Entries from August 2008

PLAY Interactive Announces Silent Hill:Homecoming Pre-Order Program For Consoles

Date August 31, 2008

All the premium swags that comes with each order.
Yet another pre-order program by PLAY Interactive, the official distributor for Konami in Malaysia after their recent success with Metal Gear Solid 4. This time around, the featured title is Silent Hill: Homecoming.
Homecoming, being the fifth installment of the Konami’s survival horror flagship series, will introduce a [...]

ESWC 2008 Grand Final - Dota Finals Kingsurf vs Zenith *Updates* Zenith Gold - KS Silver

Date August 28, 2008

Congratulations Kingsurf!
Hi guys, the dota finals will not be played on the stage. It was supposed to play on the stage, i have no idea why they change, maybe it is because it’s an all asian finals?
I’ll do live update here. And please forgive me for my noob update because i don’t play dota ok? [...]

ESWC 2008 Grand Finals Day 2: Ks Made It To DoTA Finals, Luige Eliminated From TMN Tournament

Date August 27, 2008

Right now, it’s 8:35 am at San Jose, the host city of ESWC 2008 Grand Finals where the best of Malaysia in DoTA and Trackmania Nations are competing for the title of world champion. Things has been going well physically for the team members, no complain of sickness or anything so far.
But then, the Malaysian [...]

ESWC 2008 Grand Finals Day 1: Ks Goes To Semis, Luige Drops To Lower Bracket

Date August 26, 2008

Malaysia Boleh!Image copyright: gointernationalgroup.com - ESWC Malaysia Blog
Team Malaysia just finished off their first day of ESWC 2008 Grand Finals campaign at San Jose, USA. As you might know, our nation is competing in two games: DoTA and Trackmania Nations Forever.
Things looked good for our DoTA representative, Kingsurf which ended up the day as one [...]

Visa A-OK!: Team Malaysia Departs To ESWC 2008 San Jose Finals Tomorrow

Date August 23, 2008

The winners of ESWC Malaysia 2008
The members of Team Malaysia to ESWC 2008 Grand Finals breath earlier this week as they managed to passed the last : obtaining USA’s visa. As you might recall, half of Team Malaysia’s WCG 2007 Grand Finals members was denied visa due to numerous reasons. Looks like US Embassy is [...]

WCG Malaysia 2008 Day 2 Recap

Date August 17, 2008

Hai guise, welcome to yet another WCG Malaysia 2008 recap. As we get closer into the finals, more and more players were eliminated in Day 2. While things are more streamlined as there were less players involved yesterday, the tournament is still plagued by confusing and uneven brackets.
The fastest game to finished yesterday was NFS [...]

WCG Malaysia 2008 Day 1 Recap

Date August 16, 2008

We have finally arrive at the WCG Malaysian Championship 2008, the country’s de facto championship of the year. As you know, six different official games ranging from strategy, racing and shooter games are played at Mid Valley Exhibition Center, KL starting yesterday up until this Sunday, 17th August. Up for grabs are cash prizes, sponsored [...]

Parents Fear Children’s Exposure to Gaming More Than Alcohol, Violence and Porns

Date August 14, 2008

One known problem among our local gamers is having to go through parental objection to gaming.
In a recent poll done by a parental advisory site known as What They Play, nearly 3,000 respondents on 2 separate polls have concluded that parents fear their kids playing certain video games more than drinking beer and watching pornography. [...]

Fun, Games and Freebies At WGT Malaysia 2008 Launch Event

Date August 12, 2008

WGT Malaysia 2008 is going to open its door with an official launch ceremony next week. The WGT Malaysia 2008 Gear Up Party will be held at Basil Leaf Restaurant, Jalan Damai, Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 19th August. If you wondering where that is, here is a map.
Guests will have a chance to test run [...]

Malaysia to have local Sony PS3?

Date August 12, 2008

According to several of our trusty industry sources, Sony Malaysia is poised to launch the PS3 sometime in September/October. Details are still very sketchy right now, but we were made to understand that this is for REAL.
Apparently, Sony is now hard at work putting everything together in place and they are doing all the necessary paperwork and groundwork to [...]

Live From Suntec Singapore : WCG Asian Championship 2008 Day 2

Date August 10, 2008

Welcome to the final day of WCG Asian Championship 2008. Today is the day where the best of Asia will be crowned here at Suntec Singapore. Team Malaysia campaign continues today in a number of games - DoTA, FIFA’08, Guitar Hero 3 (yup, believe it or not :lol:) and NFS ProStreet.
Meanwhile in the WCG Singapore [...]

Live From Suntec Singapore : WCG Asian Championship 2008 Day 1

Date August 9, 2008

The stage already set and the game is on! Welcome to the first day of WCG Asian Championship 2008 here at Suntec Singapore. Everybody in Team Malaysia are healthy today, nobody is sick and stuff. So, it is green light for all of us here.
Let’s jump straight to the update then!
WCG Asian Championship [...]

WCG Asian Championship 2008: We Have Landed!

Date August 8, 2008

We just arrived at the Hall 402-403 of Suntec Singapore for the WCG Asian Championship 2008 super weekend. Things are going on quite well here apart from some PC problems in the tournament area yesterday. Currently, all Asian Championship participants are in the tournament area to practice for the big day tomorrow.
Although the tournament hasn’t [...]

WCG Malaysia 2008: FIFA and Starcraft Slots Are Full

Date August 7, 2008

In a short announcement by Ronald Vong, one of WCG Malaysia 2008 tournament officials, all the 128 and 32 participation slots for FIFA’08 and Starcraft respectively have already filled up to the brim. This means to all gamers that already received their confirmation letter, you can breath a relief now.
For those who HASN’T [...]

Richman Online Closed Beta Test Codes Up For Grabs Here!

Date August 7, 2008

Salonbus (the Arab dude): I haz teh codes!!! *WAHAHAHAHAH*
Richman Online, AsiaSoft’s latest MMO might looks and feel similar to the popular Monopoly board game, but that are where the similarities end as well. You can construct houses and stuff in both games, but you can’t destroy them using rockets in Monopoly, right?
And…you guys [...]