PS3 Slim and PSP Go coming soon to Malaysia

PS3 hasn't been selling well worldwide compare to the other consoles, probably the reason was Blu-ray that still doesn't sell well till this day compare to DVD, it's expensive to make etc. We're seein' Blu-ray players going down in price and it will go down more next year. As expected PS3 will follow it's predecessor in the Slim department, and so far PS3 Slim is sellin well, smaller and cheaper, even not for gamin' and as a Blu-ray player, it's very affordable, so when will it be available in Malaysia?

Slashgear said that it will arrive in Malaysia 31 October 2009, obviously, slower than any there country, as i've suspected, well it's not that bad, it's the game pricing that slows down PS3 sales anyway. Approximate price will be RM1,299 and it will come in the traditional black color.

With PS3 Slim accessories and other goodies, another new product launching with PS3 Slim in Malaysia will be the PSP Go, one of the coolest lookin' portable gamin' device i've seen, price will be around RM1,099.

If you're interested you can attend the launch event at Kuala Lumpur, 1 Utama Shopping Mall
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Starcraft II without LAN!

I don't know if this is a bad news for the fans, but It certainly is a bad news for some, i'm probably one of them

Before online gaming exist, there was LAN (Local Area Network) gaming, where every computer that's on the same network can play the game with each other without the internet. Widely preferable in cyber cafe or at home with multi computer and laptops.

And then internet gaming appear, i agree that it's far more convenient because of the fact that you don't need to go to a cyber cafe or have mutiple computers at home to enjoy multiplayer games.

Seems like the next upcoming blockbuster game will NOT include LAN capabilities base on Blizzard's game-designer Rob Pardo. Yes Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty won't be able to do multiplayer with LAN, online online using Battle.net. According to him, LAN wasn't famous anymore in the 90's, huh? Starcraft in Korea was made famous with LAN! and LAN is certainly not dead yet. What's the big deal if you include a simple LAN capability for the product you sell? Is it hard? The word LAN Party are widely used I think he got it all wrong, it seems he only plays game alone at home through the internet all the time, don't compare internet multiplayer and LAN multiplayer, they are different, so now anyone who wanted to play the game also needs an internet connection eh? I'm sure everyone has internet now, but what's the big deal if you include LAN anyway, this is probably due to pirates. Look at Demigod, they can even sell the game with LAN capability. This is just wrong..

Now Blizzard has made a big mistake, what's next, all Starcraft II series will have no LAN and worse yet Diablo III with no LAN, great...just great..very nice, everyone on the same network still have to connect to the internet and servers to play, doin unnecessary bit transfers, server down, internet down? No game? I like to rely on my network and my PC for multiplayer fun, I have bad experience with online gaming anyway, everyone's been complaining how laggy the experience was, not everyone has good internet connection and with 1 bad apple in the group, everyone will not enjoy the experience, further more I like playin' with my peers than someone else.

I wonder how many will pirate this game.

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E3 wraps up

E3 come to a close, here's a lowdown of what's coming in the game industry, of course the ones that i'm interested in. Here's some preview

Left 4 Dead 2 (PC)

God of War III (PS3)

Lost Planet 2 (PC?)

Final Fantasy XIII (Xbox360, PS3, PC?)

Final Fantasy XIV Online (PS3, PC)

Splinter Cell: Conviction (Xbox360, PC)

Metal Gear Solid: Rising (Xbox360)

Assassins Creed 2 (Xbox360, PS3, PC)

Modern Warfare 2

Crysis 2

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Left 4 Dead 2 coming soon!

Just as I thought, the sequel to the widely played game Left 4 Dead. Hmm let's see if my wish list is fulfill, base on the teaser that you're about to see, yea there's gonna be some new shit goin on, oh yea please include more characters, better yet, let us customize our own character, now thats' kick ass. Of course another is what everyone at least complained about before, WE NEED MORE WEAPONS!, seems like they are listenin', good job.

I had fun with the first one and i'm sure the sequel is gonna be the same, even better I hope. Lets just wait till we can actually get our hands on it NOVEMBER this year, check out the teaser



Here's the announcement

Left 4 Dead 2 is the sequel to the best-selling and critically-acclaimed co-operative multiplayer smash from Valve, creators of the Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress and Counter-Strike game properties. Left 4 Dead 2 promises to become one of 2009's top-selling games and set a new benchmark for co-operative action games.

The title adds melee combat to the award-winning L4D style of play, with items such as a chainsaw, frying pan, axe, baseball bat, and more.

Introducing the AI Director 2.0, L4D's dynamic gameplay is taken to the next level by giving the Director the ability to procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players' performance. The result is a unique game session custom fitted to provide a satisfying and uniquely challenging experience each time the game is played.

Finally, with new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items, Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original with more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, maps for Survival mode at launch, and more.

Supported by a $10+ million marketing campaign, Left 4 Dead has sold over 2.5 million retail copies since it was released in November of 2008. Left 4 Dead 2 is targeted for release on Xbox 360 and the PC this November, and will be launched worldwide with a multi-million dollar marketing campaign across TV, Outdoor and Online.

Setting:
Left 4 Dead 2 is set at roughly the same time as the original – just after the outbreak that turned most of the population into various zombie mutants. Players assume the role of 4 new “Survivors,” each with their own personality and new dialog. The game leads these “Survivors” through the southeastern region of the US - from Savannah, Georgia thru the bayou country, and climaxing in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

Product Features:

* Next generation co-op action gaming from the makers of Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress and Counter-Strike.
* AI Director 2.0: Advanced technology dubbed “The AI Director” drove L4D’s unique gameplay – customizing enemy population, effects, and music, based upon the players’ performance. L4D 2 features “The AI Director 2.0” which expands the Director’s ability to customize level layout, world objects, weather, and lighting to reflect different times of day.
* New melee weapons – axe, chainsaw, frying pan, baseball bat – allow you to get up close with the zombies
* Four different survivors. New Story. New dialogue.
* More game. On day one, L4D 2 features more co-operative campaigns, more campaigns and maps for the Versus game modes than L4D 1, plus support for Survival mode out of the box.
* Stats, rankings, and awards system drives collaborative play

Left 4 Dead 2 is coming to the Xbox 360 and PC on Novemeber 17, 2009.

They also release a possible campaign poster, looks like it's gonna be 4 new slayers, hmm I wonder if I would miss the previous 4, or maybe i'm sick of them already, like I said, we need option for cutomize characters and more characters hehehe, I don't care if the customized characters won't appear on the campaign poster, as long as people see me in the game, i'm cool.

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And here a preview of it in action, Click for larger version

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Modern Warfare 2 looks excitin'

I've never actually finished Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, but going through it for a few hours I can say that it is a well made game. The game actually felt like a big movie production and you're part of the movie.

And as always if there's a sequel to somethin', it usually means the first one is good, so as news started to appear about the next installment of this franchise, fans are very enthusiastic about it, after viewing the trailer, there's no question about it.

Now doesn't the opening score sounds familiar?

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The Sims 3 is out?

June 2nd is the release date for the next installment of the Sims universe; The Sims 3. A full playable copy are rumored to be leaked weeks ago, and there's no surprise someone's gonna get fired, not much info about the leak though, probably an inside job or as previously noted; some games were leaked by the carrier guys. Any game that were leaked weeks before it's actual release date is a bad news for them, but well they will survive I recon, The Sims 2 was one of the most pirated games ever and yet they still sell millions of copy.

So what will we expect from this latest release, obviously some fresh new stuff and ofcourse it looks...slighty better It seems, but can my GPU handle it?

Of course one notable change is the ability to roam and interact outside.

Sims creator another step up from its predecessor, it promises more manipulation and also personality that shows. hmm sexy pose

Surely i'm gonna test this out, but i know it's just not fun to play on a lower end card, I wanna play games in maximum possible graphics and with a huge screen of mine, a power hungry card is needed, will evaluate probably when I experienced it. Also I hope there's more customization allowed, like adding famous characters and stuff easily, personal music etc. I remember The Sims & The Sims 2 when I was able to put a lot weird and famous characters, The Sims was painful to do, it got easier with The Sims 2, I just hope The Sims 3 will be much easier. Like the clip below, which shows Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent that I mentioned before, and she's seen talkin' to someone on the phone which looks very familiar :)

Susan Boyle in Sims 3

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Diablo 3 User Interface

Another anticipatin' game comin' from Blizzard in edition to Starcraft II is Diablo 3. Again the last game; Diablo 2 was a well known game many years ago, probably 8-10 years ago, a game playable on a system with 800Mhz CPU speed, that's the system i'm using that time.

With new technology available today who wouldn't wanna play the next Diablo with better graphics and effects? I've seen the demo which is great even in an early stange of development.

And today we got some screen shots that shows the UI (User Interface)

Lookin' good

Very colorful design

Colorful which reminds some of you with World Of Warcraft

Some of the hardcore Diablo fans don't like the fact that it's design with a wide variety of colors and they made it even brighter than the previous Diablo series, well of course that time World of Warcraft doesn't exist yet, after WoW the design evolve, which I don't really care, as long as the game is great to play.

Some talented fans even go to the extent of modifying the color tone that shows what fans think Diablo 3 should look like. Here's some example (Click for larger version)

I agree that the fan modified version looks more like the previous Diablo, the dark/black theme that makes the game special, with the new colorful design, they are complanin that it looks like WoW more, the developers have seen the picture above and did commented on them, saying that it looks great but with those colors it's hard for them to incorporate into it's engine, don't know what that means. Release date has not been set yet, so we'll have to wait and see after it does.

For those that haven't seen the trailer yet or maybe don't know what's Diablo all about, here's a trailer for you.

Trailer

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Starcraft II User Interface

As some of us eagerly awaiting the release date of one of the most anticipating game this year (hopefully), Starcraft II; the sequel to the famous Starcraft 10 years ago which still played even now, mainly in Korea, which still into this game in big big game competitions, very very interesting, which proves games isn't all about looks and eye candy, it's about gameplay mainly.

It's unknown when will it be officially released but they do keep us update with some screen shots of the progress.

Looks like they retain the green color for units selection. Click for larger image

The same goes for the function area and enemy info, green... Click for larger image

That's all for now, for those of you that's into games or not, this game or others, here's a introduction clip about Starcraft II, maybe with that small tease, you might be interested in it.

Introduction

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Starcraft II developers ask the fans!

What better way to make a game that satisfy and meet fan's expectations than to ask the fans themselves about what is better for the game, that's what Blizzard recently did.

There's 2 choices for the protoss unit dark templar, the The Lenassa or The Zer'atai; even better, you can vote for both, so it will appear randomly when you create this unit.

I haven't actually voted yet, I do like the profile look of the second one, but don't really like his weapon, however i do like the weapon of the first choice, but either way i guess i'll vote for both to appear in the game.

Starcraft II will be split into 3 games, with the first focussin on the Terran call Wings of Liberty, coming...soon...

If you're interested visit the site (you need to be registered though):


If you're just a fan just wanted to see how the game has progress, below are a preview of the 2 Dark Templar you can vote for.

Lenassa
Zer'atai

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