Do you like waiting? Indie devs Optillusion is showcasing a mundane slice of life its upcoming game While Waiting, a game about.. waiting. No, not like in the idle game sense where you can just wait and see numbers go up. But day-to-day waiting like wait in a line, wait for that … | Continue reading
“3D romance game” Love And Deepspace celebrates the new year with a new game update. Update 3.0 “Cosmic Encounter Pt. 2”, which has just gone live today, adds a new main love interest for the otome game: Caleb. Fans are familiar with the character, and those who aren’t will see h … | Continue reading
Gaming earbuds? They’re a thing, if you can believe it. In a world where AirPods are now a common sight, why would you want a dedicated TWS earbud just for gaming? There’s one specific reason: consoles like the PS5 and Xbox Series don’t play well with Bluetooth headsets. Well, mo … | Continue reading
Gaming earbuds? They’re a thing, if you can believe it. In a world where AirPods are now a common sight, why would you want a dedicated TWS earbud just for gaming? There’s one specific reason: consoles like the PS5 and Xbox Series don’t play well with Bluetooth headsets. Well, mo … | Continue reading
Noctua Games is thrilled to announce the official launch of Crazy Ones! Starting today, players can embark on a revolutionary anime dating simulation adventure that combines romance, drama, and immersive gameplay—all designed for male audiences who were otherwise left out of the … | Continue reading
Exoborne, the extraction shooter by Sharkmob, will be having a public playtest. This playtest will go live from February 12, 1PM GMT (9PM Malaysia Time, +8 GMT) until February 17, 1PM GMT available on PC through Steam. To join the Playtest, head to Exoborne’s Steam page and click … | Continue reading
If you wish there are more games that centers around the mundane-yet-fascinating gameplay of being a government officer working at the frontdesk, say no more. There’s more than just Papers, Please to please you who specifically want to play paperwork. We have Papers, Please at ho … | Continue reading
Ever heard of WSS Playground? That’s the Japan-based indie games publishing label that brought us Needy Streamer Overload and Touhou Luna Nights. Its parent company, Why So Serious (which is what the “WSS” stands for), has now launched another indie games label, Baron Du Juvenile … | Continue reading
Bandai Namco announced that Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown has sold more than 6 million copies. This number includes digital downloads. That’s a million more sold since Bandai Namco announced last year, before the release of the Switch version. The Ace Combat series of flight shooti … | Continue reading
The Sonic Official Fan Meeting Tour 2024-25 will be making a stop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sega is looking for fans of the blue blur to attend this fan meetup, which will see the appearance of Kazuyuki Hoshino (Sonic Creative Director) and Eitaro Toyoda (Sonic Setting Superviso … | Continue reading
Assetto Corsa Evo is out now in Early Access, and it really is a rough, raw version of what possibly can be the next evolution to the sim racing series. But in these few days since release everyone just discovered that the game requires an online connection for it to be working p … | Continue reading
The Sims 4 is stepping into the new year with three new Kits (paid DLCs containing highly-specific niche theme and the smallest in terms of price and content compared to Stuff Packs, Game Packs and Expansions). Instead of the usual two, we’re getting three Kits in one drop. The m … | Continue reading
The latest entry in the Assetto Corsa series from the folks at 505 Games and Kunos Simulazioni, Assetto Corsa Evo, has released on PC via Steam Early Access. Like both of it’s previous endeavors, this early access stage only contains a few tracks and cars to mess around, but the … | Continue reading
Turn after turn, the clock keeps ticking down as your forces keep on expanding around the map. The fog of war gets lesser as the era goes on. You get a notification that Benjamin Franklin has decided to call a truce with Lafayette over something minuscule as they turn on the more … | Continue reading
After months of leaks, rumours and speculations, Nintendo has dropped an innocuous update video which reveals the successor to the Nintendo Switch. It really is called Nintendo Switch 2. The reveal video shows a CG render of the new console that has the vibe of both a sleek new t … | Continue reading
Promise Mascot Agency, the next game by the developers of Paradise Killer (Kaizen Game Works), has revealed some of the voice cast. The game will have voice-overs in Japanese, appropriate given the whole game is based in Japan and heavily involves mascot culture. But boy is this … | Continue reading
The new game by Rebel Wolves, a new game studio co-founded by The Witcher 3 director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, and to be published by Bandai Namco has been revealed. The game is called The Blood Of Dawnwalker. This action-RPG is set in an alternate 14th century Europe where vampires … | Continue reading
Oh my. Street Fighter 6 revealed a new trailer for upcoming DLC character Mai Shiranui of Fatal Fury fame. The guest character, the second in SF6 following last season’s Terry Bogard, shows off her flashy aerobatics and fiery strikes. The trailer shows the two costumes Mai has, o … | Continue reading
The First Berserker: Khazan is an upcoming action-RPG by Nexon releasing later this March, and it will have a physical release on PS5 in Asia. Sega has a sub-publishing agreement with Nexon to publish the physical release of The First Berserker: Khazan in Asia, that includes Japa … | Continue reading
What better way to usher in the Year Of The Snake with a sale on PlayStation products? The Lunar New Year 2025 promotion “Level-Up New Year’s Play” sees the PS5 and its many peripherals getting big discounts, especially the PS VR2 headset which is RM940 less than its standard ret … | Continue reading
2025 is the 25th anniversary of the launch of The Sims, and The Sims 4 is celebrating this milestone with tons of new content, both free and paid via new packs. Part of the free content and features is the new patch now live on all platforms. The next time you boot up The Sims [… … | Continue reading
Xbox has now made the Developer Direct (“Developer_Direct) even an annual occasion now as there will be one for 2025. The Developer Direct 2025 showcase will see four games be given an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look. Of the four, half of them are games by Microsoft (one from Xb … | Continue reading
At Awesome Games Done Quick 2025, the live event where speedrunners complete games quickly to raise money for charity saw the return of Crazy Taxi. Sega’s arcade game is much loved for its fun driving physics as well as its infectious soundtrack. But like most racing games and dr … | Continue reading
Manor Lords, the Steam Early Access hit by Slavic Magic and publisher Hooded Horse, has released a new update available now. Previously available in the Steam beta branch, Version 0.8.024 (or the more marketable name Update 4) features a bunch of new content as well as gameplay c … | Continue reading
New year, new update is coming to New Eridu. Zenless Zone Zero Update 1.5 “Astra-nomical Moment” will see another good drop of content and features being added to the free-to-play action RPG with gacha mechanics. The headining new content are two new agents, New Eridu superstar A … | Continue reading
The scramble for game release dates in February 2025 has seen another scramble as Assassin’s Creed Shadows is delayed out of the month and into March. The open world action-adventure game by Ubisoft will now launch on March 20. “While we’ve already made remarkable stride, we beli … | Continue reading
It’s been a while since we heard any news of Transformers: Reactivate, the multiplayer shooter developed by Splash Damage. But now we have news, a bad one. On the site most still call Twitter, Splash Damage announced that Transformers: Reactivate has ceased development and the re … | Continue reading
Hitman World Of Assassination has now surpassed 75 million players, developer IO Interactive announced. This makes the latest entry to the Hitman series, an amalgamation of Hitman (2016), Hitman 2 and Hitman 3 into one unified game, the most successful entry yet. The use of “play … | Continue reading
Freedom Wars Remastered is out now on consoles and tomorrow on PC (Steam) in Asia. The remaster of the 2014 PS Vita launch game is curiously being published by Bandai Namco, despite the game IP being own, and still owned, by PlayStation. There’s plenty small text surrounding the … | Continue reading
Lenovo has a new version of its handheld gaming PC, the Lenovo Legion Go S. This is a new design for the chonky handheld, with non-removable controllers, a slightly smaller screen at 8 inches (0.1 inch smaller), slightly lighter (730g, 10g less than the Legion Go). What really ma … | Continue reading
Acer’s 2025 refresh of the new Nitro V line of gaming laptops has been revealed. The new entry-level gaming laptops are powered by AMD Ryzen AI CPUs, but more importantly, these chips are based on the latest Zen 5 architecture, brining low power consumption, longer battery life a … | Continue reading
Asus’ ROG line of gaming laptops will get a refresh in 2025, powered by the newly-revealed Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs. And this includes a laptop version of the highest-end Blackwell architecture GPUs: the RTX 5090. In a laptop. For the top-of-the-line Strix Scar laptops r … | Continue reading
At CES 2025, Acer revealed not one, but two more variants to the Acer Nitro Blaze handheld gaming PCs. Joining the Acer Nitro Blaze 7 is the Acer Nitro Blaze 8 and Nitro Blaze 11. As the name implies, the Nitro Blaze 8 has a 8.8-inch display, while the Nitro Blaze 11 has a 10.95- … | Continue reading
The expected news has arrived. Nvidia has announced a new generation of its GeForce RTX graphics cards for desktops and laptops: the GeForce RTX 50 Series. Based on the new Blackwell architecture, the new RTX 50 Series GPUs is fitted with fifth-generation Tensor Cores and fourth- … | Continue reading
Airframe Ultra, the “battle-racer” from the developer Videocult and publisher Akupara Games, will have a public beta test. The Airframe Ultra public beta will be happening from January 10-13, this weekend. Players interested will need to join the Airframe Discord here before Janu … | Continue reading
Genki has announced on their Twitter that their upcoming racing title, Tokyo Xtreme Racer, will be heading to Early Access towards the end of January, with the full release coming four months later in May. This early access release will the players able to play the game from the … | Continue reading
It’s been a long while since I stopped playing Warframe, Digital Extreme’s still-living live service free-to-play looter-shooter. I felt like I have moved on, had enough of the grind-craft, and none of the big content updates appealed to me. Until they announced and now released … | Continue reading
Samsung has revealed a slate of new monitors, including gaming monitors as part of the Samsung Odyssey line, for 2025. Two new Samsung Odyssey gaming monitors are pushing how big and how fast an OLED screen can be and go, respectively. The new Odyssey OLED G8 (G81SF) is Samsung’s … | Continue reading
2024. A fickle year where video games and the ever looming gap of the vacuum that is the consequences of overhiring and over-firing keeps on going. The video games are coming out, but the people making them are also going out as well, like a terrible version of Yin and Yang. And … | Continue reading
Japan-based indie games development collective Izanami Game Lab is making a new mecha game that’s both a bullet hell and a bullet heaven game. Called Steel Knight’s ARMIS, players get to pick a pilot and get in their chosen pilot’s giant robot of choice. There is five chapters wo … | Continue reading
ED note: This article has been updated to reflect the Asia region differences for PS Plus Essentials. PlayStation has revealed the upcoming games that all tiers of PS Plus subscribers will be getting as part of their active subscription for the new year, where you can bring your … | Continue reading
2024 was rough. Like real rough. For me, personally. For Gamer Matters. And of course the industry and the world at large. Money can’t buy you happiness, but try and be happy if you can’t make ends meet. It’s been a trudge to survive through 2024. Thankfully, it’s been a blessing … | Continue reading
A new keynote video by developer Kunos Simulazioni dropped during the festive week, revealing what to expect of its upcoming sim racer Assetto Corsa Evo when it launches in Early Access this January. This is the first time the developer directly shares about the upcoming open wor … | Continue reading
For Pearl Abyss’ next update for the ever-living MMO Black Desert, they have added a gun. The new class Deadeye is now available on both Black Desert (the MMORPG available on PC and consoles) and Black Desert Mobile (the mobile variant that plays a little different, but developed … | Continue reading
Seemingly out of nowhere, Square Enix announced sales for action-RPG Nier Automata has since passed 9 million copies. This includes sales from digital downloads as well as physical copies shipped across the world. Developed by PlatinumGames with Drakengard and Nier series Yoko Ta … | Continue reading
The big one. As it says, the Gamer Malaya and Gamer Matters Game Of The Year 2024 award. The game we collectively believe to be the best released this year. And here we are at the end of the awards feature. Every year, the collective team at Gamer Malaya and Gamer Matters come do … | Continue reading
Games that don’t need the budget of a AAA blockbuster to be impactful, fun, or enthralling. Independent games can do what no big-budget game can do: be anything they want. Every year there’s bound to be good indie games releasing. And this list is by no means a comprehensive look … | Continue reading
The narrative that captures our hearts and minds delivered in video game form. Another classic GM GOTY Award category, it’s the one where we spoil a game’s story and weigh down which one leaves the most impact on us post-game. Based on history, a GM Game Of The Year has a strong … | Continue reading