Platform: PS4, PC, Xbox One Genre: Western RPG set in a fictional 17th century era Until recently, Bioware was known as the masters of the western RPG, with legendary games like Star Wars: Knight Of The Old Republic, as well as both the Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises. However, they proceeded to squander all tha

Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: Action game with some open-world and adventuring bits tucked inside Nier Automata game director Yoko Taro said this a while back during a particular Game Developer Conference panel about his Square Enix masterpiece: "Modern games, they're made really well. They have so much love and ti

It's 26 August again, my friends which means it's International Dog Day! Here at Kakuchopurei, we want to celebrate International Dog Day by sharing with you guys our favourite barkers and woofers from films and video games. Think of this as an expanded version of our previous Chinese New Year canine feature from a wh

The Pokémon community seems to only bother talking about the coolest Pokemon or the most badass Pokémon or the cutest Pokémon. Well, I’m here to hit you across the face with the cold, hard truth. There are Pokémon that exist purely to be trash, metaphorically and literally. Some of them exist purely

This is a report that just gets better as it goes. Let's begin with the most important point: DayZ is now outright banned in Australia. Publisher Five Star Games recently submitted the game for classification and was denied to due to the presence of the extremely horrible and utterly evil substance known as... marijuan

This year, almost half of the global games market is dominated by the Asia Pacific region. That market share is represented by an estimated value of US$72 billion in revenue. Out of that amount, China represents US$36 billion. Believe it or not, even with that amount China isn't the number one games market in the world

Tokyo RPG Factory was formed by Square Enix to create games that mirrored the look and feel of JRPGS in the 90's. The company's first release, I Am Setsuna, was quite well received thanks to its heartwrenching story and simplistic yet enjoyable gameplay. Oninaki is their latest game and for PS4 owners, you can start pl

Take a walk on the dark side with the upcoming Final Fantasy XIV expansion that's slated for the 1st of July. After going through two expansions of the game trying to save the world, this latest large-scale DLC plans to make you take the dark route by journeying across alternate dimensions and fighting the evil Garlean

Netflix is teaming up with Finnish games developer Next Games for a Stranger Things mobile game in the vein of Pokémon Go's popular location-based gameplay system. Simply titled Stranger Things, it is unique in that the game will be adopting a classic 80s Saturday morning cartoon aesthetic instead of the retro 16-bi

Here's the second part of the massive reveal by Kinda Funny Games. If you missed our Part 1 writeup, you can head over here. 31. Undermine (PC) [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8I7YxRTHcI] Undermine is an action-adventure roguelike RPG which has you crawling intro procedurally generated dungeons, upgrading yo

The art of war is strong with this iteration of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Total War: Three Kingdoms has garnered a player count peak of 191,816 within 24 hours, which is the largest number for a game launch this year. For comparison's sake: Sekiro's player count peak was at 124,334, placing the tough-as-nails g

With the Rise of Shadows out a few days ago, we figured it's best to help our fellow card-slingers and esports enthusiasts with a detailed guide on how to Hearthstone like a champ. So far, the meta is already flooded with great deck archetypes, but which ones are the most-sought-after? To help us with this arduous tas

There's quite a resurgence of horror going on these past few months. From stellar showings like Hereditary to last March's Us to even this week's remake of Pet Sematary, we are blessed and thrilled as fans and aficionados of the genre. I've decided to recount the best horror films of the past decade. That means stuff

It has been 15 years since the release of the first FarCry game and today we have seen and experienced FarCry: New Dawn. The games’ beautiful graphics highlighting their ravishing locales is just a tip of the open-world iceberg, a FarCry signature even. The FarCry games are one of the greatest and defining ope

In Part 1 and Part 2 of our Kingdom Hearts feature, we recapped the events of the first six titles in the Kingdom Hearts franchise according to chronological order. Now we're going to recap the final three games leading to Kingdom Hearts 3, which includes Kingdom Hearts 2, Kingdom Hearts: Coded, and Kingdom Hearts: Dre

It's the new year. Birds are chirping anew. The Malaysian King just resigned. A new ruling party is in charge. Singapore's still our neighbours, for good and ill. And we now have more games to look forward to because it's what we love to do to escape from real life if only for a fleeting moment. Here's a list of all t

Welcome to Kakuchopurei's Best of 2018 feature, where we rank our favourite and not-so-favourite gaming things of 2018. We've done four of these so far, so it's now down to the wire; the big one. Here are Days One to Four, linked here for your reading convenience: Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Now let's end this.

Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: Crossover platform fighting game The Super Smash Bros. series is a fighting game made for non-fighting gamers. That's good and bad in a way. Newbies who like fighting games but aren't mechanically adept will find solace in the game's controls and cast. Hardcore 2D and 3D fighting game

2018 was a special year for gaming. After a lengthy development cycle, one of the most anticipated games of the generation launched on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 was an instant hit, breaking records and becoming one of the highest grossing entertainment launches in history

Street Fighter V's eventual fourth season is coming. But did you know that there's allegedly going to be another huge 2019 update called Super Street Fighter V? So much for innovative naming schemes, eh Capcom? In any case, prominent leaker X-Kira (via Eventhubs) did the usual datamining and found out that the update