It's only been a week or so, but somehow Nintendo and Cygames' latest White Cat Project-esque action RPG is raking in the big bucks. According to analyst firm Sensor Tower (via Variety), the mobile game has grossed US$3.5 million or so since its launch on 27th September worldwide. The game was officially released i

What else is there to say about Mega Man (or Rock Man if you're from Japan)? He is Capcom's original mascot with the run-and-gun fun and also innovates with the boss weapon-stealing powerup. While the X and Zero games superceded and improved upon the weapon-stealing formula, you can't forget your 8-bit roots. But whic

Welcome to yet another entry of Kakuchopurei and Retro DNA's SNK 40th Anniversary retrospective celebration which will end in about 2 week's time. Check out the rest of the features here.  The 13 Most Influential SNK Fighting Game Moves Hail To The King (Of Fighters) The Top 15 SNK Games You Must Play Befor

As much as I like my old-school headsets with cables, sometimes it's fine to splurge a bit on some wireless tech as long as the audio fidelity justifies the price tag. With the Razer Nari Ultimate, your wallet's content might mysteriously vanish through impulse purchase. Probably mine too. What makes the Razer Nari st

Sony PlayStation has finally seen the light regarding cross-platform play in general. Starting today, the company has launched a beta for cross-platform functionality, with its first gaming subject being the incredibly-popular battle royale third-person shooter Fortnite. Here is the official statement from PlayStation

Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: JRPG, Anime Last year's Xenoblade Chronicles 2 came out on the tail end of 2017 and ended up becoming quite a gem of a JRPG. It's kinda old-school but has a lot of nuances to make the 100+ hour slog bearable, it gets better after the 20-hour mark, its combat system is fun, and its hero

Talk about being hot for Peach. There's a new internet trend where Mario's nemesis Bowser and Mario's love interest Princess Peach combine to form one attractive-looking dragon turtle human hybrid. So what's up with the feature picture on this post and the Peach/Bowser wombo combo craze? Let's go step by step. -New S

While I'm preparing this week's bunch of videos & writeups, I figured I come up with a quick one. So here's something about moons and video games. Try to guess where they're from. Enjoy! [caption id="attachment_13021" align="alignnone" width="601"] You have 3 days to sort this catastrophe out.[/caption] [caption

And the remasters/remakes/current-gen ports keep on comin'. Square Enix recently announced the Romancing SaGa III HD remaster slated for an early 2019 release. The target platforms include the PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, PS Vita, iOS, and Android. That's a lotta platforms for a niche JRPG series and I for one

Grandia series fans, this one's for you. GameArts' RPG opus -that isn't the Lunar series- will be getting a remaster for the PC and Nintendo Switch. These games were fun because of their real-time-slash-turn-based approach to combat and its colourful-if-cliched storyline with a rotating cast. According to a Game Infor

Not one to be outdone by Nintendo and SNK in their respective quests to weaponize nostalgia and charging people for it, Sony PlayStation announces its PlayStation Classic mini console a few days before Tokyo Game Show 2018. Here's what we're getting: A small PlayStation One mini console with an HDMI output and a USB

Calling all fans of VA-11 Hall-A, the pretty awesome cyberpunk visual novel for PC that focuses on bartending, awesome chatter with corgis and sex dolls, and awesome neo retro-esque music (at least in my humble opinion). Developer Sukeban Games is releasing an upcoming visual novel set in the same universe called N1RV

If you recall the Disgaea series, that crazy turn-based strategy RPG from developer Nippon Ichi, you can stack your teammates atop each other to form a devastating killing machine. Feeling like they can top that idea, the devs announced a new 2D action JRPG that makes this mechanic its sole focus. The new game is call

Sony PlayStation made a preemptive strike a week before Tokyo Game Show to announce its slew of new titles. Let's highlight the best ones, shall we? Samurai Shodown Slated For 2019 https://www.facebook.com/kakuchopurei/videos/715437335484148/ We wrote about this earlier. Long story short: 2D weapons-based fighting, cl

Happy belated royal birthday, Yang Dipertuan Agong of Malaysia. To most of us in Malaysia, it's a nice long weekend. But for some of us (sorta) hard at work at Kakuchopurei and definitely, DEFINITELY not distracted by Marvel's Spider-Man on the PS4, it's another opportunity to reminisce about the best kings and queens

Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Genre: Action game mixed with roguelike & Dark Souls elements Price: RM44-ish You don't need us to give you a score for the recent indie wunderkind Dead Cells, a 2D action adventure hack-and-slash game that's part multi-tiered Metroidvania, and part random level genera

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of SNK, Kakuchopurei and Retro DNA are teaming up to publish a series of weekly features about SNK, the Neo Geo, and its slew of first-party titles. This one's a personal OP ED piece to get the ball rolling. I remember browsing through a copy of EGM back in Malaysia at the Indian-owne

QuakeCon 2018 is up and running, which also means that Doom Eternal is already revealed to the public. And by god it's everything we want from a sequel to Doom (2016 edition). Blood, gore, arcade action, and a ton of big guns and baddies. And also some spiffy vertically-focused level design. That's always good! Here's

After aeons of waiting, we finally have goddamn Castlevania characters in a Nintendo Smash Bros fighting game, and the last boss from the Donkey Kong Country games. According to the latest Nintendo Direct video an hour ago, Simon and Richter Belmont are now playable characters in the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimat

Sony just announced in its Q1 2018 fiscal year report that it has sold 82.2 million PlayStation 4 units within its 5-year lifespan. For its current quarterly report, the company sold 3.2 million units and hopes to sell 17 million units by the end of this fiscal year. To put things into perspective: The lifetime sale