We never thought Apple Arcade would be where all the cool games from Japan be at, yet here we are. PlatinumGames, Mistwalker, and a few prominent devs have released their games on Apple Arcade effective immediately. First up is PlatinumGames' World of Demons, an action game with Okami watercolour-and-hard-sumi-e-str

Sony Interactive Entertainment launched the PlayStation At Home initiative last year in April 2020 to keep the PlayStation community entertained while practising social distancing. This year's iteration launched earlier this month and will go on until June 2021. We already know that 2016's Ratchet & Clank will b

Platform(s): PC Genre: Rhythm Game At first, Rhythm Doctor may sound overly simplistic. A one-button rhythm game? Wouldn't that be too easy? I'm here to tell you that it's definitely not, and this game from Malaysian developer 7th Beat Games is certainly one of the most unique rhythm games I've ever played in my li

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

For the rest of 2020's best games, head here.  #10: BPM Bullets Per Minute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L36pPvuWfzg Much like this year's indie darling Hades, BPM Bullets Per Minute requires you to restart your roguelike run if you die. The kicker? BPM is a first-person shooter where you have to fire your gu

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

Here's the rest of 2020's best games so far. #21: Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (PS4, Xbox One) Talk about a meta subtitle. It's really high time the bandicoot and his pals get another crack at 3D platforming. And developer Toys for Bob hit it out of the ballpark with Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. T

Platform: PS4, Android, iOSGenre: Narrative Adventure, Indie I played a bit of Malaysian indie developer DreamTree Studio's DeLight: The Journey Home at Level Up KL 2019. It turned out to be one of the event's highlights for me, leaving with a memorable experience, and I was excited to see more of th

If you miss insanely addictive rhythm games with both a casual and hardcore appeal like the Rhythm Heaven series, you may want to pay attention to this upcoming Malaysian-made title from developer 7th Beat Games. Rhythm Doctor, a PC music game that's basically an indie love letter to Nintendo's melodic nonsense, wil

This is it, folks. We're in the last stretch of 2020, and it's an exciting one. The next-gen consoles (PS5 and Xbox Series X/S) will be launching in November 2020, and that means a lot of great new titles that will push the boundaries of gaming even further. The year isn't over yet, so here are the games across all

The last Nintendo Direct Mini took place just last month, but now we’ve finally received a new one. The presentation showcased a lot of exciting stuff for Nintendo Switch owners to look forward to. Check out my full recap and roundup of the Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase September 2020 below: Monst

Platform: PC Genre: Music rhythm first-person shooter with metal Norse infused within. Ever wondered what happened if 2016's Doom was a musical where the lyrics are replaced with your gunshots made in sync with the bass and drums of the soundtrack? Bullets Per Minute (BPM) from Awe Interactive is just that, and it'

Publisher NCSOFT and developer Harmonix have announced that Fuser will launch for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam on 10 November 2020. Fuser is a DJ rhythm game with a library of over 100 songs, including tracks from the world’s top artists. Players can complete challenges to unloc

We dug our time with Metronomik's music-laced action game No Straight Roads, even with its technical bugs & quirks. The devs know this too, so leave it to the company's CEO Wan Hazmer to release a video talking about it, as well as dish out some protips on the game's harder segments. He details some of the bugs in

Nintendo decided to punk us all and release a surprise Nintendo Direct Mini presentation earlier today. It's certainly impressive, considering that this comes only one week after the Nintendo Indie World Showcase 2020 earlier this month and a month after July 2020's Nintendo Direct Mini. Check out my full recap and ro

Publisher Sega and developers Craft Egg and Colorful Palette have announced that Project Sekai: Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku will launch for the iOS via the App Store and Android via Google Play on 30 September 2020 in Japan. https://twitter.com/pj_sekai/status/1297005642247331841

We're in the middle of June, and we've already seen a boatload of game previews and a couple of new console showcases. It's nice to know that digital events can still thrive amidst COVID-19, but we do miss playing demos of upcoming games. Well, you can do that in this Summer edition of the Steam Game Festival, where t

The PC Gaming Show 2020 took place earlier today, and more than a whopping 50 games were revealed during the 2-hour live stream presentation (though not all of them are actually brand new titles). Check them out below: Persona 4 Golden [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWO_Nlfgek0&w=560&h=315] Atlus has

What happens when you mix Doom Eternal with a rhythm game like Rhythm Heaven? You get a humble little shooter like BPM: Bullets Per Minute. Brought o you by Awe Interactive, this shooter is a "rhythm-action FPS roguelik" where you move, jump, and shoot your way through randomly-generated dungeons to the beat of an epi