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The legendary Kirby, Kid Icarus: Uprising, and Super Smash Bros. game designer Masahiro Sakurai has used two fine Southeast Asian indie games in his latest game design talk, this time on graphics and their impact on gaming fun. In his talk, he brings up two Southeast Asian gaming examples when going through titles with impactful visual appeal: T...
Hi-Fi Rush is out now for PC and Xbox, and it's a helluva trip from the developers of The Evil Within series and Ghostwire: Tokyo. What's really cool is that it's a 5-year project in the making that didn't even leak; it just came out of the woodwork during the Xbox and Bethesda Developer Direct livestream. We managed to be the first Southeast As...
Bethesda and Tango Gameworks' new action game Hi-Fi Rush is a lovely blend of 3D action ala Devil May Cry, cel-shaded presentation like Viewtiful Joe, and music rhythm mechanics from Rhythm Heaven. In fact, the action-music-rhythm game hybrid is clearly inspired by 2020's Malaysian-made title No Straight Roads, and inevitable comparisons will be ma...
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and is a pretty common trend in video games. The recently-released Hi-Fi Rush from Tango Gameworks is a really fun action game that is similar in mechanics to a 2020 indie video game made in Malaysia: No Straight Roads. One might even say that the game's executive producer Shinji Mikami and his team m...
During the Xbox Bethesda Developer Direct live stream earlier today, Tango Gameworks announced their next game, the action rhythm game Hi-Fi Rush. The developer is best known for previously releasing horror or horror-adjacent titles such as The Evil Within, The Evil Within 2 and last year's Ghostwire Tokyo (check out our review of that here). Th...
Malaysian games developer Metronomik has announced that they are currently hiring and have opened a lot more job positions. According to their tweet, they are giving priority to local talent from Malaysia, so fellow Malaysians should definitely try it out if any of you have ever had dreams of working at a video game company. Other details on the...
D-CELL GAMES has announced the Unbeatable x No Straight Roads collaboration. Starting from today's patch V1.0.8, Unbeatable players can play One Eye Closed's Low, the ending theme of No Straight Roads. In addition, a new stage inspired by NSR's "Vinyl City'' is featured alongside the song in Unbeatable. Unbeatable [white label] is a special ...
Metronomik, the folks behind the acclaimed 2020 action music game No Straight Roads, has announced its new upcoming title named after Malaysia's famous klepon snack: Ondeh Ondeh. Ondeh Ondeh is billed as a fantastical audio-centric game. Based on the trailer, it's looking like a 3D action-adventure title with most likely some platforming, pu...
Review originally published on 25th August, 2020. It's bumped up due to the Steam version that's out right now. Platform(s): PC (Epic Games & Steam), PS4, Xbox One Nintendo Switch Genre: Uniquely Malaysian music-rhythm action mash-up Readers on this site may notice my affinity to hyper-stylized action games like the Bayonetta games and r...
Kageki Shoujo!!, a pretty popular anime series about acting troupes practising to be the best, will be one of the first major titles to sport a Malaysian talent in its official English voice casting. Su Ling Chan, whom you may know as the VO of Mayday from hit 3D action music-laced game No Straight Roads, will play Akiya Shirakawa's mom as well ...
Malaysian developer Metronomik has announced that No Straight Roads Encore Edition will launch for PC via Steam on 21 October 2021. The PC Steam version of No Straight Roads was originally announced in August 2021. No Straight Roads Encore Edition includes the base game along with brand new exclusive content, including an expanded collection of ...
Metronomik has announced that they are already working on a new game during a live stream to celebrate their first-year anniversary of No Straight Roads. During the live stream, Metronomik CEO Wan Hazmer confirmed that the Malaysian developer's next game will be a brand new IP and it won't be No Straight Roads 2. He doesn't reveal any other d...
Metronomik has announced a Steam PC version of No Straight Roads during a live stream to celebrate their first-year anniversary. The stream is still ongoing at the time of writing, so more details will be added soon. Check out the Steam page for No Straight Roads Encore Edition here. The title of the Steam version is No Straight Roads Encore ...
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 other, Imran 'Vokey' Rosli. Whil...
Here's a treat for all you fans of Malaysian studio Metronomik's No Straight Roads. You can grab this No Straight Roads Fanzine digital artbook for free, and it features over 60 pages of rocking illustrations from more than 40 amazing artists dedicated to the game's unique visuals and characters. https://twitter.com/NSRZine/status/136443...
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 VA Community aims to promote M...
Hi! It’s Su Ling Chan here, the voice actress for Mayday from No Straight Roads! 2020 was a very different year for me. I’ve never really had the time to play video games because I’m very active and I’m always out of the house. But with COVID-19 lockdowns, suddenly I was stuck at home with all this time on my hands! ...
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 year 2020 hit. Games and D...
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 terms of sales alone. The folks a...
The PlayStation.Blog Game of the Year polls are now live and you can vote on PlayStation Blog now. There are 17 categories this year, and the polls will remain open until 3.59pm GMT+8 on 14 December 2020. Malaysian-based Metronomik's No Straight Roads managed to garner two nominations, including Best Independent Game and Best Soundtrack. Che...
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