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Ravana and TH15 of Team 1MS has done Singapore proud by winning the Dawn of War 2 Asian Finals organised by Replay Interactive, THQ, and Gigabyte at the 2010 Taipei Game Show!
Besides USD1.5k cash, they also win for themselves a Gigabyte M1305 laptop each complete with an additional dock that has a graphics card to add on to your graphics capabilities.
It was a nail-biting finish between Singapore and Taiwan as Team 1MS lost the first round to the Taiwanese boys due to various hiccups. More on their exciting finals here.
More photos from the tournament and the of 2010 Taipei Game Show can be found here.
Over the next couple of days, this geek will not only be bringing you coverage from the rest of the 2010 Taipei Game Show, but most important from the Intel Extreme Masters where Singapore will be represented by Team Titans.
This geek’s disciple “GReekonomics” decided to throw a party to atone for his failure in learning his master’s true abilities:
Pretty excited about tomorrow’s party, though I’ve had absolutely no time to think about it nor plan it. Too bad the invites are ultra-limited and max-ed out already due to the limitation of the room booked.
A big sorry to all you reading this whom I couldn’t invite!
Woe to those who are coming though, for they have no idea what’s gonna befall them. Neither do I. Bwahahaha! Well, here’s a little hint for my 10-odd guests:
19 Jan 2010 (Singapore) - Last Saturday was an exciting day for many of the Dawn of War II fans in Singapore. For the first time, Replay Interactive, as the distributor of the game, organised a tournament for the local Dawn of War II players. This event is part of a regional tournament - titled: Asia-Pacific REPLAY 2010 Dawn of War II Tournament - which will feature 3 local tournaments (Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan) and one regional tournament (to be held on 6 Feb at the Taipei Games Show 2010), pitting the best team from each representative country against one another for the APAC champion seat! The Singapore round was supported by Colosseum, SCOGA and Gameaxis.
At the invitation of the Singapore Economic Development Board, DigiPen, world renowned institute for video game development education, set up its Singapore campus in 2008 to develop high-demand manpower capabilities for the interactive digital media industry.
The DigiPen cutting-edge:
DigiPen has produced more students’ award-winning video games than any other universities
Consistently achieved more than 95% employment placement rate with DigiPen graduates being hired by top companies such as Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Read more…
Elite console with Forza Motorsports 3 and Two Hit Titles To Bring Family and Friends Together.
SINGAPORE – January 18, 2010 – Microsoft today announced a new package in Singapore of its Xbox 360® Elite console with 120GB hard drive and “Forza Motorsports® 3” in time for the Chinese New Year celebrations. Available in stores from 18 January 2010 at an estimated retail price of Read more…
DreamHack is the world’s largest and most popular digital media festival. Situated in Sweden, DreamHack plays host to thousands of gamers twice a year, numbering up to 12,782 attendees last winter. DreamHack has netted itself three Guinness World Records in 2004, 2006 and 2007 for being the largest Read more…
Microsoft delivers greater value this holiday with over 500 high-definition games, an incredible Comex Show 2009 offer and an exclusive Halo 3 ODST pre-order.
Singapore — 28 August, 2009 — Xbox 360 today invites you to experience more fun, more entertainment and more ways to connect with friends and family at an even better value. Beginning 10 September 2009, the recommended retail price of an Xbox 360 Elite console with a 120 GB hard drive will be reduced by 26 per cent in Singapore.
At just S$499 (estimated retail price, previously S$679), Xbox 360 Elite Read more…
Have you been reading this blog even though I’ve not been updating it for a while? At least the stats seems to hint at that.
Anyways, this geek has been really busy but you can still catch my weekly posts at my CNET Asia Blog where you will read about how I recently got involved with Singapore’s Blogathon and somehow by some miracle managed to win the Judges’ Choice Award after 24 hours of blogging. It was definitely a very unique experience that I wasn’t sure about in the beginning but came out of it with memories that will surely last a lifetime.
Anyways, I’ve been working on a book on gaming and new media which you’ve hear about soon enough as we are working on the publisher now. I’ve also got involved with a new site which you’ll hear about very soon.
It doesn’t look like I’ll continue blogging here anytime soon, but do keep the press releases and news coming, I’ll put them up as and when I can (and if I find them interesting enough of course).
So this geek is in Beijing now witnessing the launch of a flurry of new HP products like the HP Pavilion MS200 All-in-one PC, HP Pavilion DV2 Entertainment Notebook, HP Probook S-series, HP Mini 110, HP DV2 notebooks (refreshed with AMD Dual-cores), HP Skyroom, Thin clients, and the Z series workstations.
I’ll be doing a series of posts on this on CNET Asia and you can follow my live tweets here while I try to live update my CNET Asia blog now with more information on the HP Mini 110.