TriXie continues to blog and post photos on the last few hours of her stay in Singapore, along with the much awaited exclusive Halo3 Master Chief interview.
WCG Singapore 2007
Well, well, well…..it seems that our Community Editor and her team has been all over our little island while they were here covering WCG.
TriXie blogs about where she’s been in the couple of days she spent in Singapore, complete with photos and videos.
The cool people at GamesZone gathered at the Halo3 Live appearance on Sunday. They were proudly showing their new fanclub t-shirts. GamesZone is another online XBOX fanclub other than Brotherhood of the Box.
In the spirit of camaraderie, I ordered one for myself too and put it on for the Halo3 event. Cool design, Comfortable wear, Decent price.
Great job guys!
I’ve found the video of that exclusive footage shown at the end of the Halo3 stage show at WCG Singapore.
Little did I know it was actually for an upcoming Halo3 movie.
Silly me.
Anyway enjoy!
Samsung, a major and well-known sponsor at WCG organised a Guitar Hero co-op tournament over the last few days and the finals were held this afternoon. What’s interesting in the match is it was a clash between a guy and a girl. Guitars and games are usually guys’ familiar domains and one would expect the guy to win most of the time, but in this day and age, anything can happen. And boy it did.
The two contestants battled on Expert settings and rocked on away on the grand stage, as the audience made their secret bets on who they thought would win. From what I know, both of them are locals and they brought their own Guitar Hero controllers. Hmm, i guess it’s important to be familiar with your tools in any competition. I notice that our local DOA4 Champion Tetra lugs his own Hori joystick controller for his DOA4 tournaments and the top Gears of War teams usually plug in their own controllers during those intense 4v4 multiplayer mayhem matches.
Anyway, back to our Guitar Hero tournament, somehow our male competitor missed a couple of notes and the final results showed a close margin score between the both competitors – 81% vs 88%
Let me see whether I can contact the winner for an interview.
Master Chief and Sgt Johnson were not the only celebrities I met at the Halo3 segment at WCG Singapore. Guess what! I had the opportunity to meet Trixie, a well known XBOX "resident gamer girl, reporter and spy", according to her personality introduction on XBOX.com 
She was there to interview Master Chief at the Halo3 booth.
As XBOX MVP, it was a great pleasure meeting a community personality from XBOX here in a local event. We exchanged contacts and I look forward to communicating with her again soon.
Our XBOX PM Alan Chou also had a media interview at the Halo3 booth.
I could not get a good photo of Trixie and Alan because my camera phone is a 3-year old Sony Ericsson P910i which did not have a strong inbuilt camera.
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My photographer was away covering a live match at the grand stage – a Dead or Alive 4 match between Singapore and China. Unfortunatlely, our Singapore champion, Tetra (who won the Dead or Alive 4 National Finals tournament on Friday to secure his position to represent Singapore in Seattle) did not manage to beat his opponent this time to advance further in the Asian Championship.
That much awaited event finally came. Scheduled to appear at 130pm, the grand stage started playing the familiar Halo3 trailers on the big screen, drawing the crowd to fill in the seats.
Then the emcee started to throw exclusive Halo3 goodies (Halo3 notebooks, T-shirts, posters and XBOX lanyards) to the front row, causing the crowd to swell forward. 10 minutes before the show started, the seats were almost filled.
The show started with a troop of guards storming in and taking control of the grand stage, clearing the path for Sgt Johnson to appear. He alerted the audience of the crisis at hand and how the situation calls for heroes to step forward. Not just any hero, but men who dare to take risks, men who BELIEVE that every single person matters.
Sgt Johnson called the troop to remember their mission, which is to FINISH THE FIGHT, which the troop answered loudly a couple of times.
A familiar chorus from the Halo theme is played and Sgt Johnson announced the arrival of one man who will make a difference – the Master Chief! As he made his entrance, the audience cheered! Master Chief is in trademark army green shiny metallic armour stood tall as the audience whipped out their cameras, camera phones and video cams to capture the moment. The armour was very well done. I wish I could get my hands on the helmet.
Master Chief advanced to the crowd and stood for a couple of minutes as the cameras flashed away at the precious close up. He strode along the walkway and stopped again for the famous rests-machine gun-over-shoulder pose, much to the delight of anyone who has ever played the game.
By this time, I don’t suppose many people were paying attention to Sgt Johnson and his speech (laughs) until Master Chief alerted Sgt Johnson of an impending attack by the Covenants, causing the troop to assembled and prepare for the battle.
The treat did not end there. The skit was followed with an exclusive view of a never-seen-before footage of Halo3 which lasted about 120 seconds, leaving the crowd for more.
The emcee reminded the crowd to BELIEVE, as he threw another batch of goodies to the floor.
We then adjourned to the XBOX Halo3 booth for Master Chief to appear, where we ambushed him for a couple of photos together with XBOX PM Alan Chou.
I wonder if we ever get to see Cortana in the flesh someday….
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More photos at GamesXtremeLeague.com gallery
You better BELIEVE by now, that Master Chief is making an appearance at World Cyber Games Singapore on Sunday 5 August! He’s scheduled to make an entrance around 130pm, but hey it’s better to be early. Make sure you’re here by 1pm with your cameras.
See you tomorrow!
One thing that catches as fast as a cold on in our tiny island Singapore is costume play, or better known as Cosplay.
On Saturday afternoon, these cosplay-ers from all ages and walks of life streamed into the event arena with their colourful and creative outfit.
It’s amazing how all of them resembled the original characters.
Let the pictures speak for themselves.
Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the new Regional Product Manager, Entertainment and Devices Division, Microsoft Asia – Mr Alan Chou.
I manage to get Alan’s consent to publish his speech for those who missed the prize ceremony. Read about Microsoft’s passion and commitment for XBOX 360 gamers for the final quarter of 2007 and the campaign "BELIEVE".
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Good evening everyone, really happy to be here representing Microsoft. I’d like to thank Rapture Gaming for organizing the event and inviting Microsoft to participate, and what an event it has been so far. I’d like to congratulate the winners of the National Finals and wish them luck in the upcoming Asian Championships. Xbox titles have been selected as the official console games for WCG since 2003 and we have been the global console partner for 2 years running. The level of gaming I’ve seen the past couple of days is really impressive. I have a lot of respect for these players because it takes a lot of hard work and practice to get to this level of competitiveness. It takes a lot of passion. That’s something we at Xbox share with all of you, commitment and passion.
We are committed to making the Xbox the best entertainment device in the world. In fact, it has never been a better time to part of the Xbox community. We are expanding our Xbox LIVE offerings.
Show of hands, how many of you have tried playing the Shadowrun cross platform game competition in the Xbox booth?
Cross platform gaming is just one of the great features our online service Xbox LIVE provides. Now you can play against console gamers or PC gamers. When our new Messenger Kit comes out you’ll be able to type messages to your friends on Xbox Live with a full keyboard!
And it gets even better for games.
Show of hands, how many of you are waiting for Halo 3?
Halo 3 is going to be the biggest entertainment launch of the year. When Halo 2 launched it took in more on the first day than any other movie blockbuster ever. With your help I expect an even bigger response. This is the last of the trilogy, all the story lines will be closed off and this time Master Chief is calling on all the faithful to join him and believe that a few people can make a difference. Our campaign theme is “Believe” and we are kicking it all off here! You can learn more about Halo 3 at our “Believe” booth. Make sure you come on Sunday because that’s when we will have our stage show and Master Chief will be making an appearance! We have a ton of fun things planned between now and when Halo 3 launches on Sept 25 so make sure you are a part of it!
But that’s not all. We want to make this the greatest entertainment device in the world so beyond Halo 3 we have games of all types for all people. It’s insane the number of games we have coming. Believe it or not we have more than 50 new titles coming between now and the end of the year. PGR 4, Lost Odyssey, Viva Pinata Party animals, Bioshock are all coming to the Xbox 360. We have classic games on Xbox Live marketplace like Pac man and Prince of Persia. We have party games like Scene it and Guitar Hero 3. Did I mention it is a great time to be an Xbox owner? And if you don’t have one what are you waiting for?
For all you PC gamers, I don’t want you to feel left out so guess what? Gears of War is coming to the PC with brand new campaign chapters. And there’s more, the Age of Empires III expansion pack, Asian Dynasties is coming as well as the newest Flight Simulator Expansion pack.
As you can tell, I’m excited to be here and tell you about our Xbox 360, our great accessories and PC Games. We are as passionate about gaming as you are and it really is a great time to be a gamer on Xbox. Have a great Asian Championship and I’ll see you all on the floor and on Sunday when Master Chief makes his grand entrance!
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