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If you’ve missed playing with X-Wings and TIE Fighters from the classic Star Wars universe, now’s your chance to catch up with a spanking new product from Fantasy Flight Games (FFG in short). The gaming company announced a slew of Star Wars-related games, including a Living Card Game (slated for end-2012 release), and a […]
That’s right, the title of my blog post this time around is as straight as it gets: where do you play and hang out? It’s a question that my group of boardgamer friends are grappling with once again. We’ve got a very accommodative venue in Papa’s Café, Tropicana City Mall, but after nearly a […]
Wanna get some awesome Looper merchandise? Well, you can win them right here. Looper tells the story of guys who kill men sent back to the past (possibly to make the future a better place?) Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a Looper and his life in 2044 gets a little complicated when he’s assigned to kill a […]
It is hard to imagine that after all these years, the debate on which social network is king is still going on. Of course, until earlier this year when they released their IPO, Facebook was the de facto social media du jour. Twitter was a close second naturally but the truth is that it doesn’t […]
WHAT would our lives be without some weekly dosage of crazy celebrity news? Absolutely, pretty boring. Well, it’s a good thing then that the Hollywood folks have been busy and the celebrities have given us plenty of things to talk about this time around. Here’s a roundup on what’s been going down in Tinseltown recently. […]
I last wrote that the new set for the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game (WoW TCG in short), War of the Ancients is coming soon, and lo and behold, with the conclusion of the pre-release events over the weekend, all the spoilers are now out. Why don’t you check out local boys Team […]
The new set for the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game (WoW TCG in short) is coming soon, and the spoilers are arriving thick and fast! It’s time for War of the Ancients by the way, in case you were not clued in – so yeah, get ready! It’s really back to basics as […]
SOME people call it a fad, while others believe it is a lifestyle. Well, whatever one chooses to call it, veganism is here to stay. Back in the day, the only vegan celebrities most people would know about were Natalie Portman, Alicia Silverstone and Pamela Anderson. Right? But nowadays, almost every other celebrity in Hollywood […]
By THAM YING HUI, CAROLYN HAI, V. VISHNU and SHAHRIMAN SHAHRUL alltherage@thestar.com.my All those years of playing Call Of Duty, finally paying off. That’s how some of us BRATs felt as we were getting prepped for our very first Nerf Dart Tag tournament. We were huddled in a corner, loading the velcro-tipped Nerf foam […]
By CHEE YIH YANG alltherage@thestar.com.my Two months ago, Eric Tee, 27, head of an investment company, decided to give the running of a full-fledged games café a go, having been a pretty active trading card and all-round gamer for many years. Tee acquired Classroom Café in Subang Jaya, Selangor, a place that serves food and […]