After only a month since what was previously the Square Enix Montreal studio, Onoma has been shut down by Embracer Group.  According to a report by Bloomberg, Embracer Group informed employees today that several members of the staff will be transferred to Eidos Montreal. Square Enix Montreal is best known for devel

When you see RM799 for a phone, you expect it to be a middle-of-the-line kind of deal and not flagship phone material, especially ones that are meant for gaming. After all, gaming phones like the latest ASUS ROG command a crazy sum of RM3,599+ and beyond for all of its bells and whistles, as well as performance power m

The seventh episode of Star Wars Andor is now streaming on Disney+ Hotstar Malaysia. I’ll be discussing heavy spoilers so if you haven’t seen it or want to avoid spoilers, now’s your chance to stop reading. Check out my spoiler-free review of Andor here. The Andor series will explore a new perspective from

Good news: NetherRealm Studios is making a new Mortal Kombat game. Bad news: it's not a new 2D fighting game, but it's a mobile game for iOS and Android in 2023. It's a mobile role-playing game with collection mechanics and will launch globally. Here's the product description: Mortal Kombat: Onslaught will featu

Following the acquisition by Swedish company Embracer Group, the studio formerly known as Square Enix Montréal has rebranded as Studio Onoma. Square Enix Montréal was founded in 2011 with the goal of developing premium games before switching its focus to free-to-play games in 2013. It is the developer behind mo

The Malaysian government has unveiled a smaller budget for 2023 and has warned of an economic slowdown. At the same time, it's announcing cash aid, tax cuts, and some money reserved for esports and film ecosystem. So how much is reserved for Malaysia's esports scene? According to the live report (via New Straits Tim

Ubisoft just unloaded a bunch of gaming news and announcements during Sunday morning, 11 September at 3am GMT+8. And yes, we at Kakuchopurei are using up our off-day just so we can deliver all the gaming news to you because we care. Anyway, here's what we have on tap from the French company that's full of IPs and te

Ubisoft has announced a new Assassin's Creed action RPG in the works: Assassin's Creed Codename Red. The upcoming game will be in line with AC Odyssey and AC Valhalla in terms of action and RPGing, being the future of the company's open-world RPG games in the AC series. The game is being developed by Ubisoft Quebec

Embracer Group is best known for being the parent company of THQ Nordic, Dark Horse Media, Gearbox Entertainment and more, but now they have grown even ludicrously bigger with a huge swath of new purchases. According to the press releases, they have acquired Bitwave Games, Gioteck, Limited Run Games, Middle-earth En

Publisher Level Infinite and developer Hotta Studio released two new trailer videos for the highly anticipated hit open-world MMORPG Tower of Fantasy. The two videos highlight the creative options open for players as well as showcase multiplayer action in the game for both PC and mobile gamers. Tower of Fantasy (ToF

Yostar and Yostar Pictures just showed off more Arknights anime goodness. Arknights [Prelude To Dawn], an anime based on the popular Arknights tower defense RPG mobile game on iOS and Android, just showcased a new second teaser. It's a little longer and features more close-ups of the cast like the game's mascot Amiy

Ever heard of Stumble Guys? Me neither, but it turns out to be a successful Fall Guys battle royale Takeshi's Castle minigames-style clone that's making waves. Stumble Guys, a game made by Finland studio Kitka Games, soft-launched a few months after Fall Guys' release in late 2020, and it launched globally in Januar

We've talked a bit about the potential 2022 GOTY candidate Vampire Survivors, which is a top-down 2D action game where you survive against hordes of the undead clearly tailored after Castlevania sprites. The game is so popular (and insanely cheap on Steam) that it inspired a clone that's using VTubers and Hololive char

One of the original MOBAs in existence, Heroes of Newerth, has shut down after 13 years of service. The game was one of the main competitors in the MOBA circuit alongside League of Legends and Dota 2. The impending shutdown, announced last year in December, was due to the game's long and slow decline in player numbe

Netflix Geeked, Netflix’s home for all things genre entertainment, is prepping their second annual Geeked Week. Geeked Week 2022 is a free five-day virtual event celebrating Netflix’s genre series, films, and games that runs from 6 June to 10 June 2022. You can expect tons of exclusive news, new trailers, celebrity

Not every free-to-play mobile JRPG can be a Genshin Impact, or even a Dragalia Lost. Such is the case of Bandai Namco's latest cash grab using the Tales of name. Bandai Namco has announced the sudden closure of Tales of Luminaria, which came out on 3rd November of last year. The mobile game will stop service cease t

The company formerly known as Mihoyo, HoYoverse, has a new Honkai 3rd Impact spin-off game in the works: a turn-based RPG called Honkai: Star Rail. The upcoming PC and mobile game has launched its sign-up page for its new round of closed beta sessions. Players can sign up right now on the game's official home page;

vivo today officially debuted its T1 series with the vivo T1 5G and vivo T1x smartphones that provide mobile gamers with turbo performance in Malaysia. Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon® 778G 5G processor and supported by a 4700 mAh battery with 66W FlashCharge, vivo T1 5G is equipped with a 6.44” 90Hz AMOLED Fullsense

Yostar's animation studio division -yes, that is a thing- has uploaded a preview of its anime adaptation of Yostar's hit strategy tower defense furry-filled game Arknights. The show is called is Arknights: Prelude to Dawn and features 43 seconds of human-animal anime hybrids in modern combat situations. The anime wi

Garena’s international hit mobile game Free Fire has prepared a month of special campaigns to celebrate Ramadhan with the Free Fire community in Singapore. Tying in with Ramadhan events, Free Fire is once again collaborating with the beloved Malaysian celebrity Zizan Razak as part of the newly unveiled campaign, “F