These Southeast Asian Games Receive Support by Toge Game Fund Initiative

In June of this year, Toge Productions announced the Toge Game Fund Initiative (TGFI). With this program, the indie game developing and publishing studio from Indonesia wants to help indie developers and studios within Southeast Asia to turn their game ideas into a playable prototype or a vertical slice. The first six recipients of this fund have now been made public.

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First Filipino FPS Project Xandata Early Access Release Date Revealed

Project Xandata is the first Filipino-developed first-person shooter game. This historic project is created and published by Secret 6, a game studio that has worked on various triple-A titles, most recently EA’s Battlefield 2042, CD Project Red’s Cyberpunk 2077, and Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II.

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Metronomik’s Next Game will be Ondeh Ondeh

Malaysian development studio Metronomik (No Straight Roads) has announced its next game. In a live stream at the MYDCF Festival, Creative Director Daim Dziauddin and Game Director Wan Hazmer revealed that their upcoming title will be called Ondeh Ondeh.

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Save The Ocean: Samudra Takes Us Into a Dystopian Underwater World

Samudra is an Indonesian term for the ocean. It is originally derived from the Sanskrit word समुद्र and literally means the “gathering together of waters” (saṃ- “together” and -udra “water”). Samudra is also the name of the latest game from the Indonesian studio Khayalan Arts. Most recently, they brought out the horror platformer Incubo, which in its foundations was reminiscent of the narrative platformer Limbo and Inside of the successful Playdead studio, but could not reach the level of its role models due to a lack of balancing and technical inadequacy. Now the studio is venturing into the genre again but is changing the setting and even wants to spread an important message. We will clarify whether they succeed with this noble task in the following review.

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The arcades will soon reopen! Virtually, at least

Who hasn’t missed the arcades? That gloomy twilight, the deafening volume of children playing and sound of arcade games, the flashing lights and that exhilarating feeling of inserting a coin and daring another game. Some of you are probably waiting impatiently to see when the arcades will reopen again.

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