We don’t know how to describe our feelings when we first saw above clip, which an advertisement for Sony Australia’s latest promotion. We can’t decide whether it was straight awesome or plain ridiculous but regardless of that, our jaws dropped like it’s hot.
In the clip which was filmed at a crash test facility, the PS3 [...]

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We love real life reinterpretation of videos game, given that it is not too absurd. This one in particular is made of art and a little bit of extreme sports.
36 freeboarders equipped with neon tubes mounted on top of their head skated on one of San Francisco’s many downhill slope to create this Tetris remake. [...]

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Random fact: 90% of Lowyat.NET team members owned at least one PlayStation and one Nike shoes in their lifetime.Image credit: SoleCollector.com
Nike and Sony PlayStation are two of the most influential culture icon ever. At times, their paths crossed and the results just kick ass. This PlayStation Nike Air Trainer 1 is the third model that [...]

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(C)Brian May of Queen: a REAL graduate and legendary guitar hero.
Image credit: Liverpool John Moores University
Who said university is all about books? The New York University is going to offer a Guitar Hero-themed course for their Freshman Honors Seminars program this coming Fall. Don’t expect it’s going to be all play and no serious business [...]

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One of the best thing during Ramadhan month is family or friends would gather to berbuka together. Not to forget, the variety of food that are available during the fasting month. With this, the folks from local Xbox LIVE Community is planning to have a berbuka puasa get-together on Saturday, 5th September 2009.
Although the date [...]

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From the brilliant minds pple of CollegeHumor.com, comes an epic tale of how’s a l337 should choose their live partner properly. Forget the fact that yours truly is not even married, but it is pretty natural that my future daughter must have a l337 husband to-be. Else, face an uber pwnage as above’s short movie.
Make [...]

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So far, I’ve yet to visit a video game store regularly just because of its counter person. Well, that would change if Olivia Munn would handle one nearby, just like the video above. Even if it meant spending monies daily or get beaten all over in Tekken…eh, I really do suck in Tekken. *facepalm*
The song [...]

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Image credit: walknboston Flickr
Next time, you might want to think first before physically “pau”-ing / extorting in-game virtual items or currency from your brother. Due to a landmark case in China, chances are that you might be thrown into jail for it. A group of four people at Liaoning province was found guilty for forcing [...]

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Around mid-2008, Universal Pictures signed a deal with Take-Two Interactive, to produce live action adaptation of BioShock, the game studio’s hit sci-fi FPS. But the Hollywood studio has now halted the production, as a result of rising budget concern.
The movie, whichto be directed by Gore Verbinski (of Pirates of The Caribbean fame) and currently in [...]

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It’s Kojima, OMG!
Do you still remember the Super Mario Brothers clip (featuring the creator himself - Shigeru Miyamoto) that Mega64 guys made back in 2007? They at it again and this time featuring characters from Metal Gear Solid 4 and the series creator, Hideo Kojima.
Just per Miyamoto’s version, the skit was taken around Moscone Convention [...]

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Too much of button mashing might cost more than sore fingers.
Gaming-related injuries, I personally had many of them: blistered fingers, sore joints and also, girlfriend-induced-ones-because-she-don’t-get-my-attention-during-gaming (no baby, don’t hit me again…ouch!) but I usually thought those just side-effect of just about anything that you did over a long period of time. Amazingly, scientists in Switzerland [...]

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Will we ever get to see this console available officially here? Maybe not just yet.
“When will Xbox 360 to be available officially in Malaysia?” is one of the most popular question among journalist at any given Microsoft event in this country. Microsoft themselves actually aware of the question’s popularity till the extent that, when they [...]

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… during the current economic recession?

Well earlier this month, Michael Pachter; an analyst from Wedbush Morgan commented that:
“I don’t think (online multiplayer games) get impacted at all, because people who play them are addicts… Losing their jobs makes them more likely to play because they have more time to play.”
Now it is obvious that when [...]

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Maybe after dinner, you can duel with this armored dude. Or dudette.
China really love MMO games. As one of the leading MMO in the world, World of Warcraft found itself to have a very large fanbase in the country. Some of the fans were so die-hard (and pretty resourceful) that one of the such fans [...]

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Domo-kun appreciates each one of you for visiting Multiplay.
Looking back, 2008 has been a very good year for Malaysian gaming scene. I listed down couple of ups and downs moment of the scene throughout this year.
The Good

Game launches on the rise : Metal Gear Solid 4, Race Driver GRID, Red Alert 3, Winning [...]

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