Philippine Multiplayer Shooter Project Xandata Enters Open Beta

Project Xandata is a 3v3 first-person team shooter by Philippine studio Secret 6, focusing on fast gameplay and customization options. Visually, the shooter is reminiscent of Blizzard’s Overwatch, but in essence, it should play more like a classic skill shooter despite offering special skills and different classes.

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New Games & Hardware from SEA at gamescom asia 2021

For the first time, gamescom asia took place in Singapore from October 14th – 17th, 2021, after the event that was already planned for 2020 had to be cancelled last year due to the Covid19 pandemic. However, everything went well this year, and the Asian sister event to the big Gamescom in Germany opened its gates for game fans and trade visitors alike last weekend. In the truest sense of the word, because as a hybrid event, gamescom asia took place both online and in person.

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Singapore Scores Big at Inaugural Asia Game Awards 

As part of the Singapore Games Week and gamescom asia, the Asia Game Awards 2021 were presented in a live stream moderated by SGGA’s chairwoman Gwen Guo herself. The awards recognize the best work in Asia’s games scene. Not only were candidates from Southeast Asia nominated but also from Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia.

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Preview: Kainga Is A Competent Village-Builder Still Struggling With Its Roguelike Features

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is a strategy game by solo developer Erik Rempen, based in Thailand. Combining into a hybrid of city/village-builder and roguelike games, Kainga challenges players to build their own civilization in a beautiful, mythical, yet hostile world. Kainga integrates gameplay from traditional real-time strategy games such as Age of Empires or Red Alert with more complex sim building games such as Pharaoh or the Civilization series. On top of that, there are some elements of roguelike games, where the death of a single central unit will result in an instant loss.

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Level Up KL 2021: New Games from SEA & more

Level Up KL 2021 was held as an online event featuring an array of game development talks. The variety of topics ranged from the rise of the blockchain gaming market to the growth of the Southeast Asian game development scene.

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