Panoramic view of the media briefing.Photo credit: Xbox.com
It is indeed an annual tradition at E3 where the three gaming giants: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony will held a media briefing to announce their world domination plan to the masses. Microsoft started the race once again as per previous years and announced lots of stuff especially for [...]

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I’m sure many game developers out there already aware of this, but if you aren’t, it still not too late to join. MSC Malaysia under their Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) is currently having the MSC Malaysia IP Creators Challenge, a competition targeted to nourish locally-made digital creative contents.
There are 4 categories altogether in this [...]

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If you haven’t heard about it, Codemasters latest racing game - Race Driver: GRID has spent majority of its development hours here at Codemasters Malaysia. That made it the FIRST ever next generation console game and triple A level game produced in our country. For that, Codemasters deemed that an official launch party should be [...]

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Vanilla or LE? I approve of both said Snake.
The much awaited continuation of Solid Snake stealth action adventures - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots, is going to arrive in our country on June 11th with a huge launch event. Play Interactive Software Sdn. Bhd., the Konami’s exclusive distributor in Malaysia together with [...]

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Two lucky buggers.
Hardware manufacturer, Abit recently announced that they are going to bring two of top gamers from Malaysia to the upcoming COMPUTEX Taipei 2008, the biggest IT trade show in Asia. The two gamers are local Need For Speed champ, FoRza and FIFA champ, [W|nDs]Si_Jali. Together with them also is the Abit-sponsored [...]

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Gamers Dotcom is currently having an event called EA LAN Party at 18 cybercafes around Klang Valley, Perak and Johor. Three EA title will be prominantly featured: Need For Speed ProStreet, Crysis and C&C 3: Kane’s Wrath.
Fellow gamers will be able to play for free between 7:00pm - 10:00pm at these cybercafes on the stated [...]

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Now everybody can (fake) sing and drum to Hotel California like Don Henley (not fake) originally did.Credit: 10 Singin’ Drummers - Glide Magazine
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick recently revealed hints about the next Guitar Hero in an interview, according to IGN. The interview is available in the May issue of Condé Nast Portfolio, a business magazine. [...]

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This is a follow up to the article from last month’s GameAxis Malaysia. Information about the much anticipated official PSP event by Sony Malaysia has finally available to the masses. According to the event’s booklet (available for download from Sony Malaysia’s website), the event have been named as PSP Gameshow and will be held at [...]

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If you need to ask, then you don’t know who is Futuremark Corporation. Know for their PC benchmarking software called 3DMark, they set the community ablaze with some WTF (which ironically, is also a trademarked word.) cries all over the tubes, when the news broke out that they are trying to trademark the word “Pwnage“. [...]

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With CGS Malaysian Qualifier is coming nearer (as hinted by Auricom in our forum), I guess it is about time to check how much reward there is in CGS system. GotFrag recently got ahold of CGS’s 2008 North American Player Combine and Draft Player Packet and did an excellent analysis on how much North American [...]

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Catch my Astral Bike if you can!
AsiaSoft, Malaysia’s official distributor for World of Warcraft and also publisher behind many other well known MMO titles including MapleStory, Pangya and Audition recently announced that they are going to conduct beta testing for its latest free-to-plat MMORPG, CABAL Online. The beta test is divided into two period: Closed [...]

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Time for me to show myself already?
The wait is over. The savior will be here soon! Metal Gear Solid 4 has finally received a release date! Well, sort of…
According to press release from Sony, the much anticipated stealth game will be released in North American around late second quarter of this year. In conjunction with [...]

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More Aperture Science Laboratories research are coming.
I wonder if it’s a slip up or everybody just missed the news. G4TV held an interview during yesterday’s episode of X-Play with Portal lead designer, Kimberly Swift. Towards the end of the interview, she said this exact sentence:
“Well, I believe Doug Lombardi who is our lead marketing director [...]

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It is not even November, yet I felt my wallet already sold.
Finally, all Gears of War 2 gossip have come to an end yesterday at Microsoft’s Game Developers Conference 2008 keynote yesterday. As predicted by many before the event starts, Microsoft and Epic Games officially announced the 2nd edition of the hugely third person shooter.
The [...]

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If you read local game magazine and IT publication for the past few months, you might stumbled upon the news or rumor (depends on how you view it) that Ubisoft is going to be the next international game development studio to open up a branch in Malaysia. Sadly, that’s not going to happen, as Ubisoft [...]

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