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By Lewis "lickety" Larcombe|November 6, 2022|0 Comment
Korean dominance returns to League of Legends as DRX pulls a surprise victory over fellow South Koreans, T1—the three-time Worlds winners. The final score was 3-2. In a nail-biting Best-of-5 series, the finals went all the way to Game 5 when the underdogs, DRX prevailed victorious in what can only be described as the result of “a mir...
By Lewis "lickety" Larcombe|September 29, 2022|0 Comment
Hong Kong-based esports organisation, Talon Esports bid farewell to their Overwatch Path To Pro team and are stepping away from Overwatch after four years. Talon Esports has come out and announced that they would no longer be fielding a team in Overwatch for the foreseeable future. Talon has dominated the top spots in the Overwatch Contenders sc...
By Lewis "lickety" Larcombe|September 14, 2022|0 Comment
DRX proceeds to the lower bracket semifinal after eliminating EMEA's Fnatic in an intense three-game series that could have gone either. After losing to LOUD in the upper bracket semifinals, DRX was knocked into the lower bracket where they were pitted against Europe's finest in Fnatic. Fnatic was hot off a dominant win over fellow Europeans, Te...
The Korean action game formerly known as Project EVE finally has a concrete title: Stellar Blade. Stellar Blade will be out in 2023 and will be a PlayStation 5 exclusive. The game will feature a female swordswoman kicking a lot of ass, demolishing robots and demons in her way while also helping the downtrodden. Check out the hyper-action trai...
By Lewis "lickety" Larcombe|August 15, 2022|0 Comment
China will finally show what they got as their top seed, EDward Gaming secures the last East Asian slot at Valorant Champions in September. With high hopes that they will be able to obtain visas allowing the team to go to Istanbul, the roster will be Haodong "Haodong" Guo, Donghao "Life" Qu, Shunzhi "CHICHOO" Wan, Senxu "nobody" Wang and Yongka...
By Lewis "lickety" Larcombe|July 27, 2022|0 Comment
VCT Champions is just over a month away, and with it on the horizon, means that for some teams, this will be their last chance to play on the international stage for the rest of the Valorant season. But in fact, there are six slots remaining, one for each region, so I'm going to give you a rundown of the dates and teams competing for a chance to...
New data from industry tracking website AppMagic (via PCGamesN) has revealed Diablo Immortal's revenue from microtransactions, the very thing people are talking negatively about regarding the new Blizzard action RPG spinoff. And it's a doozy. Diablo Immortal has made US$24 million within the first two weeks of its release. Major whales and folks...
By Alleef Ashaari|June 7, 2022|1 Comment
YouTube show Good Game Asia, which involves games and streamers in a reality TV show-style contest, launched worldwide on 10 June 2022. Hosted by the husband-and-wife team of Singaporean music sensation Sezairi and gaming community lead Syaza Tan, the show features 15 international stars battling it out in a series of challenges for S$200,00...
By Alleef Ashaari|April 6, 2022|0 Comment
South Korea has chosen her champions for the upcoming 2022 Asian Games. According to a press release (via Not A Gamer) by the Korea e-Sports Association (KeSPA), the initial shortlist of players for the Korean League Of Legends team for the 2022 Asian Games include the LCK Spring 2022 champion and three Gen.G Esports players in the lineup: ...
The pretty hyped-up action RPG MMO hybrid Lost Ark, a game from Smilebit and from South Korea, is coming out in English thanks to Amazon Games. The catch? It's only downloadable and available in North America and Europe. If you're residing in Malaysia, Singapore, or anywhere else in Southeast Asia, tough luck! Or is it, really? There's a way ...
By Alleef Ashaari|January 6, 2022|0 Comment
Following The Walt Disney Company’s 2021 APAC Content Showcase in October 2021 which saw the unveiling of 28 new content titles, Disney+ Hotstar has since premiered Snowdrop, BLACKPINK: The Movie, Outrun by Running Man, and Tokyo MER in several APAC markets. In Indonesia, Susah Sinyal The Series became the number one series on Disney+ Ho...
By Alleef Ashaari|January 15, 2021|0 Comment
When did K-pop become so popular? Well, we all just got hit by the Hallyu (directly translated as the Korean Wave), which is the increase in the worldwide popularity of South Korean culture and its dissemination into the global pop culture. While it started with Korean music, the Korean government is planning to make esports as the next big Hall...
The incredibly popular South Korean video game convention G-Star is getting an online showcase in the next two weeks thanks to the global pandemic. Dubbed G-CON 2020, the online stream of the expo will feature a ton of speakers including: PlatinumGames' Hideki Kamiya, who is still blocking us to this day. Paradox Interactive's Alexander ...
By Alleef Ashaari|September 8, 2020|0 Comment
The South Korea entertainment circuit is no stranger to great zombie content. They have cemented their place in pop culture with the likes of 2016's Train To Busan, Netflix's Kingdom, and most recently, 2020's Peninsula (the sequel to Train To Busan). What else can they do with the genre? Well, director Cho Il-hyung has proven that there is sti...
By Alleef Ashaari|April 2, 2020|0 Comment
The first trailer for the highly-anticipated sequel to zombie smash blockbuster Korean hit movie Train To Busan has finally arrived, and the official title for the upcoming movie is now Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula. Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula US distributor Well Go USA Entertainment unveiled the trailer earlier today, which showcases...
By Melvyn Tan|March 12, 2020|0 Comment
Overwatch League events for March and April have been cancelled, with Covid-19 once again being the reason. "Concurrently, we are working hand-in-hand with our teams to see that all matches are played when it's safe and logistically feasible," says the statement. "We are considering the various options available to esports in this effort, so that...
By Melvyn Tan|February 24, 2020|0 Comment
The Overwatch League 2020 matches that were due to be held in South Korea in weeks five, six, and seven have been cancelled. This includes the home event for Seoul Dynasty, South Korea's Overwatch League team. The Overwatch League Twitter page announced the decision today, saying that it was done "in order to protect the health & safety of our...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 17, 2020|0 Comment
Last month, it shook the esports scene when the Overwatch League cancelled all its matches which were scheduled to take place in China for the next two months. Now Blizzard has announced that they are planning to reschedule the matches, which will now take place in Seoul, South Korea. According to Blizzard, the purpose of this action is "to protec...
In case you are wondering; no, it's not Call of Duty. One of Southeast Asia, Korea, and China's biggest online PC first-person shooter, CrossFire, is getting a movie. According to a Variety report, Sony Pictures has landed the rights to make a film out of the Smilegate-published game. Producer Neal Moritz (Fast & Furious series) and writer Ch...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 6, 2020|0 Comment
Netflix has announced that its Korean period piece zombie series Kingdom will be returning with its second season on 13 March 2020. The streaming giant has also unveiled the main poster for the upcoming second season of Kingdom. In Kingdom season 2, Crown Prince Lee Chang continues his desperate and bloody struggle, with no one he can trust to hel...
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