Care to unleash some of your skills for a good cause? Then, FTZ Asia.net at SS15, Subang Jaya is where you should be at, this coming weekend, 3rd to 4th October 2009. A group of HELP University College students are going to have a special DoTA tournament at the famous cybercafe throughout the weekend.
What made [...]

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Ready to vroom vroom?
A short note for MMO fans in the Northern part of Semenanjung Malaysia, the CubeTech Asia team are coming to your town! With tons of Exteel SEA and GoGo Racer SEA goodies on tow, these friendly guys will be stopping by at a number of selected cyber cafes from today onwards until [...]

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Looks like things has been spicing up for the better, even if it looks like a last minute inclusions. Two more official game has been added to WCG Malaysia 2009 roster - DoTA and Super Dancer Online Extreme (SDO-X). These two are not new WCG titles though as they have been included last year (SDO) [...]

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At the end of last month, CubeTech Asia - best known as the Malaysian distributor for NCSoft’s famed Lineage II - has launched two more online games to be included in their portfolio. The soft-launch which was held at CIMB Perfect Livin’09 expo, was completed in the attendance of big guns from each company that [...]

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Say hello to Billy.
In Saw’s universe, whenever you saw the above puppet, that basically means you going to shiet brix you are screwed. That’s the very basic premise of the hugely successful horror franchise, which already spawned over five films with the latest, Saw VI will be released to cinema next month. Not only that, [...]

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That equals to around 36 days.
In similar fashion as last year’s Malaysian official PS3 launch teaser, a counter has appeared within Sony Malaysia’s corporate website domain. The link was posted at PlayStation Friend’s Facebook group and was also mass distributed to the group’s member via private message.
We did some counting on our calendar and the [...]

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It’s coming soon, alright.
WCG Malaysia and SMM Grand National DoTA Tournament (more on that soon) are not the only tournaments that is going to fill the local competitive gaming calender on October. The long running CELgames by Gamers Dotcom and GameAxis Unwired Malaysia will also start their campaign next month.
Recently, the organizing team announced a [...]

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It has been 2 months since WCG Malaysia’s organizer announced the official games for 2009 but without any dates or venues for the event. Today, the wait is over as they finally announces the dates and venue of WCG Malaysia 2009.
You might or might not expect this, but don’t be too shocked about it:
Date : [...]

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Man, ESPGL news has been gracing our site quite often these day but this is their biggest news so far - AMD has just agreed to be on board as their partner! The processor giant will be supporting ESPGL’s CoD scene efforts in terms of financial and products, just like their first sponsor - Razer.
Malaysian [...]

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Looks like our Southern neighbor - Singapore, will be the first country to receive the OFFICIAL units of Sony PlayStation 3 Slim outside of the SCE Asia regional HQ in Hong Kong. Said to be out on 1st October 2009, the launch will also be joined by the new UMD-less PSPgo. The launch price will [...]

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After a huge price drop by Sony and Microsoft on their current gen consoles, the pressure is now high on Nintendo to do the same thing for its Wii. Rumors already rampant that the Japanese company will actually drop their highly succesful console from RM 866 (USD 249) to RM 690 (USD 199). Plus, with [...]

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Team Ninja and Tecmo, stylish as ever. We just can’t imagine how they able to sweet word Sony into letting them use PS3’s controllers for this.
Sorry guys, this video could be Not Safe For Work, so we have to put it in the jump. Proceed at your own risk.
[sauce: Kotaku]
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 [...]

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Random fact: 90% of Lowyat.NET team members owned at least one PlayStation and one Nike shoes in their lifetime.Image credit: SoleCollector.com
Nike and Sony PlayStation are two of the most influential culture icon ever. At times, their paths crossed and the results just kick ass. This PlayStation Nike Air Trainer 1 is the third model that [...]

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Mmmm yummy yummy yummy.Image credit: Joystiq/Major Nelson
You thought Modern Warfare 2 grand package will only stop at their Prestige Edition? No no no…this is Activision we talking about. They will not pass any opportunity to milk out a series. But of course, this time around they didn’t do it directly. They groped some help from [...]

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Seriously, we already lost track of how many pre-order program that Gamer’s Hideout already came out with. There was Gears of War 2, Halo 3, Guitar Hero World Tour and the list goes on and on and on…well, yup, the guys is opening yet another is here!
However, the freebies that they giving away this [...]

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