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World Cyber Games Asian Championship 2007

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on July 25, 2007

in DotA, Singapore, Warcraft, World Cyber Games and Xbox 360

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The World Cyber Games Asian Championship 2007 is hosted by Singapore this year. 12 countries are involved in this year’s event from 2nd August to 5th August.

The official games for WCG Asian Championship 2007 are Dead of Alive 4 (Xbox 360), FIFA 07, Warcraft III : Frozen Throne, Age of Empires III : The War Chiefs and the popular map mods of Warcraft, Defense of the Ancient (DotA).

Last year, Singapore crowned the top country with 2 golds and 2 bronzes medal, ahead of China (1 gold, 3 silvers). We will look forward to this year WCG, to see how the gamers of each country fare this year.

NUS and NTU laptop recommendations

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GameBlogger

on July 23, 2007

in Singapore

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If you are a varsity student going to NUS, NTU and SMU (this laptops on sale in SMU are different), here is the recommendations from me.

If you are the mobile warrior, where you move as you work with your laptop, the light and handy laptop will be the best choice for you. Look no further, cause Toshiba R500-E260 will the the choice. If you go for the looks too, Lifebook S6410U will be it.

E6410U	R500-E260
Faster Processor, 2Ghz	Power Saving CPU, 1.2GHz
2 GB RAM	1.5GB RAM
13.3″ Display	12.1″ Display
Better graphics chipset	Average Integrated Graphics
2.08kg	1.09kg

Like scribbling your notes on the laptop, tablet PC is the only choice. No other choice, other than the Lifebook T4220U.

Feeling on a tight budget, TM6292 is for you. For less than 2,000, you can get a laptop so similar specification as other brand.

T61	E8410U
2 GB RAM	1 GB RAM
160 GB HDD	120 GB HDD
Intel Integrated Graphics	NVIDIA GeForce 8400M
14.1″ Display	15.4″ Display
2.32kg	2.45kg

If you are going for the cool and stylish Apple, I suggest you halt the plan, because while waiting for the Mac OS X Leopard, the price of MacBooks in this offer is not attractive. (The prices of the laptop are most probably tentative prices as the official website has not been updated yet, so keep the finger crossed.)

*UPDATE - For the Macbooks and Macbook Pros, free upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard is available from the tender. they also come with Microsft Office 2004 and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium.

Apple Online Store offer the same Macbook Pro 15″ 2.2Ghz for only SGD$3106 while the price on NUS is SGD$3318. If you want a Mac desperately, go for the online store. However, if you need the Microsft Office and Adobe CS3, taking the tender is a reasonable one.

If you are thinking of a Macbook (not Pro), do consider the Macbook Pro 15″. For 0.14kg, you get to enjoy a faster processor, dedicated graphics chipset, double the amount of RAM and a larger screen. If you are unable to fork out the extra 900 bucks, settle for the Macbook.

And if you want to play games like Company of Heroes and Command and Conquer with decent graphics, only Lifebook E8410U has a decent GPU and not forgetting the Macbook Pros.

Hopefully the prices of Macbooks drop.

Prices of the new laptops may change these few days, so watch out.

NUS laptop offers

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GameBlogger

on July 23, 2007

in Singapore

. 3 Comments

Most of the freshmen of NUS are eagerly waiting for the new laptop offers to be up so that they can do their homework before heading down to the matriculation fair to buy their laptop. But the website is not updated with the latest laptop offers for the new academic year (visually).

The truth is the offers are already posted and some tricks are needed to view them. I have posted the laptops from this offers, here in GameBlog.

Disclaimer: As they have not update the links, the offers may not be the finalised one, so view at your own discretion. Cheers. (I will try to update when it is updated). Please note that the price stated are with the 7% GST.

Click on the link to see the list of laptops. Continue reading ‘NUS laptop offers’

Blizzard has 1 more card under the sleeve

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GameBlogger

on July 21, 2007

in MMORPG, Preview, RTS, Starcraft and Warcraft

. 1 Comment

When you think that Starcraft II makes gamers around the world waiting in awe, there is more excitement from one of the best game developer around.

Blizzard has currently 3 teams working on the projects, 135 people are working on World of Warcraft, 40 for Starcraft II and another 40 working under “Team 3″. Frank Pearce, founding member and senior vice president of product development for Blizzard revealed that “Team 3 is working on something really awesome.”

With BlizzCon coming in a few weeks’ time, announcements of new gaming development may come by then.

In the meantime, we can only anticipate the possibilities of the new game.

Since the team is made up of 40 members, we cannot expect it to be a MMORPG like World of Warcraft, which need more people in maintaining and developing the game. So World of Starcraft, etc are out.

Diablo II : Lord of Destruction was released in the year 2001 and Warcraft III : Frozen Throne was released in the year 2003. Expansions sound impossible for this 2 games, as they are quite old (but still good).

Diablo III and Warcraft IV might be the next upcoming sequel to their famous gaming series. However we cannot rule out Blizzard might be coming up with new games.

FFVII : Crisis Core out on 13 September

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GameBlogger

on July 18, 2007

in Final Fantasy, News, PSP and Preview

. 0 Comments

According the this article from Gamespot, and the official Crisis Core website, the new PSP - Final Fantasy VII : Crisis Core Edition bundle, is going to release on 13 September, along with the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VII : Crisis Core. So in the near future, we will be seeing the arrival of Final Fantasy VII : Crisis Core (English version). I guess the Final Fantasy fans are tired of waiting for the first of remake of the legendary Final Fantasy VII. Gone were the blocky and short Cloud and Tifa. Characters in the new Final Fantasy VII series is simply too attractive.

The new Final Fantasy VII : Crisis Core PSP bundle is made up of the new redesigned silver PSP-2000 (I believe so), a unique serial number, Crisis Core PSP game (hurray!) and a keychain shaped like the sword of the game’s hero, Zack.

The Final Fantasy VII : Crisis Core PSP bundle will be available in Japan only, with only 77,777 sets on the shelves for purchase, to commemorate the 10th year anniversary of the Final Fantasy VII franchise. Each bundle costs 25,890 yen.

Command and Conquer 3 : Tiberium Wars 1.06 patch released

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GameBlogger

on July 17, 2007

in Game Patches, Game Updates, RTS and Windows Vista

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EA has released version 1.06 patch for Command and Conquer 3 : Tiberium Wars. This new patch addresses statistics collection for online matches, exploits and bug fixes.

Tracking Disconnects

Changed the way that disconnects are reported. Now, whenever the game detects that a disconnect has occurred in a 1v1 match, both players are awarded a disconnect stat — neither player is given a win or loss stat.

Exploits

Fixed an exploit that caused any unit or structure to become invincible if force-fired upon by a Mammoth Tank that had been upgraded with Rail Guns.

Other Bugs

Fixed a bug that caused the Nod Cloaking Field power to deduct up to 6,000 credits from the Operations Center. The power now correctly deducts 3,000 credits.
Fixed a bug that allowed players in the online lobbies to /tell and /invite users that had marked them to be ignored.
Players can no longer send /tell messages to other players as observers during a multiplayer match.
Fixed a hang that occurred when users typed /friend or /invite without a corresponding name.

You can download the patch from here.

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