Sony Malaysia’s PlayStation Evangelist - Teoh Wah Keong was on hand to show around what PS3 and PSP can benefit from the Malaysian PSN Store.
Since Malaysians started to got their hands on PlayStation 3, whether through earlier parallel importers or official channel after the Malaysian launch, they always wondered when the official PlayStation Network Store [...]

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Fatal1ty in action at CES 2009.Image credit: Fatal1ty.com
Johnathan Wendel or more known with his gaming moniker - Fatal1ty, is arguably the most well known gamer around. Apart from winning FPS tournament at various tournaments such as CPL World Tour, QuakeCon and World Cyber Games, he also boosted lots of computer hardware and gaming-related products with [...]

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That is Malaysia, alright.Image credit: Codemasters.co.uk
At the Codemasters Gamers Day event in San Fransisco recently, the UK-based developers teased the crowd with details from many of their upcoming 2009 titles. Among them was Colin McRae: DiRT 2, which is currently is being developed with the help of teams from Codemasters KL.
Speaking to Gamespot in a [...]

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Part of the folks that made up MSR.Image credit: MalaysianSimRacers.com
One of our Shrine writers, Linkinstreet recently had an opportunity to interrogate interview some of the members of Malaysian Sim Racers (MSR), one of the largest and most active Simulation Racing enthusiast group in the country. The group already had 7 seasons so far and are [...]

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Have you ever thought of playing video games without using your two hands? It does not matter with a gamepad or other controllers but using two hands is almost unavoidable to play majority of games out there.
Breakthru7 - The Man.The Legend.Credit: Gamer’s Hideout
Believe it or not, Eric Chong a.k.a Breakthru7 from Sabah - who lost [...]

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U’oh, I totally overlooked at this interview. The folks at WCG Asian Championship interviewed yet another Malaysian player at their forum. To refresh your memory, before this they interviewed three members of the Malaysian contingent to WCG Asian Championship last year.
This time around, they approached the leader of New Cybertime GoV, XUCHii`s SyELAIne, who are [...]

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Si_Jali want to share his experience playing alongside other big boys.
Seems that after the #1 FIFA player in the country, Rinie Ramli got back (and this time, staying for good XD) to Malaysia sometime ago, he is busy coming up with ideas to promote competitive FIFA to the masses. First was the W|nDs Youth Academy [...]

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Last week, one of our readers spotted Jalur Gemilang at ESWC International website, which gave the impression that ESWC Malaysia will finally make a return this year after missing out in 2007. Today, we got the confirmation that ESWC Malaysia is indeed making a comeback.
Earlier today, I gave a call to Jasmine Low, the co-founder [...]

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Recently, a number of interview popped up at WCG Asian Championship website. Two of the earliest interview that was made available there were three members of Malaysian squad during the last Asian WCG: Paul Yan & Chi Lam of Cybertime|RoA and [W|nDs]Loon4tic.
Cybertime|RoA and [W|nDs]Lo0n4ticCybertime|RoA - Original Image: Marcus Soh of GXL.
The interview was done by [...]

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While majority of us are happily celebrating Hari Raya with our families, some of us have to celebrate far away from hometown due to responsibility at hands. That is exactly how Sophian “FoRza” Shahirul Raya celebration for this year. He is part of KL Taufan, our national team at Championship Gaming Series Pan-Asian Finals.
I heart [...]

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If you don’t know JackaL, you are probably a newbie.

He is Azmir Hamzah; one of the most feared competitive Counter-Strike player in Malaysia. Ask anyone around and people will still tell you of the crazy stunts that he did which is deemed impossible. Being a very important member in FMJ, he had led the team [...]

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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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When there is a cyber gaming battleground, gamers are usually the ones involved in the war. But not many people really knew the real team of soldiers whom made all of it happen for us.
Also knows as the nations “Largest Cybergaming Tournament”, the inaugural World Cyber Games 2007 Malaysia is set to happen next month [...]

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Stan Lee,  creator or co-creator of world-famous franchises such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and the Hulk features in an interview by IGN on topics including Who Wants to Be a Superhero Season 2 and his cameos in Spider-Man 3, Fantastic Four 2, and Iron Man.
Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
IGN TV: How [...]

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