Worldwide Developer’s Conference 2009
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Posted by on June 8th, 2009The Worldwide Developer’s Conference of 2009 starts today, in about 8 odd minutes. You can catch the livestream here: http://ustre.am/18N6
I anticipate big news from big players in the development market; hardware or software.
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Posted by on March 15th, 2009
Well, we were just playing around with the blog and testing some new software with it. You might have noticed new posts in your RSS reader that have no links. That’s right, those were auto-generated posts and the software spat them out as is. Which was wrong! I do apologize for this mistake and bothering you with 7 ghost posts. The rest is all fine, we will keep posting here regularly 
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WCG 2008: Pakistan off to a Good Start!
Posted by on November 7th, 2008
Day 1 at World Cyber Games 2008 has ended and with some encouraging results from the WarCraft 3 department, currently being represented solely by Bilal Rasheed. Bilal is an accomplished user of the Night Elf race.
Bilal’s, Group D, group had his international teammate Kim from the Chinese Taipei, the Croat P1nke and the German underdog S.o.K.o.L. He managed to win 4 out of 6 games leading to a three way tie between him, P1nke, and S.o.K.o.L. But after the tie-breakers, it was S.o.K.o.L who won the second qualifying spot form the group.
Friends from all over the world praised Bilal’s performance in the tournament. This is for the first time that someone this young has accomplished something like this.
GITEX Dubai Digital Game World Opens!
Posted by on October 20th, 2008
GITEX Shopping and Consumer Electronics Expo in Dubai has already begun since 18th October, which will feature GITEX Digital Gaming World with both Console and PC gaming tournaments.
Famous teams from around the world like SK Gaming, mTw Gaming, MYM Gaming, miBr, Team Digitnas, Fnatic, and Mousports will be clashing in a Counter Strike 1.6 tournament held in unison with Electronic Sports League (ESL). With 1st Place getting $25,000 and the 2nd aiming for $10,000 the total prize money for this tournament will be $50,000.
WorldCall EVDO: A Wireless Game Changer?
Posted by on October 19th, 2008
Worldcall has recently started a new Wireless, internet anywhere, service for users that are always on the go. The Worldcall EVDO service supplies the subscriber with a USB device for Rs. 4500 initially, and then they charge slightly more than what you would pay for a wired connection.
Will this new entrant in Pakistan’s worsening economic situation make a difference? It might, or it might not. The much celebrated WiMax has still to find people to help it to deliver it’s good to people who are still in need of high speed wireless internet connections - making it an easier job of Worldcall to find some elbow room. But Worldcall is not run locally, and the foreign investor with Worldcall, OmanTel, might cut their losses and run.
WC3L Season XIV Update
Posted by on October 2nd, 2008
Warcraft’s most prestigious league, the WC3L, is heading towards the end of its current season. With a total of 11 playdays*, playday 10 is set to commence today with WE squaring off against SK.
When the season started, anyone could tell that by the end MYM, mTw, SK, fnatic and WE would be leading the pack. Infact, the competition between these 5 teams is so tight that only 3 points currently separate 1st place (MYM) from the 5th (mTw).
Click here to see what the rankings table looks like at the moment [taken from ESL]
New F.E.A.R named Project Origin
Posted by on July 24th, 2008
As previously announced, developer Monolith Productions is back with a new F.E.A.R. game, but it’s not called F.E.A.R. 2. And we had a chance to check it out at this year’s E3. Since publishers changed during development, the game is now called Project Origin.
Telenor Djuice Sponsoring ESWC Pakistan
Posted by on May 29th, 2008
Time to gear up for another mega gaming event taking on Pakistan. Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC) has finally made a come back in Pakistan after a their main sponsors changed this year. This year I am glad to announce it’s Djuice who are behind the National Qualifiers in Pakistan. The two games that Pakistan is playing in are Defence of the Ancients (DotA) and Counter Strike 1.6 (CS 1.6).
The qualification round will be held country wide from May 26th to June 10th. The national finals will be in Expo Center Karachi from June 13th to June 14th. And the Grand Final will be in San Jose (Silicon Valley), California from August 25th to August 27th.
- Preliminaries at participating Gaming Arenas : May 26- June 10th
- Participating cities Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Pindi,Faislabad, Hyderabad, Quetta
- Karachi Offline Pre-liminaries: June 6- June 8 (EXPO CENTER, Karachi)
- National Finals: June 13- 14th
- Grand Finale at California, USA
Registration opens on May 25th for all locations. Registration Fee Rs 1000 per team (Rs 200 per player).
Each registrant will get a djuice SIM or credit of Rs. 140 on their already existing djuice SIMS.For Registration, Rules and Regulations and participating gaming arenas go to Wired Up site.
To be able to participate it is mandatory to have a Djuice connection.
Teams from all over the world participate in this grand event, and the prize is more than prestigious. With a hefty purse for the winning teams, ESWC gives a lot of the winners the bragging rights about winning on the top level. ESWC has other categories that players compete in like WarCraft 3 1v1, FIFA 2008 etc. Click the image at the top left to gain more on where and how to register for the preliminaries!
Wi-Tribe in Pakistan [Rumor]
Posted by on May 14th, 2008
We come to know through another blog from Pakistan that the much promised WiMAX technology for the companies owned by the Orsacom group in Pakistan is here. It goes by the name Wi-Tribe and currently operates in Jordan. They are planning to run their their WiMAX services through LINKdotNET. If that happens, they will be Wateen WiMAX’s only competition in the country and might spur both of them in a heated competition.
From Wi-Tribe’s website I learn that they are deep into providing WiMAX and also into providing Wi-Fi hot spots all over Jordan.
[via Pro-Pakistan]
I Spy With My Little iSight!
Posted by on May 11th, 2008
A few days ago I did a story on how personal privacy and safety were being debated in the computer industry and just today I read an interesting piece on how the iSight for the MacBook actually helped someone recover their stolen laptop.
Before I go any further, I think the iSight coupled with the Back To My Mac remote computing software for MacBooks can be a perfect spy tool.
Anyways, so to cut a long story short, a woman who had her MacBook stolen logged into her Back To My Mac application and activated her iSight camera. She got what she wanted! The thief in the camera. The thieves were caught and the woman who wishes to remain nameless got her laptop back.
And in other news, the first Gear of War 2 footage is here.
