Archive for February, 2008

Freya Server Wins Veins Event Screenshot

Freya marks another milestone by being the first server to finish the Veins Flame and Reasonance in-game event! Congratulations to [belle]Pharmacienne for bagging the much coveted Ring of Reasonance and Ring of Flame combo accessories. I’d like to share with everyone the winning screenshot which was sent in and was verified by the Ragnarok GM [...]

Wauks’ Gadgets: Macbook

This is the second installment of my personal gadgets post series which kicked off with my review of the iPod Nano 8GB (3rd Gen). Today I’ll talk about the Macbook which I recently purchased two-three weeks ago. It’s one of the best gadgets I’ve ever bought and I really have no regrets despite spending so [...]

GMA Should NOT Resign

I’ve always been monitoring the NBN-ZTE-Lozada issue since it began and I’ve actually been blogging about it in my Philippine Politics Blog. I avoid talking about politics here at Waukster since this blog is primarily about the online gaming pop culture and politics is too sensitive to discuss. However, I’ll make an exception today and [...]

Philippine Ragnarok Online Weekly Update (3/27/08)

Today I’d like to focus more on the community concerns than the usual updates on what happens after maintenance. This is crucial since we’re currently facing a lot of problems and it’s important that you guys know what Level up is doing about it. First let me establish the fact that we’re not just letting [...]

Life at Level Up Games

I went around the office today and ask some random employees the question “How does it feel working for Level Up Games?” I’d like to share with everyone the answers of the four employees I was able to ambush interview, namely: Keith Morales (RF Brand Manager), JP Pelayo (PW Brand Manager), Toti Alido (FS Community [...]

Level Up! Planning Session Pictures

Last week the Level Up! management team had our planning session. I won’t divulge details on what we talked about seeing as they are really confidential. However, just to assure you guys we all agreed that one of the top priorities right now is to really fix all the technical problems Philippine Ragnarok Online is [...]

Wauks’ Gadgets: iPod Nano (3rd Gen)

Over the next few days I’ll be posting about all the gadgets that I personally own. It will be basically a product review based on my personal experience. To start things off, I’ll discuss one of the latest gadgets I bought for myself - the 3rd generation iPod Nano. I’ve been looking for a new [...]

Ragnarok Community Concerns (2/24/08)

Philippine Ragnarok Online has been having a lot of technical issues lately and I’d like to take this time to shed some light on some of the problems that we’re facing and what Level Up has done about it. This will also act as the late community concerns update which I do in the weekly [...]

Street Fighter: The Later Years

Here’s one video that really got my attention. I’ve always been a Street Fighter fan, and I try to play all the titles under that particular franchise. In fact one of my current stress busters is playing SF3 on my PC using an emulator (Lol). It’s really fun and you get to vent all your [...]

Philippine Ragnarok Online Weekly Update (2/20/08) [UPDATED 2]

The biggest update for today’s maintenance is the patching of Episode 11.2: Veins to the free-to-play servers of Philippine Ragnarok Online - Valkyrie and Valhalla. There are a lot of major changes especially in the Armory of the Gods and the drop tables. I’ll be updating this post as the official news is released in [...]