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According to statistics provided by Newzoo, Southeast Asia (SEA) is the world's fastest-growing games market, despite only accounting for 3.1% of the total games market in 2019. That's because the SEA games market is expected to generate a whopping $4.6 billion in revenue this year, which is a remarkable 22 percent increase from 2018. Asian Publi...
Good news, Tekken fans! The Tekken World Tour is now in its new season thanks to new info from Bandai Namco. For a span of a year, Tekken players will earn points from tournaments all around the world to qualify for the finals set in Bangkok, Thailand. The prize winnings are quite large: about US$185,000's worth. The winner of the entire tournamen...
We have a severe lack of representation when it comes to Asian heroes in comics. A character of Southeast Asian descent is even rarer, so when Marvel announces a new female Filipino superhero, it's not going unnoticed. Wave is the name of the brand new hero created by writer Greg Pak and artist Leinil Yu for the upcoming War of The Realms tie-in c...
It's a glorious day for Southeast Asia and The Philippines; TNC Predator won the Dota 2 tournament in WESG 2018-2019. The Filipino team had to fight White Off, veterans Virtus.Pro, and China's Keen Gaming to win the top spot and that US$500,000 prize money. TNC Predator's aggressive strategy and combos like their Chen-Venomancer offlane dominance ...
Moonton, eGG Network and HOG Esports are working together to bring the new season of Mobile Legends Professional League (MPL) in Myanmar to the next stage. The MPL is the official premiere Mobile Legends esports tournament for both players and fans, and a stepping stone for teams to shine and be invited into regional leagues across Southeast Asia....
If you want to see Asia's very own big leagues in League of Legends duke it out to be the SEA equivalent of SKT or Royal Never Give Up, you'll want to stick around for this. The folks at Riot Games, Garena, and FunPlus Esports will be hosting the League of Legends Southeast Asia Tournament (LST) 2019 to determine the best of the best in the MOBA ci...
Overwatch League 2019 just started last week with a blast, and now the 2019 Overwatch Contenders Pacific (OWCP) will also return on 28 February (GMT+8) with new contenders from Singapore, Thailand, and Japan. Aside from the prize, the top team will have the honour to represent the Pacific region to go against the other top player...
The last time Southeast Asia got Evo gold in fighting games was back in Evo 2013 courtesy of Xian. Fast forward to Evo Japan 2019, and we have two sleeping dragons in the Southeast Asian SoulCalibur scene tearing it up: Singapore's Jovian "Shen Chan" Chan and Raymus "Shen Yuan" Chang Yin Yuan. After some news about some little girl appearing in So...
It's a sad day for Southeast Asian streamers. Live-streaming platform Tamago will be shutting down its services by 31 December 2018. The reason? The company said in an official statement that "business has been challenging and it is commercially unfeasible [...] to continue operating under the current circumstances." Also, here are some Tamago tid...
The Game Awards 2018 will take place on Thursday, December 6, 2018, in the U.S. but for those of us living in Southeast Asia and other GMT+8 countries, it's actually happening the day after. Those living in Malaysia, Singapore, and more will have to watch the live stream at 9.30 a.m. on Friday, December 7, 2018. Where can you watch it? Well, there'...
Remember the planned world's first 20th Century Fox theme park in Malaysia? Yeah, it's not happening, folks. Disney and Fox are facing a US$1 billion lawsuit by Genting for backing away from the contract. The 20th Century Fox World Malaysian theme park was initially announced way back in 2013, and it was set to feature popular Fox properties like ...
Image credit: egg Network's Facebook page Oh my, we're in quite a pickle. It seems that our country's Minister of Youth & Sports Syed Saddiq wants Malaysia to be an exporter of esports games, not just an esports-playing country. He said the following to Malay Mail during a trip to Thailand to check out the plethora of esports facilities there...
The Overwatch Contenders Season 3 has started with Contenders China already kicking it off last week Saturday. Up until now, the China, Australia, & EU divisions are running. The Pacific Contenders will be happening next, with the first game starting this Thursday, 22/11/2018 at 5pm Malaysia time. Nova Esports vs Talon Esports will start off t...
Hello! We're back again! This week has been full with off-season Overwatch League news. I can't wait to tell you all about it! Hangzhou Is All Cotton Candy As Hangzhou Spark! We get to see the new team branding & team colours of one of the Chinese Expansion team: the Hangzhou Spark! The team decided to go with pink and blue to stand out from th...
At the time of writing, the Malaysian Budget 2019 / Belanjawan Negara 2019 is currently being presented and tabled by Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng. Two particular contents of the Budget has caught the attention of many Malaysians, directly/indirectly affecting those who are gamers and/or heavy user of digital entertainment services. The Malaysi...
No one likes a faker, especially in the video games industry. If we're talking LoL's Faker, that's a completely different story. But that's beside the point. There are far too many new players encroaching the games industry who want to create an app or at least sell the promise of making and implementing one. Not game publishers and game develope...
After 15 or so hours in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, we can safely say that this game is definitely a little more than just an expanded version of Assassin's Creed Origins, last year's Ubisoft sandbox game featuring assassins, Egypt, and a pretty cool protagonist. While they're not major changes, the differences are more than subtle to at least warra...
Heads up, FIFA fans in Jakarta. The Midnight Launch Event hosted by GS Shop Indonesia is set to take place tomorrow night at the Senayan City mall starting 0000hrs, 28th September 2018. As detailed on their Facebook page, pre-orders are still open and you can pick up your copy(ies) of the game past midnight on the 28th. As an added incentive, p...
The Asian Games 2018 Esports demonstration tournament is done and over with. Sure, this whole week was a week-long exhibition. The medals don't count towards the official Asian Games tally. Still, it doesn't mean that its significance is lessened, far from it. This bold step into worldwide legitimacy means that we're only a few years to seeing thi...
The finals of the second Asian Games 2018 tournament, which featured mobile game wunderkind Clash Royale, was a doozy. China and Indonesia were the finalists of the Clash Royale tournament at the Asian Games 2018 Esports Exhibition Tournament at Jakarta, Mahaka Square. In fact, China's Lciop was pretty close in winning another esports gold medal, ...
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