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This news is brought to you by the Retro DNA folks as a way to celebrate SNK's 40th anniversary. Check out the tied-in features here. We bet most of you are planning a weekend trip to Singapore for this year's biggest fighting game tournament in our humble region: the South East Asia Major 2018. Did you also know that there will be a lot of SN...
Capcom released a beat-em-up collection called the Capcom Beat Em Up Bundle, which is also called Capcom Belt Action in Southeast Asia. Naming oddity notwithstanding, it's a collection of Capcom's finest beat-em-ups that aren't licensed fares; no Aliens vs Predator, no Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, and no Punisher. It's sad, but what we ended up are s...
So Mega Man 11's music isn't exactly lighting the Mega-world on fire. A shame too, because the Mega Man games boast one of the catchiest 8-bit (and more) soundtracks for a 2D action platformer game filled with theme park setpieces as actual boss levels. Dozens of metal artists and cover bands will always find a way to play tracks like Mega Man 2's ...
What else is there to say about Mega Man (or Rock Man if you're from Japan)? He is Capcom's original mascot with the run-and-gun fun and also innovates with the boss weapon-stealing powerup. While the X and Zero games superceded and improved upon the weapon-stealing formula, you can't forget your 8-bit roots. But which Mega Man game is the best? W...
Funny how the world works. A few days after the Bowsette phenomenon took place, Nintendo released its official artbook for its marquee platformer title from last year. And it just dropped a bombshell of a revelation. According to the Super Mario Odyssey artbook that just came into Japan today (which you can get via Amazon), there's an unused co...
Welcome to yet another entry of Kakuchopurei and Retro DNA's SNK 40th Anniversary retrospective celebration which will end in about 2 week's time. Check out the rest of the features here. The 13 Most Influential SNK Fighting Game Moves Hail To The King (Of Fighters) The Top 15 SNK Games You Must Play Before You Die The Art of Shinki...
It's no wonder a lot of indie developers go to Kickstarter to get their games funded; it's a veritable success and a guaranteed victory in fanfare and sales. I mean, we have retro-esque 2D games like Shovel Knight and...er...okay...Mighty No. 9 was bad... and Bloodstained, which is actually delayed to 2019. Okay, hear me out: this upcoming action ...
In case you haven't had enough Castlevania: Symphony of the Night ports, good news! Here's one more from Konami. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Castlevania: Rondo of Blood will be sold in a PS4 exclusive bundle dubbed Castlevania Requiem. It'll be out this Halloween -26th October- and will cost you US$19.99. And yes, it's coinciding with S...
Word on the street is that Devil May Cry 5 will feature optional microtransactions to save players from grinding your Neros and Dantes. According to a GameSpot report during Tokyo Game Show 2018, players can pay real-world money to purchase the series' in-game currency, red orbs. Much like halos in Bayonetta, red orbs can be used to buy moves, w...
While I'm preparing this week's bunch of videos & writeups, I figured I come up with a quick one. So here's something about moons and video games. Try to guess where they're from. Enjoy! [caption id="attachment_13021" align="alignnone" width="601"] You have 3 days to sort this catastrophe out.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13022" align="a...
Our Retro DNA-themed SNK 8-week tribute continues. Check out the links below for our previous features. Hail To The King (Of Fighters) The Top 15 SNK Games You Must Play Before You Die The Art of Shinkiro Why The Neo Geo Was Successful Every time a new fighting game crops up, you can be sure that it has some sick moves and fightin...
You know what the world needs? A Wild Arms revival on the PS4. Too bad we're only getting half of that wish coming true: Wild Arms: Million Memories will be out for iOS and Android phones in Japan later on 26th September. What's the game about? It's an action RPG that is set in a Wild Arms multiverse type scenario, featuring the leads from all the...
And the remasters/remakes/current-gen ports keep on comin'. Square Enix recently announced the Romancing SaGa III HD remaster slated for an early 2019 release. The target platforms include the PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, PS Vita, iOS, and Android. That's a lotta platforms for a niche JRPG series and I for one am glad. The third game in th...
Grandia series fans, this one's for you. GameArts' RPG opus -that isn't the Lunar series- will be getting a remaster for the PC and Nintendo Switch. These games were fun because of their real-time-slash-turn-based approach to combat and its colourful-if-cliched storyline with a rotating cast. According to a Game Informer report, we now have full d...
Not one to be outdone by Nintendo and SNK in their respective quests to weaponize nostalgia and charging people for it, Sony PlayStation announces its PlayStation Classic mini console a few days before Tokyo Game Show 2018. Here's what we're getting: A small PlayStation One mini console with an HDMI output and a USB cable that connects to a powe...
In a perfect world, I would be writing a glowing review about the new Predator movie that's out this week. But we're in this timeline, and the film is a half-assed attempt at capturing the nostalgia and action beats of the first two Predator films. But I rather not focus on the negative this week. Instead, let's talk about something I enjoy immens...
You heard right, fighting game fans and SNK enthusiasts. The one true weapons-based fighting game (sorry SoulCalibur/Soul Edge & Weaponlord) is making a comeback, baby! Don't believe me? Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FKoZb1sv64 Let's Break It Down Is it in 2D? Yes! The game is using the Unreal Engine 4 to make it look as wat...
Happy belated royal birthday, Yang Dipertuan Agong of Malaysia. To most of us in Malaysia, it's a nice long weekend. But for some of us (sorta) hard at work at Kakuchopurei and definitely, DEFINITELY not distracted by Marvel's Spider-Man on the PS4, it's another opportunity to reminisce about the best kings and queens of video game culture. Because...
The new Spider-Man for the PS4 is coming out this week. And yes, it looks amazing (so far). However, aside from Spider-Man 2 and maybe Ultimate Spider-Man, most games based on everyone’s favourite wall-crawler usually range from the ones that are just above average in quality, to the ones that are downright dreadful gaming experiences. Unli...
From this mid-August until mid-October, we'll be releasing an SNK-themed retrospective per week as part of our tribute to SNK's 40th anniversary. This is in conjunction with the folks at Retro DNA & Versus City. When you think the arcades and the 90s, what do you remember? Street Fighter? The King of Fighters? Strikers 1941? Metal Slug? Ye...
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