Team EHOME of China - the SMM Grand National DoTA Tournament 2008 Champion. Will local teams take over the championship this year or will it go to international team once again?
Oh boy, aren’t DoTA fans (local and international-alike) going to be merry. The biggest DoTA event of the year is here again - SMM Grand [...]

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Around mid-2008, Universal Pictures signed a deal with Take-Two Interactive, to produce live action adaptation of BioShock, the game studio’s hit sci-fi FPS. But the Hollywood studio has now halted the production, as a result of rising budget concern.
The movie, whichto be directed by Gore Verbinski (of Pirates of The Caribbean fame) and currently in [...]

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IAH Games and MyCNX has announced that they are going select one kick ass FIFA Online 2 (FO2) player from Malaysia, to represent the country at ESWC Asia Masters in Korea next month. Apart from Malaysia, 11 international players and 4 of Korean own FO2 champs will meet up at the event which offered around [...]

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Moer zombies? BRING THEM ON!Image credit: L4D.com
Since its release, Left 4 Dead has been a hit among gamers including our own FPS junkies and general population who like to be scared by sneaky zombies. With the new free downloadable content pack is now out in the wild, fans can expect to squeeze few more extra [...]

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You don’t need fingers to play the ‘tar.Image credit: Joystiq
Two Rock Band news in a day? Yeah baby, papa love ‘em plastic guitars. Looks like there will be another Rock Band to be released this year, in the name of LEGO Rock Band. Targeted to lower age and family demographics, it is the third RB [...]

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Wheeee, we are now digital!
Everybody knew The Beatles, right? Since most of us here are occasional music junkie and serial music game addicts, we can’t help but to feel excited about the upcoming Fab Four game, made by the same guys that brought us Rock Band franchise - MTV Games, EA and Harmonix.
The name of [...]

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Starting this week onwards, a weekly mini DoTA tournament organized by Sendi Mutiara Multimedia are taking place at FTZ Asia.net, SS15 Subang Jaya. Dubbed as the Tuesday DoTA Fever, the event’s premise is very simple - come up with a team of 5 and register at FTZ Asia.net on-the-spot on Tuesday before the action starts [...]

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It’s always good to see that one has progressed from organizing bulk orders in a mere internet forum has now moved on full blown commercial outfit. Even amazing, if it was done in a short time span. Bernard Yong used to do that in our forums, but he has since upped the ante and founded [...]

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Infocomm Asia Holdings Pte Ltd and local online game distributor 8 Interactive Sdn Bhd held a signing ceremony today to exclusively distribute one Dragonica Online game in Malaysia.

Dragonica Online is developed by Barunson Interactive; whom some of you might remember as the creator of Dragon Raja. If you are a fan of games like Ragnarok [...]

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After overdue for 13 days (you see, they promised in March), World Cyber Games finally announced the second official games list for 2009, in addition of 5 games they announced before. They are:
PC

Carom3D
FIFA’09
Red Stone
Trackmania Nations Forever

Mobile

Ashpalt 4
Wise Star2

Promotional Title

Dungeon & Fighter (MMORPG for PC)

As you can see, long standing official games from EA such [...]

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The LAN Party area at Cyber Fusion’09 , hosted at Grand Hall of MMU Cyberjaya.
Miss our live updates? We are back, live from Cyber Fusion’09 at Grand Hall of Multimedia University, Cyberjaya. Yours truly together with around another 290 gamers will attempt to break the longest mass-participation LAN Party world record, which currently stands at [...]

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We only got one word for above shots: OUCH!Image credit: Halolz.com
Want to buy some stuff on Xbox LIVE Marketplace but out of Microsoft Points? Time to get them for free, if you lucky (or skillful) enough as Gamer’s Hideout is giving away a 1600 Microsoft Points reload card this weekend.
It’s pretty simple, all you got [...]

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Day 1 of work. By Friday, we hope that it will be filled with things that are made of win (we hope).
Yesterday morning, we managed to caught up with Cyber Fusion 2009 organizing team at the event’s venue in Cyberjaya. Unfortunately, there was not much thing to see as we were informed that the setup [...]

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The sad truth.
We just learned that the French company behind Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) - Games Services, has ceased operations just couple of days ago. It was announced in a short statement at its corporate website, which is separated from ESWC global site.
Paris, April 5, 2009
Games-Services SA ceases all activities. Its [...]

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The heat is on! CF’09 @ CJ banners already visible throughout Cyberjaya.
As we stated in the post’s title, only 4 days to go before the most ambitious game festival in the country - Cyber Fusion 2009, take place at Multimedia University, Cyberjaya starting this Friday. Registration will be open for the mob participants to check-in [...]

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