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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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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The 1st (official) alien invasion of Malaysia.
It was just barely a month ago that our frontpage editor Twitted about the official arrival of Alienware in our country. Today, the much touted gaming PC brand is now officially here with the launch of Alienware M17x laptop, simultaneously with its US unveiling at E3 2009.
Available in two [...]

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[L-R]Sean Foong, Product Development Manager for Sudden Attack holds the MoU together with Team FMJ’s leader, Albert “FMJ|GrifteR” Lim.
Team FMJ, they still around? - we bet that is the 1st question popped out of your head. The team has dominated the local Counter-Strike scene since its inception and has been pretty much everywhere - high [...]

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Mmmm…yummy.
To refresh your memory, Dell Inc. acquired the boutique gaming PC buider Alienware back in 2006 but until now, the closest thing that our local market can get their hand on was the Dell XPS series. You can actually get them yourself all the way from States but the total cost would be rather high.
According [...]

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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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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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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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Go go go vrroooom!Image credit: iAM Interactive
iAM Interactive, a Philippines-based game publishing company, who boasted couple of high profile games for their national market such as Lineage II and the upcoming shooter Exteel, has just added GoGoRacer - an online casual racing game, to its stable. The game is developed by Radiance Digital Entertainment based [...]

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Fatal1ty in action at CES 2009.Image credit: Fatal1ty.com
Johnathan Wendel or more known with his gaming moniker - Fatal1ty, is arguably the most well known gamer around. Apart from winning FPS tournament at various tournaments such as CPL World Tour, QuakeCon and World Cyber Games, he also boosted lots of computer hardware and gaming-related products with [...]

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At the end of last January, together with the cooperation of several Thailand digital authorities such as The Economic & Cyber Crime Division and High Tech Crime Center, Asiasoft launched an initiative called ‘Action Against Private Servers’. The operation purpose was to eliminate illegal servers that are using Asiasoft’s products in Thailand illegally, namely - [...]

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… during the current economic recession?

Well earlier this month, Michael Pachter; an analyst from Wedbush Morgan commented that:
“I don’t think (online multiplayer games) get impacted at all, because people who play them are addicts… Losing their jobs makes them more likely to play because they have more time to play.”
Now it is obvious that when [...]

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Have you ever thought that World Cyber Games would spawned into a reality show? Neither do us, so it was indeed a little bit shocking when we found the promo video on YouTube. The show was actually first announced by WCG US way back in last October under the name of WCG GameQuest.
Unlike the recently [...]

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The 3 leng-chais of Gamer’s Hideout are waiting at their new Tropicana City Mall branch to cater all your console needs.Credit: DigiCH
I bet the small teaser got many console gamers excited. Starting from 3rd January, gamers can actually start shopping at Gamer’s Hideout new branch at Tropicana City Mall, Petaling Jaya as it is now [...]

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