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Back in October, I was able to write a review on a small Filipino bullet-hell game called “Good Knight.” I praised its challenging and addicting gameplay, intriguing story, attractive art and visuals, and banger rock soundtrack. More than anything else, I put emphasis on the community that the game’s developer, Alex Valdez, had formed. I […]
CJ Reynaldo (@caldatelier on Twitter) is a deaf freelance artist who had always been interested in games since he was a teenager. When he learned that games like Warcraft, League of Legends, and Ragnarok X Next Generation had unique classes based on Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), the classic tabletop game piqued his interest. He collaborated […]
You might be familiar flash mobs – when a group of people assemble in a public area to perform any kind of action for entertainment, satire, artistic expression, and even to raise awareness. Performers usually plan these using social media or any quick form of communication. We remember one such example of a flash mob […]
When the highly-awaited annual Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) started on December 25, 2021, there was an unusual lack of moviegoers and an absence of long queues in cinemas around the Metro. According to entertainment journalist MJ Felipe, day one of MMFF had a really low turnout– there was no crowd and the line was […]
Remember those old blocky games people played back in the late 90s and early 2000s? We can think of games like 1996’s Tomb Raider with Lara Croft’s triangular ‘assets’ and Hagrid’s memey face from ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.’ These games had enjoyable gameplay but understandably bad graphics for its time. However, there are […]
Last November 17, the official OBS Twitter page released a thread talking about how ‘Streamlabs OBS’ has been using the OBS name without permission. Near the launch of SLOBS, @streamlabs reached out to us about using the OBS name. We kindly asked them not to. They did so anyway and followed up by filing a […]
After weeks of rumors and tons of leaks, the second trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home was finally released by Sony in all major social media platforms, to the delight of fans who waited patiently for it. (Including us here at POP!) If you watched the trailer for the first time, it’s definitely an overwhelming […]
After a bunch of rumors and leaks, Fortnite is finally detailing its collaboration with Naruto. Players can choose between a selection of characters from Naruto Shippuden. These include Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and Kakashi Hatake. The item shop will also have cosmetics like a Naruto glider, two new emotes, two loading screens, back […]
Squid Game, the Korean show that took the world by storm and became the most-watched Netflix show internationally as of 2021, is getting a second season according to its creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk. COMEBACK SQUID: Hwang Dong-hyuk, the director, creator, writer of #SquidGame says the show will be back with more Gi-hun adventures. pic.twitter.com/uqC1DIdZqy — AP […]