Forgive us, this is rather a late notice. The folks at Sony decided to throw a series Street Fighter IV Challenge at two Sony Centres located in Sri Kembangan and Penang this weekend.
The competition series will kick off at The Mines Shopping Center branch tomorrow, July 25th. Starting from 12pm onwards, the registration will start [...]

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Sony Malaysia’s PlayStation Evangelist - Teoh Wah Keong was on hand to show around what PS3 and PSP can benefit from the Malaysian PSN Store.
Since Malaysians started to got their hands on PlayStation 3, whether through earlier parallel importers or official channel after the Malaysian launch, they always wondered when the official PlayStation Network Store [...]

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The ultimate package, yes?
Just earlier today, Infinity Ward’s community manager - Robert Bowling unveiled to the world the different packages of their upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 through his Twitter. First of course the standard stand alone edition, then comes the “Hardened Edition” - which includes the game, an artbook, tin case and [...]

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Image credit: CNET News
If last month, Activision Blizzard’s CEO - Bobby Kotick criticized Sony PlayStation 3 and requested a price drop, this time it’s Sony’s CEO - Sir Howard Stringer turn to return the favor.
Speaking to Reuters at Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, he pretty much scrubbed off demand made by [...]

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Sup folks. Care for a Guitar Hero jam? - Bobby Kotick of Activision Blizzard.Image credit: Forbes.com
In a recent interview with Times Online, CEO of Activision Blizzard - Bobby Kotick expressed his concerns on Sony PlayStation 3 high cost of game development and low return of investment. A direct quote from the article said:
The PlayStation 3 [...]

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Games Monster just kicked off a huge 5-month long tournament worth RM 14,000 of cash prizes for Winning Eleven 2009 folks out there. Running on Sony PlayStation 2, the series starts from this month onwards up until November and early December, with the exception of August & September due to Ramadhan and Hari Raya Aidilfitri [...]

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Is this your new PlayStation 3?Image credit: Spong
A set of images what claimed to be the new Sony PlayStation 3 was posted up on Chinese site, LevelUp. Within hours, all the images has been taken down without any explanation, but as usual, swift netizens managed to pick up them before it was gone.
The leaked images [...]

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As Gran Turismo 5: Prologue already passed one year old in the market, many fans wondered when the actual Gran Turismo 5 will be released. After all, the game have been in development for close to 6 years now, isn’t it about time already?
Not yet according to John Koller, the director of hardware marketing for [...]

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It’s Kojima, OMG!
Do you still remember the Super Mario Brothers clip (featuring the creator himself - Shigeru Miyamoto) that Mega64 guys made back in 2007? They at it again and this time featuring characters from Metal Gear Solid 4 and the series creator, Hideo Kojima.
Just per Miyamoto’s version, the skit was taken around Moscone Convention [...]

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One venue, two weekends and five three kick ass games.
Games Monster PS3 Tournaments are back! This time, they will invade Shah Alam City Centre (SACC) Mall over two weekends, featuring five three titles:

14th March: Street Fighter IV and Race Driver: GRID
15th March: FIFA’09
21st March: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (5 vs 5)
22nd March: Winning [...]

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Too much of button mashing might cost more than sore fingers.
Gaming-related injuries, I personally had many of them: blistered fingers, sore joints and also, girlfriend-induced-ones-because-she-don’t-get-my-attention-during-gaming (no baby, don’t hit me again…ouch!) but I usually thought those just side-effect of just about anything that you did over a long period of time. Amazingly, scientists in Switzerland [...]

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You see, nobody want to break the rules when Chun-Li is the marshal. Because you’ll definitely kena Spinning Bird Kick if you did.
We had a quick stop at Cineleisure Mutiara Damansara - which is not (that) far away from where Online e-Club held their Blitzone Dual Combo Tournament, to check out the scene at the [...]

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Sony Malaysia and Outpost Events recently announced the first ever Street Fighter IV Tournament, slated on 28th February and 1st March 2009 at Cineleisure Mutiara Damansara, Petaling Jaya from 11 am to 9 pm. Official platform of the tournament is of course Sony PlayStation 3 and yes, participants can bring over their controllers, provided the [...]

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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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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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