Microsoft has announced the next wave of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in early November 2023, which includes the highly anticipated action-adventure Yakuza spin-off, Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. Even if you're not a fan of the Yakuza series, players can look forward to football management, a fa

Publisher Humble Games and developer Stairway Games have announced their anticipated tropical farming sim, Coral Island will be leaving Early Access on PC after over a year and will be getting a 1.0 release for consoles and PC in November. Coral Island is a farming simulation game that draws inspiration from pop

If you want a cozy building-slash-JRPGing game, Pixelshire might be for you. Heck, you can try out the game's demo right now.  Developer Kappa Bits and publisher Merge Games have released a brand new PC demo for Pixelshire, which lets you play the first 5 days. You'll get to learn how to terraform land, build the v

This here's a guest post that goes with our Best 30 Games Of 2022 feature. Check out Nat's Twitch work here. She's also the EIC of The Magic Rain. When everything normal about the world was uprooted two years ago, like many others, I turned to streaming as a source of comfort and variety. First beginning as a viewer

Here's one of our guest posts for the end of 2022 from our lovely pals and industry friends. Go check out Arief's work at Twitch.tv.  To say that 2022 has been an eventful year in the Southeast Asian games industry is a deep understatement. This year we’ve seen everything from the return of major in-person trade

Move over, dad God of War; there's a new sheriff in town. Stray has become the highest user-rated game on Steam this year according to aggregate site Steam250. As of now, Stray's rating is at 8.61 based on 42,665 mostly positive votes. For comparison, God of War (2018) has a score of 8.56 based on 53,101 mostly posi

Update: added new GIFs of the game's many areas. Life sim games are always going to draw a huge crowd be it a Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, or even an online game like Second Life. Disney wants to cash in on it with its new game Disney Dreamlight Valley. As you can tell from the trailer below, Disney Dreamligh

From late December to mid-January 2022, we'll be revealing our top 30 games of 2021 bit by bit. Here's number 13! #13: Moonglow Bay Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series, PC If there's a title that adds an incredibly relaxed vibe to an ever-growing tense games list, this RPG-lite using voxel graphics will fit the b

Steam, that digital distribution PC platform everyone loves to get discounts from, just released its list of top-selling games of 2021. The games are divided into a number of tiers: Platinum (1st to 12th place), Gold (13th to 24th place), Silver (25th to 40th place), and Bronze (41st to 100th place). Basically, 2021

The Lion Speedrunners Assembly will return at the upcoming Singapore Comic Con 2021 with another great event for fans of speedrunning. For those unfamiliar, they organised the first speedrunning event in Singapore two years ago and have since been active in the local scene, including joining charity live streams and mo

There comes a time when one gets overwhelmed with so many games, they have no choice but to give a short impressions list of games in a one-pager feature. Here is one of those times. I'll be going through some indie titles that need some mentioning. Why? Because these slew of titles are really fun for the first few

If you're sick of triple-A games, this online presentation is for you. Xbox is giving its livestream platform for its indie game partners, featuring new titles that are slated for 2021 and 2022 (or beyond). Here's what we have: Lightyear Frontier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2WMoUwHVeo You pilot a mecha

Congratulations, Valve. As of 2nd January 2021, Steam's all-time peak concurrent connected user count has broken the 25 million mark (via SteamDB). The actual number is 25,415,080. For reference, 8.1 million gamers were in-game in March 2020. So which games caused this 25 million all-time peak? Counter-Strik

We're only a few days away from the end of 2020 and the start of a new year. Steam has unveiled its Best Of 2020 lists, including the top-selling and most-played games of the year. The Top Sellers category features Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze tiers. However, Steam doesn't exactly reveal how much revenue that

Platforms: Xbox Series, Xbox One, PC Genre: Relaxing management simulation on boat, but... No one lives forever. Unfortunately, that is a fact about life. So we have to make do with what we have and build our legacy as best we can. Or just live carefree; it's really up to a person, anyway. Spiritfarer is an indi

Have some money to spare during the weekend until the 28th of January 2am, PST? Then you should check out these Steam PC gaming deals. Here are our top picks during this auspicious Chinese New Year period, featuring a rodent known for carrying diseases worldwide being cute and cuddly. Black Desert Online Remastered (R

The Steam Winter Sale has begun, and with it comes a new sales mechanic and a bunch of titles with slashed prices. It'll last from today until 2nd January 10am PST. Customers can now earn Festivity Tokens by buying marked-down games or completing Holiday Quests. These tokens can be spent in the Holiday Market where yo

One of the great things about attending an event like Level Up KL 2019 is that I get to see a lot of interesting ideas and concepts in new games being made by developers in the Southeast Asia region. One of the more cuter ones I got to check out was Sushi Wildlands. Currently being developed by Singapore-based Mezme

Re:Legend isn’t just your run of the mill farming simulator. It aspires to be so much more. Malaysian games studio Magnus Games Studio released Re:Legend to the public through Steam Early Access as of 30th August. Although the game in its current state is riddled with bugs, don’t let the mixed reviews on

This news page will be updated on a daily basis. As such, this story is bumped up from its 25th June publish date. Check back here often for the best deals and recommended picks!  So yeah, the Steam Summer Sale has started and will last from 25th June to 9th July. You know what to do: splurge on games and make t