Benny The Dog, the real-life dog that is the mascot to Maximillian Dood's YouTube and Twitch channel in the fighting game heydays of 2008 onward, has passed away. The news was relayed in a special Thank You, Benny video from the Maximillian Dood YouTube channel. Maximillian said that while the news of Benny's illnes

Update [23/11/2022]: Sorry, folks. HypeTrain has been postponed indefinitely. Stay tuned on Kakuchopurei for more future updates! https://twitter.com/Kakuchopurei/status/1595358415366549505 This November, Kakuchopurei will be launching a one-of-a-kind video game event called The Hype Train. Here's what you ne

90s anime and video game Japanese voice actor Kiyoyuki Yanada has passed away. He was 57. The news was revealed on Twitter by voice actor friend Mitsuaki Madono. Anime and fighting game fans may remember the voicework of Kiyoyuki Yanada. He is renowned for voicing Akagi in Slam Dunk, Saeki in Hajime no Ippo, Richter

Updated on 23 November 2022: Sorry, folks. HypeTrain has been postponed indefinitely. Stay tuned on Kakuchopurei for more future updates! https://twitter.com/Kakuchopurei/status/1595358415366549505 Time to brush off the cobwebs and grease those elbows. Here are the titles which you would want to get you

Streamline Studios, a global video game and Metaverse development company, has announced two new senior leadership promotions for their internal team. Yea-Ji Oh now serves as the company's Division Director, and Lalitha Krishnan the Director of Studio Operations. As Division Director, Oh will oversee global strategi

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced the October 2022 Game Catalog lineup for Extra and Premium subscribers, and Classics Catalog titles for Premium Subscribers in Asia. Check them out below: PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium | Game Catalog Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – The Definitive Edition | PS4, PS5

Square Enix's Final Fantasy rhythm game Theatrhythm Final Bar Line is set to be the biggest game they've made music-wise. The game will feature 385 songs in the base game alone, and will add more post-launch via Season Pass and Digital Deluxe bonuses. This news page is going to list down all the songs in the game, f

Article originally published on 26 June. Pushed to 16 September close to the event date. 2022 is going to be hectic when it comes to offline gaming events. In the fighting game side at Southeast Asia, we can rely on Rev Major to sate our 1v1 competitive fighting game craving. Rev Major 2022 will be the de facto S

Thailand recently hosted its annual fighting game tournament major in the form of Thaiger Uppercut 2022, which took place at Bangkok. The premiere fighting game tournament is one of the majors under the Tekken World Tour 2022 circuit. It also features a huge number of top players from around the world like K-Brad, U

PlayStation Asia has announced what's in store for the month of September 2022 with both the Monthly Games lineup for all members and the Game Catalog for Essential, Extra and Deluxe members on PlayStation Plus. The Monthly Games are available from 6 September 2022, and the Game Catalog and Classics from 20 September

The recent announcement of Dotemu and Tribute Games' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is another addition to the awesome wave of new-yet-kinda-old beat-em-ups we've been seeing since 2019's River City Girls. It's also a stark reminder that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had been a merchandise juggerna

Sega will be releasing its second 16-bit mini console, the Sega Genesis Mini 2 and Sega Megadrive Mini 2, later this 27 October. With that classic mini console comes a ton of Japanese and North American titles that made the system what it was back in the roaring 90s. And there's a plethora of them for each console r

EVO 2022 is already making history with crazy fighting game plays like a Street Fighter 5 pools match featuring Caba versus Uzura. The craziest so far is a player beating another with an unorthodox controller for a fighting game. A participant named My Wife's Son was competing in the Melty Blood: Type Lumina EVO 202

EVO 2022 is happening this coming weekend, with the best fighting game players from all across the world converging for one major tournament hosted in Las Vegas, USA. Here is the schedule for you to refer to. All times are in GMT+8. Disclaimer: this feature will be updated with results and player names. How To W

The weekend of 5th and 8th August is a fun time for many worldwide fighting game fans as the Evolution Championship Series is happening. Street Fighter 5, Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Strive, and many other top fighting games will take centerstage in esports glory. PlayStation, the main company that is sponsoring the event

Some games age like fine wine. Others may not be the hot title when it first came out, but end up becoming better in retrospect, arguably being a title ahead of its time. At Kakuchopurei, we may cover a lot of new games, but we always fall back to the classics, be it the incredibly old ones or recent titles from a f

Back in 1999, 2D fighting game Street Fighter 3 had its first real competitor from gamemaker SNK - Garou: Mark of the Wolves. It was lovingly animated, it featured Fatal Fury characters (and their offsprings/successors) years later, and continued the plot of the game after the death of main bad guy Geese Howard. There

Warner Bros. Discovery takes flight at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 AKA SDCC 2022, as the combined divisions of the company are joining forces to mark the first in-person presence in three years at the world’s premier comic book and popular arts convention.  They will be back with a vengeance to present a series of can

One of this year's premiere fighting game tournaments and expos, Community Effort Orlando (CEO) in Florida, USA, took place during the weekend. Many of the country's best are fighting for top spots in Street Fighter 5, Guilty Gear Strive, and other popular fighting games. Even overseas players like Thailand's Book and

Today, Disney+ Hotstar in Malaysia announced that five Spider-Man films and “Venom (2018)” will be launching on the streaming service in June. “Venom (2018),” along with the five Spider-Man films – “Spider-Man 2 (2004)” and “Spider-Man 3 (2007),” “The Amazing Spider-Man (2012),” “Spider-Man: Hom