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By Alleef Ashaari|April 14, 2020|0 Comment
Pixar fans will have to be content watching Onward and older titles for now, as Disney has announced that both Soul and Raya And The Last Dragon have been delayed from their original premiere dates due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic (via Variety). Pixar's Soul was originally slated to arrive on 19 June 2020, but will now be premiering on 20 ...
By Melvyn Tan|April 13, 2020|0 Comment
Square Enix has announced that the physical version of Trials of Mana's soundtrack will be postponed in Japan. In a tweet (translated by Japanese Nintendo), they wrote that the postponement was made due to the COVID-19 coronavirus and the closure of some stores. It was originally planned for a 22 April release. https://twitter.com/sem_sep/status/...
By Melvyn Tan|April 2, 2020|0 Comment
Kojima Productions announced that it would temporarily close its office floor and implement remote working after an employee tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. The Death Stranding developer made the announcement on 30 March, the date it found out about the positive test result. "The employee has been at home from March 20th and as s...
By Melvyn Tan|April 2, 2020|0 Comment
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, some folks advise others to stay at home politely. Others do so a bit more firmly. Then there's Samuel Jackson, who has an entire, expletive-filled poem dedicated to telling us to "stay the f**k at home". In a video chat with Jimmy Kimmel, who is under quarantine, the actor said that he got a call from Adam M...
By Melvyn Tan|April 2, 2020|0 Comment
In case you didn't have enough games to play during this social distancing period, Humble Bundle has launched a new one-week bundle for the occasion. Named as the "Conquer Covid-19" bundle, it offers over 30 games, with all proceeds going to support organizations that are responding to the coronavirus. The games include Into the Breach, Undertale,...
By Melvyn Tan|March 31, 2020|0 Comment
To reduce the strain on internet bandwidth during this time of social isolation, Valve is making tweaks to Steam's auto-update function. Steam will now prioritize games that were played during the last three days for immediate updates. Games that haven't been played recently will instead have their updates scheduled for "the next off-peak local ti...
By Alleef Ashaari|March 31, 2020|0 Comment
It seems like every major movie for the next several months (or the rest of the year, for that matter) are getting pushed back and delayed from their initial release dates, due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. A bunch of upcoming movies by Sony Pictures have received the same treatment as Warner Bros' Wonder Woman 1984 and Marvel Studios' Bla...
By Alleef Ashaari|March 29, 2020|0 Comment
In Malaysia, we're already in the second week of our one-month self-quarantine in accordance with the Government's Movement Control Order mandate. Many of us have been working from home and doing whatever we can to pass the time, including playing video games, of course. Your family members or housemates may be berating you for gaming too much dur...
By Alleef Ashaari|March 27, 2020|0 Comment
The COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic has negatively affected the global economy and disrupted many businesses in the process, including the games industry. Major gaming events like E3 2020 and GDC 2020 have been cancelled, while developers are mandating that their employees work from home. As such, gamers have been appropriately worried about the sch...
By Alleef Ashaari|March 26, 2020|0 Comment
Taipei Game Show 2020 was originally supposed to take place in February 2020 but was then delayed to June 2020 due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in China. However, the organisers have now announced that the upcoming event has been officially cancelled. According to the Taipei Game Show 2020 organisers, many international attendees would hav...
By Melvyn Tan|March 25, 2020|0 Comment
In Plague Inc, your usual objective is to spread a deadly pathogen across the world. A new update now offers you the chance to do the opposite and "save the world from a deadly disease outbreak" instead. "Players will have to balance managing disease progression and boosting healthcare systems as well as controlling real-world actions such as tria...
By Melvyn Tan|March 23, 2020|0 Comment
Formula 1 has launched a new F1 Esports Virtual Grand Prix series in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, with several current F1 drivers featured. "The virtual races will run in place of every postponed Grand Prix, starting this weekend with the Virtual Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday March 22," says the announcement. "Every subsequent race weekend w...
By Melvyn Tan|March 23, 2020|0 Comment
The COVID-19 coronavirus has been affecting one esports tournament after the other, to the extent that such news is almost expected rather than surprising now. If you're wondering what got cancelled, postponed, or moved online, we've made a list of major tournaments (or tournaments involving major games) that got affected by this pandemic. Various...
Talk about the mother of all user data spikes. Steam has reached a new peak concurrent user count of 22 million online about a few hours ago. At this point in time, there are now 22,678,529 users on Steam. This is definitely made possible due to the number of people social distancing and quarantining themselves during the COVID-19 coronavirus pand...
By Melvyn Tan|March 20, 2020|0 Comment
The COVID-19 Coronavirus doesn't discriminate, and everyone has a part to play in fending it off. Yes, even gamers. In light of that, a website called GamersVsCovid-19 where gamers can take a pledge has opened. The pledge covers vital health and safety measures like social distancing, hand-washing, and avoiding shaking hands. Here's the full list...
By Alleef Ashaari|March 20, 2020|0 Comment
Last month, the organizers announced that GDC 2020 (which was initially planned for March) was officially postponed, but that they would still want to host an event sometime this year. Now they have revealed its replacement in the form of GDC Summer 2020, which will take place at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco from 4 to 6 August 2020. In a s...
By Melvyn Tan|March 20, 2020|0 Comment
A week ago, the Overwatch League said that they would be cancelling some events but continue with their March matches. That's no longer the case. In a brief statement, the Overwatch League announced that those matches would be postponed. "For the overall safety and well-being of our players, teams and staffs, and in alignment with Californiaâ€...
By Alleef Ashaari|March 19, 2020|0 Comment
Razer may be best known for their PC gaming peripherals, but now they're going to be contributing to the fight against the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan announced on Twitter earlier today that the company is currently producing surgical masks and plans to donate up to a million of them. On his personal Twitter account, Tan...
By Melvyn Tan|March 18, 2020|0 Comment
While the Covid-19 pandemic is dominating our news, there are still some who are unaware of it. The guests on Big Brother, for instance, are largely shut-off from updates about the outside world. And until recently, Jared Leto had no idea about the current coronavirus situation either, thanks to his long meditation session. In an Instagram post, ...
By Melvyn Tan|March 17, 2020|0 Comment
With the Covid-19 coronavirus disrupting daily life, we've seen online services like Discord stepping up to temporarily replace on-site lessons and working. Now, a group of elementary school graduates in Japan have taken things to the next level by having their graduation ceremony in Minecraft. As SoraNews24 wrote, schools in Japan are currently c...
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