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Perfect World, Perfect Match
2007-09-24 11:14:00
One of the coolest and uniques features of our newest game, Perfect World is the ability to customize your character to be able to make him or her look like yourself or just about anybody you’d want. I went inside the game and have seen imitations of movie characters, Tekken characters and a whole lot more. Kudos [...] ...
Perfect World 

Level Up @ Tagaytay
2007-09-24 11:03:09
Last week (Monday and Tuesday), the management team of Level Up Philippines including the individual Brand Managers under me went to scenic and cool Tagaytay for our annual planning. The calm and cold environment was the perfect place to release all those creative juices and put our heads together to plan Level Up’s corporate and brand [...] ...

12 Year Old Starts Online Game Company. Makes $6.5M
2007-09-23 12:24:12
Now that I think about it. I may be too old for this industry. And that’s not just me, so will be everyone else working for online game companies. Here’s what’s real. A 12-year old kid has founded a Silicon Valley based company called playspan. Playspan is the “game industry’s first publisher-sponsored™ in-game commerce™ network. PlaySpan’s [...] ...
Company  Game 

101 Things You Didn’t Know About Games
2007-09-23 12:06:23
I’ve always been fascinated with trivia. In fact, when my officemates and I go for a fun trivia game like Cranium, etc, I usually emerge the winner. I pride myself with being able to identify aircraft and quote how often an airplane model has had crashes or problems. This is due to my personal fear [...] ...
Games 

GM T Group Writing Project - Week 6 (Final Week)
2007-09-22 16:03:40
And now for the last week of my Group Writing Project. For those of you who want to catch up, you can see the entries for the past weeks here. I’ll take this opportunity to list ALL the entries so far. Go ahead and use your free weekend time to read the great and cool [...] ...
Group Writing  Project  Writing 

Best Google Ad Ever?
2007-09-21 12:43:10
Here’s the pic. Words are not needed. ‘Nuff said. Infotech, Musings ...
Google 

Ragnarok: Promo and Events Roundup
2007-09-21 03:30:24
Despite the hectic week and the 2-day out of town activity (myself and the management team went to Tagaytay for some serious bonding and brainstorming), the end of the Wild Card and the Agit Lord series for RPC 2007, we’ve got a lot of stuff in store for all you Ragnafanatics. We at Level Up, of [...] ...
Events  Promo  Ragnarok 

RPC 2007 Quarterfinals Guide
2007-09-20 14:32:23
The quarterfinals for the Ragnarok Philippine Championships is fast approaching. Due to some delays and extension in both the agit lord series and the Wild Card, we’re forced to move the server championships. GM WinterTsuki will be adjusting the schedules and announcing it soon. She’s collecting all the submissions of the lineups of the guilds [...] ...
Guide 

Are Video Games Responsible for Bad Behavior?
2007-09-20 09:53:28
Sometimes I wonder if this is really true. I mean, are video games and gaming in general really the cause for bad behavior? In an article at FoxNews, the American Psychologists Association (APA) are having debates on the subject. They have been relating the violence as seen in TV and film to that of video games. [...] ...
Games  Responsible  Video  Video Games 

New Ragnaboards Skin
2007-09-19 09:00:10
It’s been sometime since I saw the ragnaboards with a new look. This pillar of the Philippine gaming community is home to issues, whining, complaints (among others). It’s been hacked, had a DOS (denial of service)  attack and was even defaced several times. We’ve been trying our best to ensure that security patches (via Invision) are in [...] ...
Skin 

RPC 2007 Agit Lords Announced
2007-09-19 08:54:07
After the dust has settled and also the issues and headaches, the pRO RPC 2007 committee has finally announced the Final 4 of Baldur, Tyr and Freya. As you may have known, the tournament officials have elected to extend the Agit Lord siege series to one more day due to connection problems. In my opinion, Murphy’s [...] ...
Lords 

Online Gamer Dies After 3 Days Non Stop Playing
2007-09-18 14:00:56
A man in China has collapsed and died after a supposed 3-day non-stop playing marathon. He died while playing an online game inside an Internet Cafe. As per a post from Weird Asia News, “According to preliminary findings, the length of time this man spent online might have triggered heart problems,” the paper quoted a local hospital [...] ...
Gamer 

Ragnarok: Promo, Rok Til U Drop
2007-09-18 13:54:38
Whew! Just came from Tagaytay for an out of town business trip. It was all foggy and romantic. Too bad, the Queen of Midgard (the wife) wasn’t with me. Anyways, that’s the reason I wasn’t able to update the site for a couple of days. I promise to “make bawi” (shet, sossy!) ASAP… and post the pictures [...] ...
Promo  Ragnarok 

BoyBastos Binastos Si Loren Legarda
2007-09-15 18:21:08
Philippine Senator Loren Legarda wants the local website www.boybastos.com shut down and has tasked the NBI to hunt down the owners of the porn site. In news coverage by both ABS-CBN (where the good senator used to work as an anchor) and rival station GMA 7, Legarda wants the site to be shut down due to [...] ...

10 Ways to Optimize Your Blog
2007-09-15 17:19:04
Writing (and now blogging) is one of the ways that I use to “de-stress”. And yes, Virginia, last week the thermometer of stress just went up the scale. It really is an enigma to me why people have satisfaction in whining or complaining when everything has already been explained in a statement or verdict. Oh well, [...] ...
Blog 

GM T Group Writing Project - Week 5
2007-09-15 16:40:37
Now, it’s time for Week 5 of the GM Tristan Group Writing Project/Contest. The theme for this week was The Positive Values of MMORPG: How Gaming Made Me a Better Person. The past week was really tough for me and the pRO GM team. Really hectic, filled with issues and uber-stressful. Thanks to kind messages of people like [...] ...
Group Writing  Project  Writing 

Murphy’s Law (on Ragnarok and RPC)
2007-09-15 10:42:00
The infamous Murphy’s Law states that “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. That law has proved itself correct today. Of all days, it couldn’t have happened on a worse time. Our tech people, Waukster and GM Jibrielle were calling me a few hours ago to alert me of an “application error” which caused the Wild [...] ...
Law  Ragnarok 

Ragnarok: Official Statement re AnL
2007-09-14 17:06:26
Please allow me to reprint the official statement regarding the AnL incident. All decisions were based upon the evidence and after careful study of the facts of the case AND hearing both sides of the issue, both the camps of the community and AnL were heard. Every claim beyond the evidence is mere hearsay. Now, I think [...] ...
Ragnarok 

Investigating the “Double EC” exploit in Baldur
2007-09-14 10:53:20
This past couple of weeks, a VERY controversial issue in Baldur cropped up. Apparently, AnL guild of Baldur had a guild bug. Due to this, the can use the guildmaster skill, Emergency Call TWICE because they have 2 guildmasters. Now, this is really UNFAIR for all of those in the RPC 2007 Agit Lords siege scoring [...] ...
Exploit 

What Guys Don’t Want in Games
2007-09-13 18:35:43
Here’s an interesting point of view from grrlgamer.com Meggan Parker writes about how a girl sees what the typical dude gamer doesn’t want. She writes; “For years gaming sites have been trying to unlock the mystery of the female mind and decide just what it is that would attract girls and women into gaming. As surprising [...] ...
Games 

Story Arc Events
2007-09-13 12:10:37
I always loved making story-arc events. One of those that I especially liked was the old Amatsu and Kunlun storyline that I co-conceptualized together with Marc Reyes (GM Garamond). This way way back… Amatsu and Kunlun (Episode 6)was the patch right after Juno. This was one of the major marketing campaigns that I was tasked [...] ...
Events  Story 

Ragnarok: After 3X and the GTB
2007-09-12 13:20:36
It was one of those bad days last week when the GTB guard was accidentally activated. I have already asked several people to file formal incident reports. I can’t tell you the details yet. At any rate, the entire pRO team and I tried to talk to Gravity this morning for an extension of the EXP [...] ...
Ragnarok 

9/11 Facts or Coincidence?
2007-09-11 11:25:51
Today, we remember all the innocent victims of that tragic day in September 11, 2001 when terrorism changed our lives and our world forever. I for one was shocked to hear the news and see images on TV of the World Trade Center burning. Apparently, they thought it was a freak accident. But when cameras caught [...] ...
Facts 

What Kind of Nerd Are You?
2007-09-11 07:58:17
Admit it! You’re a nerd! A Geek! a dork… But, wait a minute… what KIND? According to nerdtests.com: “Based on many requests, this nerd test will ask serious and funny questions of you to determine exactly what kind of nerd you are, or if you tend towards geekiness in a particular category. Are you a Computer Geek, [...] ...

Sneak Peak - RF PH New Site
2007-09-11 07:48:43
Thought I’d share with you what we’re doing with the RF Philippines website. The team and I are excited about the new changes to the website. The goal of this redesign is to make things easier to find. We’ve changed the categories a bit too. Allow me to say that the new design is simply awesome! We [...] ...
Site 

GM Atma Now Has a Blog!
2007-09-10 09:48:28
At long last! After much shooing from me and the waukster, Flyff’s GM Atma (Wudie Morales) finally gave in to the “dark side” and has joined us. He now has a blog. The URL is http://gmatma.blogspot.com/ GM Atma’s blog is aptly called; Analog Atma. Of course, he focuses on his game, FlyFF where he announces gimmicks, promos, events [...] ...
Blog 

Blast From The Past (Emails and MMORPGs)
2007-09-09 21:15:13
Let’s stroll back through memory lane. Anyone of you recognize the image below? Yep, that’s the old 1997 log-in page for hotmail. And yes, I made my first e-mail account back then using hotmail. In the days of prepaid cards, slow internet, and frames (yuck!), I registered for my first-ever e-mail account back in the summer of [...] ...
Emails 

The Art of Begging (in MMORPGs)
2007-09-09 10:22:23
By now, if you ever play online games, you’ve most likely encountered beggars who ask anything from in-game cash to loot or even items. Sadly, these types of players are constant in an online game and MMORPGs. But why do they do it? A lot of people argue that if these beggars just spend their time doing [...] ...
Art 

Siege Today Invalid For RPC 2007
2007-09-08 12:53:59
Something dreadful has happened. The pRO Game Manager just called me a few minutes ago and informed me that someone has wrongfuly activated the GTB card for Ragnarok. Since this will greatly affect the critical moments during our last few sieges for RPC 2007, I just made an official announcement at the forums that the siege today [...] ...

Top 25 Best Selling Games of All-Time
2007-09-08 10:57:28
We all know that the video game industry is a huge business. There’s been roughly around 2 billion game titles that have been sold around the globe. And companies are jockeying for a piece of that big pie. Let’s try to look at what the hot titles are in terms of sales. What folows below is a [...] ...
Games  Time