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Microsoft head honcho Steve Ballmer created a huge stir in the console gaming community when he announced that a new Xbox 360 will hit store shelves in 2010.

At the Executive's Club of Chicago, Ballmer said that the new console will have a "natural interface" and a built-in camera with the ability to recognise movement and voice, as reported by TG Daily.

There was no official launch date being mentioned as so in the meantime, Xbox fans and detractors alike will just have to wait it out.

The Left 4 Dead software development kit and authoring tools will be released next week, according to a blog post on Valve's Left 4 Dead Blog dated yesterday (Singapore time).

The S$14,000 prize pool Cyber Gaming Festival opens at the end of next week on Saturday, 27 June with competitions targeted at both the hardcore and casual gaming crowd.

Here's a very detailed match report for the WCG 2009 Funan League L4D finals between Vertex.GWSG and eXemplar. Vertex won eXemplar by a comfortable margin of over 2,000 points. Final score was 7740 - 5707 in favour of Vertex.

With Dragon Age's release date of October 20 fast approaching, Bioware has announced the system specifications needed to play the PC version.

"I personally don't like DRM. (Digital Rights Management)", Electronic Arts CEO, John Riccitello said. "It interrrupts the user experience. We would like to get around that. But there is this problem called piracy out there."

A few months there was a big hoo-ha over the three-installation limit placed on each copy of Spore. Of course, due to the backlash, the policy was then changed but not before Spore's ratings on Amazon tumbled.Spore, being one of the most highly-anticipated games being coupled with one of the most restrictive policies ever imposed … Read more »

The Street Fighter IV Benchmark Tool has been released by Capcom, allowing gamers to test how well the 3D fighter will run on their computers.

The Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott Group on Steam is growing at a very fast rate. At this time of writing, the group has just surpassed 30,000 members since its creation on June 2.

Here's a partial result list for the World Cyber Games 2009 Funan League, compiled from what we've managed to find out from our sources. We'll update the full list once results are publicly available. GameSync apologizes for not having live coverage of the event this weekend, but we promise to make up for it with more interviews of the winners!

Update: Full results list is up.