Registration for the Dota 2 beta has begun at the official Dota 2 website. All you need is a Steam account to sign yourself up to the beta candidate list. There are no details on when the beta will open. Gamers will be able to get their first look at Dota 2 later today during […] Read more »
Confused about which hero is which in the Dota 2 Gamescom trailer? Or perhaps you’re new to Dota and have never heard of any of these heroes? Here’s a blow-by-blow guide, as well as links to each hero’s Dota Allstars profile, to help you identify each and every hero that appears in the trailer. Read more »
There will be Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition tournaments held on both days of the Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention 2011 at the Suntec Convention Centre this weekend. For MvC3, there will be themed mini-tournaments (Avengers only, Marvel characters only, and so on), a king-of-the-hill challenge and a […] Read more »
Following Nintendo’s announcement of a worldwide price drop for its 3DS console, Maxsoft, the Singapore distributor of Nintendo products, has slashed local prices of the 3DS to SG$249, down SG$150 from the original price of SG$399. Both GameSpot Asia and Geekbot have reported that the price drop for Singapore has taken effect from 11 August. […] Read more »
The Dota 2 Gamescom trailer has just been unveiled on the Dota 2 blog and, boy, colour me impressed. It is brilliantly done, with visual quality and production values that rival those of Blizzard’s best trailers for World of Warcraft and StarCraft II. The cinematic trailer features a merchant hawking his wares to you, the […] Read more »
If you thought the US$1 million prize for DotA 2’s début tournament was over the moon, wait till you hear what Riot Games has planned for its own League of Legends: they’ve just announced a US$5 million prize pool for the League of Legends Season Two Championship. Unlike Valve, who is spending all of that […] Read more »
With the EA Blockbusters ’11 pre-order campaign heavily promoting Origin — EA’s very own digital game downloads store — and some games (*ahem* Battlefield 3) forcing you to use Origin, many of you are asking: What Origin is all about? Is there any benefit to buying games through Origin instead of my favourite brick-and-mortar retailer? […] Read more »
Valve has issued an official press release for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive which confirms many of the details first revealed by invited play-testers last Friday, and promises an “early 2012” release for the first new CS game in almost 7 years. Read more »
It seems like the new Counter-Strike game Valve has been rumoured to be developing is all but confirmed now. Besides the numerous tweets from people who play-tested the game at Valve’s headquarters today, original Counter-Strike developer Jess Cliffe has come out to confirm the name of the game: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. I’ve put together all the […] 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 »
