The battle for supremacy between Activision and EA’s respective FPS juggernauts, Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3, has taken an interesting turn, with the announcement that MW3 would require the installation of Steam to play. Read more »
Update (12 Sep): It was previously reported that Pei Hoon and Gackt would be sponsored to represent Singapore in China. Pei Hoon has since decided not to take the trip to China, because he wishes to stay in Singapore to look after his mother. Therefore Pei Hoon’s prize trip will be passed on to the […] Read more »
So NGNT’s prediction about the meaning behind Razer’s “PC Gaming is Not Dead” campaign wasn’t too far off: In a press release on the Razer website, the company has just unveiled the Razer Blade, a high-end gaming notebook, billed as “The World’s First True Gaming Laptop”. The Blade will retail for US$2,800 (SG$3,368, not factoring […] Read more »
Scythe.SG made history last weekend when they placed third at The International Dota 2 Championships held at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, instantly becoming the most successful gaming team in Singapore by prize earnings. I interviewed Scythe.SG’s team leader Han Yong “hyhy” Lim, in which he revealed that the team only had a week to practice after coming out […] Read more »
Scythe.SG made history last weekend when they placed third at The International Dota 2 Championships held at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, instantly becoming the most successful gaming team in Singapore by prize earnings. I interviewed Scythe.SG’s team leader Han Yong “hyhy” Lim, in which he revealed that the team only had a week to practice after […] Read more »
SG Finest will be organising a Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition arcade tournament at TKA, Bugis Junction, on 27 August, Saturday, from 4pm onwards. This is an 80-man, double elimination tournament, where the top-2 finalists will earn the right to represent Singapore at a China National Tournament on 24-25 September. Read more »
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 »
