How many fully professional eSports outfit are there in this country? One? Two? Ten? Truth to be told, we have no idea as well, but all we know is that DuskBin is definitely one of them.
Founded by Tommy “bender” Chiam and Andrik “Ash” Tan, the organization launched its official site earlier this month which marked the official launch of the team. The team features 18 players in three different games; Counter-Strike 1.6, Starcraft and Sudden Attack, across four different nations - China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and of course, Malaysia. The team is currently sponsored by Acer and Steel Series.
DuskBin might be new in the block but their members aren’t certainly not. Their Starcraft team are mainly consisted of the whole ex-Fnatic team which Ash himself was a manager. Meanwhile, DuskBin CS1.6 team has represented Hong Kong at the recent WCG 2009 Grand Finals and for their Sudden Attack team, they are formerly known as [ESP]NAGA. Obviously, these guys are not just anybody and got skills to backup their “pro” status
Turning professional is a dream of all competitive gamers all over the globe. But in this country, truth to be told, it is one bold move which are full of uncertainties. We would like to say congratulations and all the best to DuskBin, may the force be with you.
LeetGames Marketing and Consulting Sdn Bhd, the organizer of Animation.Comic.Game.Convention (ACGC), recently announced that the finale of this year’s ACGC has been postponed to a yet-to-be-determined date. The event is supposed to take place this weekend from 19th to 21th November at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in conjunction with MyBroadband 2009 Conference and Exhibition.
According to the announcement, the organizer of MyBroadband’09 - Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) - decided to postpone the whole event which pretty much forced LeetGames to follow suit with their ACGC’09 Finale. The announcement also stated that the new date is expected to be announced in early 2010 using the same venue in KLCC as originally intended.
No actual reason was given for the whole event postponement by MCMC, which is quite weird since MCMC being a government organization and MyBroadband not a small event. Not to forget that event’s advertisement has came out on many media outlets. Oh well, tough break there, LeetGames.
Since pictures of Team Malaysia at WCG’09 Grand Finals are very scarce…in fact, close to none, we have to settle for this old picture of Si_Jali. Don’t worry, his hensemness never changed.
We apologize that this update came quite late, due to some unforeseen circumstances. The WCG 2009 Grand Finals has just lay down its curtain few hours ago and again, it is a medal-less WCG Grand Finals for Team Malaysia.
However, Si_Jali managed to give Team Malaysia an Top 8 placing in FIFA’09 which put this year’s campaign as one of the best so far. Let us recap what went on for the past two days, right after the jump.
Finally, the day has come for the WCG Malaysia’09 champions to come face to face with their counterparts from all over the globe. Only three out of nine Team Malaysia players was schedule to play yesterday - the first day of WCG’09 Grand Finals Group Stage.
However, results that we received at the end of the day doesn’t look too good, as listed below:
FIFA’09:[T2.W|nDs]Rei won against hibidigagabubu of Singapore but lost to other six players Starcraft:JohnRambo won against GOSI(TERRAN) of Mexico but lost to other five players Warcraft 3:CT^Serry won against feRfe of Chinese Taipei but lost to other three players
With that, all three players ranked second last in their respective groups and obviously, they will not able to proceed to elimination stage. It might be a disappointing results but Team Malaysia WCG’09 Grand Final campaign is still far from over. The rest of the team will play later today starting from 12:00pm onwards.
Also, one of our Warcraft 3 rep, TankLiew will be playing on the main stage which will be broadcast live through WCG official site at 12:30pm (Malaysia Time). His opponent is going to be tough though, the renowned WeMadeFox.Moon of South Korea. If our rep can pull this off, it could be one of the biggest upset in history!
Well, we would like wish all the best to all Team Malaysia players that are going to play later today. Malaysia Boleh!
[T2.W|nDs]Vin, the WCG Malaysia’09 FIFA champion was given the honor as Jalur Gemilang’s bearer during WCG 2009 Grand Finals opening ceremony last night.
The World Cyber Games 2009 Grand Finals has just opened its doors last night with an elaborate and colorful launch ceremony over at Century City New Convention & Exposition Center at Chengdu, China. However, apart from the opening Warcraft 3 match between China’s superstar, Sky and yAws of Germany, the action will only take place from today onwards.
This time around, Team Malaysia are fortunate enough to be able to field in all three WCG Malaysia’09 winners from FIFA’09, Starcraft and Warcraft 3 except for Warcraft’s 1st Runner Up, SiN[Pin.2C] who is replaced with HungJen. This also means that the team will have a very packed schedules, up to 7 hours of continues match.
Well, without further due, jump in to check out the Team Malaysia’s full match schedule. Don’t forget to support Team Malaysia either through our comment box and forums!
Alright, this is it. As you might read in the previous post, the friendly neighborhood console shop Gamer’s Hideout is giving away Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for Xbox 360 to one of you guys, the loyal Multiplay-ers!
We are going to keep this as simple as possible, just like our previous contests. But, before you get too excited, do read the fine prints below:
GIVEAWAY MECHANICS
1. Submit these details to our email (multiplay@lowyat.net) :
- Lowyat.NET account link (example, yours truly: http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showuser=11652 )
- full (real) name
- full address
- handphone number
Deadline: Before 3:00pm on Monday, 9th November 2009
RULES AND REGULATIONS
1. Only Lowyat.NET users that registered before or on October 2009 are eligible to be part of the giveaway
2. We only accept entries that are send to the above e-mail address. So, don’t PM us on the forums!
3. We will only ship the game to Malaysian addresses. Sorry oversea folks…
4. We will not be responsible if the game cannot be played on your console due to region differences.
5. We will also not be responsible if the game got lost or damaged during delivery, which will be done by courier.
6. The prize is non-exchangeable.
There you have it. Superbly easy right? Start sending your entries now!
UPDATE: Entries submission is now closed. Thanks for your entries, all 26 of you!
All hell is going to break loose on Tuesday’s midnight.
While we might heard of exclusive deal in States but locally? Well, there is always a first time for everything. Our friends at Gamer’s Hideout informed us that they are going to be sole retailer to carry Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for Xbox 360 on the first week of the game’s release.
Since Modern Warfare 2 will be officially released here on Tuesday, 10th November 2009, the shop will held a customary midnight release for the game at their e@Curve (formally known as Cineleisure) outlet. Obviously, since you can’t get the game anywhere else, you just got to queue here on Monday, 9th November to be among the first people in the country to play the game.
Each purchase of the game during the midnight launch will also be entitled for a lucky draw to win a alluring Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition. That’s RM 600 worth of fan service there!
But wait, there’s more… Gamer’s Hideout is going to give away a unit of Modern Warfare 2 (Standard Edition) for ONE lucky Multiplay reader out there! Details will be posted later tonight, so keep on the look for it. One hint: keep your details ready.
Microsoft’s new operating system, the Windows 7 has arrived in Malaysia earlier this week complete with an elaborate launch event by Microsoft Malaysia at Plaza Low Yat, KL. Together with the launch is a week long exhibition which public can get to know the new OS personally.
However, we didn’t see much gaming-related features or activities being shown at the event except for this one multi-screen setup which seems pretty common all over the IT mall. Unknown to many, nothing about this setup is actually ordinary.
According to our tipsters, the multi-display rig is powered by the new ATI Eyefinity technology, which comes standard in the rig’s ATI Radeon 5870 (and other 5000 series) graphic card. The technology enables up to six display to be powered by just one GPU. The rig is also not a dupe, as the game that is being played on it is the yet-to-be-releasedColin McRae: DiRT 2, running on Microsoft DirectX 11.
Talk about all the latest release in one single rig! That is exactly why we are a little bit surprised that Microsoft Malaysia didn’t mention anything about them in their Windows 7 pre-launch event publicity. Don’t worry, you still got ample time to checkout both the rig and the game since the roadshow will only ends on Sunday, 8th November.
The new Winning Eleven 2010 is only available for these two consoles for now. The PS2, PSP and Wii version will be out sometime during Winter this year.
Another year, another new Winning Eleven. It is no difference to EA’s annual release of FIFA series but if you are keeping track, you would knew that Konami promised that the World Soccer: Winning Eleven 2010 is going back to its roots.
Among new things that fans that could expect in the latest Winning Eleven are the 360-degree control system together with 300 moves and 7 different fakes which should make the game more interesting than ever. Whether these new addition will be able to satisfy the fans…well, if we take PES 2010 first week sales in UK as indication, let’s just say that we believe the game has just got its groove back.
However, stats means nothing, really. The only way to know whether Konami did fulfilled their promises or not, is to play the game yourself, which should already available by the time your favorite retailers opened their outlet today.
Distributed by Play Interactive, we don’t have the actual retail prices for either PS3 or Xbox 360 version but it shouldn’t be that far off, if not equal to standard pricing.
Our country might be a little bit behind when it comes to games development but that doesn’t stop the world famous EDGE Magazine from featuring Malaysia on their Region Specific series. Our country has now joined the rank of Vancouver, North East England, The Nordic Region and Ontario (among the many), who was previously featured in the series.
The special feature talked about a number of prominent local game studios and also, universities that offers game development courses. But before you shrugged it of as another of those industry promotional write-ups, there is one gem you should check out: the round table discussion.
In the discussion, nine of industry top individual from small studios to local unis came together to discuss the current state of Malaysian gaming industry. They touched a number of issues such as why Codemasters Malaysia is pure development studio instead of full-blown commercial outfit and how more Malaysians developers in oversea are coming back to work here; among the many.
We was told that this special feature is available in October the November issue of the magazine but since we’ve yet to see one ourselves, we doesn’t know for sure.. Well, there is a free e-zine version of it anyway…
The team at Sony Malaysia would like to wish you happy gaming with the new PS3 Slim console. Unfortunately, the beautiful ladies and life-sized Sackboy doesn’t come together with the console.
It felt like only yesterday that the (original) PlayStation 3 were launched in Malaysia. Just slightly a year after the original 2008 launch, the new PlayStation 3 Slim and its portable cousin, the PSPgo was unveiled at a massive launch ceremony last Saturday. They arrived a bit later than other countries in our region but nevertheless, they are finally here much to the fans liking.
The launch event was pretty much a reprise of last year’s launch but it was significant enough to show that Sony Malaysia are committed to push their PlayStation brand in this country. Jump in to check out what went down over there.
MSI are well known for their motherboards and graphic cards. How about gaming notebooks? We don’t think so… But then, since the company’s notebook division is a major sponsor of Fnatic, one of the most well known eSports team in the world, MSI should have some tricks underneath their sleeve, right?
Yes, they do indeed, in the form of MSI G-series, their flagship gaming notebook series. Coincidentally, they has just launched their most powerful models so far, the GT740. Don’t be fooled by its rather plain exterior, this is one mighty beast that demand respect from its owner.
Get to know what’s pumping underneath its exterior, right after the jump.
Somehow this headset reminds us of another well known headset…mmmm hmmm…
Ready to win some stuff from Alienware? Too bad they are not yet ready to give you one of their uber laptops and desktop but what are they going to give away is still pretty l337 in its own right - an Alienware TactX Headset worth RM 279*.
How, you asked? Just follow these steps given by the friendly (to us, maybe not to you) outer space beings themselves:
1. Snap a photo of yourselves with Alienware Cosplayers whom will appear at these locations:
24th Oct, Saturday 11.00am - 2.00pm: Digital Mall, Section 14, PJ 3.00pm – 6.00pm: e@Curve (formerly known as Cineleisure), Mutiara Damansara - around McDonalds vicinity.
2. Upload your photo onto the Alienware Facebook Page
3. Get your friends to ‘like’ your photo
4. And leave the rest to the extra terrestrials.
Yes, we realized this notice is quite a late but hey, the headset itself is as rare as other Alienware product themselves, might as well clear up some time and grab the opportunity. What do you say?
*as written on Dell Malaysia Online Store on 23 Oct, 11:29 pm.
We don’t know how to describe our feelings when we first saw above clip, which an advertisement for Sony Australia’s latest promotion. We can’t decide whether it was straight awesome or plain ridiculous but regardless of that, our jaws dropped like it’s hot.
In the clip which was filmed at a crash test facility, the PS3 Slim flew directly to the Bravia LCD TV with a speed of 80 kph (50 mph). They actually shot the clip three times, with three different Bravia and three different PS3, all destroyed in the making. So, the number 25,000 that is written there is actually not that accurate.
Your friendly Xbox 360 neighborhood store, Gamer’s Hideout (GH) has just posted a breaking new via their Facebook page. Apparently, the store is going to receive Forza Motorsport 3 on October 21.
The news send some longtime follower of the shop into frenzy. Further clarification by the shop said that both normal and Limited Edition version of the game will be in stock at the same time. Unfortunately, they didn’t get to confirmed the prices of either edition. Do note that it is also possible that other game shop will receive the game on the same time, so please check with your favorite retailers for clarification.
Early releases are not that new in this country (we talking about legit, original game here, not your Jack Sparrow torrent leaks) and for a game to be released one day earlier than its originally announced is actually quite common due to our time zone.
Still, we got one issue with this FM3 early release…gaji not in yet la! How to buy? *facepalm*
November 16, 2009 by Chapree 
Posted in Local News, Local eSports 
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