I recently came across the following tweet making its rounds in the Malaysian Twitter-sphere. Essentially, the caption read "If you think that there's no future in video games, look at them" accompanying the photos of two leading video game streamers in Malaysia, Mohd Faris “Soloz” Zakaria and the ot

Yesterday, Capcom just kicked off its first-ever Capcom Pro Tour Street Fighter 5 tournament series, starting with Japan. The biggest killers of Street Fighter & 2D fighting games attended from Daigo to Tokido, and many of them made it pretty, pretty far in the tournament. In the end, there can only be one winne

Another quarter of a year, which means a slew of rumours and leaks surrounding a number of unannounced Capcom games. This time, the focus is on the Dragon's Dogma sequel. According to recent 4chan leaks (via ResetEra), Dragon's Dogma 2 will be implementing new gameplay mechanics to its action RPG template and also b

Article originally published on 30th May 2018. Since it's Easter now, we're pushing this forward. It kinda sucks that the dead can't come back to life, but then again we might be in a world crisis ala Torchwood. Still, we're content with just our game franchises coming back from a long hiatus or rest; the kind that'

So far, it's looking pretty safe to host offline events, which is what tournament organizers & fighting game group Flash Vision are doing. To celebrate the upcoming Ramadan festivities, Flash Vision will be hosting a Malaysia FV Cup 2021 Ramadan Edition for the Malaysian fighting game community. Here are the det

Looks like we may be getting VTubers of the Street Fighter variety later this year. Cover, the company that owns VTuber-making production house Hololive, has signed a licensing agreement with Capcom (via Famitsu). What does this mean with all vtubers associated with Hololive? They'll be able to legally play Capcom g

The world's largest fighting game tournament, Evolution Championship Series, has been bought. Who owns the brand now? Sony Interactive Entertainment. According to an announcement from Sony, the tournament organization's co-founders Tom and Tony Cannon will be staying on-board as key advisors. Sony has also acquired

Dotemu is bringing back the 90s style of beat-em-up again with a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game subtitled Shredder's Revenge. The game will be a 2D pixel-graphics beat-em-up featuring all four Ninja Turtles -Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michaelangelo- reminiscent of the 90s Konami titles like the Teenage

Happy International Women's Day 2021, especially to the many who either play games, or create them, or both. They're better at multi-tasking than us men, anyway. To celebrate this auspicious day, let's talk about our favourite fictional females who help inspire many of us to champion our hobby, or even go above and

In case you weren't aware, this whole of February was Black History Month. With this iconic time coming to a close, let us celebrate and talk about our favourite and iconic black characters in video game history. Barret Wallace (Final Fantasy VII Remake) While the FFVII original version of Barret was fine, the 20

We're getting Resident Evil Village later this year, but that hasn't stopped the rumour mill from continuing to spin. The latest rumour is from the Dusk Golem, the same guy that predicted Resident Evil Village back in early 2020, so there might be some truth to what he's now saying. According to his latest tweets, a

You never forget your first love. In Arc System Works' case, it's the Guilty Gear fighting game series, the one game that put the company back on the fighting game map. Since its memorable "rebirth" back in 2013 with Guilty Gear Xrd, many fighting game fans are wondering how the series can evolve from here on out. T

Platform: PC Genre: Anime erotica puzzle game Before you flip away in disgust at the combination of words that are "erotica", "anime", "visual novel", and puzzle game, hear us out. Huniepop 2- Double Date has some pretty nifty match-three mechanics that made me a bit aware of how to tackle the genre. I can't see

2021 is not looking too bright for Street Fighter 5 and esports fans. Due to the rising cases of COVID-19 worldwide, Capcom has made the decision to cancel Capcom Cup and the Street Fighter League World Championship that is scheduled for 19th February to 21st February. At least, the offline portion of it anyway. Her

Movie lovers have much to look forward to on Netflix this year, as the streaming giants will be releasing brand new movies every week in 2021. Yes, a new movie every single week in 2021. You read that right. Netflix has assembled some of the biggest names in entertainment for its 2021 film slate, including Chris

Last week, Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol while the Congress was in session to verify Joe Biden's victory in last year's U.S. elections. After the event, Devil May Cry's Dante and Street Fighter's Ken voice actor Reuben Langdon shared several videos. These videos seemed to be comparing the rioters

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

For more 2020 best games content, head here. #14: Granblue Fantasy Versus (PS4, PC) It's slim pickings for fighting games this year, unless you count season passes for Tekken 7 and new expansions for Mortal Kombat 11 and Street Fighter 5. But our lone pick, Granblue Fantasy Versus, is impressive on its own merits

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

2020 is coming to an end, but we need at least one major piece of news to cap off the year apart from the eventual winner of this year's Capcom Cup. So here's one: the winners of the Yoodo FV Major Cup tournament and the Flash Vision representatives of next year's EVO fighting game tournament in Las Vegas, USA. On t