MMO Gold Mining as Military Operation

Cyber gold mining can not get any more serious than this: it is reported North Korea finances its nuclear ambitions with the proceeds of an MMO-gold farming operation. Of cource shortly afterwards North Korea flatly denied it. But as far as conspiracy theory goes, it would seems this idea does has some solid footing to it, don't you think so?

Black Ops got Hit

As reported in Kotaku.
Well, that is one way to play a game before it is realised :D

Virtual Preemptive Strike

Gaming giant EA has finally back off from the issue of letting players play as Taliban in the up coming Model of Honor title. Read more in CNN's Taliban option removed from 'Medal of Honor'.

New MMO doesn't care if you are Black or White

Yup... a MMO about Michael Jackson is coming next year. Already jokes are flying in the net about how this is suppose to work.

Read more in Destructoid.

Shame.... but it is a Good Shame

As reported in Kotaku some time ago. More pictures of the event here in Lowyat's Gamer’s Hideout.

No one plays as deep as these Chilean gamers

Source: Kotaku, Trapped Chilean Miners Get PSPs

Gaming Addiction Warning Needed

Dude spent 20,000 hours in the past 5 years playing Lineage 2 and now decides to sue NCsoft because it failed “to warn or instruct or adequately warn or instruct plaintiff and other players of Lineage II of its dangerous and defective characteristics, and of the safe and proper method of using the game". Read the whole news on Gamepolitics.

Might finally be done with the chewing bubble gum part

Last year we saw what looks like the end of Duke Nukem Forever with this comic, then very recently the article of Duke Nukem Finally? showed up in Kotaku. May be we still get to kick ass and chew bubble gum again after all.

Singaporean Dude get first Copy of StarCraft 2, Cries

Was traveling the whole galaxy until it comes to a stop in the planet Charr lately. All things on hiatus but hey, it was worth it after a decade; a point which is best illustrated in this "old news" of Singapore Man Cries After Being First In Country To Purchase Starcraft II.

Just look at that, without reading the captions you would have think he just became a father wouldn't you?

Starcraft 2 Launched - Hell, It's About Time!

In conjunction with the much-awaited launch of StarCraft 2 ("Hell, it's about time!" as the Marine would say!), BrickGamers presents to you a LEGO StarCraft 1 short game video. It's bound to bring back memories if you've played it before! Enjoy! Here's hoping if you're one of those who waited till today to get the game, that it's finally worth it after a decade of waiting! Here's also hoping SC2 matches up to being the game of the decade!

We Won't make our Console Users look Bad

If you happen to miss this gem news from Gizmodo's PC Gamers Too Good For Microsoft's Cross-Platform Gaming Project ... let it be known that the software giant is aware and capable of combining players from both platforms into a single playing field, but they won't do it. The idea of having their console customers dishing out huge load of cash to play Xbox only to be bitch slapped by PC users seems counter productive indeed.

Virtual Middle Earth has fallen!

Yeah it is old news and we know it: The Lord of the Rings Online went free-to-play, but the plot is just good enough so we do it anyway, besides what better excuse to show off the great video below?

By the way this is Brick Gamer's 100th comic strip, so fear the part time comic artist!

This Gamer needs serious Anger Management!

A recent real life drama which definitely potrays all gamers in bad light, Gamer stabs opponent after in-game knife kill in Counter-Strike makes for a text book case in which people argue violent games promote violence - which stands for may be 0.00001 percent of all gamers population.

Habbo Virtual Furniture Theft Rampant

A lot of you who played online games can understand how some virtual items are either so powerful or have such novelty value they can actually fetch real money in reality despite being just a cyber item inside a game.

As with all valuables they attract the people who would want to make them their own for either self satisfaction or conversion to cash. Well, since they are virtual item inside cyber space in a game that makes them really hard to "steal" you said? Apparently no more, read this BBC News about Police investigate Habbo Hotel virtual furniture theft and see how the absurd has became reality.

Now that Make Sense

From the big boss who is responsible for World of Warcraft comes the latest comment which we gamers suspect might be the case all along :DRM is a waste of time.

No Escape from the Gaming Scene

The ever increasing presence of gaming in modern life reached another hall mark as evident by the news of Boy Scouts now offer video game merit awards.

Virtual Pets made Blizzard millions, Elitism to be part of World of Warcraft ?

By now most of our better informed readers should have some how heard of the Fancy Horse Makes Blizzard $2 Million in Four Hours news. If this trend keeps up it might create another sub group of vanity elite players within the virtual world itself, making the widening gap between "have" and "have not" group of people felt even in the virtual world.

Video Games Live @ Malaysia - Update 2

Update 2 - Guitar Hero & CosPlay @ the Concert (see bottom)!

Update 1 - PIKOM now holds the rights to WCG Malaysia.

We know this has nothing to do with LEGO, but you never know if there will be LEGO games music @ this Video Games Concert! That's right, Video Games Live is a concert for gamers with music played from games!

It's just like a music concert - except they play music from games

This year, they're coming to Malaysia (@ the Kuala Lumpur City Centre Convention Centre Plenary Hall to be exact) on 17th April @ 2PM and 8PM with tickets ranging from RM80 to RM250. If you're a student, there's a 15% discount - but for the 2PM show only - and @ PS5 seating area only.

Visit Ticket Pro @ www.ticketpro.com.my or contact them @ +603 7880 7999. You can also buy your tickets @ TP Outlets.


In case you don't know, VGL will also be held in conjunction with the 2010 1st PIKOM PC Fair of the year, as well as the World Cyber Games (WCG) KL League qualifiers. Why? Because PIKOM now has the rights to WCG Malaysia. Let's hope the WCG here doesn't look like PC Fair!


Guitar Hero auditions will be held @ Room 405, Level 4 from 12 to 2PM and 6 to 8PM. You must be a VGL ticket holder to enter. Player with highest scores each session will win a chance to perform on stage with VGL live!

CosPlay (Costume Play) competition will be held @ Plenary Hall Foyer, Level 1. Registration starts @ 1PM and 7PM. Must be a VGL ticket holder as well. Finalists will go on stage and be judged by audience - loudest applause wins!

The Virtual Anti Cash Crops

Recently there is this news of a 12-year-old boy runs up £900 debt on Facebook game FarmVille. Though in the news the boy's mother admit it is the boy who is at fault but the feeling of this whole set up which feels like a none savvy user's death trap seems all too real.

He is higher Level than Me!