dia.log - The Gamer Matters Podcast

In this episode of dia.log, Meck flips sticks, Danial erects a pillar (of eternity), and Anan's remarks last year came true. There's a relatively short talk on OlliOlli World, a long dive into the world of CRPGs, and Rainbow Six Extraction. There are big-money talks with what thought of Xbox buying Activision Blizzard, and what Respawn's new Star Wars projects say about EA. And wait, why is the pl...

In this episode of dia.log - The Gamer Matters Podcast, Anan got himself the Deal Of The Year, Meck got stranded in mystical Japan, twice, and Danial saw an air fryer. With a twist. It's also a rice cooker. Join in the start of a new season of the biweekly podcast show that (mostly) discuss the important matter at hand, video games, with a conversation about the simple loop of soulslikes, the futu...

2021 is coming to a close, and as we welcome the new year, it's time to look back and celebrate the best games we at Gamer Malaya and Gamer Matters had the opportunity to play, and share stories with you throughout the year.   Either through the main website or through our ongoing by-weekly podcast, dia.log - The Gamer Matters Podcast, these are the games that we remember fondly of that happe...

As 2021 comes to a close, it's time for us to look back at the year in gaming that is 2021. Despite still being a rough year for everyone, good video games still came out to give back some much-needed enjoyment and escapism in our life. The Gamer Malaya and Gamer Matters GOTY Awards, representing the collective of us at Gamer Matters and our Bahasa Malaysia sister site Gamer Malaya, continues the...

2021 is coming to a close, but not before one more regular episode of dia.log. The crew looks forward to what big games are coming next year, which will surely talk about more in the coming months.   Danial also shared with the gang his new escapades with our favourite small independent loan shark in Animal Crossing New Horizons, and Meck for some reason brought up how games, and other parts...

In this rainy day episode of dia.log, the crew talk about cars, cars and more metaverse topics. Danial and Meck finally talk in detail about what they think of Forza Horizon 5 and its virtual Mexico, and Anan's back and now metaverse-ready with his purchase of the Quest 2. There's a big chunk of F1 talk in the long-awaited return of dia.cast, and a reason to be excited for more wild rosters in upc...

It's a "short" and sweet episode of dia.log. Anan cannot make it, Meck is recovering from some mental setbacks and Danial is haunted by a slowly creeping Mr. Snail. The two did talk about video games, Meck appropriately enough checked out Psychonauts 2 in his downtime, while Danial is already landed in virtual Mexico for Forza Horizon 5. That's not all, our prophetic inside jokes power strikes aga...

Like clockwork, the crew is back it again with more weird side tangents that do lead back to video games.   Meck talks toy cars a lot from playing Hot Wheels Unleashed, while Danial gets into a new social media rabbit hole and opened up some past childhood stories of Pokemon cards.   We weigh down on Apple's new processor, the new GTA remasters, and... football?  Always on time, whe...

It's a shooty-shooty kind of episode of dia.log this time. The crew weighs in what they thought of the recent Battlefield 2042 beta, and discover the biggest revolution in Far Cry 6 is there's a Tekken chicken fight.   Danial takes a stroll through country roads back in Fallout 76, and Meck is all in with whatever Stranger Of Paradise wants to be.    Plug in your earphones, blast nu...

It's finally time. The crew each bring a game they really, really want to talk at length and it shows. Anan finally got into the now-amazing No Man's Sky. Danial found a cool dude in the dumpster in Deltarune Chapter 2. And Meck went on a *30-minute dive into Deathloop. Hope you'll stay for the breakdown of the recent Nintendo news, but before that, you'll be hearing the word loop time and time ag...

In this episode of dia.log, Danial is stuck in the grind, Meck is free from the shackles of the grind, and Anan's here. The crew opened the pandora's box that is the Fortnite metaverse, lost their minds over Gran Turismo 7, and addressing our terrible mind goblins that stop us from enjoying the games freely.   Rev your Ferrari skinned car and meet us at the Big Screen, we're talking video gam...

In this episode of dia.log, Meck embraces Humankind and explains how the power of rock comes from faith in Civ VI, Danial falls into the void of the Genshin Impact salination factory, and Anan crawls out into the Fallout 4 Far Harbor DLC.   The crew also shares some hot takes on the Saints Row reboot reveal, Marvel's Midnight Suns, and the latest Cyberpunk 2077 patch.   Remember to...

In this episode of dia.log, Meck compares games to chicken rice. Danial presents a thesis statement. And Anan hits the Apex. Legends.  After the last episode, the crew is Back 4 Blood with better mics, better banter and probably earlier release than before.  Raise your phones to pop some cats and suplex aliens in an astronaut suit, it's another long episode.

In this late episode of dia.log, Meck is dead inside as the crew decides to embark on a journey into the trashfire. Or dumpster fire, but "trashfire" has been SEO-optimised to refer to our brand of dumpster diving, which is playing video games of questionable quality. Danial rants and raves on his time playing Marvel's Avengers, while Meck got some new Nintendo toys but it's not a Switch. Anan is...

The dia.log crew is back again, now with no more TIMECOPS trouble for now. Danial gushes on ULTRAKILL (and its surprise lewd) and points ludonarrative dissonance in the new F1 2021 game. Meck played Watch Dogs Legion's new expansion and hates as much as he loved it. Meanwhile Anan is on fire as we talk about the Steam Deck (not the Stream Deck) (maybe the Switch Pro people wanted) for 23 minutes....

Welcome to TIMECOPS-approved episode of dia.log. The crew may or may not have been lost to the past, but thankfully they found a way to present this episode. Both Danial and Meck has been engaging in warfare in different timelines, with Danial stuck in the present reality of military sim Arma 3. Meanwhile, Meck was both in the medieval past and the sci-fi future in various fantasy (and phantasy) g...

It's summer! We think, because it's summer every season over where the Gamer Matters crew are in. But we do know exactly when it starts thanks to the deluge of video games news!   E3's back! Summer Game Fest is also back!? And Summer Of Gaming is also a branding thing from another company?!?!   In this E3 special episode of dia.log, the crew is joined by friend of the podcast Burhan to w...

The fortnight that was was rough for the trio. And so we hear in the show.    The chirpy Danial is less chirpy and more raspy, as life throws him lemons big and small. Meck proudly flaunts his producing experience but flamboyance did not catch his production prowess' fumbles. Anan can't stop digging the VRChat hole, now he learns how to bring more in the fold.   But in jank there is...

Woah woah woah balik kampung! Wait, no. We can't go back to our hometown or the village right now, not when a pandemic is out. Thankfully there's Resident Evil Village to tide us over in this new wave of lockdown. Danial and regular guest MrToffee went House-to-House visiting in Capcom's latest survival horror game. Meanwhile, friend of the podcast Tohka is back with more tall tales from the gacha...

In this episode of dia.log, witness the birth of the GM echo chamber as Danial and Meck is left to ramble on their own for the first 50 minutes.   Anan startled the crew after that and from there we're back on our old groove. We pressed the juices out of the details from the Epic Games v. Apple case, talk a lot of courts, CODs and beating a dead horse. And kickflip over a dead body.   Th...

It's that time of the year again, the limited-time event of Ramadan has arrived.   Somehow, in this holy month, Meck ended on the other side of the gates of hell as he's been suffering from trying to play mobile games.   Meanwhile Danial finds Call Of Duty Warzone has dropped the nukes that brought them back to 1984.   Anan's dreams of playing Bloodborne on PC might be coming true,...

April rolls in and we have one big title almost everyone on the panel is playing. Meck, Danial and recurring guest Mr. Toffee from Kakuchopurei discuss the many points of the latest looter-shooter on the block, Outriders. Toffee also shares some early impressions of the upcoming Nier Replicant ver. 1.22474487139... (i.e. √1.5) from his time with a preview build of it. The rest is all the latest ne...

In a wild and blooming flower (or dead leaves falling) episode of dia.log, Anan takes a trip to the virtual world and found the wholesome side of VRChat.  Meanwhile, Danial got a new PC built and has been a bunch of video games.   Meanwhile, Meck is trapped in robot nostalgia as he finally take the plunge into Daemon X Machina. And his newfound anxiety about the virtual goods that can pr...

Celebrate the love and we are all invited. Special guest Mr. Toffee is here to talk to us about two new RPGs - the classic to a fault Bravely Default II and the wild new salad bar combo of an RPG that is Loop Hero.   Meanwhile, Meck is busy tearing it down in Teardown, and Danial is preserving a rare copy of the Fallout New Vegas The Frontier mod - the one before the purge.  And Anan is...

Hwargh! In this episode of dia.log: Danial has moved on from The Division 2 and found a new promising looter-shooter in its wake: Outriders.  And Meck explained why Outriders reminded him of a better Mass Effect Andromeda, of all things.   Meanwhile, Anan left these suckers and played the new hotness that is Valheim (and told us what's so great about it).  And of course, we took the...