Isn’t it supposed to be in red?Image credit: Gamer’s Hideout
Upon diving into the forums and visiting a number of retailers, we found out that the much talked about Resident Evil 5 Special Edition Xbox 360 console is already here. Much to our dissapointment though, the Asia region didn’t receive the awesome looking red colored console [...]

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No more worries for non-Klang Valley folks (or those who just plain lazy to get themselves to Gamer’s Hideout) to obtain the GTA IV - The Lost and Damned DLC retail pack for Xbox 360! Play Interactive and IAHGames has now made the pack available at game retailers all over the country through their distribution [...]

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You see, nobody want to break the rules when Chun-Li is the marshal. Because you’ll definitely kena Spinning Bird Kick if you did.
We had a quick stop at Cineleisure Mutiara Damansara - which is not (that) far away from where Online e-Club held their Blitzone Dual Combo Tournament, to check out the scene at the [...]

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The actual picture of the lucky draw freebies.Image credit: Gamer’s Hideout
As you all might knew, the exclusive Xbox 360 content for Grand Theft Auto IV called The Lost and Damned was released last week at Xbox LIVE Marketplace. As an alternative to Marketplace version which cost 1600 Microsoft Points, Rockstar Games has also released a [...]

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[L-R] Charlie Cheah, Product and Channel Marketing Manager, Microsoft, Tony Leong, National Sales Manager, Malaysia, Entertainment & Devices Division, Microsoft and Ian Tan, Marketing Communications & Partnership Manager, Entertainment & Devices Division, Microsoft, with Microsoft SideWinder X8 Mouse (middle) and the new Arc Mouse - white edition.
As posted on Lowyat.NET frontpage by my colleague - [...]

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Sony Malaysia and Outpost Events recently announced the first ever Street Fighter IV Tournament, slated on 28th February and 1st March 2009 at Cineleisure Mutiara Damansara, Petaling Jaya from 11 am to 9 pm. Official platform of the tournament is of course Sony PlayStation 3 and yes, participants can bring over their controllers, provided the [...]

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The previously console-exclusive Burnout series is always associated with beautiful graphics, supersonic speed and epic crashes. Right after Criterion Games announced the latest Burnout is coming to PC, some are a little bit skeptical whether the game can actually run on a PC. In May 2008, Criterion actually made many jaw dropped by [...]

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So far, we have distributed around 400 codes for Sudden Attack Closed Beta Test session. Unfortunately, we have to halt the distribution for the remaining codes as we received couple of reports recently that codes from Lowyat.NET was invalid.
Although that couple of gamers already reported back that their codes already working since yesterday, we are [...]

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No, that’s not CBT codes in the background. Or is it?
Great news! Asiasoft has passed us limited numbers of Sudden Attack Closed Beta activation codes for you guys. The MMO first person shooter, which is one of the game hosted on Asiasoft’s Malaysian servers just started its Closed Beta Test today.
To obtain the [...]

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You might have read about our little Sudden Attack showdown against our Singapore media friends sometime ago. Some of you even already tasted the latest MMO shooter from Asiasoft at a number of pre-launch gathering across the country. The game is now ready to go into Closed Beta sessions starting this tomorrow, 7th January.
During the [...]

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Shaiya Online, a multi-million MMORPG from South Korea has recently launched its open beta period in Malaysia and Singapore. The game is distributed in both country by Run Up Game, who also operated several other well-known MMO including Mo Siang and Kick Online.
Known for its beautiful graphics, Shaiya took around 3 years to develop by [...]

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We recently posted about ONE, a fighting game for Nokia’s gaming services platform, N-Gage. Developed by Digital Legends Entertainment and published by Nokia Games Publishing, the new ONE was actually a sequel to a game with the same name that appeared on the original N-Gage device.
The original ONE was touted as one of the best [...]

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Taku Taguchi - Sony Malaysia’s General Manager for Product Marketing Division and Andrew Tan, Operations Director of PLAY Interactive holding the new Winning Eleven 2008 for PlayStation 3.
Last week, PLAY Interactive and Sony Malaysia held a pre-release launch event for the new Winning Eleven 2009 for PlayStation 3 at Sony Sytle in The Curve, Mutiara [...]

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Come this Christmas weekend, Online e-Club is throwing a LAN Party at the spanking new Berjaya Times Square’s Digital Center in Kuala Lumpur. Since Online e-Club is all about Valve, obviously we are going to see couple of Valve’s game in action at the event, namely Counter-Strike 1.6, Team Fortress 2 and newly released Left [...]

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Nokia Games Publishing recently announces that their 3D fighting game - ONE is now available for N-Gage platform. Developed by Digital Legends Entertainment, the game will brought players through seven different locations worldwide and 30 different opponents in their quest to be the ONE.
ONE was unique to mobile gaming world in a sense that the [...]

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