The CGS Pan-Asian Championship is finally here! 6 cities from all over Asia are competing with each other to qualify for CGS World Championship. Only four teams will get the priviledge to represent Asia at Los Angeles, USA this December. The arena have been set at Studio 1, All Asia Broadcast Center, Technology Park Malaysia, [...]

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While majority of us are happily celebrating Hari Raya with our families, some of us have to celebrate far away from hometown due to responsibility at hands. That is exactly how Sophian “FoRza” Shahirul Raya celebration for this year. He is part of KL Taufan, our national team at Championship Gaming Series Pan-Asian Finals.
I heart [...]

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Between 19 till 23 September, East End Concourse of Subang Parade have been transformed into virtual battle arena. A number of tournaments involving a wide variety of games were held in conjunction with Battle for Game Time II organized by local IT magazine, PC.com. Two of the hot tournaments were New Era Football Challenge 2007 [...]

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In two more week, the WGT 2007 Malaysia will begin at One Utama Shopping Mall, PJ. I recieved several announcement from the organizer this morning. One of them is the updated schedule. Better take note of it as there’s been some changes:
24 Oct (Wed)

Tag Collection Day, 12pm - 9pm.
NOTE: If you don’t come and collect [...]

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Just got off the phone from our CGS team for a request to post this.
To those who own an XBox Live account, you may now be able to play your part and contribute some needed help to Forza (Mario) and Luige.

Super Mario Brothers.
All participants for XBox games in CGS will be required to have their [...]

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Within 3 and a half weeks after the first day the registration site went live, all WGT slots are filled up.

ZERO!!!
This came to light when some gamers called up recently and asked for extra slots to be opened for them. One even came to extent to buy up a slot from another competitor.
Note: Multiplay does [...]

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Finally, WCG 2007 Grand Finals have came to an end yesterday. A number of unexpected results happened this year. Such as France managed to get gold in CS1.6 and there’s only ONE South Korean in Starcraft winners list. Thank god it’s a gold medal or else, Korean female fans would start raging across the city [...]

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As I’m getting sleepy and tired, please forgive me for this short and simple post. I’ll make it up with tonnes of pretty girl pictures and the anticipated announcement of who will be the GM for Malaysia’s CGS team.

After 3 days of grueling contests, the CGS Malaysian Qualifiers 2007 was brought to an end. Malaysian [...]

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Finally the rumors have become a reality. Yesterday, Bungie Studios and Microsoft announced that they are going separate ways. Not in a bad way though.
According to the press release, Bungie will become an independent studio which Microsoft will have small shares in it. Also in the press release, Microsoft mentioned that the Halo franchise still [...]

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For a chance to be a professional gamer with USD 30,000 annual contract, a significant number of hopeful gamers gave everything they could at ASTRO CGS Malaysian Qualifier 2007. The event started two days ago at Cinleisure Mutiara Damansara, PJ and will end later this evening.
10 lucky gamers will be chosen among CGS Malaysian Qualifier [...]

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As you guys know, Team Malaysia sole survivor in the Round of 16, jamesfoo were scheduled to battle his Germany counterparts, Christoph “ToT)Mondragon(” Semke this morning. To those who doesn’t know, Montdragon is one of the most successful European player to ever grace Starcraft scene. One of the best Asian player versus one of Europe’s [...]

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Uhhh, that’s a lot of Orange Box… o.O
Touted as the most complete Half-Life 2 collection ever, Valve’s Orange Box featured 6 games in one box including Half-Life 2: Episode Two, the current online multiplayer craze Team Fortress 2 and Portal. Of course, you can purchase all these games separately for RM 459.90 but why would [...]

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Earlier this morning, Team Malaysia’s Counter Strike rep, Team Hybrid started their WCG campaign. Unfortunately, Hybrid lost all their matches thus, ended their participation at WCG 2007 Grand Finals. Hybrid also forfeited their match against Team Titans (Singapore).
Hybrid’s results, compiled from Gotfrag.
Truth to be told, Team Hybrid were forced to compete with incomplete lineup since [...]

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Earlier today, Team Malaysia kicked off their campaign at WCG 2007 Grand Finals in Seattle, USA. Starcraft and Command & Conquer 3 were the flavor of the day and we delighted to report that one of our players already booked a place in Round of 16!

Things are pretty good for our Starcraft rep. Although jamesfoo [...]

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When I first saw CGS Malaysia promotional poster, one of the website listed (apart from CGS main website) were ASTRO official website. But when I visited it numerous time last week, there were absolutely nothing about CGS Malaysia. I already thought it’s a typical event sponsor URL placement.
But today, to my suprise, CGS Malaysia [...]

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