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It has been a very good year for us at Multiplay. That doesn’t mean we are done here as there are still a lot of ends to be covered. On behalf of the crew, I would like to apologize for all the wrongs we did for the past 365 days.
Meanwhile, thanks for [...]

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Last week, Electronic Sports World Cup announced their second pool of official games for ESWC 2008. The popular team-based mod of Warcraft 3, Defence of the Ancients (DotA) and Quake 3 were added into 2008 official games. Previous titles included in the list was Counter Strike 1.6, Warcraft 3 and Trackmania Nations.
Meanwhile, one day before [...]

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The attack of giant Rock Band Special Edition box.
While I was looking for info about the upcoming EA Play 2008 (more on that later), I saw this oh-my-god-there-goes-my-savings news from the event management company that handled several of EA Singapore events:
Late Jan 2008
EA GAME LAUNCH EVENT: ROCK BAND
Rock Band is a new game from EA [...]

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Living in Malaysia, we don’t have such a thing called holiday shopping rush. At least for games and gaming-related peripherals. The price of those stuff doesn’t change much here, regardless of Mega Sale or not. Although we need to pay the usual price but thank god, we don’t have to be at each other throat [...]

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Kingsurf at GXL Season 2 Finals. Image: Swordplay - GXLeague.com
Since they became champion at SMM Grand National DotA Tournament 2007 some time ago, Kingsurf still haven’t stopped winning titles. They recently came back from Singapore with 1st Runner Up placing at 2007 GXL Season 2 Finals and just 2 days ago, they scored 3rd place [...]

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Miss me?
Woah. Is the notoriously famous “it’s done when it’s done” game, Duke Nukem Forever finally going to see the light? IS THIS SHIT FER REAL? NU WAI!!!
Just take a look at what George Broussard, the co-creator of the original Duke Nukem game posted this at 3D Realms forums:
Last Saturday we had our annual company [...]

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In an short announcement yesterday, Ninja in Pyjamas has split way with G7 Teams, an eSports organization which they co-found with several influential eSports teams back in April 2006. This short notice were released at G7 Teams website:
“The G7 Teams decided to exclude NiP from their organization, as the founding member of the group is [...]

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Coming soon?
I can’t believe that I missed this few days ago. StuffWeLike.com published a very small interview with Doug Lombardi, the marketing director of Valve. It was a really-really short interview, consisted of only three questions but the second question is the best:
Ted Stokes of SWL: Are there any current plans after Episode 3 to [...]

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We are like…pwn Liverpool yesterday LOLZ. - Yours truly, a Man Utd fan.
While Xbox 360 community has received a number of tournaments for some time, there’s no tournament love for PlayStation 3 owners. I don’t know whether it was the lack of games or the owners prefer to compete with themselves rather than with other [...]

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Konnichiwa, minna-san…ok, that’s wrong, we are not at Japan…yet. So, it should be…good day, everyone! Yes, welcome to the second day of KODE5 Southeast Asia & Singtel GXL Season 2 Finals 2007 remote coverage here at Multiplay. This coverage was also made possible due to feed from folks at GameSync.net and GXL who are there [...]

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Some of you might already saw this news at our forum (Thanks Flizzardo!) but maybe some of you did not. Asian WCG Championship, together with Samsung are going to held an online DotA tournament called King of The Hill, between 19th January - 31st March 2008.
The event will feature 64 teams that will be selected [...]

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Chicago Chimera, the 1st CGS World Champion celebrated their victory. Image: TheCGS.com
After a throngs of qualifiers in several countries across five regions for the past few months which included our own country, this season’s Championship Series Gaming have finally came to an end. The inaugural 2007 Championship Gaming Series World Finals is finally over at [...]

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A number of local players is now battling it out at Republic Polytechnic in Woodland, Singapore for two large scale events called KODE5 Southeast Asia and Games Xtreme League Season 2 Finals. Our players have been regular attendees to the previous edition of both events and managed to bring back few achievement in the past.
Both [...]

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Amber Chia: If I join, you guys kena pwn la… Cosplayers: Sweat ah…^_^”
At the end of last month, Game Flier Malaysia held yet another successful Cuti-Cuti Gamers event at The Summit, USJ. The 3 day events featured throngs of fun activities aimed to gamers and non-gamers alike.
Game Flier let out a number of games from [...]

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Follow my lead, boy and you shall kick Si_Jali’s butt in no time!
Recently, renowned FIFA clan [W|nDs] launched W|nDs Youth Academy, believe to be the first ever eSports-related academy in Malaysia. The initiative was launched by their team manager, [W|nDs]Quicknet and held in conjunction of their periodic gathering at their sponsor’s outlet, QuickNet Internet Cafe [...]

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