Disclaimer: This guide will be updated periodically as the meta updates and changes. Valorant is out now for the public to play. We had some lovely thoughts about it; now it's time to put our playthroughs and experiences to practice. Here are some tips to get you started and how to go about this new Riot Games title.

In this time of strife and hardship, Nintendo has surprised the world with an unexpected 30-minute Nintendo Direct Mini 2020 pre-recorded video. However, it's 'Mini' only in name, as the presentation showcases a lot of exciting stuff for Nintendo Switch owners to look forward to for the rest of the year. Unfortunately

Doom Eternal is arguably a great sequel: it improves the core combat, gives your character the Doomslayer more moves and weapons to fight with, and ups the challenge. And oh boy, it can be a challenge! Whether you're a casual or an expert at FPS games, Doom Eternal needs a beginner's guide. Between balancing your reso

It's only March 2020, and we already have at least one GOTY candidate in the form of Nioh 2. I'm not much of a Soulsborne fan, but it reminds me of Capcom's forgotten Onimusha franchise and I love it (check out my full review here). Team Ninja has released the full patch notes for the game's recent 1.05 update, and wh

For all of Blizzard's current faults with its PR mismanagement as of late, you cannot deny the fact that their past hits are polished as all-heck. Even with Diablo 3's rocky start online, the game itself was laid out well and eventually received a ton of improvements a year later, and it's still going strong. Even if

Gaming expos and conventions these days are usually esports-centric and driven. Some of them feature the latest upcoming games and a bunch of queues that entail said play session. All I'm saying is that the more things change, the more they remain the same. If you've been to more than one of these, you'll probably k

Singaporean professional esports team Impunity Esports, renowned for its top-tier Vainglory & mobile gaming team, will be dipping its toes into the fighting game division for the first time. The group has recruited three high-level Singaporean players into the fold: Ashley "Asher" Seek, Shane "Oreoz" Goh, and Cleo

You have seen the Free Guy trailer starring Ryan Reynolds, right? It’s essentially about an NPC who gets free will and becomes a hero to combat all the bad guys populating the open-world game he’s stuck in, possibly programmed by Taika Waititi’s character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2m-08cOA

Disclaimer: we'll be updating this article with whatever new deal or gift idea we find. Watch this space! Season's greetings! It's already December, which means it's time to start shopping for goodies for your loved ones and friends. Here are our picks for 2019 when it comes to games, tech, hardware, and pop cul

Sometimes, you just have to suck it up and improvise when things don't go as planned, or when the seemingly bottomless money pit is finite. Just ask Singapore studio BattleBrew Productions. The original idea for its BattleSky Brigade game was going to be a meaty real-time strategy title with its own three playable rac

[Review originally published on 1st November, 2019] Platform: PS4 Genre: FedEx deliveryman simulator with babysitting and half-baked stealth plus combat. I really wanted to like Death Stranding. From the day the game was revealed at E3 2016 up until the very day I received my review code, there was a consistent fe

The classic video game boss is a dwindling idea. At a time when open-world and online games have flourished, there’s little way for an imposing entity to hinder progress, especially when player choice is paramount. Bosses do offer something unique, however. For some players, the challenge is part of the fun. To

Southeast Asia Major. As a member of the Malaysian fighting game community for almost the past decade now, it seems like we’ve always acknowledged that SEAM is the biggest, most important annual fighting game tournament in our region. Whether or not that will actually hold true in years to come remains to be s

Happy frag Friday, everyone! If you've played Borderlands 2 lately, you'll get in tune with Borderlands 3 for the most parts. Most of the same tips & tricks from parts 1 and 2 apply here, but there are some changes you need to keep in mind. Let's talk about them in protip feature form so that you can shave time o

Have a hankering for the good old days when brawlers and side-scrolling beat-em-ups had simple-yet-fun non-linear level layouts and a simple RPG progression system? Wished that Technos came back from the dead and made a nicer-looking River City game? Well, we can't have the latter. But that's OK because developer WayF

There's a ton of great PS4 games that are scheduled to come out from this month to mid-2020. The Tokyo Game Show 2019 is the perfect opportunity for Sony to showcase those tittles and more. Check out what Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia will be bringing to TGS this year: PlayStation 4 Titles 13 Sentinels:

When you think over-the-top action in the past and current console generation, you think PlatinumGames. Rising from the ashes of Studio Clover since it dissolved back in 2006, the producers and designers who made up the company -from Atsushi Inaba to Twitter grand ban-master Hideki Kamiya- are renowned for making the

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

When Marvel vs Capcom 3 came into the fighting game scene in 2011 after a lot of hype, many Versus fans and connoisseurs of hyper fighting were beyond joy. It was a revolution of fighting games that not only brought two popular pop culture and gaming IPs together, but also made competitive fighting games a lot more col

Marvel Studios unleashed the second spoilerific trailer for Spider-Man Far From Home two days ago filled with several bombshells, one of which seems to be Mysterio confirming the existence of the Multiverse in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). A new video has surfaced, featuring an extended clip of the scene betwee