He didn’t won the car but Vin still looked pretty happy.Image credit: IAHGames Facebook Page
During last weekend, one of the country’s top FIFA players - [T2.W|nDs]Vin, was in action at Busan, Korea for the Hyundai Motor Cup Asian Championship. Vin qualified to the regional tournament through the national qualifier held earlier this week by the [...]

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Forgive us, this is rather a late notice. The folks at Sony decided to throw a series Street Fighter IV Challenge at two Sony Centres located in Sri Kembangan and Penang this weekend.
The competition series will kick off at The Mines Shopping Center branch tomorrow, July 25th. Starting from 12pm onwards, the registration will start [...]

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Heroes of Newerth (HoN) is an upcoming online strategy games developed by the US-based S2 Games. Fans might remember their older titles - Savage and Savage 2, which combined FPS and RTS into action-packed games. However, HoN is a totally different beast altogether, as it is heavily based on a very popular Warcraft 3 mod [...]

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Less polygon, more water color: Master Chief in the animated Halo Legends.Image credit: Kotaku
Yesterday, we were treated to the news of Sam Raimi as the director of live-action film adaptation of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. Today, it is Microsoft turn, to unveil yet another Halo-themed work, this time in a form of animation called Halo [...]

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Ohh yess, that’s how you axed an Orc. - Sam Raimi.Image credit: Screenrant.com
Back in 2006, the California-based Legendary Pictures acquired the rights to create a live-action movie adaption of Blizzard’s Warcraft series. Since then, the production plan has shifted its focus to World of Warcraft and has recently signed on Sam Raimi as the director [...]

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While PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have been enjoying Resident Evil 5 for quite some time, Capcom has just announced that the PC edition of the game will be released on September 15 in US and September 18 in Europe.
Capcom said that the PC version will be the ultimate Resident Evil 5 package as it [...]

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Earlier this month, the submission for The 2009 MSC Malaysia Intellectual Property Creators Challenge (IPCC) has reached its deadline. The organization received around 100 entries across four different category whereby two of them are specific for gaming - Mobile Games and Casual Games.
After going through a detailed filtering process, the list of the finalist were [...]

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To date, the community have no dedicated ranking systems except for Underminer’s National DoTA Ranking system and maybe a number of unofficial ranking attempts in several games such as FIFA and Winning Eleven that is usually focused on big events such as WCG. Well, the community can now look forward for the second dedicated ranking [...]

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Early last month, Nokia latest N-series device, the N97 was released into the market. Nokia’s gaming platform, the N-Gage was said to be supported on this new device but early N97 adopters was soon disappointed to find that the gaming app will only be available much later on through a software update.
The wait ended last [...]

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Sony Malaysia’s PlayStation Evangelist - Teoh Wah Keong was on hand to show around what PS3 and PSP can benefit from the Malaysian PSN Store.
Since Malaysians started to got their hands on PlayStation 3, whether through earlier parallel importers or official channel after the Malaysian launch, they always wondered when the official PlayStation Network Store [...]

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Our jaws obviously dropped when we saw the Project Natal for the first time during Microsoft E3′09 Media Briefing. Never in our mind though that it is coming to Windows PCs since you know…PC gaming is still pretty much traditional mouse and keyboard kinda thing. Oh well, Bill Gates just proved us wrong.
Speaking to CNET [...]

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So far, I’ve yet to visit a video game store regularly just because of its counter person. Well, that would change if Olivia Munn would handle one nearby, just like the video above. Even if it meant spending monies daily or get beaten all over in Tekken…eh, I really do suck in Tekken. *facepalm*
The song [...]

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The ultimate package, yes?
Just earlier today, Infinity Ward’s community manager - Robert Bowling unveiled to the world the different packages of their upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 through his Twitter. First of course the standard stand alone edition, then comes the “Hardened Edition” - which includes the game, an artbook, tin case and [...]

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We just found out that the WCG Malaysia official website has finally went online again yesterday together with the list of official game for this year. While that might be delighful, we are shocked to find that there are only three out of five official WCG PC games in the list:

FIFA’09
Starcraft
Warcraft 3

As far as we [...]

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(L-R) Managing Directors of Go International - Jasming Low and Nikki Yeo, Kamil Othman of MDeC and David Garpenstahl of DreamHack Sweden
As posted last Thursday, the signing ceremony between Go International Group and DreamHack Sweden took place at MSC Cybercenter in KL Sentral yesterday. The cooperation between these two outfit will enable the first ever [...]

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