One of this year's premiere fighting game tournaments and expos, Community Effort Orlando (CEO) in Florida, USA, took place during the weekend. Many of the country's best are fighting for top spots in Street Fighter 5, Guilty Gear Strive, and other popular fighting games. Even overseas players like Thailand's Book and

If you're in Malaysia and are hankering for a fighting game tournament on a big and offline scale, look no further than Flash Vision's latest. Flash Vision has announced that it's hosting an offline tournament called FV Major 2022 on 5th to 6th November in Kuala Lumpur. The tournament will feature the following game

Arc System Works not only revealed the last character in Guilty Gear Strive's Season 1 Pass, but also shared some news about its other fighting game DNF Duel, based on the hit MMORPG from Korea. DNF Duel finally has a set release date: 28 June 2022. The game will launch for PS4, PS5, and PC. In addition, Arc Syst

The biggest fighting game tournament is making an offline comeback in 2022 from 6th to 7th August GMT+8. The games that will be in this year's EVO tournament are as follows: Street Fighter 5 Guilty Gear Strive Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate Tekken 7 The King of Fighters XV Melty Blood: Type Lumina Dragon Ball Fig

At the 25th DICE Awards 2022, Hazelight Studios' It Takes Two wins Game Of The Year, but it's actually PS5 exclusive Insomniac Games' Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart that was the biggest winner of the show. Besides Game Of The Year, It Takes Two also won the Outstanding Achievement in Game Design award. Meanwhile, Ra

Platform(s): PS4 (version reviewed), PS5, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series Genre: 2D fighting game with 3v3 and legacy mechanics If anything, SNK clearly knows its audience and niche. Rather than making a mass appeal 2D fighting game from scratch, the company sticks to what it knows best and just pile it on for its loy

A new gaming generation means another new King of Fighters game to rival Capcom's offering. The King of Fighters XV was announced and features a nifty art style, some new battle mechanics in its 3v3 combat, and the return of fan favourites. Here are the revealed characters so far, each with their own trailers. Team

From December to mid-January 2022, we'll be unveiling our favourite games of 2021. Here's number 7.  #7: Guilty Gear Strive Platforms: PS4, PS5, PC It's lonely at the top for Arc System Works, at least for 2D fighting games. It does help that this year's fighting game offerings are pretty slim, with no d

First up, happy holidays! The Kakuchopurei team will be taking a break from 25th December until 1st January 2022. Unless something breaking pops up news-wise, there won't be frequent updates save for our 30 Best Games post and probably something Star Wars-related. So. 2021. What a year, huh? Where to begin? To be

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

Fighting game fans and casual Korean MMO players had a chance to try out the DNF Duel open beta for PS4 and PS5 this weekend. Brought to you by the combination that is Neople, Nexon, Arc System Works, and Eighting, this 2D fighting game combines anime fighting with one of Korea's popular MMOs that's basically a 2D braw

The Game Awards 2021 just concluded, and it was probably the biggest iteration of the annual event yet. The show featured tons of surprises in the form of new game announcements, trailers, reveals, and a slew of guest appearances. Geoff Keighley Speaks Out On Games Industry Harassment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

It's been eons since fighting game fans had an offline community-filled event to celebrate and have high-level matches in, thanks to COVID-19 making offline events pretty unsafe. With the pandemic on the backburner and people getting their vaccines, offline events are making a comeback worldwide. CEO 2021 is no excepti

Nexon has released a new trailer for the upcoming fighting game DNF Duel, which is inspired by the Dungeon Fighter franchise. The game is developed by three studios, including Arc System Works, Eighting and Neople. Arc System Works is best known for their Guilty Gear fighting games and Dragon Ball FighterZ, while

The Game Awards 2021 is taking place on 9 December 2021, but Geoff Keighley has announced the nominated games three weeks earlier. Despite being plagued with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year has seen some pretty good games. What's interesting here is that Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks have gained

Miss the fighting game offline scene? Well, Flash Vision has the next best thing: a major online fighting game tournament. The fighting game group will be hosting the upcoming FV Major X Level Up KL 2021 fighting game tournament from 20th to 28th November; a nice long week of 2D tournament fighting among Malaysia's

If you're hoping to see a livestream of a major fighting game tournament series play out with players in the same space, do we have some bad news for you. The EVO 2021 Showcase in Las Vegas, dubbed as a triumphant return to form after 2020, has been cancelled. The organizers of EVO have announced this on Twitter rec

In one of this weekend's bizarre internet outrage, Square Enix's hipster-filled teen angst adventure game is getting a bit of flak, possibly from Chinese players and Steam users. See, Life Is Strange: True Colors (or Life Is Strange 3) somehow included the flag of Tibet in the game's Haven Springs shop. The flag its

The Persona series has made a big splash in recent years, having peaked in popularity with the critical success that was Persona 5. Originally a spin-off from Atlus' staple Shin Megami Tensei franchise, Persona has now become its thing, and the series has even found a steady spot in the hearts of avid JRPG fans. Per

The pandemic is still lingering in 2021, but that isn't going to stop Malaysians from getting their anime convention on. With Animangaki 2021 happening later this week & the next few, here are a few reasons why you should check out this year's iteration online. In no particular order, of course. #5. Loads of Artis