Redza Rafiq of Cyberview says more stuff is coming to Cyberjaya for gaming.
As promised, here is another big news that came from recent CyberFusion 2009 @ Cyberjaya launch: the country is interested to host the WCG Asian Championship 2010. This relavtion was made by Redza Rafiq, the Managing Director of Cyberview Sdn Bhd, whereby in [...]

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Isn’t it supposed to be in red?Image credit: Gamer’s Hideout
Upon diving into the forums and visiting a number of retailers, we found out that the much talked about Resident Evil 5 Special Edition Xbox 360 console is already here. Much to our dissapointment though, the Asia region didn’t receive the awesome looking red colored console [...]

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On Saturday, we took a short trip to Universiti Teknologi Petronas in Tronoh, Perak to check out the scene of their Electronic Sports Championship 2009 (ESC’09). ESC’09 official tournament games are Counter-Strike 1.6, DoTA and Pro Evolution Soccer’09 with Guitar Hero: World Tour as non-official games plus a number of non-gaming events as side attraction.
Unfortunately, [...]

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CyberFusion’s official logo was unveiled for the first time.
On Friday, a press conference was held to announce the country’s most ambitious gaming event, the now-officially named CyberFusion 2009 @ Cyberjaya. Organized by Cyberview Sdn. Bhd. and AMD Malaysia, the first ever large scale LAN Party will take place from 10th April to 12th April 2009 [...]

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LAN Party ahoy!LAN Party logo design credit: ThinkGeek.com
We finally able to confirmed the launch conference of Cyber Fusion, where an attempt to break the Guinness World Records for longest mass-participation LAN Party would take place in April. Speaking to the one of the event’s organizer - GameGen yesterday, the launch will take place at Cyberview [...]

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Recently, we’ve mentioned that the upcoming Cyber Fusion will have its own tournament, separated from its longest LAN Party world record attempt. This weekend - 7th & 8th March 2009, the qualifier event called E-Sport’09 will take place at Faculty of Information Technology, MMU Cyberjaya.
Organized by Game Developers’ Club of MMU Cyberjaya, a total cash [...]

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Too much of button mashing might cost more than sore fingers.
Gaming-related injuries, I personally had many of them: blistered fingers, sore joints and also, girlfriend-induced-ones-because-she-don’t-get-my-attention-during-gaming (no baby, don’t hit me again…ouch!) but I usually thought those just side-effect of just about anything that you did over a long period of time. Amazingly, scientists in Switzerland [...]

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That is Malaysia, alright.Image credit: Codemasters.co.uk
At the Codemasters Gamers Day event in San Fransisco recently, the UK-based developers teased the crowd with details from many of their upcoming 2009 titles. Among them was Colin McRae: DiRT 2, which is currently is being developed with the help of teams from Codemasters KL.
Speaking to Gamespot in a [...]

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The more the marrier, that’s how tournament goes.
Post apocalypse survivors of Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2’s RED & BLU team posse filled two Blitzone Cyber Cafe branches in Sri Petaling and Damansara Jaya for the past two Saturdays for the cybecafe’s Dual Combo Tournament, a collabration with Online e-Club.
These guys totally brought the [...]

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No more worries for non-Klang Valley folks (or those who just plain lazy to get themselves to Gamer’s Hideout) to obtain the GTA IV - The Lost and Damned DLC retail pack for Xbox 360! Play Interactive and IAHGames has now made the pack available at game retailers all over the country through their distribution [...]

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Empire: Total War Special Forces Edition comes with 6 more extra in-game units, an illustrated campaign map and “The Art of Empire: Total War” artbook.Image credit: NewEraDaily.com
The renowned Total War strategy series by British developer - The Creative Assembly has been around since 2000 and many still regard the series first title - Shogun: Total [...]

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You see, nobody want to break the rules when Chun-Li is the marshal. Because you’ll definitely kena Spinning Bird Kick if you did.
We had a quick stop at Cineleisure Mutiara Damansara - which is not (that) far away from where Online e-Club held their Blitzone Dual Combo Tournament, to check out the scene at the [...]

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