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Inferno Pool Headed To Xbox Live Arcade Next Week
7:20AM Mike Fahey | The battle for pool table domination begins next week on the 360, when Dark Energy Digital’s Inferno Pool hits Xbox Live Arcade. More »
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Sony Bringing PlayStation To Indonesia
1:20PM Brian Ashcraft | Hey Indonesia! Guess what? Sony is bringing its PlayStation business to you. More »
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MMO Maker: Big Names Drive Small Fish To Free-Play Market
11:00AM Owen Good | MMOs smaller than the ones made by the heavyweight player— which is to say most of them—have fled for the US free-to-play market, the co-founder of MMO-maker Reality Gap told Gamasutra. More »
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NFS:World Online Launches Asian Site
5:00AM Owen Good | You can get your first look – and, if you read Mandarin, the first words about – Need for Speed: World Online, EA’s racing MMO launching soon in Asia. More »
Asia Getting New PSP Colours
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | What better way to celebrate the New Year than with new PSP colours. Sony Computer Entertainment Asia is doing just that with not one, but two new PSP shades. More »
Microsoft: Things Are Lookin’ Up For ‘09!
6:00PM Luke Plunkett | Microsoft did OK in 2008. But there’s always room for improvement! So it’s with a grim sense of predictability that Microsoft are predicting they’ll sell more 360s in 2009. More »
‘Crossing Boundaries’: The International Flavor of Gaming
5:30AM Maggie Greene | The transnational character of gaming is one that opens up a wide range of opportunities for the industry, but comes with a number of pitfalls as well — and, as Mathew McCurley argues at the Escapist, has far-reaching negative consequences, especially in term of content. Trying to navigate the tricky waters of censorship and varied expectations of what is OK (and what’s not) in a variety of countries can mean developers play it safe in an attempt to ensure that their game will reach a wider audience: More »
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The Export Problem: East to West Localisation, Collaboration
2:30AM Maggie Greene | With a quickly expanding domestic games market, and more companies thinking of making the leap to Western markets, Asian companies are facing some serious issues in the next few years: competition to become gaming ‘hubs’ for foreign companies, how to localize for foreign markets (something Japanese companies have historically done well, but in other areas, companies are lagging), how to keep up with a big, demanding market. ZDNet took a look at a few of the issues currently facing Asian games companies. On the issue of dealing with Western companies looking to make an entrance into the Asian market, there was this to say: More »
Malaysia Is Getting PS3 Launch This Month
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Sony Malaysia has apparently announced it will be launching the PS3 in the region. On Saturday September 20th, an official launch event commences from 11:30am at the 1Utama shopping centre in Petaling Jaya. There will be 150 special launch bundles available at launch, which consist of an 80GB PS3, Soulcalibur IV, a limited edition PS3 tote bag and a Soulcalibur IV CD holder. The first hundred to buy the console even get special Sony cash vouchers. Local pricing for the console has yet to be announced. Sony plans local PS3 launch [The Star Online Thanks, Issam!] [Pic] More »
