First of all, do you guys know the term 'cosplay' ? For a head start, click here. Its well known that people who love anime (Japanese animation) & manga (Japanese comic), and video games created by the Japanese will involve themself with cosplay. Either they dress up as their fave character to the cosplay event or they just attend it as a normal spectator. This craze has spread almost everywhere in the world where anime & manga is available. This craze (cosplay) also exist in the country where Spaghetti, Pasta, and Pizza is their trademark, Italy. Well how did they fare ? Just observe this particular model from Italy, Francescadani, who specializes in cosplay below.

" Francescadani as Cassandra Alexander from Soul Calibur 2 "

" Francescadani as Stellar Lousier from Gundam Seed Destiny "

" Francescadani as Katase Shime from Stellvia of the Universe "

" Francescadani as Kasumi from Dead or Alive 2 "

" Francescadani as Nagisa Misumi from Futari wa Pretty Cure "

" Francescadani as Morrigan Aensland from Darkstalkers "

Nice eyy ? This girl has proven that cosplay is not just for the people from the land of the rising sun, Japan. It is for everyone who are interested in anime, manga, and videogames that comes from Japan. Cosplay also has spread its wings here in Malaysia but it is still in its infant stage. Time will tell if its gonna become a huge craze like it is in Japan.

Have you tried solo-ing the jungle in dota all by yourself during the first few minutes ? Not all hero can do this because the neutral creeps there are quite strong. Enter BristleBack. So how do you farm the jungle with BB the first few minutes for the sentinel side ? Watch the video below !

" Leet jungle farmer in action !! "

" Get your copy of the original Command & Conquer before its too late !! "

I think almost everyone have played or still playing the Command & Conquer and FIFA series. Guess what ? The first series of Command & Conquer are up for grabs and YES ! It is FREE but you still need to pay your internet bill because you need to download it from their website here. This is to celebrate their 12th anniversary. Although it is an old game, its free and the game still have some value for true loyal Command & Conquer fans. To whoever who have not played the original Command & Conquer, go ahead and download it now !!

" Your favourite football/soccer game, FIFA, is up for download !! "

For football/soccer fans who are loyal to the FIFA series, their latest upcoming version, FIFA08 is up for download and its FREE too. Don't get too excited though, its just a demo version. But hey, if you are a fanatic FIFA fan, then you wont miss it for teh world except dota. Anyway to download it, just click here. Enjoy !!

Do any of you guys have a PSP ? It is an acronym for PlayStation Portable ! Anyway, this post is not about the PSP. It is about the most popular RPG series ever created by SquareEnix (formerly SquareSoft), Final Fantasy. Among all the version it have, the most widely spread around the world is none other than the 7th part of the series that is the Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation One platform. The game's fanbase itself is huge and SquareEnix even created a movie just for the fans and yeah, it is VERY successful. If you haven't watch the movie, Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children, sadly to say, you are not a complete gamer yet !

So what is Crisis Core actually ? It is a spin off based on the original FF VII. It is the prequel to the story in FF VII. The gameplay this time is a bit different than the standard FF RPG series. It is categorized as an Action RPG. This means that it is still a role playing game but the battle scene will be a bit different. This is SquareEnix last entry for their "Final Fantasy VII Compilation Project" which includes Before Crisis : Final Fantasy VII for mobile, Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children for CD/DVD and Final Fantasy VII : Dirge of Cerberus for PlayStation Two. So, before the release of this game around the 13th of September (most probably the Japanese version), lets take a look of the trailer, game intro, and lastly, the ad.

" The trailer is with subtitles translated by fans for fans "

" This is the game introduction for Crisis Core "

" With this ad, Sony will no doubt generate more fans for the game and the PSP platform "

Quickie : Congrats to Malaysia under 23 Football Team. They managed to bring the Merdeka Cup back to Malaysia's hand.

Ever heard of the game BioShock ? It is a first person shooter (fps) game created by the fine souls at 2K Boston/2K Australia. It was released on 21 August, 2007 for the PC and XBOX 360 platform. The game is a role-playing and survival horror type game where u will be jumping out of ur seat often. In the game, you'll be piloting Jack, a plane crash survivor, who need to explore the underwater city of Rapture and survive what ever it has to offer (mutated beings, mechanical drones, u get the idea). Ironically, the year set for the game is 1960. Quite old for an advanced underwater city. Well, thats where the mystery starts to kick in. To know more, just play the game.

Anyway, back to the topic, this new highly rated and promising title actually have a lot of bugs and glitches. A game this big will not escape the fate of bugs and glitches rite ? Yes indeed but the most interesting glitch that I want to share here is the 'masturbating' scene in the game. Afraid not, it is not 18SX. Anyone can view it. The video for the glitch is right below. So what you think of it ?

Finally, it is the end for all of you who are searching for the replays of the recent WCG 2007 : Asian Championships (DOTA) replays. It has just been released about two days ago and bravo to the management team for releasing it. With a lot of tourneys happening especially MYM Pride 7 and GGC Malaysia, this replays could help the teams participating. To download it, you can straight away go to the GGC Forum or alternatively, you can click here. Enjoy !

Source : Underminer @ Lowyat.Net

Its been more than 1 week since the launch of GGC Malaysia league and all the matches have been played. The only remaining group is group F which needs to be decided with a tie-breaker. The three teams involved in the tie-breaker is MILK, OJB, and T-A.

So, the teams that are qualified for the finals will battle it out in a bracket format with 16 teams, 2 from each group. From the official thread here, the teams that qualify for the finals are Ct`G & SMGP from Group A, ATTP & PD from Group B, W4SI & NSP from Group C, KS & PLAB from Group D, ABC & -[V]- from Group E, MBJB from Group F, eD & [W.A.R] from Group G and last but not least XERO & TM STYLE from group H.

So far, the replays cant be distributed yet but I've got some of the replays courtesy of Iblis. Let see, if I've got time, I'll pick 1 and do a review of it. Lastly, good luck to the teams that qualified and better luck next time for those who didnt. Sayonara.

Last Wednesday, we took a break from gaming errr from studies and went to Putrajaya for the International Fireworks Competition. It turns out to be such a massive event where about 100,000 people came. Below are some of the pics I took from the event. Mind you, my camera is a normal zoom camera, not a D-SLR.

Things are getting hot for the GGC Malaysia tourney. Before this, it was stated that CT`G lost to SMGP. After a recheck, the admins decided that CT`G won. So what happened actually ? Sadly, one CT`G member kept disconnected from the game and the match had to be reloaded from a save point. This means that, there is no replay to watch and by this, no correct assumptions can be made.

One of the CT`G members, Achilles- (ex-Wizz), commented on the issue when the admins decided to give SMGP the upper hand. He said,

" Hey, I really dun understand the match between CT`G and SMGP which we have won n send the ss (screen-shot) to the admins. 1st of all, they refuse to play on our host n keep insisting that their line is better so we played on it (SMGP's host) and they got their 1st pick which they wanted it, so we gave them watever they wan =/. We eventually played 2 games, where the first game is in da afternoon, because of the lag issue, we stop playing and postponed it to night due to the lag issue (2nd game). So, we played it at night but they wanted a re-draft (repick heroes) and we have no idea so we said ok. How wonderful is this =/ . But when 1 of our member dc-ed (disconnected), we request for a load n they insisted after 15 mins, no more loading game, cuz they already load the game before n they dunwan (dont want) to load again, so we become fed up wif the lag issue and the superb attitude and sportsmanship of the opponent, we decided to cont (continue) the game and I microed (controlled) 2 heroes which is mine n the leaver's hero. It was a close match which we won by breaking the throne but somehow, they accused us of pooling =/ and they got the win. Is there any proof or evidence of us pooling ? I really hope that the admins will look into the matter n give us a good reply. Thx. "

SMGP also gave their own view of the game. Their leader, imbaimba, wrote this,

" First, we felt delay for 3 sec n super lag when CT`G hosted the game. So we suggested our guy to host it when the void (Wizz's Faceless Void) dc-ed. He only got BattleFury, Mask of Madness, Power Thread but when they push for the 1st time, he (Faceless Void) suddenly got an EagleHorn and later, he got Butterfly + Mkb (Monkey King Bar) towards the end of the game while the Silencer item was halted (didn't buy any more items). We suspect that they bought item(s) for the leaver so we tell Ns-Hon our assumption the next day. The result was out and our team won. The winner must save the replay to Ns-Hon rite ? If u guys probably win tis match, how could the result showed that we won? ? U think Ns-hon blinkness ? (blind ? blindness ?). Anyway, we are willing to have a rematch but I suggest that Ns Hon to become the observer. Thx. "

Later on, the admins decided for the last time and gave CT`G the win. This is what imbaimba wrote about it,

" I respect the moderator decision(s). They just got the screen shot but no replay. So, we have no evidence that CT`G was pooling (1-2 players chip in to buy an item for 1 hero). By the rules, we admit defeat. Now, we just need to win Team Aeon. Thats all. Settled. "

Achilles- responded with,

" Good luck in your upcoming match then (with a smile) "

From my view, this type of problems is unavoidable. This is one of the few problems you can encounter during an online match especially for a tourney. If void really had more items since the disconnection, then it is considered pumping or pooling because from what I understand, you cant transfer gold or items. But in this case, the original controller had dc-ed. If in a public game, its normal to take the items from a dc-ed hero but giving it items can be considered pumping. Anyway, this is just my view and it is just an assumption from team SMGP that team CT`G pumped the void. In this case, both teams cant be blame and the win should go to Ct`G who had the screenshot of the game. What SMGP and the other teams can do in this type of situation is to make a screen shot of your assumptions. If you said that a hero got pumped or something, take a screenshot of that hero and it's pumper (the one who pumped him) but the best way to avoid this is to have a neutral host or observers to spectate the game. Anyway, good luck to SMGP and the rest of the teams for the remaining matches.

So far, the event has reached the third day but not all the matches have been played by the respective teams. Below are the result from playday1 till playday3.

Playday1

For Group A, Cybertime G won against KMX while ATTP won againts N|B4 in Group B. The infamous W4SI on the other hand managed to defeat NSP in Group C and KS defeated PLAB in Group D.

For Group E onwards, only 3 matches were played and 2 of it is in Group E. 7-Zai won against RAGE and ABC defeated -[V]- while in Group F, MILK lost against MBJB.

Playday2

For Group A to Group D, only 1 match were played and it is between KMX and SMGP where KMX lost again. So far, KMX lost 2 matches already and their chance to qualify for the next stage is low.

4 matches were played where the 2 matches comes from Group E, 1 from Group F and the last 1 from Group G. ABC won again and this time, their opponent is 7-Zai while RAGE on the other hand, lose again with the team ABC defeated at playday1, -[V]-. RAGE shares the same fate with KMX where their hope for qualifying is low. In Group F, T-A defeated MILK and eD won against [W.A.R] in group G.

Playday3

In Group A, suprisingly, CT`G lose to SMGP. By winning, SMGP is at 1st place for Group A. In Group B, ATTP defeated R|P and they also top their group with 2 wins. The Johor SMM state champion, KS, also are doing well. They defeated SMKHC.DT and are sitting comfortably at 1st place with 2 wins.

For Group E, ABC wrap it up by winning against RAGE and with 3 wins and 0 losses, they are qualified for the next round. -[V]- finishes second by defeating 7-Zai and they will also proceed to the next round. For Group G, only 1 match were played that is eD against ReV. eD managed to add their tally to 2 wins while in Group H, the first match for it were played and the teams were Xero and Ga which Xero won.

That concludes the updates for playday1 to playday3 with some matches still not yet played. I hope the teams will sort their time and play their remaining games because everyday is a play day. This means that they have matches almost everyday. This will cause a lot of problems if a lot of matches still not yet played. By the way, if the replays are out, I will upload it. For more info, go to the official thread here.