It’s Kojima, OMG!
Do you still remember the Super Mario Brothers clip (featuring the creator himself - Shigeru Miyamoto) that Mega64 guys made back in 2007? They at it again and this time featuring characters from Metal Gear Solid 4 and the series creator, Hideo Kojima.
Just per Miyamoto’s version, the skit was taken around Moscone Convention [...]

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Things are rather awesome when the community are together.
The Call of Duty players will gather together once again for a community tournament this weekend, 28th and 29th March at Blitzone Cyber Cafe, Damansara Jaya - the one next to KDU College. To refresh your memory, the last time this kind of tournament was held were [...]

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Zeebo - consoles for developing countries?Image credit: ZeeboInc.com
Some already touted the OnLive Game Service - posted by our frontpage editor Wern Shen, as a revolution in the game industry. There is another entity that could be arguably considered as revolution as well, in the name of Zeebo.
Officially launched at the recent GDC’09 as per OnLive, [...]

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Fatal1ty in action at CES 2009.Image credit: Fatal1ty.com
Johnathan Wendel or more known with his gaming moniker - Fatal1ty, is arguably the most well known gamer around. Apart from winning FPS tournament at various tournaments such as CPL World Tour, QuakeCon and World Cyber Games, he also boosted lots of computer hardware and gaming-related products with [...]

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Expect such scene from ESWC 2006 Grand Finals will be downscaled this year.
The economy slowdown has hit everybody hard indeed. Competitive gaming or eSports, as a very niche market has been hit even harder. Players released from their teams, sponsorship cutdowns and downscaling of major events such as WCG European Championship is all hard [...]

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Of course you can be as lansi as you want, if you can beat the hell out of other teams in this tournament featuring strong 64 teams from six (now seven) country lineup.
Starting 28th March, the local gaming outfit UCpro will be hosting the first season of IMBALanC’09 - a regional online DoTA tournament series. [...]

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Between these two soldier, who will win in a head-to-head match? We think the female gunner would win. Come on, we sure you going to be distracted at one point…
As we mentioned yesterday, one of the activity at this weekend’s Hotlink Games and Anime Festival’09 is the official launch of Asiasoft’s MMO FPS, [...]

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The annual Hotlink Games and Anime Festival (HAGF) is back once again! It is happening now at Berjaya Times Square, KL and will end this Sunday, 22nd March. It is yet another all-in-one anime and gaming themed event for this weekend, with ACGC’09 also happening at the same time albeit at a different venue.
While we [...]

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Vote planet Earth, people!
There are thousands of gamers all over our beloved Malaysia, whom are gaming on their PCs, consoles and handhelds for numerous hours daily. Each of related equipments - processors, graphic cars, LCDs and etc, used a lot of powers and generated lots of heat. Obviously, this contribute to global warming - a [...]

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While everybody knew that ESWC Malaysia 2009 details will be out sometimes this month, we didn’t expect it to be out on our forums in the first place. It was indeed came out of nowhere, but who cares as long as it’s an awesome one.
Just couple of minutes ago, the details of [...]

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We promised to get back on KODE5 South East Asia qualifier event and here is the essential details: to be held at Cyzone Internet Cafe’ located in Hanoi, Vietnam from 11th to 12th April. This competition will feature Counter Strike 1.6 and will only open to teams from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, and of [...]

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The Animation, Comic, Game Convention (ACGC) is back for the year 2009. Announced in a ceremony almost a month ago which our Shrine guys attended, the first edition of ACGC’09 will take place at the spanking new Tropicana City Mall, Petaling Jaya from Saturday, 21st March till Sunday, 22nd March.
As the event name suggest, ACGC’09 [...]

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Sleek, stylish and deadly in one single unit.
Good news to the guys in our forums that has been asking about the new Logitech G13 Advanced Gameboard which was announced way back in : it is almost here! To those who never heard of it, the G13 is an upcoming programmable gameboard - think of [...]

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Yesterday, we received a rather shocking news from CyberFusion’s game consultant - GameGen. Due to clashing dates with KODE5 South East Asia Qualifiers in Hanoi, Vietnam (which will be held on the same weekend as CyberFusion - more on that later), the organizers has decided to drop Counter Strike 1.6 from the event’s One Nation [...]

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One venue, two weekends and five three kick ass games.
Games Monster PS3 Tournaments are back! This time, they will invade Shah Alam City Centre (SACC) Mall over two weekends, featuring five three titles:

14th March: Street Fighter IV and Race Driver: GRID
15th March: FIFA’09
21st March: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (5 vs 5)
22nd March: Winning [...]

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