[W|nDs]Vin in action during WGT Malaysia 2008.
[W|nDs]Vin has always been one of the top local FIFA players, maintaining top position in all major competition that he joined which peaked at WCG Malaysia 2008 where he was crowned as the champion. 2009 saw him concentrating on the football game’s online spinoff - FIFA Online 2.
The effort [...]

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IAH Games and MyCNX has announced that they are going select one kick ass FIFA Online 2 (FO2) player from Malaysia, to represent the country at ESWC Asia Masters in Korea next month. Apart from Malaysia, 11 international players and 4 of Korean own FO2 champs will meet up at the event which offered around [...]

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The sad truth.
We just learned that the French company behind Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) - Games Services, has ceased operations just couple of days ago. It was announced in a short statement at its corporate website, which is separated from ESWC global site.
Paris, April 5, 2009
Games-Services SA ceases all activities. Its [...]

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Expect such scene from ESWC 2006 Grand Finals will be downscaled this year.
The economy slowdown has hit everybody hard indeed. Competitive gaming or eSports, as a very niche market has been hit even harder. Players released from their teams, sponsorship cutdowns and downscaling of major events such as WCG European Championship is all hard [...]

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Some of you might recall that back in September 2008, we posted a piece of news about the return of ESWC Grand Finals back to its origin country, France for 2009 season. Together with the post, we also revealed that ESWC Malaysia is confirmed to make a return this year.
Well, as the new year unfolds [...]

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The Electronic Sports World Cup yesterday announced that the 2009 ESWC World Finals will be back to its hometown - France after having the 2008 edition at San Jose, USA last August. The event will be held in conjuction with the 4th Gaming Show of Paris at Bercy.
The only worrying thing about the return of [...]

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Couple of days ago, the Electronic Sports World Cup people has announced the first list of official games for ESWC 2009.

Counter-Strike 1.6
Counter-Strike 1.6 Female
Quake 3 Arena (or Quake Live, depends on its release date)

Trackmania Nations Forever
Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne

This list is basically the same for the past few years but Do note that there [...]

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Congratulations Kingsurf!
Hi guys, the dota finals will not be played on the stage. It was supposed to play on the stage, i have no idea why they change, maybe it is because it’s an all asian finals?
I’ll do live update here. And please forgive me for my noob update because i don’t play dota ok? [...]

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Right now, it’s 8:35 am at San Jose, the host city of ESWC 2008 Grand Finals where the best of Malaysia in DoTA and Trackmania Nations are competing for the title of world champion. Things has been going well physically for the team members, no complain of sickness or anything so far.
But then, the Malaysian [...]

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Malaysia Boleh!Image copyright: gointernationalgroup.com - ESWC Malaysia Blog
Team Malaysia just finished off their first day of ESWC 2008 Grand Finals campaign at San Jose, USA. As you might know, our nation is competing in two games: DoTA and Trackmania Nations Forever.
Things looked good for our DoTA representative, Kingsurf which ended up the day as one [...]

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The true meaning of going sideways.
Today, Nadeo has released Trackmania Nations Forever, the sequel of ESWC official games and two Guinness World Records holder, Trackmania Nations. Still retaining the Free-of-Charge price tag, TMNF is now ready to be downloaded from servers worldwide.
Generally, the basic of the game is still the same which is racing in [...]

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Game Services, the people behind Electronic Sports World Cup has revealed the date and venue for ESWC grand finale in USA this summer.
The ESWC 2008 Grand Finals will be held at NVISION 08, an event organized by Nvidia from 25th to 27th August in San Jose, California. Suddenly, the decision to move ESWC Grand Finals [...]

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A quick update before I’m off for this weekend. The one and only Underminer (yes, of the DoTA scene fame) spotted that ESWC website have been updated with a section for Malaysia. It is pretty empty but on the contact page, ESWC listed a company based in Petaling Jaya as the Malaysia’s administration team.
Is this [...]

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Last week, Electronic Sports World Cup announced their second pool of official games for ESWC 2008. The popular team-based mod of Warcraft 3, Defence of the Ancients (DotA) and Quake 3 were added into 2008 official games. Previous titles included in the list was Counter Strike 1.6, Warcraft 3 and Trackmania Nations.
Meanwhile, one day before [...]

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Electronic Sports World Cup announced recently that ESWC 2008 Grand Finals will be held around summer 2008 in USA. In announcement which also includes Nvidia confirmation as their main partner (again), Matthieu Dallon, CEO of Games-Services, explained the reason behind the decision to move the grand finals from Paris to California: “We made the decision [...]

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