Microsoft announced yesterday that they are going to reduce the price on Xbox 360 at majority of their official Asian markets, namely Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan. The price drop rate which are different in each region and will be around 5% - 20% from the original price.
Since our market sourced most of [...]

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Red Team locked and loaded!!
Online E-Club Management Sdn. Bhd., the Malaysian license holder for all things Valve are currently planning to held a tournament for Team Fortress 2 this coming June. But before that, they are currently assessing the popularity of the game among Malaysian gamers and also tournament rules, which is why you need [...]

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AMD has recently announced that they are going held an online FIFA’08 tournament called AMD European Soccer Challenge 2008. Held in partnership with WCGZone.com, the tournament is giving out total prize package worth around RM 316,000 (US$ 100,000) in the form of PCs, ATi graphic cards and AMD processors.
The tournament is divided into 4 ladders. [...]

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After months of waiting, the CGS Pan-Asian 2008 is finally here. Throughout this week, six teams from all over Asia will be battling for two spots to compete at the CGS World Final and also, a lucrative pro-gaming contract. Our country will be represented by the members of Kuala Lumpur Taufan, which has departed to [...]

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Hubba hubba hubba.
One of our usual stalker, pedobear [r0r1]m00tsumi recently wrote on his brand new pro-gaming blog about the existence of a new foriegners policy in WCG Singapore Campus Gaming Festival. The policy looks rather normal, given the nature of educational institution where there would be some foreigners around. But then this caught our attentions [...]

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Have you ever thought of playing video games without using your two hands? It does not matter with a gamepad or other controllers but using two hands is almost unavoidable to play majority of games out there.
Breakthru7 - The Man.The Legend.Credit: Gamer’s Hideout
Believe it or not, Eric Chong a.k.a Breakthru7 from Sabah - who lost [...]

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w00t, another day, another news about WCG Malaysia. This time around it is about the Asian WCG Qualifiers which will be held in conjunction of WCG Malaysia 2008 Kick-Off event.
Three official game have been listed by the organizer, which are:

DoTA All-Stars
FIFA’08
Need For Speed: ProStreet

In2 Marketing & Consulting Sdn. Bhd. also unveiled one more unexpected “challenge” [...]

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Now everybody can (fake) sing and drum to Hotel California like Don Henley (not fake) originally did.Credit: 10 Singin’ Drummers - Glide Magazine
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick recently revealed hints about the next Guitar Hero in an interview, according to IGN. The interview is available in the May issue of Condé Nast Portfolio, a business magazine. [...]

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Gamer’s Hideout legendary LAN event is making a comeback! If you still remember, LAN’06 which was the first LAN event organized by the renowned console shop. It pretty much set the ball rolling for large scale Xbox 360 community get-together.
Gamers where given a tease of the event when a teaser poster was spotted during the [...]

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It has been more than a month since we last heard about ESWC Malaysia 2008. Unknown to many, ESWC Malaysia organizer silently posted an update about the event at their official website.
Posted earlier this month, the update revealed what seems to be confirmed date for ESWC Malaysia 2008 Grand Finals. According to the post, it [...]

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World Cyber Games just now has released the final version of official tournament rules for WCG 2008. Also included in the announcement was regulations for players which tackle issues such as auto-berth, nationalities and players substitutions. Both the regulations and rules will be used in all WCG preliminaries throughout the world.
The rules are now available [...]

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Cyberjaya Lake Gardens Community Club, who has been consistent in organizing tournaments for PlayStation 3, has announced yet another tournament. This time around it is 4v4 Call of Duty 4 in conjunction with Cyberjaya 11th Anniversary Celebration Carnival.
The event will take place on 17th May 2008. As usual, the registration is free for everybody but [...]

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The true meaning of going sideways.
Today, Nadeo has released Trackmania Nations Forever, the sequel of ESWC official games and two Guinness World Records holder, Trackmania Nations. Still retaining the Free-of-Charge price tag, TMNF is now ready to be downloaded from servers worldwide.
Generally, the basic of the game is still the same which is racing in [...]

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After months of discussions, the much awaited 5vs5 Call of Duty 4 Tournament has finally been confirmed by New Era.
The event will take place at Tbun Aman Suria, Petaling Jaya on 10th May 2008. There are up to 32 slots available for registration and the registration fee is RM 50 for each team.
Up for grab [...]

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Chengdu, China - Home to the WCG 2009 Grand Final.Image credit: Skaaal
After spending the past two years (and this year as well) in North America and Europe, the WCG Grand Finals will be back in Asia next year. The last time WCG Grand Finals in Asia was held in 2005, where Singapore played the host [...]

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