dia.log - The Gamer Matters Podcast

We have entered the new lunar year. As we usher in the year of the rat, Danial has joined the rest of the crew and played Bloodborne. Meanwhile, Wam only played games of culture these days and read more manga. Meck had a lot to say about the best Final Fantasy game. Whether it is Final Fantasy VII Remake, which we got some hands-on recently, or Final Fantasy XII, is up to debate. Also, we ponder o...

Welcome to 2020! What the heck is happening?! As the world news becomes bleaker than ever as we step into the new decade, at least there are video games. Not long after we crowned The Anan Award For Best Game We Didn't Play winner to Disco Elysium, Anan played it. Meanwhile, Rookie Of The Year Danial joins a proper esports team. Wam managed to get the great delicacy that is keropok lekor while in...

What a year it has been for video games. As we are heading to the last legs of this console generation, many new, remarkable games have made our lives much pleasant. From new experiences we never saw coming to classic series we love getting a new entry, there are a lot of good games. As customary in this very website, the crew of Gamer Malaya and Gamer Matters has once again convened and deliberat...

It's award season! Since 2017, Gamer Malaya and Gamer Matters have run our own brand of game awards, celebrating the great games (and ridicule some we are disappointed with) that we encounter this year. Whether we played them all or just watch some playthrough on YouTube matters not,  these are the games that defined the year for us. For GM GOTY 2019, we are doing something a little different...

In the last normal episode of dia.log this year, Wam touched the tainted chalice that is FIFA. Thankfully he also played more Blazblue Cross Tag Battle, Pokemon Sword And Shield, and also reported back on what happened during Black Friday. Danial kills the meme by actually playing and finishing Death Stranding. While Meck discovers that Torment: Tides Of Numenara share similarities to... Kingdom H...

Sorry! Due to various circumstances, our follow-up to the abang posmen Norman Reedus episode of dia.log - The Gamer Matters Podcast was severely delayed. The good news is, this is the penultimate episode of our regular dia.log, with the final one next week. The last two episodes of the year will be dedicated for GM Game Of The Year 2019 deliberations. With that out of the way, the gang went to see...

On the day of the recording, the world has been blessed with the barrage of Death Stranding reviews. And we got Burhan from Kakuchopurei, who has finished and reviewed it, to explain what is Hideo Kojima's latest magnum opus. And the result is quite a surprising conversation. Meanwhile, Meck figured out how to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass for PC, Danial is very much in love with The Outer Worlds an...

It was a wild time seven days ago when we recorded the latest dia.log episode. Danial, Anan, Meck and Irham went on the GM World Tour. Meanwhile Wam leads the way as we dissected what happened with Blizzard. Meck warns about the addiction of Destiny 2 now that it's worth playing. And Anan laments the existence of dead malls around the Klang Valley. Remember kids, don't do drugs.

In this very late edition of dia.log, Wam finally went to an FGC weekly gathering. Meanwhile, Danial dragged Anan to race pretend cars at ServerDNA and pitched an idea for a Gamer Matters esports team. Meck reached his breaking point with Ghost Recon Breakpoint but continues to find joy in Borderlands 3. And Irham... had a class on marriage? This episode is published one week later than expected,...

Do you remember, the 21st night of September? The usual dia.log crew have gathered While chasing the haze away Wam is in the UK Anan finds a headphone cafe Meck ranks a loot-shooter- remember? Danial also says Control's great Aaa, aaa, aaaa Ba de yaaaaaaaaa - say that you remember Ba de yaaaaaaaaa - give this one a listen Ba de yaaaaaaaaa - as we rant the night awayyyyyy

In this episode of dia.log, Wam thought it was a good idea to go without a docket and just have a good conversation. You'd be the judge of that. Outside of brief talks on Astral Chain and Control, you're getting a slice of life of a Malaysian with rants about vaping, Perodua Myvis, friends and KFC Double Down.

In this episode of dia.log - The Gamer Matters Podcast, Meck continues to dive deep into the Jojo hole and went over heaven. Wam continues to love Bloodborne. And Danial made us tangent into a long conversation how ridiculous, or tame depending on your region, the Malay literature novels being taught in schools back in our days. With gamescom 2019 just passed, Meck and Danial ranted on their love/...

In this episode on dia.log - The Gamer Podcast, Anan tried catfighting in Yakuza 0 and now has a MIDI keyboard. Danial gave a status update on Malaysia's Roblox Community. Wam has issues about Warhammer 40K's Space Marines he needs to air out. Meanwhile, Meck is being attacked by an enemy Stand. The dia.log crew also talked a lot about the event that was EVO 2019, as well as the recent Malaysian D...

In this episode of dia.log: Wam finally played the catalyst of the podcast, Detroit: Become Human, and have strong thoughts on SPOILERS. Meanwhile, Meck also played a game from last year, Forza Horizon 4. Danial also played a game from last year, We Happy Few, how it's good now, and debate on the nature of immersive sims and aesthetic-based games. We don't have Anan this time, so we brought Irham...

We've done dia.log 35 times too many, so this episode we saw some unexpected shake-ups. The crew drill down the details of the new Warframe update, Empyrean, as revealed at Tennocon recently and then we went hard and long on Kazuma Kiryu's adventures from Yakuza 0 and 6. And then we have a new segment, a segment so fresh, new and unexpected no one bothered to give it a proper name yet. If this epi...

 It's a podcast of emotions in this episode of dia.log. Wam and Meck got high, in the sky, to play video games. Meck suffered the unluckiest streak of 1 rolls in just one day. Danial was fortunate enough to see and play Metronomik's new game No Straight Roads. And Irham, who finally appeared on an episode this year, celebrated MapleStory's birthday and wax poetry how fishing is essentially a...

 E3 2019! It's over! Now the Gamer Matters crew looks back at the glorious, glorious press conferences, briefings and showcases that celebrate upcoming new games. And like always, we rank them by making a tier list. Joining us this episode is Intan Mawarni from Mygameon, a real gaming journalist, as we weigh down on the many games announcements and the top 5 we look forward to post-E3 2019. K...

The gang is tired, and before minute one the podcast has fallen into the ruinous ways of chaos. Meck forgot to introduce the panel and had something to say about the new Warframe update. Wam watched a seminal TV series and amazed at that one part of the show. Danial goes westward and 'watched' the Indy 500 and actually played Detroit: Become Human for real. Anan? He's back in the grove. Also, the...

 As our #gachapuasa campaign continues, what better way to vent off some repressed urges of gacha pulling than talk more about gacha? The dia.log crew brought on Twitch streamer/our Dota external correspondence/avid gacha fan Tohka to talk 30 minutes of gacha. Even Meck joined up with his tales of F1 Manager, the F1 gacha game. Meanwhile, Anan continued to share his experiences in the deep su...

 The last two weeks was a busy one over at Gamer Matters as we managed to cover the two big releases. Meck is now legally able to talk about Days Gone and somehow liked it . He also spent the whole episode drawing the line of which he can or cannot cross. Meanwhile, Wam raves about that new Fate movie playing in Malaysian cinemas and then brought us all on the dehype train as he deconstructed...

Have we gone too deep with our Malaysian-flavoured inside jokes? Maybe. On this episode, Meck picks up a hoe and talk about the farming in Warframe, the only game he has been playing that he can legally talk about this episode. Anan is on a gaming detox. And Wam found the most Wambait gacha game ever made. Meanwhile, Danial went robot in the longest dia.cast segment so far, detailed his journey on...

 On this episode of dia.log - The Gamer Matters Podcast, we have Meck outlining some tips if you want to buy a gaming laptop. Danial has been having fun with Origin Access, the game subscription service by EA. And dia.cast is back to discuss the roller coaster that is the Bahrain Grand Prix. Wam didn't play any games so he talked about more manga and the new Ultraman show on Netflix... before...

The dia.log crew are back again with their long talks about video games and video games-adjacent passions.  Meck got another review unit again just by showing up to a media event. Wam tells the long tales of the Love Shack, a little old place where we can get together and do combos in Devil May Cry 5. Anan finally tried out Persona 5. And unfortunately for Danial, he has not many good things...

In this episode of dia.log - The Gamer Matters Podcast: Meck played with Legos (The Lego Movie 2 Videogame). Danial found an FMV racing game. Wam hates Geralt from The Witcher 3. Anan Goes Russian Post-Apocalypse Metro Exodus. While Danial seems to like the American Mat Rempit Post-Apocalypse Days Gone. Melee players got salty. And Melty Blood players in the bathroom rejoiced. All this, and more,...

It just can't stop getting longer. In this episode of dia.log - The Gamer Matters Podcast, Meck continues to dive into looter shooters. He gave us some deats on The Division 2 and updates the state of Anthem after being released twice. Meanwhile, Wam flirts with the devil by playing Daemon Ex Machina and Devil May Cry 5 demos. As well as calling out terrible business practices in the games industr...