A team of five Singaporeans will participate in the Canada Cup 2011’s Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition international 5 vs. 5 exhibition event, held on 5 and 6 November at the Sheraton Cavalier hotel in Calgary, Alberta. Read more »
Sendi Mutiara Multimedia announced on Saturday that the grand finals of this year’s SMM Grand National Dota Tournament will be played on Dota 2 instead of Dota Allstars. This comes hot on the heels of the Electronic Sports World Cup’s announcement last month that it will do the same. Read more »
Players of the Battlefield 3 PC open beta will finally get to experience the wide, open environments and vehicular combat with tanks and jets that many have come to regard as hallmarks of the Battlefield series, with DICE opening up the Caspian Border map to the public this weekend. Read more »
The YulgangSEA game service and its associated websites will be closed permanently on 11 November. The closure was a mutual “business decision” between Asiasoft, who published the game in Singapore and Malaysia, and the game’s Korean developers MGame Corporation, according to an Asiasoft press statement received by NGNT. The martial-arts themed MMORPG had been running for […] Read more »
This week’s Battlefield Friday has been postponed by a week to coincide with a separate Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition beginners’ tournament as the two events will be sharing resources, according to the organisers. Read on for more details of both tournaments Read more »
Sony has just created and uploaded the greatest gaming advertisement of all time to YouTube, celebrating both you, the gamer, and games alike. Click on read more to watch the video and, if you’re interested, this Reddit thread has a breakdown of all characters that appear along with annotated screenshots. Read more »
A contingent of 20 Singaporeans will be participating in this year’s E-Sports Thailand Championship, held from 6 to 9 October at the Bangkok International Game Festival. They will be participating in the Dota Allstars, StarCraft II and Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition tournaments, with up to 423,000 THB (S$17,720) in prize money at stake. Read more »
I’ll cut to the chase and tell you exactly what I think: the Battlefield 3 public beta is the single most mismanaged and ill-conceived beta test I’ve ever participated in. Oh, the game itself is fine, I actually quite enjoy it despite the bugs; Electronic Arts and DICE’s attitude towards the players and lack of […] Read more »
Proving that we can’t have too many free-to-play FPS games in Singapore and Malaysia, Asiasoft will be bringing Alliance of Valiant Arms to Singapore with a closed-beta test in November. I left my skepticism about F2P FPS games at the door when I attended the media preview for A.V.A last Friday and was pleasantly surprised […] Read more »
Sony is really pulling out all stops to make sure you spend some money buying a PlayStation 3 this holiday season, with yesterday’s announcement of a Winning Eleven 2012 PlayStation 3 bundle being the latest sweetener after last month’s introduction of a S$50 price drop and two new PS3 colours. And yes, finally, a HDMI […] Read more »
