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The second stage of the Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2008 (GO OC 2008) was a thrilling race to shatter the world's current overclocking records. Several World OC Records fell that day with a neck and neck race between Team Vietnam and Team USA 2 that culminated in a 5:4 win for the champs of the P45 Freestyle competition. For more details on the thrilling drama, check out our report in the latest issue of HWM.

The first stage of GO OC 2008 (Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship 2008) is finally over and we have the top three teams for the P45 OC bash. They include team Sweden 2, team Russia and team USA 1. For more indepth info and who exactly is the champ (if you can't recognise them from the pic!) then take a look at our latest issue of HWM. Next will be the freestyle event and we'll really see how far these catz can take it to the next level.

Gigabyte's Open Overclocking Championship 2008 live from the Grand Hyatt Ballroom at Taipei. Check out all the boyz doing their thing in HWM's latest issue.

Above - DiGi and AIG General Insurance executives posing for a photo - complete with safety helmet

Below - DiGi's Albern Murty announces the plan details to members of the media

DiGi has announced some good news for its mobile subscribers; free accident insurance coverage by AIG up to RM10000 which also covers disability and loss of limbs. Its a 24-hour worldwide policy available to all DiGi subscribers which have been with the company at least for three months. To start your free insurance coverage, SMS 'INS YES' to 2000!

LG holds a sales promotion in conjunction with the Olympic Games. Get free LG products or get value limited editions when buying LG Gold Edition products. For more info on the event, check it out in our latest issue of HWM (HWM September 2008).

Phew! What a tiring weekend it was at the second PIKOM PC Fair of the year! With more bargains ranging from USB flashdrives to monitors, printers, and even notebooks now, it really is a place to go to if you're needing new tech toys. Here's a photo compilation of what we saw over the weekend! Hit the jump for more images. 

Howdy folks. HWM was recently invited to a regional product launch in Beijing courtesy of HP Malaysia and we sure liked what we saw

Yo peeps, hows gaming goin?

GameAxis Unwired Malaysia proudly presents the return of the CELGames with a big kickoff at Low Yat Plaza's main concourse area for a week! That's a long time for a kickoff, and I'm sure this year is gonna be big for GaX, as well as their partners, Gamers.com.my as well as the sponsors. On the floor, there are six PCs/gaming consoles open to the public for them to try out the official games of the tournament, namely Battlefield 2, FIFA Soccer 06, and Need For Speed: Most Wanted.

There are stage games, showcases by the sponsors and even a pre-warmup competition! Gamers can also try out the gaming machines for the official tournament, which are Intel Core 2 Duo powered!

More pics after the jump

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Not many game companies can afford to throw an anniversary bash for a game, unless you're GameFlier. The RO 3rd Anniversary 2006 Celebration was held last weekend over at The Summit USJ, and I managed to wriggle my way there to snap some photos. Here are a few of them.

The event has ended, the rivalries has started, now let the games begin! Our ardent shutterbug was at the CELgames 06 Kickoff's final day to capture a compressed look some of the exciting events that was held during the week.

That's right. The September issue of HWM and GameAxis are now out at all good newsstands everywhere. Go get them now!

HWM highlights

• High Definition (HD) myths debunked
• 20.1-inch widescreen LCD display shootout
• Windows Vista Beta 2 review
• And a whole lot of goodies reviewed!

GameAxis highlights

• Massive 12-page Final Fantasy special
• All your favorite zombie games!
• CELgames 06 preview
• Games, hardware and gadget reviews

The CEL Games preliminaries may be over but if you're still infected with soccer fever, PlayWorks arcade down at Sunway Pyramid will be starting their own unofficial Winning Eleven 10 tournament.

The first prelims begin this Saturday (16th September) with the Semis and Finals taking place on the 1st of October. For more details, check out the WinningKaki Project thread down at Lowyat.net here.

Guild Wars may not have the same intricate lush worlds and PvE gameplay that WoW has, but one sector that they have them beat is their PvP gameplay. Last Sunday, e-Club Malaysia held a mini 4-vs-4 PvP tourney to commemorate the upcoming Guild Wars: Nightfall expansion pack. (More)

Hullo, missed me? :D I didn't update the blog last week since I was in Singapore (courtesy of Sendi Mutiara Multimedia) to check out the debut of Hellgate: London and Granado Espada at the IAH Game Conference.

I got to try out both games and they're sweet, especially Hellgate: London. It was really fun hacking and slashing hordes of demon, and the first-person view when using ranged weapons really felt like an FPS even though I was shooting all over the place.

Developers Bill Roper and Kim Hakkyu were like superstars at the event; dozens of people were asking them to autograph their Hellgate/Granado T-shirts and posters (I, too, also asked for their autographs). With so many game journalists circling them constantly, I was lucky enough to get one-on-one interviews with both Bill Roper and Kim Hakkyu, so look forward to their interviews in the upcoming GameAxis issues.

It wasn't all fun and games as upon returning home to Malaysia, a few sample products came in the mail for me to review. Here're a couple of stuff that you can look forward to next month's issue of HWM: