Yesterday, Gamestop/EB Games, one of the biggest game distributor and retailer in US, emailed to all their customers that pre-ordered Metal Gear Solid 4 to inform them that the release date for MGS4 have been shifted from 1st September 2007 to 1st March 2008. That’s one, two…half a year delay! I think I heard some [...]

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We posted the results of this tournament before in one of our SCOREBOARD.my updates. As a recap, the winners of this tournament were:-
1st Place: Broken Finger
2nd Place: Rotten Prok [LYNK]
3rd Place: Roti [LYNK]
Runners up: Hunt, Osiris, piccOLO, G.Spec, DarkFyre
If winners list doesn’t satisfy you or you missed the action on that day, [...]

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Welcome back to this week edition of SCOREBOARD.my, the premier score keeper of Malaysian eSports scene updated every Tuesday, right here at LYN’s Multiplay.
Last week, as the second week of May rolled off, a number of tournament happened all over the country. There was the SMM Grand National DotA Tournament first qualifier at Johor, IMAX [...]

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Team Cybertime, which recently graced magazines and billboards across the town as the new poster team for Whitebox PC, were invited to TSEI DotA-Allstars Tournament. Together with them also is the Singapore powerhouse, Team Zenith.
The tournament offers around PHP 230,000 (around RM 16,631) prize money at the Grand Finals plus PHP 10,000 for each qualified [...]

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2 weeks ago, a number of our colleagues were among the lucky one that got to see ATI’s latest graphic behind closed door, secured with NDA (that’s non-disclosure agreement for the clueless out there). The NDA has since expired and thus, yesterday was the day to unleash it all to the world.

ATI Radeon HD2000 (previously [...]

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Finally, Sendi Mutiara Multimedia has updated the venue list for their huge Grand National DoTA Tournament 2007. As many already knew, the tournament are divided into state qualifiers and the qualifiers starts this weekend onwards right till August.
The dates and venues are as below:-

Johor: 11th - 12th May : King Surf, Taman Pelangi
Melaka: 19th - [...]

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IMAX Cybercafe, an established cybercafe chain in Perak are having a series of Counter-Strike 1.6 competition with total prizes worth more than RM 6,000 to be won. The tournament starts with several qualifiers, held at their cybercafes across the state. The first one were held yesterday at their branch in Ipoh Garden, while the finals [...]

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So, not only Playstation 3 can contribute to saving mankind, eh? Peter Moore, the head of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business division said that Microsoft are seriously looking into research application with their Xbox 360, similiar to Folding@home client in Playstation 3. Responding to an interview with Mercury News, Moore said,
Then if we truly believe that [...]

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The big kahuna of gaming, EA has launched a contest called EA Amplify Artist Search for aspiring independent bands out there who fancy a chance for their material to appear in the future EA release. Apart from having your song appear in one of upcoming EA game release, they are tons of other prizes from [...]

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A group of students from Multimedia University, Cyberjaya recently unveiled The Raise: Islamic Content for PlayStation Portable at a charity dinner in Putrajaya last week. The Raise are the hardwork of members from Bureau of Information & Promotion, Usrah Institution of MMU Cyberjaya.
The Raise actually have been releasing a number of Islamic content for [...]

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If you are a gamer but you never saw even a single episode of Pure Pwnage, I suggest you quit your gaming life altogether. Oi, what’s wrong with you lah?
Pure Pwnage, the famous Internet show that featured the misadventure of a pro somewhere in Canada named Jeremy together with his brother/videographer, Kyle are back! Episode [...]

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Cyberathlete Professional League, among the pioneer of professional eSports league, are now considering console gaming very seriously. With the recent inclusion of F.E.A.R for Xbox 360 as one of the official game for their US$ 500,000 total purse 2007 World Tour, they have to take a serious step in console gaming which were once not [...]

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This just in according to Kotaku:
“According to a Korean website, StarCraft 2 is being developed in 3D with a new race and lots of changes for existing units. The site went on to say that additional details would be revealed during Blizzard’s WWI on May 19th in Seoul.”
Then you get this statement from Blizzard:
“We do [...]

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*Cough* Time for yet another Transformers-related post. As you can see, i’m quite the fan of the series.
Activision has released word that Transformers: The Game, Cybertron Edition will be exclusive to the Xbox 360, and will come with a whole slew of features and add-ons. For starters, you get a bonus code to unlock two [...]

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Welcome to this week’s edition of SCOREBOARD.my, the place where we kept track results from local eSports tournament and leagues weekly. SCOREBOARD.my updates every Tuesday.
To start it off, we already covered the results from Melaka Cyber Games: Counter Strike 1.6 yesterday. Two new league have been included in this week, that is FIFA’07 League @ [...]

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