Entries from January 2008

Local Champ Shares FIFA Knowledge Through Blog

Date January 31, 2008

Si_Jali want to share his experience playing alongside other big boys.
Seems that after the #1 FIFA player in the country, Rinie Ramli got back (and this time, staying for good XD) to Malaysia sometime ago, he is busy coming up with ideas to promote competitive FIFA to the masses. First was the W|nDs Youth Academy [...]

DoTA Weekend At Virtual Xtreme Wangsa Maju

Date January 30, 2008

Just a quick announcement since I’ve just found out about this tournament yesterday and they are going to close the registration…tommorrow night!
Open to only 32 teams, Virtual Xtreme are going to have 2 days of DoTA battle at their Wangsa Maju outlet this weekend, 2nd and 3rd February. Not much details available apart [...]

EA Singapore Invites You To Play On March

Date January 30, 2008

This is an extension of our earlier C&C3 Tournament post. If you read that post, you would know that the winner of that tournament will represent Malaysia to a larger event in Singapore called EA Play’08.
Actually, EA Play’08 have few more official tournament games that could interest Malaysian gamers since Singapore is not that far [...]

CryEngine 2 On Console Demo At GDC Next Month

Date January 30, 2008

Mayday, mayday, enemy is blowing up consoles with CryEngine 2, request for airstrike.
Well, maybe I’m wrong but my guts already felt that somehow Crysis would appear on consoles even if it’s unlike the original PC form. Much of the reason was when I saw Xbox 360 controller default button configuration layout in Crysis’s manual book. [...]

Command & Conquer Your Way To Singapore This February

Date January 29, 2008

I, Kane, approve of this tournament.
One month ago, the GameAxis Malaysia’s Sub-Editor in disguise Ruff Bark posted in our forum about an upcoming Crysis and Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars tournament that is planned to be held this year. The tournament has now received the dates, venue and bunch of other essential informations.
The tournament [...]

80GB PlayStation 3 Is Going Off The Market?

Date January 28, 2008

No more 80GB for yah.
Last week, PS3Fanboy broke out the news that a memo is given to Best Buy’s staffs which to inform them that 80GB version of PlayStation 3 are being shelved off. That leave only the 40GB version available at the largest consumer electronic retailer in USA.
To those who not in the know, [...]

The Return Of Winning Eleven Super League

Date January 28, 2008

After missing for sometime, the one and only WE Super League is back, now at a new home in Shah Alam. Conceived by local PES/WE enthusiast - Munwai, Super League combined the popular football game with managerial element. Think of it as a combination of PES/WE + Football Manager.
The basic rules are easy - all [...]

Battlefield Heroes Only Available For US & Europe

Date January 25, 2008

After being overjoyed by the fact that EA is releasing a new Battlefield for free, the joy only live for several hours. Folks at Kotaku’s Down-Under division broke out the news that other countries outside US and Europe will not be able to download the game, despite it being free and such.
The sad news were [...]

BolehGaming Looking For TF2 & CoD4 Admins

Date January 24, 2008

BolehGaming, a part of BolehVPN are now looking for a number of volunteers to handle their newly open game servers. Their Team Fortress 2 open for all free dedicated server have been receiving good feedback from users for it’s performance especially the low ping rates. BolehGaming also have another server for Call of Duty 4.
According [...]

Cyberjaya PS3 FIFA’08 Tournament

Date January 24, 2008

In conjunction with their 1st anniversary, Cyberjaya Lake Gardens Community Club is going to held several events to celebrate the occasion this weekend. One of the events will be a PlayStation 3 FIFA’08 Tournament that features cash prizes worth RM 600 in total. Not bad for a first timer.
According to the organizer, they already prepared [...]

ESWC Malaysia Administration Confirmed 2008 Edition

Date January 22, 2008

Last week, one of our readers spotted Jalur Gemilang at ESWC International website, which gave the impression that ESWC Malaysia will finally make a return this year after missing out in 2007. Today, we got the confirmation that ESWC Malaysia is indeed making a comeback.
Earlier today, I gave a call to Jasmine Low, the co-founder [...]

INTI Subang Jaya To Organize Inter-college Tournament

Date January 22, 2008

One of our forumer, mysticxin posted in our forum that INTI College Subang Jaya is going to held an inter-college/school tournament in March. Organized by INTI Computer Club, the INTI Inter-college eSports Tournament will be held at the popular FTZ Asia.net cybercafe in SS15, Subang Jaya from 1st March till 2nd March. This competition is [...]

MSR Announced BMW M3 GTR Cup For Season 5

Date January 22, 2008

If you really are a racing junkie, then the Malaysian Sim Racers name should already sent shivers to your spine. For those doesn’t know, the boys of MSR are a group of racing fans that indulge themselves in the very tough world of simulation racing. A very rare species of gamer at this site of [...]

Microsoft Apologize For Xbox Live Issues With Free Game

Date January 21, 2008

Earlier this month, Marc Whitten, the General Manager of Xbox Live posted a letter to Live addicts everywhere apologizing for service issues that happened during the Christmas holiday season. Inside the letter, Marc also wrote that they are going to give away a full version Xbox Live Arcade game for free to everybody.
Well, the promise [...]

ESWC Malaysia 2008 In The Works?

Date January 19, 2008

A quick update before I’m off for this weekend. The one and only Underminer (yes, of the DoTA scene fame) spotted that ESWC website have been updated with a section for Malaysia. It is pretty empty but on the contact page, ESWC listed a company based in Petaling Jaya as the Malaysia’s administration team.
Is this [...]