Grand Theft Auto V isn't just one of the most popular and best-selling video games out there. It is in fact the most profitable entertainment product of all time. By April 2018, the game achieved 90 million sales worldwide and generated US$6 billion in revenue (via gamesindustry.biz). The biggest film phenomenon in rec

Open-world games are often notorious for having ridiculously massive file sizes, especially on consoles. Games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey could easily reach between 50GB to 100GB in size. It looks like those looking forward to CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 next year will have to start sa

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

What makes a good video game partner? It’s such a simple question, and just thinking about it makes one of them pop into your mind, doesn’t it? Is it Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite? Is it Morgana from Persona 5? Aku Aku from Crash Bandicoot? Maybe even… Claptrap from Borderlands 2? It’s a

Platform: PS4 Genre: Zombie apocalypse action-adventure game I've always wanted to check out Portland, Oregon in the US. During my time studying/working in North America, I'm always curious as to how vast the woods and trails are especially when you want to arrange a road trip just to see how lush it all is. As fun as

In the previous year, the top 25 public game companies generated a combined revenue of US$107.3 billion, a 16% increase from 2017. This is the first time the industry has exceeded the 100-billion-dollar mark. Together, these companies accounted for almost 80% of the $134.9 billion global games market. According to our

GTA 6 is one of those games that has long been rumored to be secretly in development. While Rockstar Games has yet to officially announced the next installment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise, a new piece of information may confirm the existence of GTA VI. According to a post by ResetEra user @deadasdisco, GTAForums

Zombies. Freakers. Infected. The Undead. Many games over many decades have featured these nightmarish flesh-eating creatures, albeit with some variation in their looks and abilities to keep things fresh. With the PS4 exclusive Days Gone around the corner, featuring zombies in the hundreds to take down, I want to loo

The PlayStation 5 is undoubtedly in the works. Analysts have predicted the console to arrive somewhere in 2021 to 2022, and based on this report by Wired, it seems about right. If you thought the PlayStation 4 Pro was a beast of a console, the next-generation console is a gargantuan behemoth. The Main Chips According

Who would've guessed that From Software's shinobi game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice would reach on top of the charts? I did. It is a fantastic game that pulls me in and calls to me despite the rage and frustrations it doles out generously. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice achieved an average rating of 90 on Metacritic, only p

Like most people, I loved Red Dead Redemption 2. It's the best that Rockstar has offered in terms of storytelling, characters, and dialogue. However, I have a hard time classifying it as my favourite Rockstar game and that's mainly because the overall gameplay just isn't all that great. After more than an entire decad

This week, the Game Developers Choice (GDC) awards and the Independent Games Festival (IGF) awards gave out the best in show of 2018 during the week of GDC 2019. To the surprise of no one, PlayStation and Santa Monica Studio's God of War won this year's GDC Game of the Year award. But what's cool is that last year's a

February 2019 was a great month with even greater binge fests like The Umbrella Academy and The Dragon Prince Season 2. Next month, users can look forward to more awesome binge-worthy offerings on the streaming service as we usher in March 2019. Despite the death of Marvel Netflix, you can rest assured that a lot of di

Platforms: Xbox One, PC (via Windows 10) Genre: Booming Action Open World Orb-Collectathon To answer your question first-hand: yes, this is the long-sought apology for Crackdown 2 eons ago. Better late than never, right? For those who are lost, here's the gist: the first Crackdown game is basically Grand Theft Auto I

Spider-Man had one of its best years in 2018, the biggest of which was arguably Marvel's Spider-Man for the PS4. That's why it's no surprise when Sony Interactive Entertainment Hong Kong Limited Singapore Branch (SIES) announced that sales for the Insomniac Games' title have exceeded a whopping 9 million copies worldwi

In case you missed it, we did a pretty lengthy and bombastic awards feature spanning across 6 days just before 2018 ended. Why? Because we're timely and crazy like that. If you'd like to find out what the best and worst games/gaming trends are, just check out Days One to Five below. Just remember; it's just our opinio

Gamers and developers have long cited gaming as one of the entertainment industries with the biggest potential. Now we have the numbers and statistics to back that up, as the video games market is currently worth a whopping £3.864 billion (or roughly RM20.103 billion), making it larger in value than both film and mu

Welcome to Kakuchopurei's Best of 2018 feature, where we rank our favourite and not-so-favourite gaming things of 2018. We've done four of these so far, so it's now down to the wire; the big one. Here are Days One to Four, linked here for your reading convenience: Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Now let's end this.

What a year 2018 has been for us here at Kakuchopurei.com. We went up, down, sideways - heck, we went everywhere to deliver you what we believe to be the best video games and entertainment-related content all year long. All this, in hopes of ticking all the boxes that make decent entertainment sites good, and the good

All I can say about 2018 is that if it were not for this gig, the games, The Last King podcast side gig thing, and that pretty awesome Spider-Man movie, I would have deemed it the worst year of my God-given existence. But you're here for video game talk, so I'll spare you all the grisly details. I'll say this: when