Xtreme Chaotix (XTC) took home their second World Cyber Games Singapore National Finals gold medal this year after their DotA Allstars team defeated Axis yesterday afternoon in a final that came down to the wire.

This year's World Cyber Games kicked off yesterday, along with the Games Xpo gaming convention, at Suntec Convention Centre Hall 404. The staff from GameSync walked the grounds and found six attractions you should not miss if you're at the show or in the area. Read on to find out what they are!

Battlefield Heroes will feature a pair of character costumes that Michael Jackson wore in music videos beginning later this month in a tribute to the late King of Pop.

Tan "Pei Hoon" Jia Chun (left) shortly after winning the right to represent Singapore at the TGX '09 exhibition match against Japan and Korea.

When Pei Hoon said "we are better than them" after being selected to represent Singapore against the likes of Korea and Japan, deep inside everyone knew it was an incredibly gutsy statement to make but we still yelled out our support and approval.

Personally, I did this not because I believed he would win the three-way exhibition match, or that a Singaporean will definitely take K.O. (although I do believe these could happen), but because I truly believe that gamers in Singapore have reasons to utter those words.

Modern Warfare 2, the sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, will have a co-op mode limited to just two players, developer Infinity Ward has said.

Team MolotoX are the Left 4 Dead champions of last Sunday's Cyber Games Festival. They defeated Wallhackers (wH.) in the finals with a combined score of 2222 (MolotoX) to 1163 (wH.).

StarCraft II will have no support for LAN multiplayer games, Blizzard's Vice President of Game Design Rob Pardo confirmed in an interview with IncGamers.

ZeniMax Media – best known to gamers as the parent company of Bethesda Studios, developers of the Elder Scroll games and Fallout 3 – announced last Thursday that it acquired id Software, makers of the DOOM and Quake franchises.

A Steam update was released for Left 4 Dead yesterday afternoon (Singapore time). The update enables players to easily download and play custom L4D maps and campaigns.

The groups for the 14 countries participating in the World Cyber Games 2009 Asian Championship were drawn yesterday. GameSync does some light analysis of what spectators and fans can expect at this year's tournament.