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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The stage already set and the game is on! Welcome to the first day of WCG Asian Championship 2008 here at Suntec Singapore. Everybody in Team Malaysia are healthy today, nobody is sick and stuff. So, it is green light for all of us here.
Let’s jump straight to the update then!
WCG Asian Championship [...]

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We just arrived at the Hall 402-403 of Suntec Singapore for the WCG Asian Championship 2008 super weekend. Things are going on quite well here apart from some PC problems in the tournament area yesterday. Currently, all Asian Championship participants are in the tournament area to practice for the big day tomorrow.
Although the tournament hasn’t [...]

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During WCG Singapore’s Paya Lebar Kovan Community Club League last weekend, Rapture Gaming held live draws for almost all WCG Singapore 2008 official games including those in the Open Category. The one category that interest many was the DoTA Open Category which has a very high cash prizes compared to others.
With that, one can expect [...]

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Birmingham Salvo - CGS 2008 World ChampionImage Credit: TheCGS.com
The second season of Championship Gaming Series that concluded last week saw the crowning of a new world champion at the CGS 2008 World Finals in California, USA. Birmingham Salvo from UK, steamrolled all their opponent that included CGS Latin America champion and also CGS Season 1 [...]

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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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For those who haven’t heard of it yet (where have you been?), the Lowyat.NET Official Gaming Magazine, GameAxis is going to have an all weekend long event called GameAxis Live!. The event will take place at Hall 2, Mid Valley Exhibition Centre, KL starting from tomorrow, 11 July until 13 July 2008.
Promised to be a [...]

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A very big step for local and global DoTA scene was taken recently when Kingsurf announced that they added the former Virtus.Pro DoTA squad into their roster. I believe that this is the first time ever that a local organization sponsored an European team. The new squad will now be known as Kingsurf.International.
Kingsurf.International while they [...]

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Back in April, the organizer of WCG Singapore, Rapture Gaming revealed that they are going to have a category at WCG Singapore this year where non-Singaporeans are allowed to join. They have finally released information regarding the special category few weeks ago.
There are two main categories at WCG Singapore 2008. The first one is called [...]

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We shall meet again, Merlion.
As recently, many of Malaysian gamers have turned their attention to Singapore as their main destination for international tournaments. Thanks to their government and overall industry gaming-friendly policy, Singapore’s gaming scene are blessed with constant eSports events.
Join us as we take a look at some of those events that are [...]

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Two lucky buggers.
Hardware manufacturer, Abit recently announced that they are going to bring two of top gamers from Malaysia to the upcoming COMPUTEX Taipei 2008, the biggest IT trade show in Asia. The two gamers are local Need For Speed champ, FoRza and FIFA champ, [W|nDs]Si_Jali. Together with them also is the Abit-sponsored [...]

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After overcoming Singapore Sword earlier today, there is only one step left between KL Taufan, pro gaming contract and the CGS World Final - win the Semi Finals against Sydney Underground. Unfortunately, the Aussies were too strong for Taufan and the match ended as the worst defeat for Taufan in their Pan-Asian 2008 campaign.
I wonder [...]

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Day 4 saw the last match in CGS Pan-Asian 2008 round robin stage. 4 teams will proceed to the Semi-Finals with the winner of these Semi-Finals will receive the lucrative pro gaming contracts and also representing Region 5 at CGS World Finals later this year.
Taufaaaannnn!!!Credit: TheCGS.com Photo Gallery
For Malaysian CGS franchise - KL Taufan, today [...]

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It’s another sad day for KL Taufan who are didn’t get the much needed points advantage against other bottom feeders at the CGS Pan-Asian 2008. Wuhan Dragon who got home ground advantage and also superb form, took down our FM2, DoA4 Male and even FIFA’08 (4 - 1, woah!) player with their stunning performance.
Woah, that’s [...]

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The second day of CGS Pan-Asian 2008 has comes to an end, with less than impressive results for KL Taufan and also some unexpected rumors.
Si_Jali getting ready to rumble.
KL Taufan today was scheduled to meet two teams for today: Sydney Underground and Seoul Jinhwa. Unfortunately, both of their opponent pretty much teared Taufan away in [...]

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