was removed from Steam after a few years. Why? Because the game contained an easter egg that depicted Chinese president Xi Jinping in a bad light. Also, GOG almost released the game in 2020, but it didn't due to

(Updated on 16 December 2020) In a bizarre turn of events, GOG has suddenly revealed that Devotion won't be coming to the platform after all. They cite the reason for doing so "after receiving many messages from gamers". It's unclear what that exactly means for now, but it's possible that GOG is referring to co

Taiwanese developer Red Candle Games has been through a lot with its first-person horror game, Devotion, which was removed by Valve from Steam in early 2019 due to assets that supposedly mocked Chinese President Xi Jinping. It's been that way for more than a year, until now. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbQ

The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed yet more event plans this week. The latest is the international fighting game tournament EVO 2020. According to an official post from the organizers, EVO 2020 at the Mandalay Bay is cancelled. Tickets will be refunded. However, the EVO team are planning on hosting online events this

In a surprising move by developer 343 Industries, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is now available on PC (again). Originally ported to the PC in 2003, this latest version of the classic game is a remaster, allowing players to switch between the original graphics or the enhanced updated visuals. This is the second gam

Horror game Devotion was removed from Steam last year, after a controversy involving art assets that mocked Chinese president Xi Jin Ping. While the game still remains unavailable for purchase, there is some good news at least, as Harvard University has made the move to preserve the game. Taiwanese developer Red Candl

Update: We'll just post the full video here. All 30 games in one awesome 30-minute video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW_5PFsUKHc We'll be posting all the write-ups and guest posts here. Roundups Our best stories of 2019 #1-#5: Sekiro, What The Golf?, The Outer Worlds, Astral Chain, Outer Wilds #6-#10: Ace Co

The folks at EVO Japan 2020 just revealed its prize payout chart and it clearly showcases which fighting game its organizers, publishers, and sponsors are solely focused on. So to recap, these are the 1st place prizes for the respective games. Street Fighter V: US$9,000. Tekken 7: US$9,000. BlazBlue- Cross Tag B

Singaporean professional esports team Impunity Esports, renowned for its top-tier Vainglory & mobile gaming team, will be dipping its toes into the fighting game division for the first time. The group has recruited three high-level Singaporean players into the fold: Ashley "Asher" Seek, Shane "Oreoz" Goh, and Cleo

Oh Metroidvania genre, how fast and bountiful you've flourished. Yet for every Hollow Knight and Axiom Verge out there claiming all the praise and awards, it would be nice to see a gothic vampire-laden horror-bound "anime" version of that. Especially from the king of the genre himself, Koji "I love whips & cowboy

Kakuchopurei is nothing without engaging stories, videos, and features. Thankfully, we have plenty on this here humble site and a lot of people reading them. Because of that, our numbers have tripled since last year, amounting to a million-plus viewers total, and is still rising up to this day. For that, we truly appr

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

The Game Awards 2019 just concluded, and it was probably the biggest iteration of the annual event yet. It featured tons of surprises in the form of new game announcements, trailers, reveals, and a slew of guest appearances. The "so-called biggest night in gaming" (as creator and host Geoff Keighly calls it) is certai

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, one of the toughest-yet-rewarding action titles of 2019, won Game of the Year at this year's Game Awards produced and hosted by alleged Death Stranding supporter Geoff Keighley. To which we say "good save", but let's not sour the moment. Sekiro beat out not only Death Stranding, but also Re

It’s that time of year again. After what has been arguably the most competitive season of the Capcom Pro Tour so far, the top 32 Street Fighter V players in the world will be gathering for the Capcom Cup 2019 finals - the culmination of the international esports fighting game circuit that is the Capcom Pro Tour.

Now that Netflix has its own dedicated team/division for Malaysia, it's easier to discover what's coming to our own regional lineup. The official Netflix Malaysia Twitter account has revealed everything new that's arriving here in December 2019, which you can check out below. 6/12: Marriage Story Three Days of Christm

Southeast Asia’s ultimate celebration of the best of Western and Asian pop culture will be returning next month in less than two weeks. Singapore Comic Con 2019 is set to take place at the Marina Bay Sands - Sands Expo and Convention Centre from 7 to 8 December 2019. Tickets are now available to purchase on the