Bandai Namco just revealed the opening movie for its upcoming JRPG Tales of Arise, and it looks slick. The OP song is "Hibana" and is performed by Kankaku Pierro. The animation is done by production studio ufotable, who is famous for the lovely-looking Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba anime adaptation. Check it out be

The current winner of the most-subscribed VTuber on YouTube has been replaced. Kizuna A.I, who has 2.97 million subscribers on her YouTube channel, has been dethroned by Hololive EN shark queen Gawr Gura. She has 3 million subscribers. Kizuna A.I. is a pioneer in the VTuber field, so this is obviously no small feat

Bandai Namco released a new video detailing Tales of Arise's new combat system. Game producer Yusuke Tomizawa and director Hirokazu Kagawa talks about how the battle system in the Tales of games have evolved throughout the years. Due to the past games adding on more layers and unneeded complexity, Tales of Arise's c

JP Games, the video game studio led by Final Fantasy Type-0 and Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata, will be working on two new game projects. According to a Famitsu report, JP Games will be collaborating with a major company to get these games underway. Tabata states that both games are large-scale titles. The

Platform(s): Xbox Series, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, PC Genre: Action RPG with sci-fi and loads of loveable anime tropes In the first hour or so of Bandai Namco's action RPG entry Scarlet Nexus, it goes out of its way with its anime tropes. The plucky earnest male protagonist, the tsundere female who you can also choose t

If you're looking for more high-tier Guilty Gear Strive play, but want it close to home, here's a tournament you can get hyped about. Arc System Works, Bandai Namco Asia, and tournament organizer Versus Asia will be hosting a Break The Walls Invitational tournament featuring the best Guilty Gear Strive players in th

Bandai Namco announces the collector's edition of its upcoming JRPG Tales of Arise during its recent livestream. Anyway, the collector's edition contains the game, a pretty sweet casing with the game's emblem, the original soundtrack to the game, an artbook featuring the game's concept artwork and illustrations, Tal

Update (15 June): Added new information. In case you missed it or weren't awake just before 4am today for the Summer Gaming Festival Kickoff 2021, Bandai Namco announced the release date of the upcoming From Software action RPG Elden Ring. And obviously a ton of gameplay. https://youtu.be/m8QFs3LEWus There's a

Update (17/11/2021): After a balance patch, a few character additions, and the game's network being more than stable, we've decided to tweak the game's score & review to reflect the effort Arc System Works has put to maintain the game. Plus, there aren't any noteworthy fighting games to add to our GOTY list this ye

Netflix Geeked Week is a free five-day event that runs from 7 June to 11 June 2021. There will be tons of exciting announcements and exclusive first-looks to new trailers, celebrity appearances and so much more. ALL THE NEWS & SNEAK PEEKS FROM DAY 3 Fret not if you can’t watch Geeked Week live because weâ

After a year of hiatus thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the summer of gaming and Electronic Entertainment Expo are back again. Even if it's in an online capacity, we can expect a huge showcase of new and upcoming games being shown in the dead of night back here in Southeast Asia. Here are the times and schedules for

Bandai Namco just revealed Tales of Arise's Mystic Artes, super moves your heroes can pull off to end battles quick as long as you hit the requirements. The team has showcased the Mystic Artes/Hi Ougi for the four main characters in order: Alphen, Shionne, Rinwell, and Law. Check them out below! https://youtu.be/

Article originally published on 27th March 2020. We're bringing it forward because of Malaysia's lockdown week starting 1st June. With Malaysia’s Controlled Movement Control Order back again after months of some normalcy, we may need to social distance ourselves a lot longer than usual. And also wash our hand

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Supermassive Games have released an eight-minute-long gameplay video for The Dark Pictures Anthology House Of Ashes. The synopsis of the game reads: Iraq, 2003. As the conflict draws to a close, CIA field operative Rachel King joins an elite military unit on a raid of a suspecte

If you get a number of directors and game designers of the Tales of series working on a new IP, chances are the apple will not fall far from the tree. Playing Scarlet Nexus for an hour or so led me to believe that Bandai Namco Studios is just focusing on the action RPG bits while dolling it up with a sci-fi open-world

Bandai Namco and develoepr Level-5 are bringing Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom onto Nintendo Switch, three years later. Better late than never, right? This version is called Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom - Prince's Edition and will be available both physically and digitally on 17th September for US$59.99. It'll c

Summer Game Fest 2021 will begin on 11 June 2021 at 2am GMT+8 with a live world premiere showcase event hosted by Geoff Keighley. It will also feature: “More than a dozen world premieres and announcements from select publishers”. A performance by Weezer of “a brand new, stream safe game soundt

Can't wait for sci-fi anime action RPG nonsense? Bandai Namco's have you covered. The company will be releasing a demo for its RPG Scarlet Nexus for Xbox Series X|S first on 21st May. PlayStation owners will get theirs on 28th May for both PS5 and PS4. The demo will feature the game's patented SAS system, which a

Bandai Namco just revealed the opening animation of its upcoming anime action RPG Scarlet Nexus, and it's as anime as it can possibly be. Character teasers during the OP song's verses? Check. Action bits in the chorus? Check. Both the game's heroes Yuito and Kasane fighting each other for a few seconds? Check. ht

Anime fighting game fans in need of an Arc System Works fix: the second beta test for the next big Guilty Gear title is underway. Bandai Namco Southeast Asia and Arc System Works announced that the next Guilty Gear Strive open beta test will be from 14th to 16th May for PS4 and PS5 users. In the new beta test, you'l