According to several of our trusty industry sources, Sony Malaysia is poised to launch the PS3 sometime in September/October. Details are still very sketchy right now, but we were made to understand that this is for REAL.
Apparently, Sony is now hard at work putting everything together in place and they are doing all the necessary paperwork and groundwork to [...]

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Welcome to the final day of WCG Asian Championship 2008. Today is the day where the best of Asia will be crowned here at Suntec Singapore. Team Malaysia campaign continues today in a number of games - DoTA, FIFA’08, Guitar Hero 3 (yup, believe it or not :lol:) and NFS ProStreet.
Meanwhile in the WCG Singapore [...]

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The stage already set and the game is on! Welcome to the first day of WCG Asian Championship 2008 here at Suntec Singapore. Everybody in Team Malaysia are healthy today, nobody is sick and stuff. So, it is green light for all of us here.
Let’s jump straight to the update then!
WCG Asian Championship [...]

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Birmingham Salvo - CGS 2008 World ChampionImage Credit: TheCGS.com
The second season of Championship Gaming Series that concluded last week saw the crowning of a new world champion at the CGS 2008 World Finals in California, USA. Birmingham Salvo from UK, steamrolled all their opponent that included CGS Latin America champion and also CGS Season 1 [...]

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Rapture Gaming has released the live video of WCG Asian Championship 2008 group draw that was held earlier today. The draw involved 14 countries across five official games: DoTA, FIFA’08, Guitar Hero III, Need for Speed ProStreet and Virtua Fighter 5.
Below are the results of the draw for all games:
DoTA

Group A: Singapore, Hong Kong, China, [...]

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Remember the postponed GH LAN’08 back in May? Well, Gamer’s Hideout has just announced a new date for it - 23 August 2008 and this time it doesn’t clashed with anything! *does the happy dance*
According to the post by Eddy Yap, although they can’t confirm the games list as for now, more love [...]

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Lowyat.NET’s own LAN Party was held back in 2005. Guess which one is se7en?
16 August 2008 is going to be a very busy day for local gaming community. First, there’s the whole WCG Malaysia 2008 she bang and also, the Merdeka Winning Eleven Tournament. The circle is now complete when Game Developers Club [...]

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Nintendo had mind-blowing E3 media briefing in 2006 and 2007 but this year, it was really a meh. If there is one word that I could say about Nintendo’s E3 Media Briefing this year, it would be UNINSPIRING. What I saw was just bragging fest and lack of interesting + innovative titles. Come on Reggie, [...]

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If your mates kept on losing to you during LAN session at college or uni, then it’s about time to take it one step up. Make your college or university proud at this weekend’s Inter-College Cyber Games 2008 in APIIT, Technology Park Malaysia, Bukit Jalil. The event will take place tomorrow, 19th July 2008 starting [...]

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Games Monster PlayStation 3 tournament series is back again with what to be their biggest tournament yet - the Merdeka Winning Eleven 2008 Tournament. The tournament will be held in conjunction with Merdeka Futsal Tournament 2008 at 3rd Floor, Amcorp Mall, Petaling Jaya on 16 August 2008.
This tournament offered a total of RM 3,000 cash [...]

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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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For those who haven’t heard of it yet (where have you been?), the Lowyat.NET Official Gaming Magazine, GameAxis is going to have an all weekend long event called GameAxis Live!. The event will take place at Hall 2, Mid Valley Exhibition Centre, KL starting from tomorrow, 11 July until 13 July 2008.
Promised to be a [...]

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The return of GRID Girls? I hope so.
When Codemasters Malaysia launched GRID at Zouk KL last month, some gamers were disappointed because they couldn’t attend the party due to age restrictions. Guess what, they are going to do it all over again at GameAxis Live! next week, although they might use a slightly [...]

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While Pro Evolution Soccer/Winning Eleven 2008 was removed from ESWC 2008 official games list, Malaysian gamers will still be able to compete in the game at the ESWC Malaysia 2008. Local Konami distributor - PLAY Interactive is going to set a couple of PlayStation 3 and will held a tournament at their booth during ESWC [...]

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Come watch my movie or else!
In conjunction with the release of Hellboy: The Science of Evil by Konami, their official Malaysian distributor - PLAY Interactive is going to treat gamers to a screening of Hellboy II : The Golden Army. The screening will take place at GSC Mid Valley on 12th July 2008 at 9pm.
The [...]

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