Last week, Blizzard invited a number of Starcraft fansites to their HQ for a sneak preview of Starcraft II’s latest multiplayer build. While the overall reports stated that the game are doing great, one tiny bummer for network multiplayer folks out there - the game will have no LAN support, as stated in an interview [...]

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Woah, the zombies are going on tour! Starting on July 11 till August 7th, Online e-Club - under their Asian Cyber Games (not to be mistaken with WCG Asian Championship) banner will be on tour to organize Left 4 Dead VS Mode Tournament qualifiers. They are going to stop by at a number of cybercafes [...]

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Rapture Gaming yesterday held a live group drawing for next week’s WCG Asian Championship 2009. This is how it looked like for all three official games:
DoTA

Group A: India, Singapore, Korea, New Zealand
Group B: Malaysia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam
Group C: Philippines, Chinese Taipei, China
Group D: Australia, Indonesia, Japan

FIFA’09

Group A: Malaysia, India, New Zealand, Chinese Taipei
Group B: [...]

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Sup folks. Care for a Guitar Hero jam? - Bobby Kotick of Activision Blizzard.Image credit: Forbes.com
In a recent interview with Times Online, CEO of Activision Blizzard - Bobby Kotick expressed his concerns on Sony PlayStation 3 high cost of game development and low return of investment. A direct quote from the article said:
The PlayStation 3 [...]

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Last week, PLAY Interactive announced that they has signed a Asia Pacific-wide distribution deal with Black Bean Games, a game publisher from Italy. The Italian company is known for their European-based racing games such as Evolution GT, SCAR and also their official game series for Superbike World Championship called SBK.
PLAY Interactive has already started administering [...]

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(L to R) Basil or Hafiz - which side will you be rooting for?
Two wacky guys from Fly FM - Basil and Hafiz would like to invite mad gamers out there for the Playa Got Game?, a 24 hours game battle alongside them. The 24 hours madness will take place at Centre Atrium, e@Curve (formerly [...]

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OMG, all of them in one place! So cuteeeeee *kaboom!*
Get ready for her royal cuteness! The world famous Hello Kitty is coming to you gaming world with a free-to-play game called Hello Kitty Online (HKO), developed by Sanrio Digital,. The game is set to be launched locally next month by Oriented Games at their game [...]

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Apart from the WCG Asian Championship 2009 updates that we posted just now, we did also asked In2 Marketing & Consulting about the status of WCG Malaysia 2009.
According to them, WCG Malaysia 2009 is confirmed to take place in the near future. Apart from this confirmation, they currently doesn’t have any other confirmed details that [...]

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One month after the details of WCG Asian Championship 2009 (WCGAC’09) started to appear online, the status of Malaysian contingent to the regional competition are still in doubt. So, we got in touch with WCG Malaysia National Organizer - In2 Marketing & Consulting , to gather official status of our national team.
We are relieved to [...]

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The all-female Korean team, 30.4lady.
Wowsies, we finally able to post this one. Three Saturdays ago, eighteen team came to Blitzone Damansara Jaya for the cyber cafe’s Sudden Attack tournament. Held just one week before Asiasoft Game Fest 2009, the RM 3600 worth of cash prizes’ competition proved to be a very good place for both [...]

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Starting next Saturday - 20th June, Western Digital will be hosting a two month-long Left 4 Dead tournament series called Operation Blackstorm. Using Versus as the competition mode, the series will take place at Blitzone Damansara Jaya.
Each week, two teams will be chosen to compete against WD’s own L4D team. The weekly winners will be [...]

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Next time, you might want to think first before physically “pau”-ing / extorting in-game virtual items or currency from your brother. Due to a landmark case in China, chances are that you might be thrown into jail for it. A group of four people at Liaoning province was found guilty for forcing [...]

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Last Saturday, four local FIFA clans came together to Terminal Two Cyber Cafe at Taman Muda, KL for a clan battle cum gathering organized by the multiple championship winner clan, [T2.W|nDs]. It was a seven way battle as each clan came up with a least one team consisted out of three player each.
Using single elimination [...]

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Think your Call of Duty 4 weapon skills is sharp enough? If you willing to prove that it is just not a cheap talk then pick up the guns and enroll in the the upcoming Master At Arms series organized by the guys at Electronic Sports Professional Gamers League. The three-competition series will be held [...]

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This is rather a short notice, but to all budding game developers out there, you might want to pay attention. As you might know, MSC Malaysia came out with a grant scheme for promising digital content creators through their annual IP Creators Challenge (IPCC). Currently in it’s 4th year, they are giving away RM 500,000 [...]

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