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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DEELAAAYYYYY!!!
U-oh. MGS4…is…delayed. Depending on which type of gamer you are, it could be a devastating or an exciting news.
According to a statement released by Konami yesterday, the decision to delay the game were to further improve the game so that it would satisfy fans wherever they might be. The new release date would be somewhere [...]

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Soon after, Chapree unleashed his l337ness on the crazy doc’s bombs and pwned him flawlessly. After 5 tries.
Just today, Ballistic Wars, a game by Wan Hazmer, a local independent game developer was announced as the 3rd place winner of JayIsGames.com 4th Flash Game Design Competition!
Together with him, was his cousin, Daim which helped him with [...]

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Finally the rumors have become a reality. Yesterday, Bungie Studios and Microsoft announced that they are going separate ways. Not in a bad way though.
According to the press release, Bungie will become an independent studio which Microsoft will have small shares in it. Also in the press release, Microsoft mentioned that the Halo franchise still [...]

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The Organizers of the GC Asia Conference have announced the first speakers of this year’s GC Asia Conference (GCAC), which will take place in Singapore on September 6-7, 2007. For the first time, international game industry visionaries from Asia, Europe and North America will meet in Singapore to share ideas and network, and build new [...]

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Develop Magazine, the only European monthly print publication aimed exclusively at the development community, has unveiled its brand new website.

Located at www.developmag.com, the online portal will quickly become the only online destination for anyone involved in the creation, commissioning and management of video games.

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