WarRock

Every battle must come to an end.

After several rounds and explosive matches during eliminations in the past months, Amped Games’ nationwide tournament “WarRock World Championship: Road to Korea” will finally see through its efforts of finding the top WarRock team in the Philippines to represent the country in Korea for the WarRock World Championship Finals during the prestigious Game and Game World Championship Finals on December 1, 2007..

Eight teams from all over the Philippines will battle it out on November 10, 2007, from 11AM onwards, in Station 168 Eastwood, Libis, Quezon City for the title of the first WarRock Philippine Team.

Teams can join the tournament through two categories: the regional tournaments or the online tournaments. In the regional tournaments, the competing teams will have to be present in a designated tournament location, while online tournaments are given as another option for teams who cannot make it to a regional location but would like to participate in the tournament.

The roster of semifinalists has finally been completed upon the conclusion of eliminations last October 27 in Baguio, except for the final slot in the online tournament category which will be decided on November 10 before the tournament finals start. Dubbed “Z-Wars”, Teams Zero Orange and Zion will face off in a bid to win the last slot of the eight semifinalists. WarGods qualified in the Cebu Regionals, Barriers in the Davao Regionals, Ambush in the NCR Regionals and Baguio Clan Uno (BC1) in the Baguio Regionals. Online tournament winners include Torment, Papable Momol, Accrecia.

Some teams play for the fun of it, while some have gone as serious as drawing the WarRock maps on a notebook and creating different plays for each map.

Rex Aborot, a.k.a. SgtKagawad of Team Ambush said he’s nervous about the upcoming competition, but they are generally “happy and very excited,” said his teammate WrenCris Cañizares, a.k.a. Roshan.

During the eliminations, some Regional Tournaments even served as grounds for some players to meet their team mates for the first time like Team Barriers, winner of the Davao Regionals. “If we lose, we’ll still be smiling. But we’ll always try our best for Davao,” said Berny Mollenido, a.k.a. 6sperm9. “We didn’t expect to win, but we give our 100% in the tournament,” said another Barriers member Greg Go.

All semi-finalists will be given cash prizes from Amped Games. PhP100,000 will be awarded to the team who will win 1st Place, plus airfare and accommodations to Korea; PhP50,000 to the 2nd Place winner, PhP25,000 to the 3rd and 4th Place winners; and PhP15,000 to each team who made up the 5th Place to the 8th Place.

Amped Games, the local publisher of WarRock, will be training the winning team before sending them to Korea. The winning team will be competing against other WarRock national champion clans from Japan, America, Europe and Korea and will be awarded the Best Gamers title plus a total grand prize of USD$5,000.

For more information about WarRock, visit www.warrock.ph.

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Amped Games
Amped Games is the principal online game provider of ABS-CBN Multimedia, Inc. It publishes online games like Tantra Online, the full 3D Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game developed by Hanbitsoft; WarRock, the online military tactical First Person Shooter game developed by Dream Execution Technology Ltd.,; and the recently acquired 3D casual fighting game GetAmped developed by Cyberstep, Inc.

WarRock Philippines
Developed by Dream Execution Technology Ltd., WarRock Philippines is locally published by Amped Games. It started its Closed Beta stage last May 11 and started the Open Beta phase last July 6. WarRock Philippines was commercially launched in the Philippines on September 1, 2007 and has so far exceeded the publisher’s expectations even in its Open Beta stages. WarRock now has three available servers: Alpha, Bravo and Charlie. Military vehicles like Blackhawk choppers are now playable and the Item Shop is now accessible.

WarRock World Championship: Road to Korea
WarRock World Championship: Road to Korea is the nationwide tournament launched by Amped Games in a quest to find the best WarRock team to represent the country in the worldwide competition WarRock World Championship. WarRock Team Philippines will face off the regional champion clans from Japan, Europe, Korea and America in the Game and Game World Championship, where the Finals of the WarRock World Championship will be held.

Game and Game World Championship
Game and Game World Championship (GNGWC) event is an international game competition organized by the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication (KIPA) in 2006 to promote Korean online games to the world. Last year alone on GNGWC’s first championship, the event had gathered about 1,070,000,000 gamers from around 80 countries, representing three online Korean games. This year, six other Korean online games will be participating including WarRock.

Barely two weeks after WarRock has started its Open Beta phase, the country’s premier online tactical first person shooter game is already preparing to open a new server very soon to accommodate its growing online community. The new server will be code named “Bravo.” Users can fully transfer their characters to either Alpha or Bravo servers without loss in levels or Dinar, WarRock’s in-game currency.

WarRock’s local publisher Amped Games, formerly known as ABS-CBN Multimedia Inc., expresses their desire to add a new server because of the overwhelming reception that the game has received from the players since its Open Beta last July 6.

“Our alpha server is almost always full or experiencing heavy traffic,” says Amped Games Product Manager Agnes Tapia. “We didn’t really plan to open the ‘Bravo’ server until after a month from now. But since the demand for it came earlier than expected, we’re going to have to do it sooner.”

Developed by Korean company Dream Execution Technology, WarRock is a fresh alternative to the various online role playing games in the country today. It lets the players feel the adrenaline-pumping thrill of modern day warfare in land, air and water. The five character classes can equip and operate various 21st century weaponry. WarRock also features Close Quarters Combat, Urban Ops and Battlegroup, which are the three mission-based game modes that offer different maps to play on and war vehicles to use.

The game has been recently updated with a new map called Xauen for the Close Quarters Combat, and new weapons: Uzi for the medic and engineer, and the M4A1 for the assault. The Nprotect gameguard is also installed to prevent the proliferation of cheaters in the game.

In the upcoming patch of WarRock, the Montana map will already be playable, and two new weapons will be released: the Glock for all classes and the SSG for the scout. Gamers who are already clamoring for the use of air vehicles and item mall release will have to wait until the commercial release of the game.

WarRock has been showing a steady growth in players since its Closed Beta phase and has so far exceeded Amped Games’ expectations in this early stage.

Learn why WarRock is fast becoming one of hottest online games in the country. Catch the WarRock Mall Tours and win cash prizes in the Free-For-All Tournament in these areas: SM Fairview (July 21-22), SM Lipa (July 28-29), SM Iloilo (Aug 4-5), SM Dasmariñas (Aug 18-19), SM Davao (Aug 24-25), NCCC Davao (Aug 25-26), Trinoma (Sept 1-2), SM Cebu (Sept 15-16), SM Bacoor (Sept 22-23), SM Megamall (Sept 28-29), SM North (Oct 6-7), SM Molino (Oct 13-14), SM Baguio (Oct 27-28).

WarRock is an intense online military tactical first person shooter game featuring state of the art weapons, team or solo based play with exciting missions and maps. WarRock was created by South Korean developer, Dream Execution and published here in the Philippines by ABS-CBN Multimedia, powered by the full media strength of ABS-CBN Interactive and Bayan Telecommunications.

For its Closed Beta Phase, they will be releasing an armory of weapons, explosive set of maps and strings of endless FPS game feature possibilities. There is a multitude of factors that differentiates WarRock from other FPS games which takes it to the next level surpassing any game we have here in the Philippines today.

Initially, WarRock is launching Closed Beta Testing with a close circle of 100 Closed Beta Café’s as well as more than 1,000 personal account users. For its top 5 bug reporters, ABS-CBN Multimedia will be giving away a 6-month Maxim Subscription to its top 5 Bug reporters.

For its official Closed Beta Café’s, WarRock will be tallying the number of frags of each account and the Internet Café who tops the list will instantly win P20,000. The other top four Internet Café will each win P10,000.

WarRock is currently being published in the United States, UK, Germany, Korea and Japan.

For more information about War Rock please visit http: //www.warrock.ph/