Vote planet Earth, people!
There are thousands of gamers all over our beloved Malaysia, whom are gaming on their PCs, consoles and handhelds for numerous hours daily. Each of related equipments - processors, graphic cars, LCDs and etc, used a lot of powers and generated lots of heat. Obviously, this contribute to global warming - a [...]

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The Animation, Comic, Game Convention (ACGC) is back for the year 2009. Announced in a ceremony almost a month ago which our Shrine guys attended, the first edition of ACGC’09 will take place at the spanking new Tropicana City Mall, Petaling Jaya from Saturday, 21st March till Sunday, 22nd March.
As the event name suggest, ACGC’09 [...]

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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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What you going to do when your injured finger from the old Guitar Hero II sessions doesn’t heal really well? Simple, you build yourself an alternative instruments as in this case, it is an electronic drumkit.
That exactly what happened to Egyokeo, a computer programmer by living and a real life drummer. As you can see [...]

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In general, most of us usually able to relate video games history back to Pong - released in 1972, as the first ever video game we ever heard. Although there were already couple of video games before Pong, it is still the first popular video game and pretty much brought us where we are now. [...]

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You might be wearing this soon.Original image: HWM/GameAxis Malaysia
GameAxis Unwired Malaysia, our Official Gaming Magazine outfit is currently on the look for five girl gamers to join their all-female team. The notice appeared in the October’08 issue of the magazine.
Since the full details was not given in the magazine, we contacted the GameAxis editorial team [...]

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That’s right - waka waka waka waka waka.Image credit: Associated Press
I don’t know whether the designer of these hat or whatever you called it, was inspired by Pac-Man but you can’t help to notice the huge similarity. They even got Blinky on the runaway too! All of these came from a fashion show during this [...]

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Sony Malaysia’s PS3 minisite finally updated…one day late.
After much delay, Sony Malaysia has finally confirmed the official launch event of Sony PlayStation 3 at One Utama, Petaling Jaya on 20th September 2008. The confirmation came in the form of press release earlier this morning.
First thing first, the launch bundle! The bundle is now [...]

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All the premium swags that comes with each order.
Yet another pre-order program by PLAY Interactive, the official distributor for Konami in Malaysia after their recent success with Metal Gear Solid 4. This time around, the featured title is Silent Hill: Homecoming.
Homecoming, being the fifth installment of the Konami’s survival horror flagship series, will introduce a [...]

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According to several of our trusty industry sources, Sony Malaysia is poised to launch the PS3 sometime in September/October. Details are still very sketchy right now, but we were made to understand that this is for REAL.
Apparently, Sony is now hard at work putting everything together in place and they are doing all the necessary paperwork and groundwork to [...]

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Welcome to the final day of WCG Asian Championship 2008. Today is the day where the best of Asia will be crowned here at Suntec Singapore. Team Malaysia campaign continues today in a number of games - DoTA, FIFA’08, Guitar Hero 3 (yup, believe it or not :lol:) and NFS ProStreet.
Meanwhile in the WCG Singapore [...]

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Rapture Gaming has released the live video of WCG Asian Championship 2008 group draw that was held earlier today. The draw involved 14 countries across five official games: DoTA, FIFA’08, Guitar Hero III, Need for Speed ProStreet and Virtua Fighter 5.
Below are the results of the draw for all games:
DoTA

Group A: Singapore, Hong Kong, China, [...]

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Lowyat.NET’s own LAN Party was held back in 2005. Guess which one is se7en?
16 August 2008 is going to be a very busy day for local gaming community. First, there’s the whole WCG Malaysia 2008 she bang and also, the Merdeka Winning Eleven Tournament. The circle is now complete when Game Developers Club [...]

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When the first international based computer games competition emerged itself 8 years ago, many realized the potential of this “new content” has in the IT industry or any industry that was related. It was a huge success; seeing thousands of gamers actually participated in the event and some sponsors taking a bite out of the [...]

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ESWC Malaysia 2008 - trophy, medals and glory
We are now reporting live from One Utama Shopping Centre, where the finale of Electronic Sports World Cup Malaysia 2008 is being held since two days ago. Today will see seven players that will represent Malaysia at the ESWC Grand Finals 2008 in San Jose, USA. Not to [...]

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