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Parents Fear Children’s Exposure to Gaming More Than Alcohol, Violence and Porns

Date August 14, 2008

One known problem among our local gamers is having to go through parental objection to gaming.
In a recent poll done by a parental advisory site known as What They Play, nearly 3,000 respondents on 2 separate polls have concluded that parents fear their kids playing certain video games more than drinking beer and watching pornography. [...]

Lots of International Game Tournaments; But We’re Still Far Behind

Date July 14, 2008

When the first international based computer games competition emerged itself 8 years ago, many realized the potential of this “new content” has in the IT industry or any industry that was related. It was a huge success; seeing thousands of gamers actually participated in the event and some sponsors taking a bite out of the [...]

Malaysian General Election Fever Spread Into Xbox Live

Date February 15, 2008

Unless you didn’t read follow the news or an underage kid (even they know), our nation will be having general election on 8th March 2008. The signs were already obvious since 2-3 months ago but check out this image posted by the one and only, PrivateJohn.

I don’t know what to say other than “WTF, this [...]

GameAxis Malaysia Looking For Gaming Couples!

Date January 9, 2008

Boyfriend: My girlfriend so good at pwning, I just lepak and let her do all the slashing. Girlfriend: DIEEEEEEE PIGGIEESSSSSS!!
Since February is the month of Valentine Day which give a reason for many people to be in lovey dovey mode, Lowyat.NET official gaming magazine, the one and only GameAxis Unwired Malaysia is going to have [...]

Bye-Bye 2007, Hello 2008

Date December 31, 2007

KLCC Fireworks Image: www.cuti.com.my
It has been a very good year for us at Multiplay. That doesn’t mean we are done here as there are still a lot of ends to be covered. On behalf of the crew, I would like to apologize for all the wrongs we did for the past 365 days.
Meanwhile, thanks for [...]

Multiplay Holidayz Gift Guide 2007

Date December 24, 2007

Living in Malaysia, we don’t have such a thing called holiday shopping rush. At least for games and gaming-related peripherals. The price of those stuff doesn’t change much here, regardless of Mega Sale or not. Although we need to pay the usual price but thank god, we don’t have to be at each other throat [...]

I Proposed To Your Mum While Playing Halo 3, Son.

Date November 9, 2007

That could be the actual sentence that Moviesign have to tell his kids in coming future. Posted by the Xbox.com Community section Editor, Trixie, Moviesign made the move last weekend during a 2-vs-2 session with his long time girlfriend, furtive penguin. He led penguin to a spot that Moviesign claimed there’s an energy sword. Eventually, [...]

Malaysians Sesat At Tokyo Game Show 2007

Date September 26, 2007

OMG, LYN at TGS! Piktors by firedauz
Tokyo Game Show is one of the largest video game expo in the world. If you are a gamer and you never dreamt of visiting TGS, shame on you.
Two very very very very lucky Lowyat.NET trolls forumer, firedauz and shady shared their experience at TGS 2007 in our forums. [...]

We Are Teh Gaming Machine: A Dive Into The Life of Korean Starcraft Superstars

Date September 20, 2007

2005 Sky ProLeague Grand Final. It’s normal to see such a large number of audience at a major Starcraft event in South Korea. Original Image: FighterForum.com
Everybody knows that Starcraft is a national sport in South Korea. Millions of other games around the world want to be like their pro-gamers: to be rich, adorned by fans [...]

Happy 50th Independence Day: Merdeka!!

Date August 31, 2007

Raise your Jalur Gemilang proudly like MBT!
50 years is a long way, man and if not our forefather’s struggle for an independent nation, I doubt that we would be able to game as freely as we currently enjoyed. On behalf of the Lowyat.NET family, I would like to wish Happy 50th Independence Day to all [...]

WCG Malaysia 2007: The Heat So Far…

Date August 22, 2007

Only 16 days left before the country’s biggest annual gamefest, WCG Malaysia 2007 begins. So far, the registration have been overwhelming. Except for Need For Speed Carbon, all participants slot have been filled to the brim. Starcraft and Warcraft were the firsts to finish given the limited 32 players slot but who would have thought [...]

Who’s who

Date May 5, 2007

Looking at the image below, we’d probably not need to ask if you know who’s who. Whether it’s that evil despot Megatron or the honourable-to-a-fault Optimus Prime, anyone who grew up during the early 1980s should find it easy to identify with the original set of Transformers.

We do have a question for you though.
 

Pirst Fost

Date April 20, 2007

Welcome to Multiplay v2.0. As you can see, we have just changed our CMS from Joomla to a more familiar blog-styled CMS called Wordpress. So there’s more work on it. Changing of themes, update on links etc.
Har har har.
However, we still need more contents on this site. So for those whom already have access, get [...]