I know this will be hard to believe but there’s more to online games than your average hack and slash! Some gamers actually take the quests and story plots seriously and they’re the ones who put more emphasis on the “RPG” of “MMORPG”. To further develop the story and cooperative aspect of Ragnarok Online, Gravity [...]
Last night, Level-up Games celebrated the victory of the Philippine Team in the recently concluded Ragnarok World Championships, with the team members, their families, and various members of the local press. The venue was Mag:net Bar which was located at the Fort Bonifacio High Street (near Krispy Kreme). It was really nostalgic and everyone was [...]
The online gaming phenomenon has reached out to other platforms in Japan and Korea. The Mobile Games (Cellphone) industry has slowly started to grow recently and it’s also about to boom here in the Philippines. Gravity, the developer of Ragnarok Online 2, is aware of that and they’re currently developing mobile games for Ragnarok 2. [...]
Ragnarok Online 2: Gate of the World, has three races that players can pick from. When it goes Open Beta, you can only play the Norman (Human) race but the other two races will eventually open up as the months go by. The second race that will be unlocked is the elf-like Ellr, and the [...]
Ragnarok Online’s popularity peaked when Level-up Games updated the servers with the War of Emperium patch. The siege system paved the way for fierce competition which in turn built solid communities in the various servers of pRO. The Castle Siege system is arguably one of the best features of the game, and it’s about to [...]
This has got to be one of the most depressing and funkiest commercials I’ve ever seen for an Online Game! The story is simple - a guy losses his girlfriend to a mysterious illness and she’s on her deathbed. The guy offers his life so that they girl can be revived and he’s transformed into… [...]
There’s a lot more to Episode 12 but I’d like to skip ahead to the biggest news that was released in the Gravity Festival. Episode 13 for Ragnarok Online will feature new 3rd Job Classes! This update has been causing excitement in various Ragnarok Online communities across the world. What’s so different about the 3rd [...]
Other than gawk at the Gravity Festival Girls and watch the various countries duke it out at the Ragnarok World Championships, the Gravity Festival also held a forum wherein the developers shared their future plans for Ragnarok Online. This was a very urgent issue that needed to be addressed, especially with Ragnarok 2 just around [...]
One of the things I love with the internet is that you can spend countless hours surfing various sites for content that you want to know more about. Of course this includes the ever so famous Youtube! I was checking out Youtube for Ragnarok videos and I stumbled upon a video with someone playing the [...]
I actually have a lot of pictures that I took when I was in Seoul, Korea, for the Ragnarok World Championships and the Gravity Festival. Some of them really don’t have any category like the Gravity Festival Girls. Since I want to share them with everyone, I’ll just put them all up here in this [...]
While the Ragnarok World Championships have already come to a close for the year, we still have the Ragnarok Philippine Championships which will culminate at Level-up LIVE on November. The Agit Lord scoring has been suspended due to the map crashing and DC bugs but we’re confident that this will be resolved soon. One more [...]
To promote the Hugel patch, we asked the Game Moderators to work with some playtesters to come up with an anime-like video that has a story. They were able to come up with a 10 minute video which they called the Ragnarok Six Shot Shuriken, featuring the expanded jobs brought by Hugel: Ninja and Gunslinger. [...]
To battle the never-ending stress that we get here at Level-up, GM Tristan organized an internal event called the Level-up Games Toy Festival! Any Level-up employee can join and all they have to do is submit their favorite toy and a panel of judges will give prizes to the geekiest, oldest, and freakiest toys! Personally [...]
I’m guessing that a lot of you who know me personally knows how bad the stress is involved in being with a company in the online gaming industry. It’s really hard compared to handling consumer brands because this is really more of a service-oriented product with a lot of barriers to entry. Anyway, to cope [...]
Many thanks to Joey Allarila for covering the recently held Ragnarok World Championships at Seoul, Korea. Joey was able to record most, if not all, of the matches which involved Team Philippines. This included the controversial match against Brazil and he also had some post-match interviews after Team Philippines was able to overcome Indonesia. Anyway, [...]
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