Bethesda and Tango Gameworks' latest game Hi-Fi Rush is a nice hybrid of character action and rhythm game mechanics. You fight mechas as Chai, who has a robot arm and fights with a metal guitar, and your hits deal more damage when they're in sync with the background music. It's similar to 2020's No Straight Roads. H

This here's a guest post from our game industry pals from Southeast Asia & the world. Head here to see more of Az Samad's work. I have a fond place in my heart for both 8-bit and 16-bit era 2-D scrolling games. Castlevania, Megaman, and Metroid were all staples of my early years playing video games. The games we

Platform(s): PC (via Steam and Epic Games Store), PS4, PS5 Genre: Brawler, Party Game, Multiplayer We've been looking forward to Malaysian developer Passion Republic Games' GigaBash for years now, ever since we had a hands-on experience with the locally-made game at Level Up KL 2019. GigaBash is probably the bigges

Ever wanted to be in the shoes of a noir-ish detective exploring a cyberpunk Singapore? Well, that's the premise of Chinatown Detective Agency, an upcoming game by developer General Interactive Co. and publisher Humble Games. They have announced that the game will release sometime in spring 2022. In Chinatown Detect

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

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

Are you based in Malaysia? Do you have an awesome voice, a mic setup, and want to make a living off of voicing video games? You can start by paying attention to this group in Malaysia. Helmed by voice actors Su Ling Chan and Michelle "Lylia" Tan (from 2020's hit Malaysian-made game No Straight Roads), the Malaysian

Post originally from The Magic Rain. Check out their anime content on their website. It seemed like only yesterday when Among Us was the only thing anybody was talking about. Even crazier to think that the game first came out 2 years ago. But in this time-warped, helluva crazy year filled with delayed video ga

2020 is a terrible year for many. But 2020 is also a good year for gaming. Here are the highlights of that year. And hope the rest burns in heck. https://youtu.be/yXjQIcQ0mCM Video Cliff's Notes: January -Australian bushfires. -US ballistics strike in Iraq. -Philippine volcano spews ash near Manila. -Bad Boys

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

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

More 2020 Best Games feature work here. #18. No Straight Roads (PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One) https://www.youtube.com/embed/4H9AM7L1AGc No Straight Roads is a game that Malaysians can be proud of. It's probably the biggest fully made-in-Malaysia game ever made to date, and that's not just in ter

Hades is a force to reckon with. From the addictive gameplay & story to the music which heightens the gaming experience. I’ve been listening to the soundtrack; here are the top 10 things I love about it. 1. Those Awesome Odd Meters https://youtu.be/SqFaCDvHxU4 "Out of Tartarus" brings me back to

The biggest game festival in Malaysia is back. The Level Up KL 2020: Play Day main the main online stream show will be held on the final two days, 28 and 29 November 2020, on the official Play app. You can download the app for mobile, or play it on the browser from your PC via this link. The two-day event wi

The Philippines' Electronic Sports and Gaming Summit (ESGS) is going online this year for obvious reasons. Thanks to COVID-19 and the pandemic, everyone is taking their gaming events online, and organizers Gariath Concepts are doing the same to keep ESGS going. Here's the schedule for this year's online offerings. E

Happy Malaysia Day, everyone!  To celebrate the 31st of August  16th of September (and its weekend by extension), let's give thanks to the many hard-working folks in the Malaysian games industry for all of their contributions. From government body MDEC to small studios, every one of these fine folks should be

Thanks to the worldwide pandemic, many gaming and anime events have been going online as of late. One of Malaysia's top anime conventions Animangaki is no different, opting for the online approach this year. You can catch the show's livestreams either here or on YouTube. The first show will start today at 6pm GMT+8 wh

I was just trying to keep alive. I grew up spending hours trying to keep alive playing side-scrolling games like Ninja Gaiden, Battletoads and Contra. My personal favourite of that era was Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight (which was not even really a Street Fighter game or Final Fight game). I had the Famicom versi

One of Southeast Asia’s largest and longest-running animation, comics and games (ACG) event will be returning next week. Comic Fiesta 2019 is set to take place at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from 21 to 22 December 2019. Here’s what you can look forward to at the upcoming event: Highlights Es