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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If you need to ask, then you don’t know who is Futuremark Corporation. Know for their PC benchmarking software called 3DMark, they set the community ablaze with some WTF (which ironically, is also a trademarked word.) cries all over the tubes, when the news broke out that they are trying to trademark the word “Pwnage“. [...]

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So, is it true? Is Microsoft coming out with a new SKU for the Xbox 360? All I can say is that there is no smoke without fire… UPDATED!!!!!

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Burn baby, burn.
If Guitar Hero (I and II alike) didn’t made your wallet gently weeped, I’m sure Rock Band will. Although numerous retailers across the web such as Amazon and Gamestop just revamped the original expected price of USD 200 (~RM 679) to USD 170 (~RM 580), my wallet already feeling the heat. Be prepare [...]

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Gamer’s Hideout at Cineleisure Mutiara Damansara, PJ have been the forerunner of Xbox 360 community in Malaysia since they opened their outlet a year ago. They also have been very agressive in promoting original games, not only among local 360 owners but to the whole console scene. In such a short time, their effort have [...]

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2005 Sky ProLeague Grand Final. It’s normal to see such a large number of audience at a major Starcraft event in South Korea. Original Image: FighterForum.com
Everybody knows that Starcraft is a national sport in South Korea. Millions of other games around the world want to be like their pro-gamers: to be rich, adorned by fans [...]

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WCGZone (www.wcgzone.com), the year-round 24-hour online gaming site launched by the World Cyber Games (WCG), holds the first regional online tournament presented by “Intel® Core™ 2 Quad processor” from September 15th to December 15th. Officially named “RAMPAGE ASIA,” this regional tournament invites all gamers from 15 Asia Pacific countries with total cash prizes amounting to [...]

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The heat is on! Finally, the World Cyber Games Malaysia Championship 2007 registration is now open and guess what? It is here at Multiplay.LYN itself! To register yourself, bring your browser to http://multiplay.lowyat.net/wcg/ and follow the steps given to you. There’s another suprise for you guys as well…the registration is FREE!! Yes, PERCUMA! F.O.C!! Three [...]

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After a gruesome Day 1, the grand finale is here. Yesterday have been an intense day for all finalist as they work their way through the brackets of CELgames’07 Grand Finals. Today, only 10 players left to continue chasing the glory of CELgames 2007 Champion title. Today also we will get to see who’s the [...]

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The day have arrived. CELgames’07, the annual homegrown gaming tournament have now reach it’s climax this weekend at Low Yat Plaza, KL. A total of 35 players have qualified to Grand Finals in 3 official games: Command & Conquer 3, FIFA 2007 and Need For Speed Carbon, through 7 qualifiers that have been held previous [...]

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