Entries from July 2008
July 31, 2008
Rapture Gaming has released the live video of WCG Asian Championship 2008 group draw that was held earlier today. The draw involved 14 countries across five official games: DoTA, FIFA’08, Guitar Hero III, Need for Speed ProStreet and Virtua Fighter 5.
Below are the results of the draw for all games:
DoTA
Group A: Singapore, Hong Kong, China, [...]
Posted in Consoles / Handheld, Events, Gaming, International, International eSports, Local eSports, Microsoft, PC, WCG Malaysia, World Cyber Games 
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July 30, 2008
In conjunction with the grand opening of V2 Cybercafe in Wangsa Maju, the online games outfit GoPlayPlay is inviting everybody to party with them, this coming Sunday, 3rd August 2008.
The event will be graced by tons of activities featuring GoPlayPlay stable of games such as ZHENGTU Online, MOYU, Jin Online and Meetoto. Apart from that, [...]
Posted in Events, Freebies Fest, Local News, Online Games, PC 3 Comments »
July 30, 2008
Remember the postponed GH LAN’08 back in May? Well, Gamer’s Hideout has just announced a new date for it - 23 August 2008 and this time it doesn’t clashed with anything! *does the happy dance*
According to the post by Eddy Yap, although they can’t confirm the games list as for now, more love [...]
Posted in Consoles / Handheld, Events, Local News, Local eSports, Microsoft No Comments »
July 29, 2008
Lowyat.NET’s own LAN Party was held back in 2005. Guess which one is se7en?
16 August 2008 is going to be a very busy day for local gaming community. First, there’s the whole WCG Malaysia 2008 she bang and also, the Merdeka Winning Eleven Tournament. The circle is now complete when Game Developers Club [...]
Posted in Consoles / Handheld, Events, Gaming, Local News 2 Comments »
July 29, 2008
Nintendo had mind-blowing E3 media briefing in 2006 and 2007 but this year, it was really a meh. If there is one word that I could say about Nintendo’s E3 Media Briefing this year, it would be UNINSPIRING. What I saw was just bragging fest and lack of interesting + innovative titles. Come on Reggie, [...]
Posted in Consoles / Handheld, Events, Hardware, International, New Releases, Nintendo, Upcoming Releases 1 Comment »
July 22, 2008
AsiaSoft, who are known for their CABAL Online and Maple Story has announced that they are looking for 4 top GetAmped players to be sent to a global meet in Singapore next month. The selection will be held at GetAmped World Fest 2008 Malaysia Preliminary Battle this coming Saturday, 26th July at Orange Internet Shop, [...]
Posted in Events, Freebies Fest, Local eSports, Online Games, PC 2 Comments »
July 21, 2008
WGT Malaysia official website will be up again soon.
Yesterday, we posted out a news that WGT Malaysia team has opened up their official website and also, the registration for WGT Malaysia 2008. Apparently, a call came from the organizing team today that the site opening was premature and all registration are now void.
The reason why [...]
Posted in Events, Local News, Local eSports, PC, WGT Malaysia 6 Comments »
July 18, 2008
If your mates kept on losing to you during LAN session at college or uni, then it’s about time to take it one step up. Make your college or university proud at this weekend’s Inter-College Cyber Games 2008 in APIIT, Technology Park Malaysia, Bukit Jalil. The event will take place tomorrow, 19th July 2008 starting [...]
Posted in Consoles / Handheld, Development, Events, Local eSports, PC, Sony 1 Comment »
July 17, 2008
Games Monster PlayStation 3 tournament series is back again with what to be their biggest tournament yet - the Merdeka Winning Eleven 2008 Tournament. The tournament will be held in conjunction with Merdeka Futsal Tournament 2008 at 3rd Floor, Amcorp Mall, Petaling Jaya on 16 August 2008.
This tournament offered a total of RM 3,000 cash [...]
Posted in Consoles / Handheld, Events, Local eSports, Sony 3 Comments »
July 16, 2008
WCG Malaysia officials just sent out a news around half an hour ago that the online registration for WCG Malaysia 2008 will be opened tonight at 12:00am. Together with the announcement were the list of official games together with participation slots limit for each game. They are:
Counter-Strike 1.6: 32 slots
Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath: [...]
Posted in Events, Local eSports, PC, WCG Malaysia 3 Comments »
July 16, 2008
Panoramic view of the media briefing.Photo credit: Xbox.com
It is indeed an annual tradition at E3 where the three gaming giants: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony will held a media briefing to announce their world domination plan to the masses. Microsoft started the race once again as per previous years and announced lots of stuff especially for [...]
Posted in Commercial, Consoles / Handheld, Events, International, Microsoft, New Releases, PC, Upcoming Releases No Comments »
July 14, 2008
When the first international based computer games competition emerged itself 8 years ago, many realized the potential of this “new content” has in the IT industry or any industry that was related. It was a huge success; seeing thousands of gamers actually participated in the event and some sponsors taking a bite out of the [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Gaming, Random 55 Comments »
July 13, 2008
Howdy folks! Welcome to yet another Multiplay’s live coverage, this time from CELgames’08 Grand Finals, happening right now at GameAxis Live!, Hall 2 of Mid Valley Exhibition Centre, KL. All three of the official games will be played today - Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath, FIFA’08 and NFS ProStreet.
To recap what happened along the [...]
Posted in CELgames, Events, Local eSports, Multiplay Live!, PC 27 Comments »
July 10, 2008
For those who haven’t heard of it yet (where have you been?), the Lowyat.NET Official Gaming Magazine, GameAxis is going to have an all weekend long event called GameAxis Live!. The event will take place at Hall 2, Mid Valley Exhibition Centre, KL starting from tomorrow, 11 July until 13 July 2008.
Promised to be a [...]
Posted in CELgames, Consoles / Handheld, Events, Freebies Fest, International eSports, Local eSports, Microsoft, Multiplay Live!, Nintendo, Online Games, PC, Sony 1 Comment »
July 8, 2008
Today, Rei of SpotGamers revealed a delicious (nyum nyum!) news about the Malaysian leg of World GameMaster Tournament 2008. Apparently, ASUS put up an advertisement in today’s edition of The Star newspaper which featured the dates and venue of the WGT 2008 Malaysia Final.
Weapon? What weapon? XD
As you can see above, the advertisement depicts a [...]
Posted in Events, Gossip Time!, Local eSports, WGT Malaysia 6 Comments »
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