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Here’s a video preview of Level Up’s latest MMORPG - Rohan Online. This is courtesy of our good friends from Hackenslash, the official gaming website of Inquirer dot Net. In this interview, Alex Villafania talks to one of our Business Development Officers - Chase. You might recognize him from some of the video trailers that [...]
November 16th, 2008 | Posted in Rohan Online | 9 Comments
The Philippine Ragnarok Online server merge is still on-going and we have our ICT staff working with several Gravity server and database engineers. As per the latest announcement posted on the website, there is no definite timeline yet on when we can have the servers up and running due to the complex process that the [...]
November 15th, 2008 | Posted in Ragnarok Online | 82 Comments
Grand Chase will be launching it’s commercial service on November 18, 2008! What does this mean? Well basically it just means that we will be opening the in-game item shop to everyone. You will be able to buy item sets, weapons, and various consumables. We will also be introducing a new character into the game [...]
November 14th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | 15 Comments
I’m currently using a Nokia N95 8GB phone. The unit is really functional and I use it a lot since I take a lot of videos and pictures with it. This is evident with my Flickr photo gallery and my own Youtube channel. When Nokia released the E71, I was really tempted to get one [...]
November 13th, 2008 | Posted in Gadgets & Tech | 6 Comments
Grand Chase, the latest online fighting game by Level Up, is having another weekend of EXP/GP bonus on November 14 - 16! This is in line with our Open Beta Celebration and our thank you as well to the growing Grand Chase community. Note that we still have a lot of on-going events for Grand [...]
November 13th, 2008 | Posted in Grand Chase | 2 Comments
I was surfing Youtube for videos uploaded about Level Up Live 2008 and I’ve found a lot already! I thought I’d share with you guys the performance of Master Diwa at Level Up City. To those who weren’t there, Level Up City is basically a huge area dedicated to guild-sponsored booths. Diwa had his booth [...]
November 12th, 2008 | Posted in Game Heroes, LU LIVE 2008 | 6 Comments
This is definitely an innovative and fun way of promoting the item mall feature of Philippine Ragnarok Online. Here’s the RO Team’s take on what home tv shopping would look like if it were applied to online gaming. Props to GM Fynris for agreeing to do the voice over for the 1st episode. I’m pretty [...]
November 12th, 2008 | Posted in Ragnarok Online | 4 Comments
Gaming is a big business here in the Philippines - and I’m talking about not just online gaming, but LAN games and consoles as well. It’s no surprise that we regularly send competitors to the annual World Cyber Games which is sponsored by Samsung. We sent several teams to compete in various games this year [...]
November 12th, 2008 | Posted in Personal | 1 Comment
The Philippine Ragnarok Online Team recently posted the official FAQ of the upcoming server merge at the Ragnarok website. I’ve already posted my thoughts and comments about this program and I’m really excited to see what will happen to the community post-merge. It will be very interesting to see what the guilds will do in [...]
November 11th, 2008 | Posted in Ragnarok Online | 19 Comments
Hi guys! Really sorry for not being able to post for the past 2-3 days. I’ve been very busy with some personal stuff and I was also on addict mode on the latest game being offered by Level Up - GRAND CHASE. It’s currently on Open Beta right now and the team is really excited [...]
November 11th, 2008 | Posted in Grand Chase | 9 Comments
One of the things I hate about games that have cross-over characters is that there’s no story whatsoever. Capcom vs X-men is a classic example of this. There’s just no logic flow that comes to mind in scenarios like that one. This was my fear when the buzz started about Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. [...]
November 6th, 2008 | Posted in Other PC & Console Games | 8 Comments
Our Multimedia Team, led by Joey Alarilla, will be spearheading the project “Reliving Level Up Live 2008″. It’s basically a live streaming of specific segments of Level Up Live 2008 combined with Live Blogging with various Level Up personalities. This is one of the most innovative things I’ve seen in a while and I’d like [...]
November 6th, 2008 | Posted in LU LIVE 2008 | 4 Comments
Philippine Ragnarok Online will have one more major server merge that will bring together the 3 subscription servers - Baldur, Tyr, and Freya. The new server will be called New Chaos and the date of the merge is slated for November 14, 2008. There are no major details yet posted on the official website like [...]
November 6th, 2008 | Posted in Ragnarok Online | 46 Comments
This has nothing to do whatsoever with online gaming but I might as well post it here so you guys will be in the know. To those who haven’t been following the international political scene, Obama won the US election for the Presidency. He beat Mcain with a comfortable margin and the US now has [...]
November 5th, 2008 | Posted in Personal | 20 Comments
First - let me give you guys an update on the OBT for Grand Chase. Maintenance has been extended until 2:00PM since we encountered some last minute bugs that needed to be fixed before we could bring up the game. I can’t guarantee that it will be up at exactly 2PM but the team is [...]
November 4th, 2008 | Posted in Grand Chase | 9 Comments