Good news for all you Dragon Quest 11 fans out there, as the game has proven to be an incredible success for Square Enix. The developer announced that total worldwide shipments and digital sales for Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age have exceeded four million units. According to the press release, this impressi

Junichi Masuda is a legend, having worked on every mainline Pokémon game since Pokémon Red and Blue in 1996. Unfortunately for fans of the franchise, the upcoming Nintendo Switch exclusive Pokémon Let's Go Eevee and Let's Go Pikachu will probably be the last Pokémon RPG to be directed by the games industry

The Atelier series is known for its calm and collective atmosphere, its strong female cast, and its penchant for having people use magic alchemy to create many things ranging from bread to bombs. In other words, there's fun to be had if you don't mind some anime fluff in your story. Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer

Guess past rumours aren't what they seem: Malaysia will be getting the upcoming Asus ROG Phone a little later than usual with quite a price tag. The Asus ROG Phone will cost you a mere RM3,999. Let's break it down: You can get one version of the phone for RM3,499 with 128GB storage space. The RM3,999 version comes w

As much as I like my old-school headsets with cables, sometimes it's fine to splurge a bit on some wireless tech as long as the audio fidelity justifies the price tag. With the Razer Nari Ultimate, your wallet's content might mysteriously vanish through impulse purchase. Probably mine too. What makes the Razer Nari st

Sony PlayStation has finally seen the light regarding cross-platform play in general. Starting today, the company has launched a beta for cross-platform functionality, with its first gaming subject being the incredibly-popular battle royale third-person shooter Fortnite. Here is the official statement from PlayStation

Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: JRPG, Anime Last year's Xenoblade Chronicles 2 came out on the tail end of 2017 and ended up becoming quite a gem of a JRPG. It's kinda old-school but has a lot of nuances to make the 100+ hour slog bearable, it gets better after the 20-hour mark, its combat system is fun, and its hero

And the remasters/remakes/current-gen ports keep on comin'. Square Enix recently announced the Romancing SaGa III HD remaster slated for an early 2019 release. The target platforms include the PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, PS Vita, iOS, and Android. That's a lotta platforms for a niche JRPG series and I for one

Grandia series fans, this one's for you. GameArts' RPG opus -that isn't the Lunar series- will be getting a remaster for the PC and Nintendo Switch. These games were fun because of their real-time-slash-turn-based approach to combat and its colourful-if-cliched storyline with a rotating cast. According to a Game Infor

Calling all fans of VA-11 Hall-A, the pretty awesome cyberpunk visual novel for PC that focuses on bartending, awesome chatter with corgis and sex dolls, and awesome neo retro-esque music (at least in my humble opinion). Developer Sukeban Games is releasing an upcoming visual novel set in the same universe called N1RV

If you recall the Disgaea series, that crazy turn-based strategy RPG from developer Nippon Ichi, you can stack your teammates atop each other to form a devastating killing machine. Feeling like they can top that idea, the devs announced a new 2D action JRPG that makes this mechanic its sole focus. The new game is call

Sony PlayStation made a preemptive strike a week before Tokyo Game Show to announce its slew of new titles. Let's highlight the best ones, shall we? Samurai Shodown Slated For 2019 https://www.facebook.com/kakuchopurei/videos/715437335484148/ We wrote about this earlier. Long story short: 2D weapons-based fighting, cl

Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Genre: Action game mixed with roguelike & Dark Souls elements Price: RM44-ish You don't need us to give you a score for the recent indie wunderkind Dead Cells, a 2D action adventure hack-and-slash game that's part multi-tiered Metroidvania, and part random level genera

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of SNK, Kakuchopurei and Retro DNA are teaming up to publish a series of weekly features about SNK, the Neo Geo, and its slew of first-party titles. This one's a personal OP ED piece to get the ball rolling. I remember browsing through a copy of EGM back in Malaysia at the Indian-owne

QuakeCon 2018 is up and running, which also means that Doom Eternal is already revealed to the public. And by god it's everything we want from a sequel to Doom (2016 edition). Blood, gore, arcade action, and a ton of big guns and baddies. And also some spiffy vertically-focused level design. That's always good! Here's

After aeons of waiting, we finally have goddamn Castlevania characters in a Nintendo Smash Bros fighting game, and the last boss from the Donkey Kong Country games. According to the latest Nintendo Direct video an hour ago, Simon and Richter Belmont are now playable characters in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimat

8 months after its debut last December, Nintendo announced that its megaton Nintendo Switch exclusive JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has sold 1.42 million copies. According to a recent press release, this is the biggest success Monolith Soft (the devs) has ever experienced throughout its 19-year history of making JRPGs.

Capcom, the folks behind making a ton of sequels out of old properties like Street Fighter and Mega Man, just released its first quarter report for the fiscal year 2018/2019 which concluded in March 2019. To quote what they started off with their announcement: "After closing its most profitable first quarter since the

After playing through a few hours of both Mega Man X Legacy Collection volumes, it's safe to say that this is the Mega Man X collection you need whether you're a fan or you're just curious about the series. Here are our tips on what you should do and what you need to know before jumping head-first into this collection

If you think Konami is going to bring a Contra reboot or a Metal Gear Solid announcement to Germany later in 21st to 25th August, you are sorely mistaken (though I like to be proven wrong here). The fine folks from the house that brought you the FOX Engine will be bringing in a couple of games for Gamescom, like Pro E