Originally published on 23rd December 2020. Brought forward because the list is complete. Is 2020 really the best year? It depends on how you look at it. Despite the very long year of a worldwide pandemic and the fallout from it, online events up the wazoo, and a struggling economy worldwide, video games as a who

2020 has been rough, but there was a good chunk of bright spots here and there. Like a heckaton of games to play, next-gen making its way to people's home entertainment setup (sorta), and a lot of us picking up new hobbies and reconnecting with loved ones using online chat tools. But screw all that; 2020 gave us the

Gamers are dominating social media, more so in 2020 than in previous years. According to a report by Twitter Gaming, there were more than 2 billion Tweets about gaming in 2020, which is a whopping 75 percent increase from 2019. The Countries That Tweeted Most About Gaming Just like in previous years, Japan once again

2020 is not the best year for everyone, with a global pandemic forcing businesses and other industry sectors to shut down or put in a crawling state, and everyone staying indoors for safety precautions. However, this doesn’t stop us to enjoy playing video games, in fact, it gave us more time to finish some of ou

Check out our collection of Best Of 2020 articles here.  #11: Genshin Impact As far as Breath of the Wild clones go, this F2P offering from Mihoyo isn't half-bad. In fact, it's shaping up to be quite a long-term thrill ride. From its large map to its combat, there's a lot that clicks with Genshin Impact. Co

Hi! It’s Su Ling Chan here, the voice actress for Mayday from No Straight Roads! 2020 was a very different year for me. I’ve never really had the time to play video games because I’m very active and I’m always out of the house. But with COVID-19 lockdowns, suddenly I was stuck at home wit

2021 has finally hit, and we already have a gamechanger of a story. Tencent's games have been removed from Huawei's app store due to both companies failing to reach an agreement on revenue sharing. "Due to the failure of Huawei’s mobile game platform to renew its contract with our Mobile Game Promotion Pro

Few things were worth looking back on in 2020, the year where everything could (and did) go wrong - but games were one bright spot that, dare I say, kept a lot of us sane. I’d always thought of myself as an introvert and thus, never fully realized how much I derived joy from interactions with friends...until the

2020 is a pretty amazing year for gaming, with it being the current-gen console’s last hurrah and the arrival of next-gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft. Needless to say, there has been a number of amazing games being launched this year as well as new content being added to existing games to keep the experienc

The Game Awards 2020 just concluded, and it was probably the biggest iteration of the annual event yet. It featured tons of surprises in the form of new game announcements, trailers, reveals, and a slew of guest appearances. Here are the winners of The Game Awards 2020 (they're highlighted in bold): Game of

The PlayStation.Blog Game of the Year polls are now live and you can vote on PlayStation Blog now. There are 17 categories this year, and the polls will remain open until 3.59pm GMT+8 on 14 December 2020. Malaysian-based Metronomik's No Straight Roads managed to garner two nominations, including Best Independent Ga

Black Desert Mobile, the mobile version of the popular Korean MMORPG, has been chosen as one of Google Play’s “Best Games of 2020” in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.   Since its global release in December 2019, Black Desert�

Need an app to help keep track of your World of Warcraft questing habits? Get a helping hand from Singapore-made app QuestHog, now supporting World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. QuestHog is a simple app/site that identifies activities for character progression in World of Warcraft. All the important stuff and notes will

The Game Awards 2020 is taking place on 10 December 2020, but Geoff Keighley has announced the nominated games three weeks earlier. Despite being plagued with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year has seen some pretty good games. You can vote now on the official website here. Check out the full The Game Awards 2

Platform: PC Genre: Broken hack-and-slash RPG In Xuan-Yuan Sword VII, an action RPG from Softstar and a few other Chinese developers, your hero Taishi Zhao can switch between five attack stances, each of them with their own melee-styled attacks. You have the Wolf which gives you a Dante Stinger-like move to lunge a

This feature will be updated this whole weekend, since TGS 2020 is still ongoing. Check out the TGS 2020 schedule to see what's going on. This year's Tokyo Game Show may be online, but it isn't stopping developers and publishers from showcasing their awesome and upcoming games. Be it the latest Monster Hunter or Res

Article originally published on 1st September.  With COVID-19 wrecking every public event for games, online is the way to go for these exhibitions. Luckily, the Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association are prepared to do just that with Tokyo Game Show 2020 Online. The organization just released the live st

During today's PlayStation State Of Play August 2020 live stream, Sony announced many of the upcoming games slated to arrive on the PS4 and PlayStation 5 in the near future. These include both third-party and first-party exclusives, which you can check out below: Crash Bandicoot 4 It's About Time Publisher Activision

Last year's ChinaJoy 2019 revealed Genshin Impact by Chinese developer miHoYo, which incurred the wrath of gamers who considered the game to be a shameless ripoff of the Nintendo Switch's The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild. Now the developer has revealed a lot more about the game, including gameplay details and fo

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: