Better late than never ! Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri or Happy Eid' Fitri to all my readers !


(out of all the e-cards available at the UMNO Terengganu website, I chose this one because it have a soldier as the background and I think it suites us gamers more than the other e-cards !)

Source : UMNO Terengganu

Rejoice gamers, soon we will have 2 more mouse to choose from when the need arise. No, its not Razer's. Its from Microsoft and Logitech which is called "Sidewinder" and "G9 Laser" respectively. Its design are towards the cyber punky look if you ask me. But I got to admit that both got some resemblance to each other.

" Whats with the 2 round buttons on the left of the Sidewinder mouse ? "

" Simple and sleek G9 "

Both products got almost the same features to offer so I guess the price and design is the key that will separate em. Lets compare the prices now. The Logitech G9 will be sold for around 80++ USD. Microsoft's Sidewinder on the other hand goes for 70++ USD. So which is your pick ? If I got the money, I will go for Logitech's product. Its been my favorite brand for gaming since I bought their first gaming mice, mx300. For design, though the "Sidewinder" looks interesting, I prefer "G9 Laser" more because of its simple and sleek design. I think a lot of people will agree with me on this.

Do you guys know 'The Simpsons' ? If you don't know about it, you must be an alien who just landed on Earth.

" The Simpsons Family "

Recently, "The Simpsons" fans were treated with a movie and boy I must say it is a really really entertaining movie but from my opinion, it is too short. 3 hours should be okay for a film like this (Okay, who am I kidding ?). Anyway, the movie is successful and now there is a game coming out which is called "The Simpsons Game". Its gonna be released on 30th October 2007. I've found 2 trailers which is funny and interesting. The trailers are somewhat a parody of the game "Everquest" and "Medal of Honor. Watch it below and you will know what I mean.

Cool huh ? Can't wait to play the game ! Dont worry, every console there is out there have its own "The Simpsons Game" version. So doesn't matter if you have Xbox360, Wii, PS3 or PSP, you can still play it.

Quickie : What do our Warcraft player, Paulyan, Hybrid's player, rico, Need for Speed's Sophian Shahirul, and lastly, our FIFA Soccer player, Rinie Ramli had in common ? Their visas got rejected by the US Embassy. So what does this mean ? It means that we only have 3 games to shine this year that is Counter-Strike, Starcraft, and Command and Conquer III. Read here to know more about it.


The final is near. Below are the groupings for our own representative (Malaysia) in Counter-Strike, Starcraft, and Command and Conquer III.

Counter-Strike Group E
Titans (Singapore), Team roccat (Finland), CNO Gaming (Netherlands), Nearly God (Thailand), and Hybrid (Malaysia)

Antabax: Quite a tough group here with Titans and roccat. Nevertheless, I know Hybrid can prove themself here. Their past performance in tourneys around Malaysia is top notch on my opinion. Hybrid team members are Graham “StaiN!” Chin, Leong “fions” Khaw Jin, Abdul Azim “bobotrify” Yazid, Abdul Hakim “Jabronizs” Yazid and Hybrid|Nicholas (replacing Gerard “rico” Anand)

Starcraft : The Brood War Group D
Androide (Russia), BringiT.asS (Mexico), cooch (Trinidad & Tobago), jamesfoo (Malaysia), and Nyoken (USA).

Antabax: Besides Androide and Nyoken, the other players is not quite known internationally. So if jamesfoo can beat Androide and Nyoken, then there is no problem for the no 1 spot.

Command and Conquer III : Tiberium Wars
anze.slovenia (Slovenia), Apollooo (United Kingdom), khufu_ownz (USA), ror1Alpha (Malaysia), and StyleLiga (Germany).

This time around, maybe, our representative can put Malaysia on the map for cyber gaming. They have grown quite a lot since last time. For example, Hybrid has proved themself again why they are qualified to represent Malaysia for counter-strike just like last year and yeah, after watching the finals and the match against Vietnam during the recent WCG 2007 Malaysia's qualifier, I must say they improved a lot than last time. Their rushes, counter-push, communication, team play is simply amazing. I wish them good luck on representing us and all the best !

Do you really like Super Mario eventhough he branded anyone who play the game is GAY ? Well, for those who are really a fanboy of Super Mario, you can now jump as high as Super Mario. Well, technically not but you can wear the Legacy X Super Mario shoes from Run Athletics. Its cool, its hip, and yeah its Nintendo's. Below are some pics of it.

" Behold, the Legacy X Super Mario shoe by Run Athletics "

" Only 400 pairs are available world wide ! "

" This gem will cost you about 120 USD and you will get a limited edition t-shirt free of charge "

So if anyone of you are interested on getting this shoe, proceed here and order it. Good luck on getting it because 400 is a small number for our world, the Earth. I bet you can sell this for a few thousands or more on EbaY. Not bad huh ? I will also bet that the shoe will be copied and are going to pop up on the market. It will be selling like hot cakes for sure.

Isn't it cool to have a Game Career Fair here other than the normal Education/Career Fair thats been held like two to three times a year ? Well, dont expect that to happen in Malaysia but some part of this world have that kind of event. For example, the London Game Career Fair thats gonna be held at London on 23rd and 24th of October. The exact location for it (this is for those who are interested to attend the fair) is at the Old Truman Brewery which is just 10 minutes walk from Liverpool street station (on the Circle, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines), and is easily reached by tube, bus or on foot. Among the sponsors for the fair is Electronic Arts (FIFA series, The Sims series) and Rockstar (Grand Theft Auto Series). Some of the exhibitors that participate in this fair is LucasArts, NCsoft, SEGA, and Team17. For more info about this event, you can click here. Below is the banner for the event.

" Simple but meaningful banner "

From their website, this fair is just the same like any other career/education fair except that it is related to games. Expect leading games industry professionals and representatives of prominent colleagues and universities to be there. It is the place to be if you are interested in gaming professions, whether you've graduated or left school, or work in a related technology or entertainment industry.

" Instead of studying with books and papers "

" You could be studying with the Playstation 3 "

Theres more than that, apparently, the Game Career Fair is one of the side event for the London Games Festival. How I wish Malaysia could have something like this. The Festival will feature a series of diverse events in different venues for different audiences. Whether you’re a gamer, a parent needing advice on games, someone working in the industry, or someone wanting to find out more about how games work and where the future of entertainment will take us, this is a festival for you.


This event is supported by London Development Agency and some of their partners is British Academy Video Games Award (BAFTA), Atari, HMV, Intel, and Ubisoft. Among the events that are gonna be held there, theres a few that is quite interesting which is the British Academy Video Games Award, 25th Annual Golden Joystick Awards, Designing & Developing Effective Serious Games Show-case, and Eyes on the Game (not Eyes of a Gamer ya). Gamers that have the chance to be there will surely have a blast. For more info, visit the website here. Before I end this, below is a trailer of the London Games Festival and it is indeed an eye-catching trailer.

Source : London Game Career Fair, London Games Festival

If you take a look at the predictions here, done by PinkPriestess and eXp|Gosu, they gave their opinions about the teams participating and who will win. Its quite interesting and I decide to make my own predictions too.

MYM.Dota vs Excello
Antabax predicts: MYM without Merlini is still dominating their group and they got qualified for the first round with ease while Excello, winning 3 out of 4 games, lost to BTB, an underdog team. Overall, MYM's skill and teamwork is far better than Excello so I guess MYM is the winner here but it should be a tough match.

Hard Team vs Defective Gaming
Antabax predicts: Both teams have equal score, 3 wins and 1 lose. Its hard to tell which team is better but I recognize Hard Team better than Defective Gaming based on past matches. I will go with Hard Team for this match.

Emazing Gaming vs Red Bear
Antabax predicts: eMg, which rather have no luck at all last time, is now a better team and they just won a LAN tournament and with a win against sP, you might say that they are at their best now. Red Bear, honestly, I've never heard of them before. I rarely watch replay because my time is spent on playing Dota, Lineage, work, and blogging. So my instinct tells me that eMg will win this.

sP[Palit]Kow3 vs Ks (Malaysia)
Antabax predicts: sP is a strong team with good skills and teamwork but I got to have some national spirit here. Ks (KingSurf) is not bad at all. They just won the GCC Malaysia tournament beating some good teams such as Cybertime`G and W4SI. Their reputation here in Malaysia is quite known. So, what I can say here is good luck to Ks and may the force be with you.

Back to Basics vs SK Gaming
Antabax predicts: Although BtB records in the group stage is very impressive, 4-0, I dont think they can win against SK. Furthermore, Loda is back and if Bogdan is playing, it should be no problem for SK provided that SK dont do a lot of mistakes.

Team Q vs ieS Virtual Gaming
Antabax predicts: Team Q have a good reputation and their teamwork is getting better judging by their replays. Although ieS is quite strong, Team Q should have no problem on winning this.

Xero Skill vs Stars VD
Antabax predicts: No doubt, XsK is the better team in this match. They practice like their is no tomorrow and with a 4-0 record, it has really paid off. But, Stars VD is no doubt good and I bet they can upset XsK this time. Let see what happen, my pick is Stars VD.

Virtus.Pro vs Team hi2u
There is a clear winner here. Everyone knows that VP is one of the most powerful team for Dota. Eventhough hi2u is among the best in America, there is no doubt that they will have a hard time fighting VP. Though qualifying for the playoffs is not an easy task, hi2u did it and they deserved the credit but against VP, this is just not their league in my opinion. Let just see what happen. Its hard for VP to lose here.

Thats my prediction for the coming Playoffs. Its all based on my opinion only. Let see how many guesses I got correct. Anyway, good luck to Ks in their match against sP[Palit]Kow3.

Jessica Zanner, one of Nintendo America's staff, was fired. The reason ? Because she have a personal blog and spend some of her time blogging. Thought blogging is not an issue actually, the main cause of her getting fired is, yeap, bitching about the staffs especially the boss. There are also a lot of cases like this for example, a programmer at Google got fired because he/she bitch about work (I bet he/she must be the only staff who hate Google, I though working at Google is a dream come true ?). Another case is related to Microsoft. A temp worker got fired in 2003 because he posted a picture of several Macs arriving at Microsoft's offices in his blog.

Jessica Zanner, one of Nintendo America's staff, was fired. The reason ? Because she have a personal blog and spend some of her time blogging. Thought blogging is not an issue actually, the main cause of her getting fired is, yeap, bitching about the staffs especially the boss. There are also a lot of cases like this for example, a programmer at Google got fired because he/she bitch about work (I bet he/she must be the only staff who hate Google, I though working at Google is a dream come true ?). Another case is related to Microsoft. A temp worker got fired in 2003 because he posted a picture of several Macs arriving at Microsoft's offices in his blog.

So after this, I hope other bloggers will post carefully, and if you feel like bitching about your boss or work in your personal blog, better think twice. Zanner's blog, Inexcusable Behavior, is located here.

PS: The picture is not her by the way !

Source : The Stranger

Still remember my other post about the 'Nascar' thingy ? The results are out. Nintendo Wii's Ford finished 2nd and Microsoft Xbox Halo 3's Dodge managed to grab the 39th spot. Lol ? Apparently, the car didnt even manage to finish the 400 laps. The Dodge's engine got blowned around the 306th lap and this is the sixth time this year.

" Its the people that makes the car or is it the sponsors ? "

" GG-fied car "

Source : Yahoo! Sports

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Yesterday's match was a breath taking one. How can I know this when I dont even get to connect to the GGTV server ? Let just say I have some psychic power. Anywy, not sure if my connection is fcuked up or there are too many gamers connecting to the server that disabled me to join it. Anyway, I've got some info from the official GGC thread here. The first match, Ks played on the sentinel side and they picked Priestess of the Moon, Queen of Pain, Sven, Lina, and Shadow Fiend where else W4SI, on the scourge side, picked Tinker, Drow Ranger, Tormented Soul, Zeus and Spectre. Ks managed to win the first match. The second match, it was W4SI's turn to play on the sentinel side and they drafted Faceless Void, Zeus, Viper, Sven, and Necrolyte while Ks, on the scourge side, drafted Queen of Pain, Centaur Warchief, Tormented Soul, Nerubian Assasin, and Tinker. W4SI lost again and Ks was crowned the champion of the first GGC Malaysia Dota tournament.

The replays are out with some details about it which you can read it here. Thanx to Nasriq, Ns-Hon, and also Underminer for organizing this tournament. I hope that he will send to me the other matches's replay too. Lastly, good luck to Xero and Cybertime`G for their 3rd and 4th placing.

Source : GGC

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