Register now by clicking this link: geo.runup.com.ph. No download required! (You can also login from foreign accounts using the social networks: facebook, friendster, yahoo, google, msn, letsmmo.)

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Register now by clicking this link: geo.runup.com.ph. No download required! (You can also login from foreign accounts using the social networks: facebook, friendster, yahoo, google, msn, letsmmo.)

There are altogether eight teams who will be vying for this rare shot at glory, and the team that will emerge as the ultimate champion will not only represent the Philippines, but will also receive premium prizes from BitDefender consisting of a cash prize of seven thousand pesos and seven BitDefender Total Security 3 user, 1 year licenses. The second and third place winners will likewise receive their own 1 year licenses of BitDefender Internet Security and Antivirus Pro.

Exciting activities and freebies are in store for everyone who will be dropping by. Aside from raffling off limited BitDefender T-shirts and 50 licenses of Antivirus Pro 2011, a BitDefender photo booth will be installed where attendees will be able to strike their best poses together with Cos Players. By uploading these pictures in the BitDefender Philippines fan page in Facebook, attendees will have the chance of winning 1 year Antivirus Pro licenses by earning the most number of “likes” by friends.

Even more instant prizes can be won at the BitDefender mini-raffle where BitDefender baller IDs, caps, posters, and other merchandize items will be up for grabs.

To help get you started, here’s a quick summary of each custom game as well as some basic instructions on how to play.

StarJeweled
Category: Puzzle/Strategy

Mode: Solo vs. A.I., Co-op vs. A.I., Player vs. Player

Players: Up to 4 (1v1, 1v1 A.I., 1v2 A.I., 1v2, 2v2, 2v2 A.I., etc.)

tarJeweled focuses on matching groups of jewels according to color and strategically selecting StarCraft II units to overcome an opponent’s forces and destroy their base. StarJeweled can be played several ways, including cooperatively against the A.I. or competitively against other players.

Each successfully matched jewel combination provides a burst of energy; the larger the jewel combo, the bigger the energy burst. This energy can be spent to train a variety of StarCraft II units, including zealots, banshees, and ultralisks, which will help you eliminate your opponent’s defenses. You can also use energy to cast spells that heal friendly targets and do damage to enemy units. To activate a unit or spell once you’ve gained enough energy, simply click on the corresponding icon located beneath the jewel board.

Since the goal of StarJeweled is to destroy your opponent’s base while protecting your own, you’ll want to choose which units you purchase carefully. StarJeweled is not just about matching as many jewels as possible, but also managing your energy efficiently and understanding how the units in the game counter each other. If you’re unfamiliar with all the units’ strengths and weaknesses, each unit’s tooltip (which you’ll see by hovering over its icon) includes a list of what it’s strong against and what it’s weak against. Use this knowledge to use your advantage, and pay attention to what units your opponent is building.

A game of StarJeweled consists of five rounds. Each round will continue until one player’s or team’s base is destroyed. Take out your opponent’s base in three out of the five rounds and you win!

Aiur Chef

Category: Collection/Cooking

Mode: Free For All

Players: Up to 8

Each round of Aiur Chef features a theme ingredient and three succulent recipes that play upon its unique flavor. Before you can master these themed dishes, though, you’ll first need to scout across the map and collect a variety of tasty ingredients (including the theme ingredient). Each recipe has its own set of required ingredients, listed in the recipe menu in the upper-left of your screen, which can be picked up off the ground or acquired by killing specific creatures. Don’t get too greedy when loading up on ingredients, though — inventory space is limited, so you’ll want to focus on collecting ingredients for one recipe at a time.

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Once you’ve collected the proper ingredients, you’ll need to return to the kitchen in the center of the map and use the Beacon to prepare your dish. Each dish created using the theme ingredient will award you points based on the complexity of the recipe. Some dishes even award special one-time use abilities like Hearthstove, which allows you to quickly port back to the Beacon, and Decoy, which places a fake theme ingredient on the ground for other players to scavenge. Take advantage of these abilities whenever possible, as they could provide the competitive edge you need to outcook your opponents.

The player with the most points at the end of three rounds will be named Executor Chef, culinary guru of the entire Koprulu Sector. With such a prestigious title on the line, expect some fierce competition… and get those psi blades ready!

Left 2 Die

Category: Survival and Siege
Mode: Co-op, Endless Night
Players: Up to 2

Left 2 Die is a cooperative take on the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty campaign mission Outbreak that shifts between two phases: a night phase and a day phase.

At night, you and a teammate are tasked with protecting your base against waves of infested terrans. In order to survive, you’ll need to use defensive structures like bunkers and coordinate your defenses against the invading zerg armies. You’ll also want to watch out for special zerg units such as the Kaboomer and Stank that can perform unique and powerful abilities capable of overwhelming even the strongest front lines.

During the day, the attacks on your team’s base will cease, giving you and your teammate time to train additional units and take them out to destroy infested terran settlements scattered across the map. It’s also a good idea to continue building up defenses during the daytime so you can survive the merciless onslaught of zerg that swarm your base at night.

While the struggle to survive in Left 2 Die can be daunting, you and your teammate will have some help along the way. You can earn zerg Biomass by killing special zerg units and destroying infested buildings, and then use the collected Biomass at the Science Facility in your base to research new units and structures like medics, firebats, and perdition turrets. Both you and your teammate will receive these upgrades, which will aid you in your struggle against the zerg strain.

In order to achieve victory in Left 2 Die, you’ll need to eradicate all traces of the zerg virus. Work together to survive at night, assault and rebuild during the day, and use Biomass wisely for epic upgrades to win!

Endless Night: If you’re looking for a different kind of challenge, be sure to try out Left 2 Die’s Endless Night mode, essentially a “survival” mode in which infested structures are invulnerable and daybreak never comes. You’ll have to fend off wave after wave of the infested, with each wave becoming increasingly more powerful. While defeat is inevitable, the challenge comes in seeing how long you can endure in the dark.

To play the beta versions of Aiur Chef, StarJeweled, or Left 2 Die, simply go to the Multiplayer tab in StarCraft II and look for the custom games window. A few of these games have more than one difficulty setting, so select the level of challenge that’s best for you. We hope you enjoy them, and we’re looking forward to hearing what you think.

dme will provide payment services for Dofus. This means that players in the country can now use Mobius ePoints to buy Ogrines, the virtual currency used for game subscription and services across all Ankama games. Dofus is also now available on dme’s games portal mobiusgames.net and payment gateway mobiusonline.net.

Mobiusonline.net has millions of registered users and the virtual currency Mobius ePoints is readily available in thousands of Internet cafes and retail stores throughout the Philippines. Mobius ePoints can be purchased via mobile, electronic pins or game cards, giving players access to hundreds of popular games.

“Dofus is a welcome addition to our online games portals and we are excited to have this partnership with Ankama. With the support they (Ankama) are providing plus the resources dme is ready commit, we see Dofus to be even more successful in the Philippines this 2011,” said Steven Coleman, dme’s Vice President of Business Development.

“We are very happy to start a partnership with dme which will enable us to be closer to our existing community in the Philippines and attract new players, thanks to dme’s experience and know- how.” said Matthieu Youna, General Manager of Ankama Japan, the subsidiary of Ankama that centralizes the group’s business development in Asia.

Developed by Ankama, Dofus is a 2D Flash MMORPG set in a colorful, amusing and enchanting universe where adventurers are tasked to capture the powerful dragon eggs called Dofus known to grant its owners extraordinary powers to help them in their adventures. The game offers regular updates to sustain the enthusiasm of its millions of players worldwide. With an enormous world to explore, 26 characters from 13 different classes and dozens of professions to choose from and hundreds of NPC’s, spells and monsters within the game, it is obvious why this game, already translated to eight (8) different languages, has been held one of the top online games worldwide.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty game-time passes are available in 3-day, 7-day, and 30-day increments. Gamers in Southeast Asia can now choose from an array of convenient alternative pricing options and play on a schedule that best fits their preferences.

Pricing for the game-time passes for the Philippines are as follows:

3-day pass: Php50
7-day pass: Php100
30-day pass: Php350

From the creators of DOTA All-stars comes the next evolution in DOTA type gaming. League of Legends combines elements of role-playing and strategy genres with addictive battle action that brings accessible, replay-able and competitive gameplay to Filipino gamers. The game itself is built as a highly competitive core game that will change people’s minds about the type and caliber of games that are offered for free, yes; it’s FREE TO PLAY.

League of Legends or LOL as it is commonly called by gamers boasts of industry powerhouse veterans behind its team such as Blizzard Entertainments, Tom Cadwell and Shawn Carnes as well as Steve “Guinsoo” Feak, the original creator of DotA Allstars, and Steve “Pendragon” Mescon who started DotA-Allstars.com.

As part of its launch, Garena is planning an abundance of events including tournaments, leagues and raffles. Just recently World Cyber Games Inc. (WCG), organizer of the premier international video game competition, announced that League of Legends will be one of the featured Promotional Game Titles at the WCG 2010 Grand Final. These are the type of things we can hope to expect from Garena LOL.

About the game

The basic game play of LOL is the same as DOTA, teams/players win a game by destroying the others teams base. But be warned, LOL game play has a much faster pace.

• 2 Teams (Maximum of 5 players per team) of opposing sides fight each other.
• A match is won by destroying the others teams base called the Nexus.
• In order to get to the Nexus, players must destroy Turrets as well as incoming waves of AI controlled minions (or creeps as they call in DOTA).
• Along the way players gain levels from killing minions and other players.
• Players also earn gold by killing minions, towers and other players.
• Players can use their gold to buy armor and weapons using the gold they acquire throughout the game.

Though the game play is similar to DOTA, League of Legends offers a lot more features that makes it truly the next generation MOBA (Massively Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) type game.

Some of the basic game features of LOL include:

• Anti-leaver protection
• Game reconnects
• Advanced match making system
• Video scaling
• Match history
• Game statistics
• Buddy lists

StarCraft II Official & Final System Requirements:

Minimum PC System Requirements:

- Windows XP/Vista/7 with DirectX 9.0c
- 2.6 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent AMD Athlon processor
- 128 MB PCIe NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT or ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card and better
- 12 GB available HD space
- 1 GB RAM (1.5 GB required for Windows Vista/Windows 7 users)
- DVD-ROM drive
- Broadband Internet
- 1024×720 pixel minimum display resolution

Recommended PC System Requirements:

- Windows Vista/Windows 7
- Dual Core 2.4GHz CPU
- 2GB RAM
- 512MB NVidia GeForce 8800 GTX or ATI Radeon HD 3870 and better

StarCraft 2 Standard Box costs about Php3,500.

This is a teaser from Smart for their upcoming promo. It is still a secret but one thing we’re very sure about — it’s gonna be strictly for adult only.

I bet this isn’t your usual campaign with something nice and fun. Smart is daring enough to take this to a higher level, eh?

If it’s for 18 years old and above — is it an adult-only content? We don’t think it’s gonna be porn-y but it sure hell gives us that impressions.

Hopefully, it’s not that illegal too. Wanna try to guess it? Be our guest!

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?