Blog Entries tagged 'Gaming'

Smash, stomp and shatter your way with Mega Monsters!

sabrina

"Melbourne, Australia and Espoo, Finland - Mega Monsters, the latest N-Gage game from Nokia Games Publishing, introduces players to the biggest monster smash on mobile." - This has truly sadden me, for there is no mention of Singapore! Does that mean we are not privileged enough to enjoy the new Mega Monsters game?

Nonetheless, for the folks over at Australia and Finland, let me share with you a bit of what I understand from this game.

The game, Mega Monsters, d [...]

Multimedia Marriage, Digital Divorce

Drew

Romance in Second Life

There are plenty of optimistic stories on the Internet about lovers who meet through video-gaming, and then horror stories about those who cheat via gaming. This story has both elements! Read on for more gaming gossip!

A British couple met and fell in love over the game Second Life, and got married (bo [...]

Wrath of The Lich King, in Singapore

sabrina

The most popular subscription-based Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) globally, with 11 million players worldwide, launches its much enticipated second expansion, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.

In this latest expansion, an enormous amount of new content is introduced to the game. This include [...]

Guitar Hero World Tour today???

Drew

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The excitement is high in the office, as we eagerly anticipate the phone call from New Era announcing that the stocks for Guitar Hero World Tour has arrived at their warehouse. About 20 seconds after that phone call, we plan to irresponsibly drop all the work we're doing and drive over to the warehouse to pick it up.

If you're not as psyched as we are, check out this video. It's either a new ad for World Tour, or it's some footage of [...]

EndWar - first impressions

Drew

So I got my copy of Tom Clancy's EndWar yesterday, and what can I say? The whole novelty of voice-command totally made my wife and I giggly and we were joking about it even before we plugged the game in. And the experience was a pretty good one too! Find out more below.

Everyone wants to hear about the voice-control, and I'm quite happy to say that [...]

Verbatim Gaming Mice - Precise, fast and customisable

sabrina

Verbatim is now gearing up for battle on the gaming accessories front, unveiling two high-performance gaming mice, the Rapier V1 and Rapier V2.

Rapier V1

Gamers can now have resolutions of up to 3,200 dpi and customisable weighting while experiencing, the fastest the market has to offer, acceleration of 20G wit [...]

X08: The Showdown with Lara Croft

sabrina

For three days straight Marina Square will play host to the biggest Xbox 360 showcase ever to hit the region.

To share with our dear readers, little old me was sent out to investigate the crime scene. The objective was clear, I was to gather intel. and bring back, the real-life Lara Croft from "Tomb Raider", Alison Carroll [...]

The biggest Xbox event ever

Drew

Head to Marina Square this weekend and check out X08, the biggest Xbox event you've ever seen in Singapore. On centre stage will be over 30 blockbuster titles that will be coming out for the Xbox 360 soon, as well as special guests like Alison Carroll, the latest Lara Croft model, as well as local band Electrico rocking t [...]

Prey the Stars lets you eat everything

simonp

Prey
the Stars, an action puzzle game made for the Nintendo DS has started
shipping in North America. Players in the game are supposed to devour
everything from food to buildings to score points before a timer runs
out. The more players devour, the bigger their characters become.

What's more, Prey the Stars s [...]

More Fallout 3 screens!

simonp

There
are few annual events every year in my calendar. There are the IT
shows, there's the holidays (X'mas, etc...), birthday celebrations,
anniversaries and revisiting Fallout. Yes, Fallout, the
post-apocalyptic game. Almost every year , I'll replay Fallout or
Fallout 2 and finish the game (didn't manage to complete the game in
2007 though). It's a great game, o [...]

Hit-game Puzzle Quest to hit iPhone

simonp

Hit
casual puzzle cum RPG game, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
will soon be available on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. Already seen
long ago on PC platforms and some game consoles, Puzzle Quest: CotW is
a role-playing game mixed with puzzle solving elements and strategy.

If you have been itching to get your hands on an Xbox 360, well we�ve got some pretty good news for you. Now you can get your hands on the Xbox 360 Arcade console for only SGD339, instead of the usual SGD399.

The set includes an Xbox 360 console, a wireless controller, five Xbox Live Arcade games as well as 256MB memory [...]

Rockband finally out on Xbox 360!

Rachel

It�s finally here! EA Games� Rockband is finally available here on the Xbox 360. You can get it now at SGD229 for the instruments (a guitar, microphone and drum set) and SGD64.90 for the actual software. If you don't want to splurge on all the instruments, you can always just buy the guitar at SGD99 or the drum set at SGD149. And if yo [...]

Spore competition winners

Rachel

If you have seen on MTV, HP and EA Asia Pacific came together for a very special competition � create your very own Spore creature using the free Spore Creature Creator
and stand a chance to win great prizes and a trip to EA Experience in
Hong Kong. The competition was held from July right up till early
September and the lu [...]

Drew rocks Guitar Hero World Tour at GCA 2008

Drew

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GCA 2008 has hit Suntec, and we got to hit up the business centre to see some of the really cool game demos. As an added bonus, I was invited by New Era to be part of a media-band to demonstrate Guitar Hero World Tour to the other journalists and gaming industry folk. Check out my bass skills!

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

iBevan

I got my copy of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
earlier this week and despite not having followed the storyline in its
entirety, I still found the game pretty interesting and absorbing. From
starting out as a novice getting used to the controls and memorizing
the combination of buttons to la [...]

FIFA Online 2: Closed Beta Test starts tomorrow!

iBevan

If you didn't hear about this before, iAHGames will be officially launching the Closed Beta Test (CBT) for FIFA Online 2
tomorrow at 12pm. The gameplay is pretty simple. All you have to do is
to build a football empire from scratch using real players and teams in
the latest offering from the EA SPORTS FIFA franchise.