Nintendo had mind-blowing E3 media briefing in 2006 and 2007 but this year, it was really a meh. If there is one word that I could say about Nintendo’s E3 Media Briefing this year, it would be UNINSPIRING. What I saw was just bragging fest and lack of interesting + innovative titles. Come on Reggie, [...]

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Keith Liu of Nokia Southeast Asia Pacific showcased Nokia N-Gage’s new direction to members of media.
Last month, Nokia Malaysia unveiled the second incarnation of their gaming platform, N-Gage. Ditching the purpose-built hardware concept, N-Gage is now a social gaming and game distribution platform. Yup, no more answering your handphone sideways or physical game memory cards.
To [...]

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Unstopabble, yo.
Two weeks ago, we announced the Intel Overclocking Challenge, where two uber machines assembled by Ipoh-based SNS Network and Computer War of Petaling Jaya were pitted against each other. We already asked you to vote for your favorite machine and now, the machines are up for grab!
Lai lai lai, get either one or [...]

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In case you miss the message earlier by Jasmine Low, the National Director of ESWC 2008 Malaysia, their equipment sponsor - Steel Series is giving away free stuff on national TV tonight. Yup, that’s true tonight, Monday, 19th of May.
Just tune in to The 8tv Quickie on 8tv at 11:30pm tonight and stay put throughout [...]

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Unstopabble, yo.
Last week, Intel came to our office and brought with them, two gaming PC that featured the current record holder for Intel’s fastest processor, the overclockable Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 quad-core processor. They then told us that they want YOU - yes, you the Lowyat.NET citizens, to choose which one is the Ultimate [...]

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Logitech recently announced that their new official wheel for Gran Turismo, the Driving Foce GT will be out in the market soon. Designed together with Gran Tursimo’s developer, Polyphony Digital Inc., the wheel is engineered for GT 5 Prologue on PlayStation 3.
The new wheel retained many of the signature features of Logitech GT Force/Driving Force [...]

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Microsoft announced yesterday that they are going to reduce the price on Xbox 360 at majority of their official Asian markets, namely Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan. The price drop rate which are different in each region and will be around 5% - 20% from the original price.
Since our market sourced most of [...]

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Coming to town soon but not now
Many gamers (including me) have been waiting for so long for the official Asian release of Rock Band. Early rumors stated late January’08 release but the launch was then delayed to undisclosed dates.
According to The Strait Times Singapore, reason given for the long delay was that EA [...]

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This is a follow up to the article from last month’s GameAxis Malaysia. Information about the much anticipated official PSP event by Sony Malaysia has finally available to the masses. According to the event’s booklet (available for download from Sony Malaysia’s website), the event have been named as PSP Gameshow and will be held at [...]

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Time for me to show myself already?
The wait is over. The savior will be here soon! Metal Gear Solid 4 has finally received a release date! Well, sort of…
According to press release from Sony, the much anticipated stealth game will be released in North American around late second quarter of this year. In conjunction with [...]

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No more 80GB for yah.
Last week, PS3Fanboy broke out the news that a memo is given to Best Buy’s staffs which to inform them that 80GB version of PlayStation 3 are being shelved off. That leave only the 40GB version available at the largest consumer electronic retailer in USA.
To those who not in the know, [...]

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Teh cake is still a lieeee!!!111!!1!1!
For all GeForce users out there, rejoice! For as Nvidia and Valve have partnered up to give you guys a slice of cake (that is a lie in the end) in the form of Portal: First Slice. It is basically an extended demo of the acclaimed puzzle game that was [...]

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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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The attack of giant Rock Band Special Edition box.
While I was looking for info about the upcoming EA Play 2008 (more on that later), I saw this oh-my-god-there-goes-my-savings news from the event management company that handled several of EA Singapore events:
Late Jan 2008
EA GAME LAUNCH EVENT: ROCK BAND
Rock Band is a new game from EA [...]

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Living in Malaysia, we don’t have such a thing called holiday shopping rush. At least for games and gaming-related peripherals. The price of those stuff doesn’t change much here, regardless of Mega Sale or not. Although we need to pay the usual price but thank god, we don’t have to be at each other throat [...]

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