(R-L) Diana Tan, Marketing Manager of EA Singapore and Caroline Cheang, Managing Director of Gamers Dotcom with a copy of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Premier Edition at the launch.
After 7 years, the third chapter of Red Alert chronicles in EA’s Command & Conquer franchise was finally released to the mass public yesterday in [...]

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After being plagued by resource problem last season, our Championship Gaming Series franchise - KL Taufan can now look forward for an exciting times ahead. The team is going to receive a new home soon, according to one of our industry’s insider.
But under a strict verbal NDA, we can’t reveal more about this piece of [...]

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Built on the Source engine, Valve’s upcoming Left 4 Dead are set on an world that is infected by zombies…ok, not actually zombie. Your enemies are actually humans that infected with a mysterious infection that rendered them pretty much zombiefied. The game emphasis on team cooperation and the player will be a part of 4 [...]

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In general, most of us usually able to relate video games history back to Pong - released in 1972, as the first ever video game we ever heard. Although there were already couple of video games before Pong, it is still the first popular video game and pretty much brought us where we are now. [...]

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Early this month, we broke a news that a Malaysian gamer was selected to go to Hong Kong to represent our country at an Intel event. We hope that the lucky fellow - [W|nDs]Si_Jali have a bigger cabinet back home as he just won the Intel Asia PC Gaming Showdown Grand Finals at EA Experience, [...]

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The second edition of Sino Grand DoTA Tournament took place recently at its home, Sino-Net Bandar Bukit Tinggi, Klang. With around RM 6,000 of total prize money were offered to the best 8 team in the tournament, it attracted quite a number of who’s who from the local DoTA scene.
The tournament was graced with sponsorship [...]

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World of Warcraft players all over the world are now anticipating the release of the game’s second expansion pack - Wrath of The Lich King. Plus, Blizzard recently announced that the game has gone gold and now in the factory to be mass bred produced for its November 13th (November 14th in Malaysia due to [...]

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Only 2 weeks to go before the global finale of World Cyber Games 2008 take place at the city of Cologne, Germany. To refresh your memory, below are the list of players and officials that are going to represent Malaysia at the glorious event, after going through the national finals last August.
C&C3: Amir “Vic Viper” [...]

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You might be wearing this soon.Original image: HWM/GameAxis Malaysia
GameAxis Unwired Malaysia, our Official Gaming Magazine outfit is currently on the look for five girl gamers to join their all-female team. The notice appeared in the October’08 issue of the magazine.
Since the full details was not given in the magazine, we contacted the GameAxis editorial team [...]

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Hubba hubba hubba hubba - Woman of Red Alert 3. Image courtesy of Gamers Dotcom
As we posted previously, the latest edition of EA’s popular Command & Conquer series - Red Alert 3 is due to receive an official Malaysian launch soon. We got the details right here:
Date: 28th October 2008
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: Leo’s Cafe, [...]

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A-ok! - Lord BritishImage credit: RichardInSpace.com
The famed creator of Ultima series (among the many games he created), Richard “Lord British” Garriott launched into space to the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday. He is the sixth private space tourist and the first former American astronaut’s child to ever go to space as his father was a [...]

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The X08 Singapore is set to mark the return of Microsoft gaming event to the Lion city. If you never heard of it before, the Microsoft X event is basically an huge Xbox festival, held in several cities across the globe on yearly (or at least close to yearly) basis. This year’s event at Singapore [...]

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Last month, nine participants from various local gaming media which included Lowyat.NET were invited by Intel to compete in the Malaysian leg of Intel Asia PC Gaming Showdown. Our squad to the event included our frontpage editor, Wern Shen and four gamers from our forums - [LZ]nitroN, [W|nDs]Si_Jali, FoRza and m00tsumi. These guys themselves are [...]

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