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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Catch my Astral Bike if you can!
AsiaSoft, Malaysia’s official distributor for World of Warcraft and also publisher behind many other well known MMO titles including MapleStory, Pangya and Audition recently announced that they are going to conduct beta testing for its latest free-to-plat MMORPG, CABAL Online. The beta test is divided into two period: Closed [...]

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More Aperture Science Laboratories research are coming.
I wonder if it’s a slip up or everybody just missed the news. G4TV held an interview during yesterday’s episode of X-Play with Portal lead designer, Kimberly Swift. Towards the end of the interview, she said this exact sentence:
“Well, I believe Doug Lombardi who is our lead marketing director [...]

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If you read local game magazine and IT publication for the past few months, you might stumbled upon the news or rumor (depends on how you view it) that Ubisoft is going to be the next international game development studio to open up a branch in Malaysia. Sadly, that’s not going to happen, as Ubisoft [...]

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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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Mayday, mayday, enemy is blowing up consoles with CryEngine 2, request for airstrike.
Well, maybe I’m wrong but my guts already felt that somehow Crysis would appear on consoles even if it’s unlike the original PC form. Much of the reason was when I saw Xbox 360 controller default button configuration layout in Crysis’s manual book. [...]

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While Activision and Harmonix still fighting over the guitar compatibility over Rock Band and Guitar Hero series for PlayStation 3 owners, the 3rd party peripherals maker Nyko just unleasehed their own solution for that problem at CES 2008. It is wireless and in the shape of Gibson Explorer, please give a hand to [...]

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Miss me?
Woah. Is the notoriously famous “it’s done when it’s done” game, Duke Nukem Forever finally going to see the light? IS THIS SHIT FER REAL? NU WAI!!!
Just take a look at what George Broussard, the co-creator of the original Duke Nukem game posted this at 3D Realms forums:
Last Saturday we had our annual company [...]

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Coming soon?
I can’t believe that I missed this few days ago. StuffWeLike.com published a very small interview with Doug Lombardi, the marketing director of Valve. It was a really-really short interview, consisted of only three questions but the second question is the best:
Ted Stokes of SWL: Are there any current plans after Episode 3 to [...]

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Yesterday, Activision & Vivendi Games made an announcement that nobody really saw it coming. They are going to merge into what would be the world’s largest video games publisher. As a result to the USD 15.8 billion worth of deal, the result of the merge would be Activision Blizzard.
I smell a lot of moneh.
Alright, let’s [...]

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In conjunction with Xbox Live 5th anniversary (woah! it has been 5 years already?), Microsoft announced that they going to release a number of old skool Xbox games into Xbox Live Marketplace. This will be made possible through Xbox Live fall update coming to your dashboard between 4th and 5th December.
The 1st batch of Xbox [...]

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