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The biggest indie game darling of the month, A Space For The Unbound, is set in rural 90s Indonesia. While the entire game is in English (and other localized languages), the game's setting is knee-deep and authentic in its country's culture and setting. As an Asian-based games media site, we do recognize a lot of the game's references and allusi...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), PS4, Nintendo Switch Genre: Adventure game set in 90s rural Indonesia It's rare to see a January video game title at the start of a year to captivate and entice my jaded palette, much less one made by a small studio that took 7 years and even went through some publisher kerfuffle last year. Yet here we are: M...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Nintendo Switch, PS4 Genre: 2D action ninja platformer If you fondly miss 16-bit fast-paced action games like Shinobi 3, Hagane, and Run Saber, the two-man developer group Joymash will sort you out with 2023's first-ever arcade offering that slaps and slashes. Flip Out & Kill People Vengeful Guardia...
On 4 January 2023, Creative Technology founder Sim Wong Hoo passed away. He was 67. Sim founded the Singapore-based tech company in 1981 and has spearheaded the company since the beginning. For those who don’t know, Creative Technology is well-known for its Sound Blaster sound cards, wireless speakers, headphones, and even fancy soundbars. But...
The chairman and chief executive of Creative Technology, Sim Wong Hoo, has passed away yesterday on Wednesday. He was 67. The cause of death was not disclosed (via Straits Times), though Creative said he died peacefully. Here is the official statement: "On behalf of all staff of the company, the board expresses its deepest sorrow over the death...
Mat Kilau is out now for Malaysian audiences to endure and watch. We sure as hell did and we had some fun with it, albeit in an ironic way. While its fighting scenes are adequate and its aesthetics flashy, the film doesn't do justice in portraying the history of Mat Kilau and Malaysian history in a respectable light. For a film inspired by serio...
Konami and developer Digital Eclipse have announced the release date of its Ninja Turtles classic games collection, not wanting to be left out of the collection jamboree that Capcom started. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection will be out for PC (Steam), Xbox Series, Xbox One, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch this 30th August...
The end of June is going to become a tad dumber. Paramount+ just launched the first trailer for the follow-up to the classic 90s animated movie Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. The sequel is called Beavis and Butt-Head Do The Universe and it claims to be "the dumbest science fiction movie ever made", according to its creator and director Mike Ju...
Retro gaming fans: you're getting a new Cotton game. 2D shmup title Cotton Fantasy (or Cotton Rock 'n' Roll in Japan) will launch for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on 20th May according to publisher ININ Games. The upcoming English version will feature new playable characters with different mechanics and attacks, 16 colourful stages, and onl...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), iOS, Android Genre: Pixel remaster of beloved 90s JRPG It's no secret that Final Fantasy VI is the most beloved Final Fantasy entry out there. But to receive a respectful remaster while preserving its 16-bit SNES aesthetics? That's new, considering Square Enix loves to whore out its old games in not-so-pleasa...
Scott Bennie, the writer/producer/designer for Interplay's Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, and Fallout back in the day, has died due to pneumonia complications. He was 61, according to a recent Facebook page update. If you are not familiar with his name, you are most likely familiar with his writing and game design works. Back in the 90s he worked...
If you need an action RPG that hearkens back to the Quintet titles like Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma, you may want to check out this indie title named Anuchard. Billed as a civilization restoration action RPG from Indonesian developer stellarNull and international publisher Freedom Games, the game features a unique art style, a ton of creativ...
2022 and beyond may seem like the year of Sonic The Hedgehog. With the second Sonic The Hedgehog movie coming out this April, it's only a matter of time until Paramount producers start revealing plans for a Sonic Cinematic Universe. Lo and behold, we were right! Producer Toby Ascher who worked on Sonic The Hedgehog and Sonic The Hedgehog 2 said ...
Since its Kickstarter years ago, the throwback RPG Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes has been generating quite a buzz among retro RPG fans from the 90s since it's basically the revival of the Suikoden franchise, in all but name & licensing. Of course, to start the journey proper, one needs an introductory game of sorts using bits and pieces ...
Bob Saget, a stand-up comedian known for playing Danny Tanner in the 90s sitcom Full House and old Ted Mosby's narrator voice in How I Met Your Mother, has died. He was 65. According to the police (via Variety) His body was found unresponsive at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Orlando, Florida. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities are curr...
Right off the bat, 20 minutes or less after the first action beat and intro to a "still alive" Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves), The Matrix Resurrections does not give a s*** if you didn't do your research. It daringly jumps right into the deep end of the lore pool head-first, expecting you to remember the sequences and key points of the Matrix trilo...
It's like the mid-90s all over again, but with a smoother coat of paint. Square Enix has confirmed on a recent livestream that it will be releasing more remasters of the SaGa series by designer Akitoshi Kawazu, a few days after it has released its latest remaster of the PS1 "classic" SaGa Frontier. I say "classic" because it was a rushed game wi...
Never thought we'd see a figurehead of a country take over one of the 90s most prominent arcade game-making companies. In recent news via Twitter's Gatoray_KOF, SNK's majority of shares has been purchased by the Saudi-based Electronic Gaming Development Company; about 33.3 percent. That's not all though: the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salm...
If you love fantasy and D&D tropes made fun of anime-style, you've no doubt seen and read the Slayer anime/manga series which stars the sorceress-and-knight duo Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev. The series will be getting a 30th-anniversary event celebrated on 29th March 2020 that takes place in the Tokyo Dome City Hall. Called "Slayers 30th...
LEGO's immortalization of Friends for the 90s comedy show 25th anniversary will be out in full force this 1st September. Maybe. True enough, the show's iconic Central Perk coffee house (at 21319) and the main stars (Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Monica, Joey, Chandler) will be turned into a LEGO playset. The set includes the table, the stage where Phoeb...
