With 256 slots to fill and preliminaries conducted over 2 days, gaming in Singapore just got even more serious.
To be conducted on 26-27 November, Sony will be holding a FIFA 12 tournament to participants of all ages to test their skill and stand a chance to win the grand prize of a 160GB Playstation 3 console. And of course, a winner’s trophy will be thrown in for good measure.
Don’t hesitate to register as all participants get to walk away with goodies just for signing up. Hit the following link to register for a spot now: http://sgiz.mobi/s3/47ee508c2f65
For those who prefer something else, especially the fighting fans, would be able to check out the upcoming Street Fighter x Tekken and Final Fantasy XIII-2 as well.
The entire festivities start on 3 December onwards at SCAPE Orchard Road Singapore from 2pm onwards. See you there!
Only slightly over a year ago, IAH Games was the sole distributor of Blizzard Entertainment titles in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand but now the account is back into the hands of the very first distributor, Asiasoft.
IAH Games relationship covered 2 titles, Starcraft II & World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Reasons on why Blizzard chose to give back their account to Asiasoft can only be left to speculation and we’ll leave it at that.
The next anticipated title from Blizzard would be the upcoming Diablo III which is currently in a closed beta stage. Tentative release date would be sometime early 2012. But Blizzard being Blizzard, would only release it once its truly completed.
If all things remain the same, one can expect Diablo III to cost $109 locally in Singapore. Yup, Starcraft II commanded the same premium at release as well. After all those local servers are not going to pay for themselves. Thankfully, SEA copies of the game would also have access the North American servers too, so no real worry there.
But the real question here is, do boxed copies of a game really matter these days, apart from Collector’s Editions. This article way back in 2007 by Oo Gin Lee, predicted accurately the landscape of video game retail today. Starcraft II had a digital release and so did Cataclysm. Especially for World of Warcraft, the transition was especially smooth, Cataclysm opened up very nicely on release day. Hence, why as a consumer would I want to leave my home when I can start playing the minute the game unlocks.
Blizzard has all the architecture in place for a seamless and smooth transaction online effectively cutting out the middleman (retailers). While boxed sets would most definitely see huge sales right out the door, what would new customers choose to get a few months down the road, travel down to your favourite game store or just simply grab it off the Internet?
Fans of Final Fantasy XIII would know that the “Chinese” version of the game was highly sought after. Apart from the new cover of Lightning, the game was unique in the way that it retained the Japanese voices while providing subtitles to the game.
Honestly, for story driven games such as Final Fantasy, this should have been always been the case. Hurrah for Final Fantasy XIII-2 then! Coming in at only a month behind the Japanese release, Final Fantasy XIII-2 will feature both Mandarin and English subtitles with the original Japanese voice overs.
The official release date for the local version would be 31st January 2012. Mark your calenders. For those who prefer a full English language version, such an edition would be available on the same day as well.
Check out the entire press release for more details.
I had the honor of checking Alliance of Valiant Arms or otherwise known as A.V.A out this evening and was surprised at how polished free-to-play(F2P) games can be these days.
For those tired of the standard electronic colours, you’ll be pleasantly surprised that Sony is finally going to give their PS3s a brighter coat of paint.
They are calling the colours “Splash Blue” and “Scarlet Red” and these PS3s will only be found in 320gb flavours. continue reading »
Mark your calendars because Microsoft is going to have a pre-launch event for Gears of War 3 on 19 September, 8pm,at Funan. There are 2000 goodie bags to be given away for gamers who preordered the limited edition version of the game and here’s a peek into the goodie bag.
This, has got to be the best goodie bag ever. T-shirt, sling bag, canteen, skull cap, keychain… WOW!
Attached is the press release for Asia. The suggested retail price (SRP) will be lowered come 22 August 2011. Interestingly though, the new SRP is higher than Qisahn.com‘s current selling price for PS3…
I wasn’t quite optimistic about Vita and I blame a certain fruit company for killing sales of handheld consoles. The last 2 handheld consoles (Sony PSP Go & Nintendo 3DS) didn’t sell great. However, I believe Playstation Vita could reverse this trend.
If you haven’t already done so, you need to check the official website for Playstation Vita. This little monster can do almost everything, except 3D. continue reading »
The newest update for the PS3 brings the ability to save almost all the the console’s library of games into the cloud!
But there is a catch – You will need to be a Playstation Plus subscriber first and not all titles are supported initially but Sony has promised that all new titles would.
With the newest firmware 3.6 slated to hit the PSN sometime tomorrow, a year subscription to Playstation Plus would be a good idea especially if your current console might be starting to act up.
I’ve know of customers purchasing another console to place at their in-laws place for some weekend gaming. I guess, this piece of news would be very much welcome.
Basically, Sony allows any Playstation Plus user to upload up to 150mb of saved data and 1000 data files per Playstation Network account that has been upgraded with Plus. There is a small catch though, each uploaded data can only be downloaded once every 24 hours. But who has that many PS3s anyway?
More importantly to note would be that saved games are assigned according to account. So, if you have been making a bulk of your gaming on the R1 account, you might want to upgrade accordingly. You will not be able to transfer saved games between accounts despite it residing on the same console.
US PSN or SG PSN? Decisions decisions. The SG PSN does come in cheaper at S$7 monthly but the US PSN does come with more content and a Mortal Kombat Demo! But, I digress.
Firmware 3.6 should be live as of this posting, I just did a quick check.
I’ve just checked, if you are itching to get either Castle Crashers or Dead Nation on the Playstation Network, it looks like tomorrow’s (today’s [?]) sale for these 2 titles would be getting a small discount if you got them via the US PSN.
As of writing, both games are going for USD14.99 on the store. With 30% off, it would be USD$10.49. If you are one of the many Playstation Plus users, the deal is sweetened even more with 50% off! Additionally, if you are wondering, Playstation Plus accounts are sharable as well, so this might be a good time to grab all 3.
These 2 games cost SGD$20.49 on our local store. So for that bit of savings, it might be worth considering getting getting these 2 titles on the US PSN.
Personally, I own Castle Crashers and I cannot recommend it enough to anyone who is itching for a good old sch beat-em-up. The many complaints I’ve heard with PS3 owners in Singapore would be that the console has just too little local co-op games. Do not pass up this opportunity to grab the game on cheap, you have been warned!
Now, I’m itching to get Dead Nation a go. Anyone up for a gameshare?
