Philippine Online Games

There are 3 MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) set to be released this quarter: namely Perfect World from Level Up!, Granado Espada by IPVG and Lineage 2 by AMDG. I have spent quite some time with all games and here are my impressions:

I would’ve played Lineage 2 PH if only someone bothered to give me an install cd/dvd. I did play at the US servers for a couple of months and i hated the grind and the overall travel time. Great content due to numerous patches over the years though (its more than 2 years old, people…). Props to the Dark Elf Model.

Granado Espada is a great looking game but i basically went from 1-20 without being attached to my characters. Blame the “bot” feature for this. I love the artistic style and period though. Great improvements over the CBT although i still feel it a bit lacking in the charm department.

Perfect World still has some bugs it needs to fix and some clarifications to implement but i wasted enough with time its face creator. Seriously, With 10 characters per server, this can take a while. I wish it were available on DVD though…

How about you? What local MMO are you playing?

Demons from Hellgate: London at a pub, drowning their sorrows. Intel-powered computers are making their lives miserable.

My nephew’s really lucky. It’s his birthday this Sunday and my parents decided to get him a Nintendo DS Lite. Aside from kiddy games like Pokemon Diamond and Mario Kart—none of that gory stuff—an R4 was of course included in the package.

The reason why the R4 is such a great companion for the Nintendo DS is because it lets you place all of your games in one microSD card. A 1GB microSD card was part of the bundle, which means I can put tens, if not hundreds, of games on it. Placing all your games into the microSD and plugging it into the R4 has benefits.

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It looks like Bioshock is another classic in the making for developer Irrational games, as major media outlets scoring it in the high 90’s in terms of review percentage scores. It is also a swan song for Irrational in a way since they will be assimilated by 2K Games as the more corporately named 2k Boston and 2k Australia.

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Take a look at NBA.com’s new NBA Live ‘08 screenshot gallery. The tendency for publishers to spice up ad materials aside, the graphics are the most photorealistic I’ve ever seen. More excuse for video game addicts to avoid real exercise, since they’ll be busy living their hoop dreams through buttons and the D-Pad.

Did your jaw drop because of NBA 2k7’s luscious HD graphics? Let’s see how NBA Live ‘08 will affect virtual ballers.

If you haven’t downloaded the StarCraft II Gameplay Preview Video (the smaller 720 x 404 version is a whopping 268MB by the way), never fear! We at Space Invaded got it covered. Literally. Read on to see a blow-by-blow description of what happens.

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Yeah, Bioshock has earned some great reviews from the major media outlets prompting a bevy of sales. Now you can download the Bioshock Musical Score and enjoy the eerie music of the game even while not playing the game.

Composer Garry Schyman created the orchestral masterpiece that serenades you through your journey into the heart of Rapture. Today, we are releasing the 12 tracks that create the eerie string compilation in Rapture so that you can take the world of BioShock wherever you go. We have archived these 12 mp3s into a zip file for you for easy download. Grab it and take a listen — and remember the first moment setting eyes upon the sunken city, your first battle with a Splicer, when you first battled a Big Daddy, or the time you decided to save (perhaps harvest?) a Little Sister.

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The cheapest and most reliable service i found selling Asian Xbox 360s locally are selling it for 15,500Php. It includes the following package:

Xbox 360 Console, 1pc Wireless Controller, 20gb Hard Drive, Headset, Ethernet Connectivity Cable, Component HD AV Cable
Free Xbox Live Silver Membership: Includes one month of Xbox Live Gold, 220v AC.

I think this is good deal as it also comes a 1 year warranty against the dreaded 3RL problem of select 360s. I remember buying my first 360 at 25k a year and a half ago. That was when local shop prices were as high as 40k. Sobrang sulit. The 360 has a lot of games and plays even better when you’re online. The only problem of owning one is you cant actually frag it out with n00bs in Xbox Live while grinding your way through World of Warcraft.. Sigh. Read more…

IP E-Game Ventures Inc (e-Games), the online gaming subsidiary of publicly listed IPVG Corp., Megamobile, IPVG’s mobile application developer and 3D animation studio BeeHive digital, are proud to announce the release of new mobile Java games for its top online role playing game titles.

e-Games is releasing three mobile games for its school-based 3D MMORPG (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game) RAN Online, and another three mobile games for Granado Espada, the 3D MMORPG from famed legendary game producer Hakkyu Kim.

While most mobile games are created with a world audience in mind, these new mobile games were created exclusively for the Philippine market.

According to Manny Fernando, Megamobile president, e-Games will be one of the first online gaming publishers to bring their gaming titles on a mobile phone. He said that the popularity of e-Games titles is immense and these mobile games are just perfect for the players who can’t get enough of RAN Online and Granado Espada. Each game is uniquely designed with different fighting moves and strategies to defeat opponents.

Unlike their on-line gaming format, the mobile java version was adopted to be more of a casual and fun single player game. “By bringing the titles through their mobile phones, e-Games can continue engaging the gamers with their favorite titles even when their off-line. Since most of the Filipinos have mobile phones, we feel that it’s logical to extend their gaming experience to a small screen format”.

Using Java enabled phones, the mobile games can be downloaded via WAP or SMS.

The following mobile games are:

* Karuso’s Escape - Control Karuso and fight your way out of the Dungeon and go head to head with Evil Max in the Final Stage.

* RAN Girls’ Jealousy - Stop Mica and her female friends from spreading nasty rumors about you. Let the fight begin.

* Swordsman - Help the mysterious Swordsman to defeat the evil Leenakt and free his soul

* Little Red Riding Elementalist - The bid bad wolf is out to get Little Red Riding Elementalist. Use your punches and your kicks to stop the wolf

* Musketeer’s Wrath - Avenge your family and Kill Raptor with your mastered skill of gun fighting and brawls!

* GE Girls’ Fight - Fight with all your might and stop Garette from conquering your clan.

Ed Pasion, e-Games vice president for marketing, said that these mobile games based on their hit gaming titles will likewise reach players new to online gaming.

“These exclusively developed mobile games will keep our current players entertained and wanting for more. But more importantly it’ll reach to new players who have yet to experience the incredible virtual worlds of RAN Online and Granado Espada. Our mobile games will provide them a glimpse on how utterly fun our titles are,” he said.

The Consumer Electronics Live! 2008 will be held this October here in Manila this week-end. Slated to happen between October 24 and 26, 2008, CEL Manila will showcase the latest products in the tech industry. The 3-day event will be located at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.

Current list of exhibitors include Apple/Senco, Canon, HP, LG Electronics, Nokia, Samsung and Sony. There will also be displays from Bose, Creative, Fuji Xerox, JBL, Myphone, Sennheiser and Western Digital.

What to expect in this event:

1. Sony VAIO Launch and New Alpha Cameras
2. Canon up to 40% off on selected items
3. My Screen up to 70% off on selected items
4. HP – get a free one month subscription of Sun Cellular Broadband for every purchase of HP Laptop or Personal Computer
5. Certina – get a free luggage worth P1K for every purchase
6. Popcorn Hour product launch

Plus, get the chance to win a Bose Sound Dock as well as Nokia & Samsung cellphones in the daily CEL Gadget Give-Away.