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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I can kill use muh magic, but bow and arrow is cooler.
MobiusGames, the publishing arms of Digital Media Exchange, Inc of Philippines has recently announced that they are accepting application for closed beta test sessions for Dekaron. The application are opened to gamers from Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia. The game is developed by GameHi from [...]

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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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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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Panoramic view of the media briefing.Photo credit: Xbox.com
It is indeed an annual tradition at E3 where the three gaming giants: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony will held a media briefing to announce their world domination plan to the masses. Microsoft started the race once again as per previous years and announced lots of stuff especially for [...]

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…and the heavens shall tremble.
Yesterday, we talked about the evolving splash screen at Blizzard’s website and all the theories behind it. Today, the mystery splash screen finally revealed its secret - Diablo III, the much awaited sequel to Diablo II that was released in year 2000. Diablo III storyline will take place 20 years after [...]

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If you happen to visit any of Blizzard-owned website recently, you are bound to see a mysterious splash screen which seems to change as the days gone by. WoW Insider offers a very detailed analysis of the splash screen’s progression and theories behind it.
What is the company behind Starcraft and Warcraft series is hiding? Many [...]

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I guess you have to ditch your traditional footie style when you stepped into the world of GONG!, a new MMO developed by Tose Shanghai and distributed by the Philippines-based Digital Media Exchange, Inc. through their online games division - mobiusgames. The game combined imagination, cuteness and football into a a wholesome package that can [...]

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This might seem a bit out of context with the regular postings here but since mobile gaming is a form of gaming as well, we decided to put it up. Malaysians can now, together with the rest of the world, enjoy the new Nokia N-Gage mobile games service with more games, additional compatible devices, and [...]

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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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Now everybody can (fake) sing and drum to Hotel California like Don Henley (not fake) originally did.Credit: 10 Singin’ Drummers - Glide Magazine
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick recently revealed hints about the next Guitar Hero in an interview, according to IGN. The interview is available in the May issue of Condé Nast Portfolio, a business magazine. [...]

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Me steeling all ur wepenz lulz.
Easy Only! Games did it again! After their previous creation - Ballistic Wars bags the third prize in the JayIsGames.com 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition, Wan Hazmer and the gang went to higher heights when their latest offering called The Last Canopy was announced as the winner of JayIsGames.com 5th [...]

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If there’s one imperfection in Polyphony Digital’s “perfect” driving game Gran Turismo series, that would be the lack of damage to the cars in the game. That could be a thing of the past since the series’ director, Kazunori Yamauchi has mentioned that they are going to implement damage into the game soon.
In [...]

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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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