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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...
It has finally come to this: a U.S senator by the name of Josh Hawley announced a bill that could change how triple-A companies and mobile game businesses run their operations (via Kotaku). Said bill, "The Protecting Children from Abusive Games Act", will ban lootboxes and pay-to-win microtransactions in "games played by minors". The latter bit wi...
Daniel Desmond Amofah, better known as former popular YouTuber and streamer Etika, was detained by police yesterday in Brooklyn during a live stream on Instagram with over 19,000 viewers. The stream in question only lasted 45 minutes, which began with Etika talking with the police and ending with him being escorted out of his apartment. During the...
Single-player games may not be dying anytime soon, but perhaps it's long overdue for the games industry to change its ways, at least according to Amy Hennig. She's a veteran games developer, having worked on games like the first three Uncharted titles, Jak 3 and the Legacy of Kain franchise. Hennig has been in the games industry for more than two d...
Far from its days of being merely a microblogging site, modern-day Twitter has evolved way beyond what it was pictured to be. In the multi-billion dollar world of video games, Twitter is now seen as an avenue where game publishers, developers and teams go to release information and engage with their consumers. Moreover, with the rapid rise of espor...
Numbers don't lie. No matter how much "hardcore" gamers may hate mobile games or regard them as not being 'true' games, they're still dominating half of the global games industry. Now, how about those games on Facebook? They seem to be overlooked by most people but the fact is that they're doing better than ever. According to statistics by Newzoo, ...
Blizzard Entertainment has received allegations of an unhealthy working environment, with a former employee has revealed racial abuse and discrimination happening within the company. Julian Murillo-Cuellar worked in the Hearthstone esports division in Blizzard since 2016 and it was a harrowing experience for him, which he detailed in a long Twitlon...
The top 10s of 2018 from Malaysia and Southeast Asia's finest are far from done! Our pals from Aksiz just released a sweet Disk-Aksiz segment talking about the best and worst of 2018 in gaming stuff. Your hosts Najmi and Izzat will be dishing out their personal top and bottom picks of last year, because New Year's just happened in case your New Ye...
Gamers and developers have long cited gaming as one of the entertainment industries with the biggest potential. Now we have the numbers and statistics to back that up, as the video games market is currently worth a whopping £3.864 billion (or roughly RM20.103 billion), making it larger in value than both film and music combined. According to the...
Several months after launching its Razer Pay in Malaysia, Razer has announced that it will be partnering with NETS to launch the cashless e-wallet service in Singapore by the first quarter of 2019. According to the press release, Razer is working with NETS to enable Razer Pay on NETS unified POS terminals, as well as with other major household bran...
With Dota 2 International season being the highlight this week, we're very sure that other new esports teams will want to jump in on this for next year's grand Dota 2 tournament, or even on any other esports-worthy game. But where should you start? What are the legal knowhows you need to know before forming a team so that you don't sign the wrong ...
Salud, fellow gamers. The weekend's here, so here is the top news for the week, all in video form. We covered a lot, ranging from that Dead Cell review controversy to the PES 2019 demo if you're into good ol' digitized football. If you're Singaporean, a belated Happy National Day to you and hope you're still rockin' it in your planned long weekend...
With all this cryptocurrency and e-wallet nonsense cropping up since earlier this year, it's no surprise that Razer plans to branch out to this pathway. The CEO Min-Liang Tan talked about it earlier on and wanted to make Singapore a cashless society. In any case, during a Malaysian press conference today, Razer has launched its Razer Pay e-wallet ...
The biggest game convention in Southeast Asia (apart from ESGS and Thai Game Show) is back again for another year. Yep, GameStart 2018 is made official and will happen on October 13 and 14 in Singapore, with a theme on "fantasy". Just like the past few GameStarts, the South East Asia Major (SEAM) tournament will also be happening. For those who do...
Nintendo surprised a number of us this early morning with a Nintendo Direct video. Only instead of a 30-minute tour de force, we got bite-sized announcements regarding ports and not-so-big exclusives. Take a look to see what we mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_u7g5BlfiY In a nutshell: -Nintendo Switch is getting ports of Dark Souls, YS V...
2017 is done and over with. Let's celebrate this lovely new year with, what else, a list of games confirmed for 2018. Or at least, the ones we know of since the past few months. We'll break it down into quarters so that it's easier for us to refer to. As for games that don't have anything more than a "2018" stamp on it, we'll just take a guess on ...
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