The folks at Joystiq has unveiled a very serious news. The birds across the net have been talking non-stop about Gamespot’s Editorial Director, Jeff Gerstmann have been fired due to his review of Kane & Lynch: Dead Man. The news have been spread like wildfire till the extent that Penny Arcade folks release a comic [...]

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Logitech recently unveiled their first ever G-series speaker, the G51 Surround Sound Speaker System. G-series is known as Logitech’s premier product lineup for gaming. So, the release of this new speaker system raised my eyebrow a bit on why Logitech include a speaker in it’s G-series lineup. Why not a headset instead?

According to Logitech, the [...]

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This news just came out fresh from the oven, yo. Jason a.k.a Djinn from the local friendly neighborhood console store, Gamer’s Hideout posted a short but interesting post at Lowyat.NET Forums at 7:09pm today.

The new 65nm Falcon chipsets have started to appear on many units that was made after August 24 this year especially the [...]

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The last time FPS duel game being played in a local large scale tournament was WCG Malaysia 2004. Back then, the game was Unreal Tournament 2004. With Unreal Tournament III finally arrived in our country yesterday after being released in US 10 days ago, will the game made it way back to tournaments in 2008?
Gameriot [...]

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“Pilih satu teman sendiri…ataukah si hitam manis…” - Bunyi Gitar, P.Ramlee
Since Rock Band full package could easily cost you RM 700 - 900 when it arrive in Malaysia soon and the already available Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock price is over RM 300, it is natural for many of us to scratch our heads [...]

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Electronic Sports World Cup announced recently that ESWC 2008 Grand Finals will be held around summer 2008 in USA. In announcement which also includes Nvidia confirmation as their main partner (again), Matthieu Dallon, CEO of Games-Services, explained the reason behind the decision to move the grand finals from Paris to California: “We made the decision [...]

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Intel has recently launched a Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) game called Silicon Commander. Created to promote their vPro and Centrino Pro technology, the game is targeted to IT professionals especially the decision makers and managers. The game simulates the general job of an IT manager - protecting and managing PCs under his/her control.
Why the electronics [...]

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Alien Bartender: We totally save, dude. Soldier: Word, bro.
Earlier today, my colleague Ryan posted a piece of news about an upcoming game for Xbox 360 called Mass Effect received the banhammer in Singapore due to an alleged female on female action scene inside the game. The shocking news happened last week and travel throughout the [...]

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In conjunction with Xbox Live 5th anniversary (woah! it has been 5 years already?), Microsoft announced that they going to release a number of old skool Xbox games into Xbox Live Marketplace. This will be made possible through Xbox Live fall update coming to your dashboard between 4th and 5th December.
The 1st batch of Xbox [...]

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As posted by my fellow colleague on Lowyat.NET front page, Microsoft Hardware recently celebrated their 25th anniversary and to show that they are nowhere near retiring, they launched a number of new product for Malaysian market. One of the product is the SideWinder Mouse, targeted to gamers out there who looking for some edge in [...]

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The first ever KODE5 Southeast Asia is here! The event features two games: Counter Strike 1.6 and Warcraft 3:FT and it is open ONLY to gamers from the Southeast Asia region. The winners of this tournament will receive a trip to KODE5 Grand Finals in Moscow, Russia plus bunch of other goodies.
The SEA event itself [...]

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We kick ass. Stealthy and hard.
If you have been busy refreshing Multiplay and didn’t visit Lowyat.NET main page recently, I would like to tell you something. Gigabyte want to give rebate to gamers that want to snatch this one FPS game called Crysis. I don’t know what’s with everybody been hu-ha about Crysis.
To enjoy Crysis [...]

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Well, at least until CPL settle their outstanding prize money payment to many of their winners out there. Believe it or not, most of the prize money have been outstanding since 2003. That’s a lot of money!
No more love?
Around April this year, the G7 Teams, which consisted of 11 top eSports organization in [...]

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That could be the actual sentence that Moviesign have to tell his kids in coming future. Posted by the Xbox.com Community section Editor, Trixie, Moviesign made the move last weekend during a 2-vs-2 session with his long time girlfriend, furtive penguin. He led penguin to a spot that Moviesign claimed there’s an energy sword. Eventually, [...]

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Yesterday, Sony announced that they going to release an updated model of their 7 years old PlayStation 2 console. Scheduled to be out in retail stores around Japan on 22 November with 16,000 yen (around RM 470.00) price tag. The initial release will feature 3 colors: Charcoal Black, Ceramic White and Satin Grey.

From outside, the [...]

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