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In Malaysia, we're already in the second week of our one-month self-quarantine in accordance with the Government's Movement Control Order mandate. Many of us have been working from home and doing whatever we can to pass the time, including playing video games, of course. Your family members or housemates may be berating you for gaming too much dur...
Update 11/3/2020: It's official, folks. The ESA has announced that E3 2020 has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak. Their official statement (via Gamespot) reads: After careful consultation with our member companies regarding the health and safety of everyone in our industry, our fans, our employees, our exhibitors and our lo...
Creative production company iam8bit has announced that they are resigning from their role as E3's Creative Director. "We’ve produced hundreds of gaming + community events and it was a dream to be involved with E3. We wish the organizers the best of luck," they wrote on their Twitter page. https://twitter.com/iam8bit/status/1235686367264301...
Remember a time when people had to watch their kids and what they play? Now, you have to watch what they watch for free. It could lead them to be obnoxious aggressive bratty online gamers. A couple of days ago, pro streamer Ninja shared this insight on losing with many of us on Twitter. https://twitter.com/Ninja/status/1229888740698599424Keep...
Remember when Blizzard was working on a StarCraft third-person shooter spinoff titled StarCraft Ghost back in the early 2000s? Around two decades later, an early playable Xbox build of StarCraft Ghost has apparently leaked online. Twitter user Andrew Borman shared screenshots of the leaked build on his account, though he claimed that they were tak...
Hackers are responsible for using a kid's Microsoft account to purchase a whopping 36,000 FIFA points. Because of this incident, the mother of that kid, Lesley Urwin, kept in contact with Microsoft for 11 months. The company later ruled that there was no evidence of fraud. Still, the mother continues to claim that the hackers were the ones at faul...
It all started when someone in Malaysia started complaining that he couldn't connect to the online Ubisoft servers when playing Rainbow Six Siege. There have also been reports of those not being able to log into Rockstar Games' servers when playing GTA Online or Red Dead Online. Local gamers then went into a furore on social media when TM UniFi's ...
Steam broke its own peak concurrent user count earlier today, reaching a whopping 18,801,944 at one point according to tracker site SteamDB. The previous record was 18.5 million two years ago on 6 January 2018. However, that doesn't mean that the number of users who actually played games were nearly as high. In actuality, the number of players in-...
Sony has launched a PlayStation 2019 Wrap-up report for all PlayStation gamers. Users can log into the company’s website with their PlayStation account or just head to the link in the tweet below to see a page that reveals their personal gaming stats for the year. Reflect on a year of gaming achievements and milestones. What did you get?htt...
The world's first-ever Super Nintendo World is slated to open at Universal Studios Japan in summer 2020. In anticipation, Nintendo has released a new music video with an original song by world-class hitmaker Galantis and worldwide popular singer Charli XCX. The music video doesn't actually show us what the Super Nintendo World will look like, but ...
2019 was a slow time for games, understandable since its the end of the Xbox 1 and ps4s life cycle, and everybody's focusing on 2020. However, a few gems and surprises did get released. Here's my best of 2019. *Note that I didn't play Control and Sekiro due to my reluctance to touch anything from From Software; lol. 10. Days Gone Zombies. Lots of ...
YouTube gaming guy Pewdiepie and his brand of content are now banned in China. That's a pretty big deal considering the guy has over 101 million subscribers and is a worldwide phenomenon. During his 19th October upload (a few hours on 20th October, give or take, so this is still pretty fresh), his content is banned because of how he reacted to a p...
"They're not lootboxes, they're surprise mechanics," - Kerry Hopkins, EA's VP of legal and government affairs. Jim Sterling recently released a video on how the predatory nature of video game monetization has resulted in dangerously unhealthy habits. Out of many issues, the video highlights how lootboxes are turning the games we love into traps of ...
So much for the 30-day ban, eh Twitch? Just two weeks after his channel was suspended for toilet trouble at E3 2019, Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm, is now back on Twitch (via Dexerto). To recap, he got his E3 privileges revoked and his Twitch channel darkened following his multiple IRL sessions in the many toilets of the LA Convention Centre. Twitch d...
Can't wait to find out more about Google Stadia a few days before the biggest video game announcement week? Yeah, us either, yet here we are. Google just posted its upcoming game stream service presentation on its Stadia Twitter page. It's set for 6th June 9am PT/7th June 12am GMT+8 (midnight, a minute after 6th June 11:59pm) and will reveal new g...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently voted to identify 'gaming disorder' as a health condition. The decision was initially drafted into the updated International Classification of Diseases (ICD) last year, members of the assembly unanimously agreed to the draft yesterday, despite objection from academics, industry groups, and government...
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently made waves when it officially classified gaming disorder as part of its International Classification of Diseases (ICD) at the 72nd World Health Assembly. It has since inspired mountains of backlash and responses from gamers around the world on social media, as they voiced how much gaming means to them an...
A few hours ago, Kotaku writer Jason Schreier interviewed US Senator Josh Hawley about a new anti-loot box bill that will be introduced and put in motion to the US Senate in the near future. Whether Hawley is an advocate for video game players and their psychological state, or whether he's an ambitious politician who sees a win-win situation in thi...
In an unexpected turn of events in what might spell the end of the long and arduous console wars, Sony and Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership focusing on developing gaming and cloud technology. What does this mean for the PlayStation and Xbox brands? According to the official statement given by Microsoft, they will work together with...
Google has finally revealed more details and information about Google Stadia, their upcoming new video game streaming service. A demo was available at last week's Google I/O 2019 event, where invited journalists were able to try out the new technology, along with the Stadia controller. How Does Google Stadia Perform? Instead of running natively o...
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