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Remember those days in school when you were asked to write an essay with the title “My Ambition” or “Cita-cita saya”? Do you still remember what the dream job you penned down was? Is it still the same today? In our cover story last week, we featured young individuals who are now making a living […]
Celebrities really know how to keep themselves busy while not losing a precious minute away from the spotlight. This week is no different. Oops, she did it! Remember how pop star Britney Spears stated on her Facebook page that she wanted to learn the Gangnam Style dance moves? Well, she did … from the creator […]
The Game of Thrones TV series is possibly one of the hottest properties in recent times. The merchandising of the franchise has also been, predictably, on the up and up. Fantasy Flight Games already makes a Living Card Game (LCG), and I was always wondering when they would do something that would tie in […]
Fantasy Flight Games just announced the long-anticipated (well, I did anticipate it for a long time, so there) expansion to Blood Bowl: Team Manager – The Card Game. Sudden Death will introduce the Undead, the Vampires and the Dark Elves as three new races, plus a slew of new stuff for them, and the original […]
Star Wars has a special place in my heart, and is a helluva monster franchise. Eons ago (in the mid-1990s to be precise), when trading card games (TCGs) were starting to be all the rage, Decipher Inc. launched the Star Wars Customizable Card Game (SWCCG), right after making a Star Trek TCG. The game […]
Magic: the Gathering fans must be lapping up all the Return to Ravnica spoilers that’s pretty much being revealed one by one, by the official game producer, Wizards of the Coast, as well as numerous fan sites. Plenty of interesting stuff has been revealed already: from awesome-looking and very powerful planeswalkers, to the tons […]
By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my WE’VE had plenty of celebrities and famous personalities walk through the doors of our office at Menara Star, but none have caused quite the same buzz as Olympic heroes Datuk Lee Chong Wei and Pandelela Rinong. They were at our office to receive a cash reward of RM100,000 each from […]
By ROXANNE LOW PAU-LING alltherage@thestar.com.my EXCHANGE student programmes have become quite popular for young Malaysians looking for life challenges and inter-cultural experiences. This year, American Field Service Malaysia (AFS MAS) sent 34 students (including me) on such exchange programmes in various countries. In the last five months I’ve been on this programme in Germany, […]
By DAVID LIAN alltherage@thestar.com.my When I was about nine, a trip to the “Pusat Sumber” (resource centre) in school was a real treat not to be missed. So whenever the teacher asked us to “go outside and line up”, we would hurriedly do so, eagerly awaiting whatever video was about to be shown to […]
Hope everyone had a nice break during the Raya holidays! Anyways, yours truly had a smashing time keeping up with the various Gen Con Indy 2012 news filtering out of the United States during the long Raya weekend. And to top things off, my favorite gaming company, Fantasy Flight Games had a ton […]