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Looking back, 2008 has been a very good year for Malaysian gaming scene. I listed down couple of ups and downs moment of the scene throughout this year.
The Good

Game launches on the rise : Metal Gear Solid 4, Race Driver GRID, Red Alert 3, Winning [...]

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On 13th and 14th December 2008, around 22 teams got together in a Call of Duty 4 Mini Competition held at Rock Cafe, Bandar Sunway. The competition was divided into two categories - team and individual Free For All (FFA).
According to the competition’s main man - XEF|aKa, this tournament ran without any sponsors and was [...]

Posted in Events, Local eSports, PC 1 Comment »

UCpro[LZ] victorious lineup at WGT Malaysia 2008.
After memorable achievement at WCG Malaysia and WGT Malaysia 2008, UCpro[LZ] team seemed to be in a questionable status as two members of their current lineup - Gavin and Hix has left the team, according to a posting at the team’s main sponsor site.
The reason behind the departure of [...]

Posted in Gossip Time!, Local eSports 6 Comments »

GH’s spanking new outlet!Credit: marauderz
When Gamer’s Hideout opened its door at Cineleisure Mutiara Damansara around three years ago, many thought a 100% original console shop such as GH is virtually impossible to survive in our country, no thanks to high rate of piracy of the previous generation consoles. Not only that, GH also gave a [...]

Posted in Consoles / Handheld, Local News 1 Comment »

New venue, same frag fest.
To Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead and Counter-Strike 1.6 kakis who are planning to chill at e-Club Christmas LAN Party 2008 this weekend, please note that the venue has been changed from Berjaya Times Square, KL to Sunway Rock Cafe, Petaling Jaya. The event dates still remain the [...]

Posted in Events, Local News, Local eSports 8 Comments »

The terrorist looked too innocent to be one.
With a string of Sudden Attack gatherings set to happen from this week onwards, the peeps from AS Online Sdn Bhd creatively organized a friendly showdown between media representatives of Malaysia and Singapore late afternoon last Friday.

Dubbed as a spoof of the ever popular game, “Counter-Strike”, a team [...]

Posted in Events, Local News, Online Games, PC, Upcoming Releases 14 Comments »

Shaiya Online, a multi-million MMORPG from South Korea has recently launched its open beta period in Malaysia and Singapore. The game is distributed in both country by Run Up Game, who also operated several other well-known MMO including Mo Siang and Kick Online.
Known for its beautiful graphics, Shaiya took around 3 years to develop by [...]

Posted in Local News, New Releases, Online Games, PC 2 Comments »

An significant update from our previous post about the new mysterious Metal Gear Solid, the game has now been confirmed by Konami heading to Apple iPhone/iPod Touch. The upcoming Metal Gear Solid Touch is based on the recent Metal Gear Solid 4 and expected to launch in Japan, North America and Europe around Spring 2009.
Interestingly, [...]

Posted in International, Mobile, Upcoming Releases 2 Comments »

The big kahuna of Asiasoft Group, Sherman Tan (white polo) and Keith Long, the Country Manager of AS Online Sdn Bhd (in coat), celebrated the official launch of Asiasoft’s Malaysian branch.
Earlier this month, the established online games service provider and distributor - Asiasoft Group has officially launched their Malaysian subsidiary, AS Online Sdn. Bhd.. This [...]

Posted in Commercial, Events, Local News, Online Games, PC 1 Comment »

Choose your side.
This coming January, the latest MMO title from Asiasoft, Sudden Attack will start it’s closed beta period. To mark the occasion, the renowned MMO game publisher is inviting gamers to test out the MMO shooter at several locations across the country.
The hands-on session will take place from 8:00pm till 12 midnight at these [...]

Posted in Events, Local News, Online Games, PC, Upcoming Releases 8 Comments »

What you going to do when your injured finger from the old Guitar Hero II sessions doesn’t heal really well? Simple, you build yourself an alternative instruments as in this case, it is an electronic drumkit.
That exactly what happened to Egyokeo, a computer programmer by living and a real life drummer. As you can see [...]

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We recently posted about ONE, a fighting game for Nokia’s gaming services platform, N-Gage. Developed by Digital Legends Entertainment and published by Nokia Games Publishing, the new ONE was actually a sequel to a game with the same name that appeared on the original N-Gage device.
The original ONE was touted as one of the best [...]

Posted in Mobile, New Releases, Reviews 1 Comment »

McLaren F1 GTR - one of the new cars in GRID 8 Ball DLC.
When Race Driver: GRID was launched back in June, Codemasters mentioned that the game will receive a DLC pack and then reconfirmed it again one month later, this time with periodical release of screenshot. Wait no longer people, as the DLC pack [...]

Posted in Consoles / Handheld, International, Microsoft, PC, Sony 2 Comments »

Hideo Kojima loooooveeee teasing his fans. Out of nowhere, Kojima Productions posted a very mysterious teaser about the next Metal Gear Solid at their official website.
As you can see, the final icon resembled the one on Xbox 360 power button. Thus, the rumor about MGS4 heading to the Microsoft console suddenly appeared once again. But [...]

Posted in Consoles / Handheld, Gossip Time!, International, Mobile, Upcoming Releases 5 Comments »

Taku Taguchi - Sony Malaysia’s General Manager for Product Marketing Division and Andrew Tan, Operations Director of PLAY Interactive holding the new Winning Eleven 2008 for PlayStation 3.
Last week, PLAY Interactive and Sony Malaysia held a pre-release launch event for the new Winning Eleven 2009 for PlayStation 3 at Sony Sytle in The Curve, Mutiara [...]

Posted in Consoles / Handheld, Events, Local News, New Releases, Sony 2 Comments »