Cuisineer is out for PC and is a lovely roguelike and Diner Dash tribute mashup courtesy of Singaporean devs Battlebrew Productions. Because of how tight-knit the game development scene is in Southeast Asia, you're going to see some cameos and homages to other SEA games. Cuisineer is no different, as the game has ca

The Game Awards 2023 is taking place on 8 December 2023 from 8.30 am GMT+8, but Geoff Keighley has announced the nominated games. You can vote now on the official website here. You can also head on over here for last year’s winners and announcements. Survival-horror title Alan Wake 2 from Remedy Entertainmen

Toge Productions has just announced that a demo of their upcoming game, Whisper Mountain Outbreak, will be available soon. This isometric, survival co-op PvE multiplayer game combines horror and action elements for a thrilling experience. Players must work together to escape the cursed fog-covered Mt. Bisik. Thi

The legendary Kirby, Kid Icarus: Uprising, and Super Smash Bros. game designer Masahiro Sakurai has used two fine Southeast Asian indie games in his latest game design talk, this time on graphics and their impact on gaming fun. In his talk, he brings up two Southeast Asian gaming examples when going through titles w

This year's Level Up KL 2023 gaming B2B and B2C expo is a big one indeed. With companies like Shueisha on-board giving talks about game industry expansions, as well as publishers like Neon Doctrine and Toge Productions educating would-be developers and publishers, the weekend of 28 September to 1st October is a prime t

The annual SEA Awards during Level Up KL 2023 celebrates the best and brightest in the Southeast Asian video games business. From small-scale indie games to student titles, these are the games and companies that are worth your attention and adoration. Here are your winners for this year's SEA Awards.   Best

The Unity Engine came out in 2005 and has been a great cross-platform game engine used by many, many indie game developers to create their dream projects. The Ori series, Hollow Knight, Cuphead, Beat Saber, Monument Valley: you know an indie game, Unity's probably powering it. The company behind the engine, Unity, a

Mojiken Studio has been around a lot longer than you might realize. The Indonesian game studio, based out of sunny Surabaya, has been alive and kicking since 2013. Originally an outsource studio for illustration work, now the studio is known for being behind the global hit A Space for the Unbound. https://www.youtub

The Chef’s Shift by Panitia GameDev is a typing game where you’ll cook fun foods and serve them to customers, also there’s mention of the mafia. It was previously a game jam game, and it’s being expanded into a full project. On top of that, the Chef’s Shift is the latest recipient of the Toge Game Fund Initia

Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Xbox Series, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch Genre: Visual novel with 2D pixel art and coffee/tea-making In the Toge Productions-developed visual novel adventure title Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly, you take the role of a barista who serv

Yesterday's April's Fool offerings was varied, with mostly some winners here and there. Check out the jokes & nonsense posts below; it's mostly the ones that got a laugh out of us due to its creativity and the fact that some of them are full-fledged games. Toge Productions We start off with a non-joke(?); new

Indonesian games developer Toge Productions has released a new demo for their upcoming turn-based tactical mecha game, Kriegsfront Tactics. The Kriegsfront Tactics is currently playable on PC via Steam until 26 March 2023. https://twitter.com/kriegsfront/status/1638878650111258625 Kriegsfront Tactics is a proc

Get your chillax on with the upcoming Coffee Talk sequel, coming out on everybody's favourite free gaming service. Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly will be out on Xbox Game Pass for Xbox Series, Xbox One, and PC on Day One, which is on 20th April. The game is also coming out for Nintendo Switch and Pl

Toge Productions just hosted a 14th-anniversary livestream to talk about its games, and one of them is about the second Coffee Talk game. The next episode of the chill coffee visual novel title, Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly, will be out on 20th April for PC, Nintendo Switch, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series,

2022 is coming to a close, so what better way to celebrate than to spend your hard-earned money to increase your backlog of gaming even further via Steam's big end-of-year sale? The Steam Winter Sale 2022 is now live until 6th January (GMT+8). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-sbLEvINmk That's not all: you can

After quite a publisher-related kerfuffle, Mojiken Studios' upcoming adventure game will finally come out next year. A Space For The Unbound, the Indonesian-made adventure title, will be out on 19th January 2023 for PC, PS4, and Nintendo Switch. The game will be published by Chorus Worldwide Games and Toge Productio

Indonesian-made lo-fi adventure game Coffee Talk is getting a sequel, and it's coming out next year via Toge Productions and Chorus Worldwide Games. Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly will be out in Spring 2023 for Nintendo Switch and PC. The game will feature new characters like an opera-singing banshe

A while ago, A Space For The Unbound creator Mojiken Studio was in a bit of a pickle as their grant money was received by PQube and wasn't allocated for the game's development. It was a messy ordeal, but now that's sorted. Chorus Worldwide will be taking over the role of global publisher for Mojiken Studio for the u

The week of October 6 is when Malaysia and Southeast Asia's finest game developers and game makers gather in Kuala Lumpur for the annual Level Up KL video game business conference. After a number of years being online, this 2022 iteration is the first time the event is done offline courtesy of MDEC (Malaysia Digital Ec

[Updated August 2 2022] Game services such as Steam, Epic Games and PayPal are now accessible in Indonesia, according to the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) through an announcement on its Twitter account. https://twitter.com/kemkominfo/status/1554383471631831040 At time of writin