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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NFS: SHIFT - one of three new NFS coming this year.Image credit: NeedforSpeed.com
Although the current economy downturn hitted EA Black Box pretty bad - the closing of its Vancouver studios and major staff layoff, it’s good to know that one of its signature franchise - Need for Speed will still be around, despite early rumors [...]

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Aha, kena heashot! - One of the [ESP] girls. Don’t play-play, they bite!
Over the weekend, the final stop of Animation Comic Games Convention 2008 was held at Mid Valley Exhibition Centre, Mid Valley Megamall, KL. Featuring tons of game outfits that ranges from online games, PC and console games, most of the attention [...]

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The 2008 series of Animation Comic Games Convention (ACGC) is coming to its end this coming Saturday and Sunday, after having two successful stops at Berjaya Times Square, KL in March and Gurney Plaza, Penang in June. The finale will be held at Hall 3, Mid Valley Exhibition Centre, Mid Valley Megamall, KL.
Again, the drills [...]

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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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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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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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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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Racing fans unite! The community members of Forza Motorsports 2 and Need For Speed ProStreet in our forums are now burning rubber on weekly basis. There’s something for everybody, so if racing is your flavor, dig in for more information after the jump!
Need For Speed ProStreet Street King Challenge @ Lowyat.NET Forums
Forza Motorsports 2 Weekly [...]

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In case you didn’t notice, we’ve been churning out a number of EA Singapore’s upcoming gaming festival, EA Play’08 related news recently. As the event date is coming nearer, more information are being posted at their official website.
Lets start with the good news first. The tournament registration has been open since last Saturday. You just [...]

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The Interactive Achievement Awards was an award organized by Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, an organization that serve to promote, communicate and advance the common interests in the worldwide entertainment software community (as written in their website, folks). The awards have been held since 1998. Yup, it has been around that long and the [...]

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Rock on to Wii, yeeeeehaaaaaaaaaa!!
During EA’s conference call earlier today, EA’s CEO John Riccitiello confirmed that Rock Band is coming to Nintendo Wii soon. The statement was made not during the actual conference call, but during the call’s Q&A session afterwards. No release date was mentioned though.
I wonder if this announcement is related to the [...]

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We got our Brawl, baby!Image credit: Famitsu
It seems that the Brawl fever has arrived in Japan yesterday with the launch of Super Smash Bros Brawl. Hundred of folks lined up in front of stores across the country in a fine Thursday morning. It is not really surprising as everybody knew how big is Nintendo Wii [...]

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Another source has analyzed sales data and confirmed that in July/August Wii took the lead, with 9 million consoles, over the Xbox 360’s 8.9 million consoles

Last month DailyTech reported on VGChartz’s announcement that the popular Nintendo Wii had surpassed the Xbox 360 in worldwide sales. At the time the statement was somewhat controversial and [...]

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