Battlefield Fridays, the weekly community-run fighting games event, will resume this Friday, 13 January after a two-month break with Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Soulcalibur IV as featured titles according to a post on the official BFF Facebook page. Read more »
One week ago, history happened. Singapore’s first ever BarCraft — a gathering to watch StarCraft II in a bar or pub — went down at Molly Malone’s Irish Pub in Boat Quay. I spoke with Alexandre “Frogmite” Dumont (pictured) to learn more about the person and the motivations behind the event. Read more »
Singapore’s first ever BarCraft — a gathering to watch StarCraft II in a bar or pub — happened last Saturday. Organiser Alexandre “Frogmite” Dumont expected “maybe a dozen” to turn up, but over 50 people attended the event in the end. Here are some photos of the event, graciously provided by Shi Chun, who is [...] Read more »
Singaporean all-girls esports team Girlaxy added four new members to their League of Legends and StarCraft II roster after the team concluded its second recruitment event last Friday at the Colosseum cyber cafe. Read more »
Razer is taking part in Extra Life’s charity gaming marathon today from 8pm (Singapore time), with its Singapore office staff planning to play Team Fortress 2 for 24 hours straight to raise money for hospitalised children. The best part about it? They’ve set up a Singapore TF2 server and have invited you to play with [...] Read more »
Chris “M_Flo” Hong will be organising a beginners’ and newcomers’ tournament for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition this Saturday at the Colosseum cyber cafe. Chances are — if you aren’t already involved in SF4 tournaments or hang out with the Bugis arcade community — you probably haven’t heard of him. That’s why NGNT is bringing [...] Read more »
Scythe.SG — who recently placed third at the International Dota 2 Championship — is now part of Denmark-based professional esports team Meet Your Makers after signing a one-year deal with them earlier this week. The Singapore-based team will replace the previous MYM.DotA team led by Jacob “Maelk” Toft-Andersen. Read on for the details. Read more »
The girls from PMS Asterisk* will be making an appearance at COMEX 2011 beginning today, this time facing off with gamers in the Toshiba Qosmio Challenge to promote the Toshiba Qosmio F750 gaming laptop. Read more »
Update (13 Aug): The original article had a few factual errors regarding the actual organisers of the tournament, and some confusion between which Touhou fighting game came first. Edited for clarity. Original: The Touhou Hisoutensoku community in Singapore will be taking part in a tournament at this year’s A.C.M.E III (A Certain Magical Event III) [...] Read more »
Melty Blood Actress Again: Current Code, currently an arcade-only fighting game, has been given a PC release, due to be out this December 2011. Read more »
