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Sad news for fighting game fans who wish to visit The Philippines for some REV Major action this year. Organizers Gariath Concepts and PlayBook Esports announced that this year's REV Major is cancelled due to COVID-19 still messing up the world. The organizations and its partners will be working towards next year's REV Major instead. https://www....
In honour of Street Fighter's Red Cyclone wrestler man-guy Zangief's birthday next week (on 1st June), we cherry-pick 20 of our favourite bone-crunching and damage-dealing command grabs throughout fighting game history. Rules? It has to be a command grab that can't be blocked. Special AND super moves apply. Enjoy the vid! https://youtu.be/vD-FPFX...
Malaysia fighting game organization Flash Vision are teaming up with Yoodo to launch the Yoodo FV Major Cup 2020. Its main draw? To give the best Street Fighter V and Tekken 7 players a chance to get sponsored to go to EVO 2021. The Yoodo FV Major Cup will consist of 5 qualifiers and 1 grand final which will feature the top 8 competitors from the ...
Tekken 7's final season 3 DLC fighter is finally arriving next week on 24 March 2020 in the new 3.30 update; Southeast Asian Muay Thai champion Fahkumram. He will come with a brand new stage called the Cave of Enlightenment, as well as a couple of unique costumes and cosmetics. In the release date trailer, we can see him speaking Thai and kicking ...
The Coronavirus events-claiming & postponement continues. Bandai Namco announced online that the Tokyo Tekken Masters event of the Tekken World Tour is being delayed. The tournament will be delayed to a "later date in 2020". https://twitter.com/BandaiNamcoUS/status/1234584420893388800 Before all this, the tournament was supposed to be held du...
Yoodo Malaysia is stepping up their esports involvement by recruiting a roster of new esports athletes. First up is a refresh to Malaysia’s most popular PUBG Mobile esports team; Yoodo Gank, with two new additions, including popular streamer Fredo (Ahmad Fuad Razali) and the 2019 PUBG Mobile National Championship winner Jumper (Muhamad Izzr...
It's a beautiful day for this generation's top 3D fighting game featuring oodles of guest characters. Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada mentioned on Twitter that Tekken 7 has achieved over 5 million sales worldwide since December of last year. This brings the total copies of Tekken games sold worldwide to 49 million. Congratulations! To celebrate,...
Work and fight hard, and you'll eventually be the world's best. That's what Nopparut Book Hempamorn, one of Southeast Asia's top Tekken 7 players, did time and again, proving himself to the world. Just recently, the Thailand Iron Fist warrior placed first in a gruelling top 8 in EVO Japan 2020's Tekken 7 tournament. Granted, this bout isn't part o...
Esports history has hit another milestone. For the first time ever, esports is featured as a medal sport in an international sports event, namely the SEA Games 2019. All matches have concluded on 10 December 2019. Let's take a look at who won those medals. The SEA Games 2019 Esports tournament was participated by 8 countries from the Southeast ...
It's the last day of the SEA Games 2019 Esports event, with only Tekken 7 left. At this point of typing, StarCraft 2 is done and over with. Let's see who came out on top today: StarCraft 2 The Philippines vs Singapore (4-1) Tekken 7 The Philippines vs Thailand (2-3) Heartiest congratulations to The Philippines' EnDerr for winning the gold me...
Bandai Namco just dropped a ton of news regarding its staple fighting game Tekken 7 to the delight of fans and pro players. Let's go through them one-by-one: New Characters In Season 3 In addition to more Leroy Jenkins Smith, we are also getting returning sumo wrestler Ganryu and newcomer Muay Thai user Fahkumram. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V...
As the saying goes - seek and you shall find. That has always been the mantra of us over here at Kakuchopurei.com. If and when we have queries about some particular topic, we go straight to the source for answers. So being nosy-slash-curious to as what the recently-elected Minister of Youth and Sports, Yang Berhormat Tuan Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman...
The SEA Games 2019 will be the first major international sports event to feature Esports as a medal sport. There are 18 medals to be won across 6 games. The group stage draw was done yesterday and we now have the results. Esports at SEA Games 2019 will be happening at the Filoil Flying V Centre in San Juan, Metro Manila from 5 December to 10 Decem...
Government-involved kerfuffles aside, many of us are excited for this year's Philippines 2019 30th SEA Games, largely because it's the first time we'll be seeing esports as a competitive field in an Olympic-level scale and setting. You can watch the esports tournament here. https://youtu.be/mmCBkYBymrM Here's the schedule (via Esports Inquirer)....
Update: schedule for SEA Games Esports added below. Thanks, Low Yat! With the 2019 Philippines SEA Games Esports tournament happening soon, it's high time Malaysia reveals its roster of players who will be representing the nation. Thanks to a recent player list email Kakuchopurei received, we now know the players representing Malaysia for the gol...
Southeast Asia Major. As a member of the Malaysian fighting game community for almost the past decade now, it seems like we’ve always acknowledged that SEAM is the biggest, most important annual fighting game tournament in our region. Whether or not that will actually hold true in years to come remains to be seen, especially given the mass...
Just today, the Deputy Chef-de-Mission of the Malaysian contingent for the SEA Games 2019 paid a visit to the esports team who will be representing the country for the six esports medal events to be contested from 1 December to 6 December 2019 in Manila. Throughout the visit the DCDM Nurul Huda Abdullah, a former competitive swimmer who has won ma...
Last weekend was indeed a treat for fighting game fans in Asia, particular in the Philippines. Gariath Concept, Playbook, Solaire, and Globe teamed up to bring streamers and fans a hell of a fighting game show with, offline and online, with a Tekken World Tour Master event, a Tenkaichi-level Dragon Ball FighterZ World Tour, and a load of other top ...
When talking about big esports events in Malaysia, there's no avoiding the fact that the best stuff always happens in Kuala Lumpur. However, the folks up north in Penang want to prove that there's still great competitive fun to be had outside of KL and honestly, I think they pulled off something pretty good. During the recent weekend, the first-ev...
ONE Esports will be hosting the inaugural ONE TEKKEN Tokyo Invitational on 5 October 2019 at Belle Salle Shibuya Garden. Nine of the world's best Tekken 7 players will be battling it out to get the lion's share of the US$15,000 prize pool. The tournament is structured in a 3v3 format and will see three teams of pros competing. The confirmed teams ...
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