The actual picture of the lucky draw freebies.Image credit: Gamer’s Hideout
As you all might knew, the exclusive Xbox 360 content for Grand Theft Auto IV called The Lost and Damned was released last week at Xbox LIVE Marketplace. As an alternative to Marketplace version which cost 1600 Microsoft Points, Rockstar Games has also released a [...]

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Will we ever get to see this console available officially here? Maybe not just yet.
“When will Xbox 360 to be available officially in Malaysia?” is one of the most popular question among journalist at any given Microsoft event in this country. Microsoft themselves actually aware of the question’s popularity till the extent that, when they [...]

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Will we able to see similar scene at Cyber Fusion?DreamHack 2004 Winter - Image credit: Wikipedia
According to Guinness World Record 2009: Gamer’s Edition - page 177, the current record for longest mass-participation LAN Party is 36 hours and was done by 203 gamers at NVISION 2008. Looks like the record is going to be broken [...]

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Lineage II gamers, your time to shine has come.
Henry from team Cubetech had put a shoutout that there’s gonna be a community gathering and event which is set to happen on 7th March 2009 in Goalnet Cyber Cafe, Sunway Mentari. The team has planned loads of activities including one where the strongest Lineage II team [...]

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Asiasoft recently announced that their current cream of the crop game - Sudden Attack is going to move out from its Closed Beta period into Open Beta soon. The game server has already been shut down last Monday and is scheduled to be back online on Tuesday, 3rd March at 3:00 pm.
Once the Open Beta [...]

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[L-R] Charlie Cheah, Product and Channel Marketing Manager, Microsoft, Tony Leong, National Sales Manager, Malaysia, Entertainment & Devices Division, Microsoft and Ian Tan, Marketing Communications & Partnership Manager, Entertainment & Devices Division, Microsoft, with Microsoft SideWinder X8 Mouse (middle) and the new Arc Mouse - white edition.
As posted on Lowyat.NET frontpage by my colleague - [...]

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Sony Malaysia and Outpost Events recently announced the first ever Street Fighter IV Tournament, slated on 28th February and 1st March 2009 at Cineleisure Mutiara Damansara, Petaling Jaya from 11 am to 9 pm. Official platform of the tournament is of course Sony PlayStation 3 and yes, participants can bring over their controllers, provided the [...]

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Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS in Tronoh, Perak is not really known as gamers’ university as per Multimedia University in Cyberjaya/Melaka (represent! ) or APIIT-UCTI in Bukit Jalil - to mention a few. That doesn’t mean that they are lacking of gamers though as from time to time, UTP students like to compete with each other [...]

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Earlier this month, Online eClub announced, together with Blitzone Cyber Cafes, that they are going to held a double tournament featuring Valve’s Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2. It will take place at two of the cyber cafe’s branch in Damansara and Kuala Lumpur over two weekends.
The first part of the tournament will be [...]

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At the end of last January, together with the cooperation of several Thailand digital authorities such as The Economic & Cyber Crime Division and High Tech Crime Center, Asiasoft launched an initiative called ‘Action Against Private Servers’. The operation purpose was to eliminate illegal servers that are using Asiasoft’s products in Thailand illegally, namely - [...]

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… during the current economic recession?

Well earlier this month, Michael Pachter; an analyst from Wedbush Morgan commented that:
“I don’t think (online multiplayer games) get impacted at all, because people who play them are addicts… Losing their jobs makes them more likely to play because they have more time to play.”
Now it is obvious that when [...]

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Around 30 teams from all over Asia are currently competing in Asian Call of Duty 4 Championship. You can expect almost all big names in Asia’s Call of Duty scene - [BF.nut] & JEDI of Singapore, CEBU of Philippines and their likes signed up for this competition. As for our country, these teams took up [...]

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To celebrate the new Grand Theft Auto IV Xbox 360-exclusive DLC, Microsoft and Rockstar Games is having The Lost and Damned LIVE Week beginning at 1:00 am on Wednesday, February 18th until Monday, February 23rd at 3:59 pm. Throughout this period, all GTA IV owners - Gold or Silver LIVE account holders alike will be [...]

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Too much F.E.A.R perhaps, brader? - Alma plays spooky in real world.Image credit: NewEraDaily.com
Be prepared to be scared poo-less by Alma Wade once again in the sequel to 2005’s horror FPS, F.E.A.R.. This time around in F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin, you will no longer playing as the Point Man, but instead as Sgt. Micheal Becket, [...]

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The previously console-exclusive Burnout series is always associated with beautiful graphics, supersonic speed and epic crashes. Right after Criterion Games announced the latest Burnout is coming to PC, some are a little bit skeptical whether the game can actually run on a PC. In May 2008, Criterion actually made many jaw dropped by [...]

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