The Dota 2 closed beta is set to begin in three weeks and will be available to thousands of players, Managing Director of Valve Gabe Newell told French website Gamekult in an interview yesterday. Read more »
The first look that gamers will have at the first new Counter-Strike game in 7 years, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, will be the Xbox 360 version at PAX Prime this weekend, followed by the PlayStation 3 version at Eurogamer Expo next month, according to an email Valve sent out to the media. Read more »
In a viral video rolled out on pcgamingisnotdead.com earlier this week, Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan’s voice reminds us that “PC gaming is not dead”, and promises that something big is coming on 26 August — coincidentally, the opening of the PAX Prime 2011 game festival. But what is this “something big”? I’ve put together what […] Read more »
Wilson “Tetra” Chia and Kun-Xian “Xian” Ho participated in last Saturday’s GODSGARDEN #4 Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition tournament, held in Tokyo, Japan. The pair from Singapore managed respectable results but did not get out of their qualifying pools. Read more »
Remember the “impossible space” Valve developer Eric Tams described in Portal 2’s developer commentary? Youtube user tonymyre311 took it to heart and created an entire map full of reality-bending impossible spaces. Impossibly long hallways? Check. Rooms with insides larger than their outside dimensions? Check. Walking up the wall of a room, defying gravity like a boss? […] Read more »
Ukrainian Dota team Na`Vi defeated Chinese team EHOME in the grand finals of the International Dota 2 Championships at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany last night (Singapore time) and took home US$1 million (S$1.2 million) in what must be the largest single prize award given out for an esports tournament in recent memory. Read more »
Scythe.SG are now one of the most successful gaming teams in Singapore gaming history, having won US$150,000 (S$180,000) by placing third at the International Dota 2 Championships in Cologne, Germany this evening (Singapore time). Read more »
After a fast 23-minute victory over Scythe.SG in the first match of the best of three winners bracket finals, Na`Vi looked as if they would repeat the feat and steamroll Scythe.SG yet again in the second match, cruising straight into the grand finals of the International Dota 2 tournament at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. While […] Read more »
Forget about the 6 – 25 loss against Na`Vi in the group stage. Forget about the largely undecisive 37 – 19 defeat Scythe.SG handed out to MYM yesterday. Tonight’s Scythe.SG is a completely different team from the previous two days: A highly skilled, determined and, most importantly, focused team which handed EHOME a 25 – 6 […] Read more »
This year’s Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention will take place over the next two days, 20 and 21 August, at the Suntec Convention Centre. While the main focus of STGCC has always been on toys and comics, there are also booths and exhibitions of interest to video game players like us. Here are the […] Read more »
