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Whether it's Happy Pride Month or #tetapbangga, this month of June is the summer of LGBT pride. To celebrate this gay occasion, let's list down our favourite personality-driven gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender characters in video game history. Tracer (Overwatch) Openly lesbian, this British heroine is a champion and paragon to all hero...
Amazon's Invincible series has wrapped up its first season, and it's pretty epic. Sure, the spotty animation at times & the terrible music choices for key emotional scenes (think crappier versions of Post Malone's Spider-Verse song) can be distracting. However, the whole series delivers the goods from the optimistic storytelling and superheroi...
Sad news for many folks getting their Disney channel fixes on local cable networks. Disney will reportedly be shutting down the majority of its TV channels in Southeast Asia later in October 2021. The following channels will be shut down: Disney Channel Disney Junior All SEA Fox channels (Fox, Fox Crime, Fox Life, FX, Fox Movies, Fox ...
By Alleef Ashaari|January 26, 2021|0 Comment
Everyone can cosplay without any problems, right? That might no longer be true even in its origin home country of Japan soon. The Japanese government is considering creating more stringent and stricter copyright laws pertaining to cosplay. What this might mean in the future is that while cosplay that is not for profit will be unaffected and can ...
By Alleef Ashaari|January 15, 2021|0 Comment
AMD has always gone toe-to-toe with NVIDIA, but this year might finally be their year to come out on top. What did AMD showcase at CES 2021? A lot of gaming and graphics talk. But they didn't focus on just that. They also touched on other matters as well, including combating the COVID-19 pandemic, powering VFX in movies and TV series, next-gen c...
It's no surprise to see Hollywood and pop culture's finest do collaborations in artsy music videos these days. Shia LaBeouf (Transformers, Peanut Butter Falcon) and Margaret Qualley (Death Stranding's Mama) are the latest in a recent music video called "Love Me Like You Hate Me". With music by Rainsford, it's an intimate look at the relationship...
By Alleef Ashaari|July 9, 2020|0 Comment
If you're a fan of anime and Japanese pop culture, a ton of new collections are coming to Uniqlo Malaysia this month. These include (but are not limited to) Pokémon, Ultraman, Gundam, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gegege No Kitaro, and more. Here's when the specific collections will be available for sale: GUNPLA 40th ANNIVERSARY - 13 July 2020 Ul...
The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing and are making event organizers for gaming, comics, and pop culture expos very antsy about hosting events in the latter half of the year. The next casualty? This year's San Diego Comic-Con. According to a recent press release, San Diego Comic-Con 2020 is cancelled for the first time in its half-century histor...
So what's a Hollywood actor to do when he's not able to go out of his home during the COVID-19 lockdown that's happening worldwide? He paints Warhammer miniatures, that's what. When that actor turns out to be Henry Cavill, then people start noticing. The star of the Witcher Netflix miniseries and Man of Steel seems to love showing off his nerdy ho...
By Melvyn Tan|March 25, 2020|0 Comment
As the world grapples with the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, social gatherings are being minimized and events are being cancelled one after the other. Of course, that means that cosplay events are a no-go for the time being. Japan Expo Thailand 2020, held from 31 January 2020 to 2 February 2020 in Bangkok, was probably one of the last big cospl...
We are aware that the American football sport annual event known as the Super Bowl is considered a niche thing in Southeast Asia (except for expats). However, the event houses some of the most pop culture-savvy and most bizarre 30-second ads you'll see. True, there's a grand finals sport probably worth watching here, and there's usually a grand ha...
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...
By Syazwan Bahri|May 24, 2019|0 Comment
Collaborations between brands are no unique feat, just look at Uniqlo and their numerous sweet collaborations, bringing fans t-shirts with themes such as Street Fighter, Overwatch, Super Mario and Gundam. Oppo has collaborated with Gundam to bring you Gundam-themed smartphones and power banks, and my word, it looks astonishingly beautiful. Ch...
By Syazwan Bahri|May 24, 2019|0 Comment
Splatoon 2 is one of Nintendo's mainstay on the Switch console, so it's no surprise that it's getting a new soundtrack, featuring high-quality recordings of Off the Hook’s solo concert in Japan. There will also be extras such as some songs added in Ver. 4.0 that have not gotten official releases yet. The soundtrack album is officially named...
By Syazwan Bahri|May 24, 2019|0 Comment
Uniqlo is a company well known for its collaborations with pop culture to create sweet merchandise, for example, they have Overwatch themed t-shirts, Monster Hunter tees, and Mario tees. So, when Uniqlo set about holding their annual design contest last year, the chosen theme was Pokémon, and after a while, they announced their winner. Li...
By Syazwan Bahri|April 3, 2019|0 Comment
The Universal Studios Singapore (USS) theme park just south of Malaysia will have its first-ever expansion to host a slew of a new generation of attractions, especially those who grew up with Nintendo games and Illumination Entertainment cash cows. This S$15 billion (RM45 billion) investment by Resort World Sentosa (RWS) will see the expansion of ...
This story is still developing... It's that time of year again: 1st of April. This is a special day where we work harder than usual to sift out the bizarre news from the real news that is mistimed for this period. Behold, your April's Fool gags from your favourite/not-so-favourite video game companies, peripheral makers, and game devs. Discord ...
By Syazwan Bahri|March 28, 2019|0 Comment
Three Singaporean cosplayers who joined Cosplay Festival 4 in Kuala Lumpur at the weekend were detained by the cops, along with five Japanese, two Thai, and one Hong Kong cosplayer. That's a total of 11 people arrested and detained at Malaysian customs. The Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia conducted a raid on Cosplay Festival 4, a two-day event locate...
A few moments ago, our very own Comicslord talked about the recent Avengers: Endgame character posters that officially revealed who lived and who died in the last Avengers film. It's pretty sombre and sad for some. For others, it's a Photoshop opportunity to pay tribute to other dead fictional superheroes. Here are the best ones we've found so far...
By Mr Toffee|March 12, 2019|2 Comments
A new challenger has arrived! After doing anime/manga and Metal Gear Rising shirts, it's high time Uniqlo took it to the next level. Starting 15 April, they will not be blinking and be going for broke with new Street Fighter shirts, in collaboration with Capcom. Check out the designs below, from your dragon punch motions to your "Go Home And Be A...
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