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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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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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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Keith Liu of Nokia Southeast Asia Pacific showcased Nokia N-Gage’s new direction to members of media.
Last month, Nokia Malaysia unveiled the second incarnation of their gaming platform, N-Gage. Ditching the purpose-built hardware concept, N-Gage is now a social gaming and game distribution platform. Yup, no more answering your handphone sideways or physical game memory cards.
To [...]

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Back in April, the organizer of WCG Singapore, Rapture Gaming revealed that they are going to have a category at WCG Singapore this year where non-Singaporeans are allowed to join. They have finally released information regarding the special category few weeks ago.
There are two main categories at WCG Singapore 2008. The first one is called [...]

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The launch party was graced with GRID Girls alongside PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 demo kiosks right in the middle of Zouk Mainroom.
Two years in the making, Race Driver GRID finally saw the daylight and was released to the market around 2 weeks ago. The game was then unveiled once again, this time to the [...]

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We shall meet again, Merlion.
As recently, many of Malaysian gamers have turned their attention to Singapore as their main destination for international tournaments. Thanks to their government and overall industry gaming-friendly policy, Singapore’s gaming scene are blessed with constant eSports events.
Join us as we take a look at some of those events that are [...]

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After overcoming Singapore Sword earlier today, there is only one step left between KL Taufan, pro gaming contract and the CGS World Final - win the Semi Finals against Sydney Underground. Unfortunately, the Aussies were too strong for Taufan and the match ended as the worst defeat for Taufan in their Pan-Asian 2008 campaign.
I wonder [...]

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Day 4 saw the last match in CGS Pan-Asian 2008 round robin stage. 4 teams will proceed to the Semi-Finals with the winner of these Semi-Finals will receive the lucrative pro gaming contracts and also representing Region 5 at CGS World Finals later this year.
Taufaaaannnn!!!Credit: TheCGS.com Photo Gallery
For Malaysian CGS franchise - KL Taufan, today [...]

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