News & Reviews:   Gaming

From 24 August until 29 September 2019, the 4th season of the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League for Malaysia and Singapore will be happening with up to RM415000 prize pool to be won. The tournament will be aired live on Mobile Legends: Bang Bang facebook page every Saturday and Sunday from 4PM onwards, if you’re interested in watching the live stream.

Recently, a post popped up on Facebook explaining how something as harmless as a piece of cracked screen protector led to an injury so severe that the user had to be hospitalized. The unfortunate user, who was playing a mobile game at that time had managed to cut himself with the damaged screen protector which was not changed even after it was shattered four months prior to the incident.

In conjunction with Bethesda’s 25th anniversary, they have released official ports of Doom as well as Doom II on the Google Play Store going for USD4.99 (~RM20.58) per title. These ports will include all expansions as well as additional content that was developed, as well as twenty community-created Master Levels.

MSI officially launches their new refresh for their Titan and Raider series of gaming laptops, starting from the price of RM8099. The laptops in question, which is the MSI GT76 DT 9SG and the GT76 DT 9SF, comes equipped with up to Intel's top of the line high-end mainstream processor which is the 9th Generation Intel Core i9-9900k, RTX 2080 GPU and a 240Hz capable 17.3-Inch display. 

Before I started my career as a tech journalist at TechNave, I used to invest a lot of my time competing in various competitive esports tournaments for titles such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, and Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds. With all that said, I want to share with you my experience during my time competing in esports tournaments around Malaysia.

On this very day, Maxis has announced that they are the first Malaysian company to sponsor Team Secret’s all Malaysian PUBG Mobile team. Not only that, but both the organisations will be collaborating together in order to bring the best eSports experiences to Malaysia via Maxis’ 4G as well as Fibre network.

Previously, there were a lot of rumours going around hinting at the possibility that Nintendo will be releasing a cheaper version of the Nintendo Switch. It seems that the rumours are true, as Nintendo has officially announced the Nintendo Switch Lite starting from the price of NT$6180(~RM824) and it will be available for purchase on 20 September this year.

Recently, the SEGA Genesis Mini was announced during an E3 Conference in Los Angeles, USA starting from the price of 79USD. The mini console comes with up to 42 games pre-installed such as Castlevania: Bloodlines, Sonic The Hedgehog series, Tetris and more. That said, Epicsoft Asia notified that the console is expected to be available for purchase via Impulse Gaming on the 19 September 2019, starting from the price of RM359.

Battle Royale games have attracted quite a huge crowd in the last couple of years, and we don’t expect the hype to die down soon. In fact, almost all Triple-A title games come included with some form of Battle Royale mode, such as Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout mode and Battlefield 5’s Firestorm.

Google has given us a little more information regarding Google Stadia, and how much bandwidth is required in order to stream content of various resolutions and frame rates. Based on the infographic provided, Stadia requires a minimum of 10Mbps connection in order to sustain a constant 720p 60FPS game stream while the Stadia Pro requires the highest recommended speed for 4k 60FPS HDR with 5.1 surround sound content is 35Mbps and above.