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Get Paid to Blog with Smorty
2007-12-16 11:14:55
Do you love writing? Do you have a blog?If you answer “yes” to both, why not make money while doing something you like? Introducing the new service by smorty.com where you get paid to blog just by choosing subjects that you are already covering in your niche. More details after one more click. blog, Blogging, get paid, Infotech, [...] ...
Blog 

Cristina Dumitru: Miss Maxim 2007
2007-12-15 17:07:09
Maxim magazine’s search for Miss Maxim 2007 is a good way to end the year with a bang. The winner is Cristina Dumitru from Romania. Rawwr! Cristina, who is attracted to men who can make her laugh also said that “A lot of great things have happened to me since I won Miss Maxim Romania. I [...] ...

Rejected Star Wars Toys
2007-12-15 10:02:32
We here at Level Up love our toys and action figures. This is evidenced by the first Level Up Toy Fair which I organized for all our employees last July. And speaking about toys, there is always a need for designers to be innovative and find novel ways to get the consumer (especially toy lovers and [...] ...
Star  Star Wars  Toys  Wars 

Blizzard and Activision Merge
2007-12-14 20:03:03
Blizzard, one of the giants in the gaming industry, through its parent company, Vivendi has just announced that they are merging with Activision to form a new company called Activision Blizzard. This new company is “expected to have approximately $3.8 billion in pro forma combined calendar 2007 revenues and the highest operating margins of any major [...] ...
Merge 

[timewaster] Flip: Write Text Upside Down
2007-12-13 17:53:23
Ahhh, just came from shooting our Mancom video at our CEO’s house. It was really fun, but tiring. Anyways, I decided to hit the digg site to come up with something to post before I retire for the night. This interesting thing caught my fancy almost instantly… Why, you ask? Well, for one, uʍop ǝpısdn ǝdʎʇ oʇ ǝɯ [...] ...

The New Knight Rider
2007-12-13 09:50:37
If you spent your youth in the 80’s (like me), you’ll remember cheap (but good) TV shows like A-Team, McGyver and of course, Knight Rider. The car, named K.I.T.T. (short for Knight Industries Two Thousand) is back again on the screen. Good friend, Mrs. Frost posts about it in her blog, Ambushed Thoughts. Instead of the old [...] ...
Knight  Knight Rider 

Online Games and Crime
2007-12-12 08:00:36
Below are just some of the crimes that have been related to online games, MMORPGs in particular, according to Catherine Donaldson-Evans in her feature in foxnews.com A 2-year-old girl nicknamed “Baby Grace” by detectives was found dead in October in a locked box in Texas — allegedly the victim of a beating murder at the hands [...] ...
Crime  Games  Online Games 

South Team is Champ in LUG Sportsfest
2007-12-12 02:00:05
The South Team (Blue) Women’s Volleyball and Basketball teams both clinched the championship crown in the recently concluded finals of the Level Up! Sports Festival. The event was held last December 3, 2007 at the ePLDT Ventus compound in Makati. Claiming first-runner up for volleyball was the West team (Orange) and for men’s basketball it was [...] ...
Team 

Pinoy Poker Showdown at Pokerstars.Net
2007-12-11 08:23:09
I really love poker. In fact, I’ve started to really improve my game by doing a lot of reading, research and of course, playing. I play poker whenever I can with my officemates (like Wauks, who needs to know more about heads-up). But nothing beats constant practice. The best way to improve your game is by playing [...] ...
Poker  Showdown 

US Politicians Campaign For Video Game Ratings
2007-12-11 07:00:48
American politicians from Delaware, in cooperation with the ESRB, have teamed up to communicate the importance of Parents monitoring the ratings of the games their kids play. According to this news story at IGN, “Delaware Lt. Governor John Carney, State Rep. Helene Keeley and ESRB president Patricia Vance announced the PSAs today. The advertisements will run [...] ...
Campaign  Game  Video  Video Game 

Cool Toys This Christmas
2007-12-11 02:00:43
If I were a kid again, I would “Charm Person” my parents and command them to get me the uber-cool, high tech toys below. To start our list, how about a NASA developed Ant Colony with a space-age gel which has the nutrients and energy that the ants will need. The ants are not included, mind [...] ...
Christmas  Toys 

[girls] Kim Kardashian
2007-12-10 13:00:43
After living under Paris Hilton’s shadow as her “best friend”, Kim Kardashian has finally stepped into her own. The daughter of OJ Simpson’s trial lawyer, Robert Kardashian, you may have heard of her thru Kim Kardashian Superstar, her leaked-out, homemade sex tape and of course her family’s TV show, Keeping Up With The Kardashians which debuted in October [...] ...
Kim Kardashian 

[gadgets] The Amazon Kindle
2007-12-10 07:00:22
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was on the cover of Newsweek magazine lately holding a device that may revolutionize and change the way you look at books from now on. Best thing since the proverbial sliced bread? You decide for yourself. Bezos has just announced their product called the “Kindle” - an interconnected, portable e-book reader that gives [...] ...
Amazon  Gadgets 

[infotech] How Much Storage Did the World Use?
2007-12-10 02:00:19
I remember back in the early 90’s when having a 1GB hard drive would make me the envy of my friends. Now there are phones with bigger memory. Back then, a GIGABYTE was really something. Also, I remember when having a couple of CDs was enough to back up your files and other miscellany. That’s all [...] ...

Gravity Announces New US Branch
2007-12-08 22:05:27
Gravity Corp, one of our major partners and the developer for Ragnarok Online has recently released a press statement announcing the opening of their new US branch office. The office will be in San Mateo, California and will take on the name of L5 Games. The statement also revealed that they are hiring “former Blizzard employees” to [...] ...
Branch  Gravity 

Games For Health
2007-12-08 21:51:14
A lot has been said that video gamers are the new “couch potatoes”. It is a common belief that geeks/gamers have little or no exercise whatsoever. This widely accepted fact is now being challenged by a group which is now organizing a games for health conference. Games for Health is a project produced by The Serious [...] ...
Games  Health 

[video] FlyFF Volcane Legends (Episode 9 and 10)
2007-12-08 11:45:11
I already told you what things to expect in the new patch for FlyFF - Volcane Legends. We basically combined both Episode 9 and 10 here in the Philippines for a great and exciting FlyFF experience for all our current and new FlyFF players. In fact, we also created a special FlyFF Volcane Legends microsite which [...] ...
Legends  Video 

[video] Fear of Girls
2007-12-08 11:30:23
Geek is chic! Yeah, baby! Geekiness rocks… as the video below will attest. Fear of Girls is a short documentary about Doug and Ryan, two geeks who are into pen-and-paper RPG (like yours truly) as they share their sentiments about sex, girls, life and even social norms. Join Doug and Ryan in their wacky adventures. Enjoy! “True love [...] ...
Fear  Video 

+20% Galactic Credits for RF Online
2007-12-07 09:19:59
As an early Christmas treat, the RF team is giving away +20% Galactic Credits (the in-game currency for RF Ofline) to everyone who tops up from December 7 to 9 only. Hurry and take advantage of this kewl offer! The complete mechanics and announcement is here So what are you waiting for? Top-up and get your favorite RF [...] ...

Boy with WoW Skills Defeats Moose
2007-12-07 03:00:48
See? MMORPGs can save REAL LIVES. This happened recently when a Norwegian boy and his sister were walking through the forest when they were attacked by a huge mother $*&@!^ moose! The boy, Hans Jorgen Olsen, age 12, first used his “taunt” skill on the moose. This allowed his 10-year old sister to escape. When the moose finally [...] ...
Skills  Wow 

5 Gifts I Don’t Want to Get this Christmas
2007-12-06 10:51:46
Now that you know what to shop for if you’re looking for video games, have you noticed the most “abused” and unoriginal gifts this Christmas? Below are 5 gifts that I don’t want to get YET AGAIN. I mean, c’mon! Let’s be original. I’m sure you’re not immune to these types of gifts come Yuletide. So, before you [...] ...
Christmas  Gifts 

Video Game Holiday Gift Guide 2007
2007-12-06 10:12:24
If you’re looking for a gift this holiday for a fellow-geek, the best gift is a video game. Of course, if you want to save the industry, do go for the originals and avoid pirated stuff. I’ve compiled some suggestions for your shopping this Christmas Season. If you go to the malls, there are some shops [...] ...
Game  Gift  Guide  Holiday  Video  Video Game 

The MyLevelup Virtual Keyboard
2007-12-05 12:51:50
Listen up, Level Up players! We’ve got good news! Introducing the new MyLevelUp Virtual Keyboard. The virtual keyboard allows you to input your password via mouseclicks thereby avoiding keystrokes. This is designed to protect you from malicious programs such as “keyloggers” which log keyboard strokes. level up ...
Keyboard  Virtual 

Fraud Software vs. MMORPG Cheats
2007-12-05 12:45:50
In my old post, Cheating in Online Games, I outlined the many ways one can well… cheat. Note that my piece is not a guide on cheating but rather what groups and companies are doing to combat it. And speaking of trying to fight the thousands of dickheads who attempt to cheat, online game developers are [...] ...
Cheats  Fraud  Mmorpg  Software 

FlyFF Volcane Legends (Episode 10) Now Online
2007-12-03 04:17:28
Fly For Fun or FlyFF, one of the first free-to-play MMORPGs in the country, has announced the release of Volcane Legends, the 10th version update to this cute and easy-to-play online game. Named after one of the new dungeons in the update, Volcane Legends, was officially released to the FlyFF servers on November 28, 2007. It [...] ...
Legends 

[video] Moral Kombat
2007-12-02 08:00:31
Tirades about violence in video games is nothing new. But here’s something interesting from independent American filmmaker Spencer Halpin – It’s documentary movie called Moral Kombat In the trailer below, you’ll get to see how terrorists may have learned to fly a commercial jet and crash it on huge buildings. Whoa! Being a gamer and being [...] ...
Video 

The Shelf Life of an MMORPG
2007-12-02 03:00:32
Unless some individuals or developer studios come up with something original and innovative for the MMORPG industry, the average lifecycle or expectancy of a typical MMORPG will be from 2 to 4 years. Of course, there will be blockbuster titles like World of Warcraft which can outlive this normal shelf life, but those will be rare. What [...] ...
Life  Mmorpg 

[video] Maureen Larrazabal FHM Cover Shoot
2007-12-01 16:00:32
Maureen, for me (and I’m sure some will agree), is one of the hottest babes out there. Here she is with a video of her FHM cover shoot for the June 2007 issue of said mag. Maureen has this to say when asked if there’s anyone who makes her feel sexy; ”Oh yes. I am with someone now [...] ...
Cover  Video 

[Video] Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
2007-11-30 07:00:39
Here’s another upcoming title to look for in 2008. George and his elven helpers are busy doing the finishing touches for their new game, Star Wars The Force Unleashed. Set to be released in Q2 of 2008, The Force Unleashed has some amazing graphics and an equally kick-ass trailer (see below). The game will be available [...] ...
Force  Star  Star Wars  Unleashed  Video  Wars 

Friendster Now Available In Spanish
2007-11-30 03:00:43
When it comes to SNS or Social Networks, the most widely used one in the Philippines is of course, friendster. How many of you, my pinoy readers, DO NOT have a friendster account? Meanwhile, friendster is now officially available in Spanish. I got hold of this information when I received an e-mail notice just yesterday. The offer for the Spanish language [...] ...