The Malaysian esports scene is seeing a steady increase in support from local companies. Recently we saw local PUBG Mobile team Team Secret partnering up with telecommunications company Maxis but it seems that one of their competitors is making bigger moves. Yoodo has been hosting the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds M

The Mobile Legends Bang Bang (MLBB) Professional League (MPL) MY/SG Season 3 concluded several months ago, with Malaysian team Geek Fam emerging as champions. Moonton has announced that MPL MY/SG will be returning with Season 4 later this month. With a whopping US$100,000 (RM414,000) total prize pool this time around,

Creative Assembly's Total War franchise is known for being one of the most demanding games for the PC in terms of sheer processing power. It takes a beast of a machine to render those stacks of infantry and cavalry units clashing against each other. It's crazy to imagine that we've reached a point where we can play the

The One Punch Man manga/anime is a classic example of a superhero show that turns the genre upside its head with a swift uppercut. It focuses on a guy named Saitama who one-hit kills bad guys in his path, and how he's integrated into a society filled with class-ranked heroes -ie: not very well because of his dopey look

Platform: Nintendo Switch Genre: Musical Action Adventure When you think of the term "spoiling the market", you think lazy spin-off titles and offshoots like a lot of Final Fantasy mobile games out there. But you also think of other titles like your Auto Chess games in Dota 2; an offshoot of a mod that is so addictive

Nintendo has announced that Dr. Mario World will be launching for Android and iOS mobile devices next month on 10 July 2019. It is set to be a free-to-play game but will include in-app purchases like capsules to replenish the player's stamina meter to continue playing without having to wait, and other in-game items. D

Axiata will be launching its first-ever esports tournament with the upcoming Axiata Game Hero tournament, which will pit the best Free Fire Battlegrounds players in Southeast Asia for the chance to win RM500,000 in grand prize money. It will involve participants from four countries in Southeast Asia, including Malaysi

E3 2019 is over and done with; there's a ton of video game reveals and some locked-down release dates for anticipated titles for this year and the next. So, which games deserve the coveted Kakuchopurei Best of E3 Gold Star award which we just made up on the spot for this feature? Let's find out! Kenn Leandre Halo: Inf

Dota started off its life as a mod called Defense Of The Ancients for the RTS game, Warcraft III: Frozen Throne. It was so successful that it spawned one of the earliest forms of esports. Then Valve came in and capitalised on the name and thus, Dota 2 was born. Sometimes the modders are offered to work on the official

A free-to-play JRPG mobile game from Xenogears and Chrono Cross/Chrono Trigger writer Masato Kato and music composer Yasunori Mitsuda will finally be released in Europe and Southeast Asia, two years after it was originally launched in Japan. Developed by Wright Flyer Studios for the Android and iOS, Another Eden: The

Black Desert, the Korean MMORPG by Pearl Abyss, is slated for a global mobile phone title release this year as, creatively enough, Black Desert Mobile. The game is already available in South Korea and Japan a few years ago. The English version will be out on the Play Store and App Store in the coming months. Here's

Here's the second part of the massive reveal by Kinda Funny Games. If you missed our Part 1 writeup, you can head over here. 31. Undermine (PC) [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8I7YxRTHcI] Undermine is an action-adventure roguelike RPG which has you crawling intro procedurally generated dungeons, upgrading yo

One of the most popular mods for Dota 2 is going to be a standalone game on the Epic Games Store. Hooray for those people, I guess. Dota Auto Chess, a joy-filled deck-based Dota 2 game that made Artifact obsolete and Malaysian/Singaporean streamers go nuts over for some unknown reason, was so popular it's going to be

Another E3, another year where Bethesda announces a bunch of new games and new IPs for us to salivate over. And also the release date for the much-awaited FPS Doom Eternal. However, Bethesda is under much scrutiny given the context of Fallout 76's launch last year. Yeah, remember that? Despite the fact that the compan

The legendary Keiji Inafune, best known for designing Capcom's Mega Man and working on every game in the franchise up to Mega Man 10, has returned with a new game after the disastrous failure of his last major game, Mighty No. 9. Now he's working on a mobile game. Developed by Level-5 Comcept, Inafune's new game is ti

Update: Gamescom Asia got back to us; we've made some additions to the current piece to set some records straight.  Singapore has recently scored a win of sorts; it will host the first-ever Asian edition of Gamescom in 2020; the conference is from 15-16 October 2020, while the exhibition is from 16-18 of the same m

The Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Southeast Asia Cup (MSC) 2019 is the region's elite Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) tournament and it is heading to Manila. Taking place at the SMART Araneta Coliseum, MSC 2019 is going to be the biggest and most exciting MLBB esports event to take place in the Philippines. Happening

Capcom will release a "love adventure" game called Towaware no Palm for the Nintendo Switch in Japan on 30th August. Previously, the game was out on mobile phones back in 2016. Based on the trailer below, it's a story about a black-haired guy or a blonde hunk who interacts with you through a mirror at a place they're

Mobile MOBA games like Mobile Legends and Arena of Valor are extremely popular, so it's no surprise that their bigger brothers on the PC are trying to follow suit. According to Reuters, Riot Games and Tencent are currently developing a mobile version of League of Legends. There are several sources, one of which claime

China-based games and tech company NetEase has announced (via The New York Times) that it will be working together with The Pokémon Company and Game Freak to release the first-ever official mobile Pokémon game in China. What game is it? It's going to be a version of Pokémon Quest, which originally launc