Our country might be a little bit behind when it comes to games development but that doesn’t stop the world famous EDGE Magazine from featuring Malaysia on their Region Specific series. Our country has now joined the rank of Vancouver, North East England, The Nordic Region and Ontario (among the many), who was previously featured [...]

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The great seal of Sir IceFrog.
If you haven’t realize yet, Defense of The Ancients (DoTA) is a very popular game in this country. Of course, there are many forms of DoTA around, what we meant in the previous statement is the Allstars variation, currently being maintained by the one and only “IceFrog“.
Recently, he announced at [...]

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Earlier this month, the submission for The 2009 MSC Malaysia Intellectual Property Creators Challenge (IPCC) has reached its deadline. The organization received around 100 entries across four different category whereby two of them are specific for gaming - Mobile Games and Casual Games.
After going through a detailed filtering process, the list of the finalist were [...]

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Last week, Blizzard invited a number of Starcraft fansites to their HQ for a sneak preview of Starcraft II’s latest multiplayer build. While the overall reports stated that the game are doing great, one tiny bummer for network multiplayer folks out there - the game will have no LAN support, as stated in an interview [...]

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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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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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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 heat is on! CF’09 @ CJ banners already visible throughout Cyberjaya.
As we stated in the post’s title, only 4 days to go before the most ambitious game festival in the country - Cyber Fusion 2009, take place at Multimedia University, Cyberjaya starting this Friday. Registration will be open for the mob participants to check-in [...]

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CyberFusion’s official logo was unveiled for the first time.
On Friday, a press conference was held to announce the country’s most ambitious gaming event, the now-officially named CyberFusion 2009 @ Cyberjaya. Organized by Cyberview Sdn. Bhd. and AMD Malaysia, the first ever large scale LAN Party will take place from 10th April to 12th April 2009 [...]

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The students of APITT/UCTI Bukit Jalil have succesfully held another edition of Inter-College Cyber Games on 19th July 2008. Started in 2005 as a invitational tournament event, the ICCG’08 has more diversity as it catered for college students and also general public, for several competition.
To see what went on during the event, check out the [...]

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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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I’m sure many game developers out there already aware of this, but if you aren’t, it still not too late to join. MSC Malaysia under their Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) is currently having the MSC Malaysia IP Creators Challenge, a competition targeted to nourish locally-made digital creative contents.
There are 4 categories altogether in this [...]

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Me steeling all ur wepenz lulz.
Easy Only! Games did it again! After their previous creation - Ballistic Wars bags the third prize in the JayIsGames.com 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition, Wan Hazmer and the gang went to higher heights when their latest offering called The Last Canopy was announced as the winner of JayIsGames.com 5th [...]

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If there’s one imperfection in Polyphony Digital’s “perfect” driving game Gran Turismo series, that would be the lack of damage to the cars in the game. That could be a thing of the past since the series’ director, Kazunori Yamauchi has mentioned that they are going to implement damage into the game soon.
In [...]

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A hilarious video for Battlefield Heroes were released by its developer over last weekend. As you may know, the upcoming Battlefield Heroes is an upcoming free to play toon shooter from EA DiCE, schedule to be released this coming summer.
Apart from showing how much humor that EA DiCE people got, the video contain a lot [...]

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