Yet another title for local DoTA top team, Kingsurf. In what seems to be a rematch of GXL 2007 Season 2 Finals, Ks were up against their Indonesian counterpart, XcN in Asia DoTA Championship.
At the Grand Final, Ks was facing an uphill battle as XcN were given 1 - 0 lead as they came from [...]

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Catch my Astral Bike if you can!
AsiaSoft, Malaysia’s official distributor for World of Warcraft and also publisher behind many other well known MMO titles including MapleStory, Pangya and Audition recently announced that they are going to conduct beta testing for its latest free-to-plat MMORPG, CABAL Online. The beta test is divided into two period: Closed [...]

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Multimedia University students and gaming goes along together. Just take it this way…one week after this weekend’s GACC in Melaka campus, their Cyberjaya campus going to have their own frag fest. It felt unnatural… XD
Back to business, the Engineering Society (ENGSOC) of Cyberjaya campus with the help of MMU’s Game Developers Club is going to [...]

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Time for me to show myself already?
The wait is over. The savior will be here soon! Metal Gear Solid 4 has finally received a release date! Well, sort of…
According to press release from Sony, the much anticipated stealth game will be released in North American around late second quarter of this year. In conjunction with [...]

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Organized by EMiNA Japanese Animation Club and Care Club of Multimedia University, Melaka the second edition of Games Anime Comic Circle (GACC) will be held this weekend, 1st and 2nd March at their Exam Hall.
Featuring tons of everything Japanese, the organizer goes to the extend of inviting Masakazu Morita, the voice-over artists (seiyuu in [...]

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Yesterday, a special Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars tournament was organized by Gamers Dotcom Sdn Bhd, the official EA distributor for Malaysia at FTZ Asia.net, SS15, Subang Jaya. The event was held to choose one player to represent our country at EA Play’08 C&C3 Regional Invitational Tournament, set to happen this coming March at [...]

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More than a month has passed on since Sendi Mutiara Multimedia announced their Starcraft Broodwar Tournament 2008. Two days ago, they finally confirmed the tournament details and released it to masses at their website. Ante up your APM and micros,boys…this is going to be huge.
The tournament will be held at several cybercafes throughout Peninsular Malaysia. [...]

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More Aperture Science Laboratories research are coming.
I wonder if it’s a slip up or everybody just missed the news. G4TV held an interview during yesterday’s episode of X-Play with Portal lead designer, Kimberly Swift. Towards the end of the interview, she said this exact sentence:
“Well, I believe Doug Lombardi who is our lead marketing director [...]

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Malaysian DoTA teams has been eliminated from the high profile online tournament, MYM Prime Series. This goes for both Kingsurf, the only local team left in PriDe #9 playoff and also Team Malaysia at Prime Nations #2.
Kingsurf superb winning streak seems to have ended after MYM lifted their previous ban on the team. Kingsurf fell [...]

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Go get the mag at stores now…pronto!
Have you got the latest issue of GameAxis Unwired Malaysia, the Lowyat.NET Official Game Magazine? Not yet? WTF? This is one of the thing you missed - Sony Malaysia is going to held an O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L PlayStation Portable event. See, the console lords haven’t given up on our country yet!
According [...]

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It is not even November, yet I felt my wallet already sold.
Finally, all Gears of War 2 gossip have come to an end yesterday at Microsoft’s Game Developers Conference 2008 keynote yesterday. As predicted by many before the event starts, Microsoft and Epic Games officially announced the 2nd edition of the hugely third person shooter.
The [...]

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Championship Gaming Series today announced their schedule for Pan-Asian Championship. A total of six teams - Seoul Jinhwa, Wuhan Dragon, Singapore Sword, Sydney Underground, Dubai Mirage and of course, our own Kuala Lumpur Taufan will compete for spots to represent Asia at CGS World Final.
According to the announcement, the Pan-Asian Championship Finals will be held [...]

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In case you didn’t notice, we’ve been churning out a number of EA Singapore’s upcoming gaming festival, EA Play’08 related news recently. As the event date is coming nearer, more information are being posted at their official website.
Lets start with the good news first. The tournament registration has been open since last Saturday. You just [...]

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Korean professional Starcraft league matches in English? Kidding me? No, I’m not. GomTV Star Invitational, a Starcraft superleague featuring 16 of the best Starcraft player that Korea can offer is being broadcast all over the world via web in English.
The 16 top-players players were chosen based on their Korea eSports Association (KeSPA) ranks and also [...]

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Get ready your micro, bitches.Image credit: PC Gamer
By now, everybody should already know that EA just announced the come back of Red Alert into their Command & Conquer series. Also stated in their press release are the news that fans will be able to jump into Red Alert 3 beta by getting Command & Conquer [...]

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