Recently, World Cyber Games announced the first part of official WCG games for 2009. The announcement came slightly earlier compared to previous years, they listed out three games for PC and two for Xbox 360, as listed below:
PC

Counter-Strike 1.6
Starcraft: Brood War
Warcraft: The Frozen Throne

Xbox 360

Guitar Hero: World Tour
Virtua Fighter 5

According to the people at World [...]

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Buy teh game and you’ll get a chance to bring a Space Marine home!Box art and Space Marine figure image credit: Replay Interactive.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II has been set to be unleashed on our shores on 19th February. The much anticipated sequel to 2004’s Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War RTS series has actually [...]

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Some of you might recall that back in September 2008, we posted a piece of news about the return of ESWC Grand Finals back to its origin country, France for 2009 season. Together with the post, we also revealed that ESWC Malaysia is confirmed to make a return this year.
Well, as the new year unfolds [...]

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Part of the folks that made up MSR.Image credit: MalaysianSimRacers.com
One of our Shrine writers, Linkinstreet recently had an opportunity to interrogate interview some of the members of Malaysian Sim Racers (MSR), one of the largest and most active Simulation Racing enthusiast group in the country. The group already had 7 seasons so far and are [...]

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So far, we have distributed around 400 codes for Sudden Attack Closed Beta Test session. Unfortunately, we have to halt the distribution for the remaining codes as we received couple of reports recently that codes from Lowyat.NET was invalid.
Although that couple of gamers already reported back that their codes already working since yesterday, we are [...]

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