Two years after Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released into the market, the next chapter of the hugely popular first person shooter game from Activision is now ready to hit gamers in all over the world. In fact, Malaysia is one of the first country to receive Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 [...]

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Pothead. So, the latest installment in the long running The Elders Scrolls series – called Skyrim – has just landed into the market yesterday and as soon as the much awaited RPG arrived into the hand of gamers, they wasted no time going through the game which usually means finding funny things such as this [...]

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In my day, playing Duke3D was a fist pumping middle finger to authority and a good way to enjoy all the pixelated stripper boobage (cmon, you all did it) a young pre teen could handle before the advent of broadband of course. So now, seeing the cigar smoking jock of a protagonist reinvented in the [...]

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Click on the image to view the video in a new window. Developed by Eyedentity Games and published by Shanda Games International for South East Asia, Dragon Nest SEA is a free-to-play fantasy MMORPG that have gained quite a following since it was released in this region through Closed Beta and Open Beta test sessions [...]

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The much awaited first person shooter – Battlefield 3 – has finally arrived in Malaysia and in conjunction with that, The Software Boutique (TSB) held a midnight release for the game; the first time in the store’s 11 years of existence. The game itself has attracted the most amounts of pre-orders that the store has [...]

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Click on the image to view the video in a new window. Last week we talked about a TV show in UK that went on to build an epic and one-of-a-kind simulator for Battlefield 3. However, the footage that we received were just a teaser of the segment and we thought we might need to [...]

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Some of you might have heard of it but to those who don’t – especially for Gran Turismo 5 fanbois out there, Sony Malaysia is organizing an event featuring the new driving game at Berjaya Times Square starting from today onwards. According to the poster at their official Facebook page, they are claiming that the [...]

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The line starts here. As mentioned previously, Gamer’s Hideout has organized a special midnight release event to mark the launch of Halo: Reach earlier today. Just like their previous midnight release event, throngs of gamers came down to their outlet at Tropicana City Mall, Petaling Jaya eager to get their hands on the new game. [...]

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Just a small section of the very-very long line that actually extended to outside of the building and eventually, next door’s Peninsula Plaza. To be the first to grab the game is not the only reason to be at the StarCraft II Southeast Asia Launch event at Funan Digital Mall in Singapore just now. Throngs [...]

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The new Xbox 360 S. Yesterday, we mentioned that the new Xbox 360 S is expected to be available in our country (through importers; NOT offficially from Microsoft, of course) anytime soon as it was already launched in two of the nearest official region to Malaysia, which is Singapore and Hong Kong. Guess what, it [...]

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Its here, boys. Want one? *giggles* Been waiting for the new Xbox 360 Slim? Expect it to land in our country anytime now. Unveiled during Microsoft E3’2010 Media Briefing last month, the new console has received its official launch last weekend in Singapore and Hong Kong. If you didn’t know, these are the countries where [...]

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During E3 2010 which was around two weeks ago, one of the new offerings that Sony unveiled during their media briefing was the paid premium service for their PlayStation Network (PSN) called the PlayStation Plus. Promised to enhance the PSN experience, it is now already available for local PSN users to sign up. The PlayStation [...]

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It is inevitable, alright. Not long after Half-Life 2 was made available for Mac users, here comes the Team Fortress 2! In conjunction with the release, Valve has slashed down the game’s price to RM 33 (USD 9.99) on Steam. Not enough with that, gamers can also download and play the full game for free [...]

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Actual screenshot of the Half-Life 2: Episode 1 on our colleague’s MacBook Pro. If you still not aware of it, Valve have already launched the much awaited Steam client for Mac around two weeks ago and since the launch, they have been releasing throng of games for Mac users to fathom on every Wednesday. Last [...]

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Small but feisty. If you don’t really visit Lowyat.NET frontpage then you might have missed this. Not long after the launch of Alienware M11x Gaming Laptop to the market, a unit arrived at our review desk for us to oggle test on, courtesy of Dell Malaysia. The review unit that we received was pretty hardcore, [...]

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