I’ll take a break from talking about online gaming for now and just talk about more personal stuff since this is still my blog after all, hehe. Last night, I went to meet up with my blockmates from Ateneo. It was really refreshing to see familar faces outside of the gaming and advertising industries! Can [...]
Level-up! Games had our annual Christmas party last night (December 18, ‘07) at the Bagaberde Restaurant Bar across the World Trade Center. It was really fun seeing everyone in a more relaxed mood since the stress level in the office is usually high no matter what day of the week. There were a lot of [...]
With every passing day, internet access is becoming more available for everyone here in the Philippines. I can’t really say that the speed is that good, but at least more and more of Filipinos are learning how to become net savy. I was browsing through the latest Alexa Rankings and I’d like to share with [...]
One of the things I’m really thankful for is the number of friends I’ve gained through Philippine Ragnarok Online. I’ve met hundreds, if not thousands, of Ragnarok players already in the past few years. However, the people that stand out the most are obviously those who fought with me in the Shadow Circle guild from [...]
To relax and de-stress, a lot of us here at Level-up! Games play poker during our free time. It’s a game that combines strategy with a lot of luck. For example - I beat the pair aces hand of one of my officemates with a pair three! The flop went: three hearts, two spades, and [...]
Yes, this post has nothing to do with online games, hehe. I just have the urge to re-post what I saw in my officemate’s blog, CODAMON dot COM. By the way, the owner of that blog is actually the editor-in-chief of the Level-up! Games Portal. Anyway, let’s get back to the topic at hand. Victoria’s [...]
Over the past few weeks, our competitors have been waging a PR war that really doesn’t make sense to me at all. One company is claiming that they are number 1, and they even paid for full page ads on the Inquierer and the Philippine Daily Star. Another company released some PR Material claiming that [...]
RMT, also known as Real Money Trading, is very popular in the online gaming culture of the Philippines. RMT is simply a person buying virtual equipment using real currency. For example, I want your Heal Clip and I’ll pay you PHP 1,000 for it. Don’t laugh by the way, that was the price when Ragnarok [...]
As mentioned in my earlier post, Waukster dot Com is currently being restructured so that the posts will be delivered in a more efficient manner. Another objective for this project is to lessen the off-topic comments which often happens when I do posts about other MMORPGs such as Perfect World and Ragnarok Online 2. Right [...]
I’ve been thinking on how I can make the topic integration of Waukster dot Com more efficient and I came across one idea that I’d like to share with everyone today. As most of you know, the major topic here is Ragnarok Online, followed by Ragnarok Online 2 and just recently, Perfect World. However, people [...]
Level-up! Games was recently proclaimed the winner for the Lifestyle category of the 10th Philippine Web Awards! I’d personally like to thank everyone who voted for Level-up! Games via the SMS and Online voting. This was really important for the company seeing as one of our competitors keeps on claiming that they’re number 1. What’s [...]
SMART Communications, the leading information technology company in the Philippines, really did a very good job in “branding” the 20th Philippines Ad Congress which was held at the Freeport at Subic. On our way to the venue, there wasn’t a single post, sari-sari store, building, or billboard that didn’t have a SMART: Power to Lead [...]
I’m currently at Subic blogging from the convention hall of the Philippines Ad Congress 2007: New Order. The organizers invited Level-up! to do a talk today sometime around 4:30PM to discuss advertising inside online games. We’ve already seen this done several times and I still think that the Coca Cola campaign was one of the [...]
Ateneo De Manila University, one of the premiere colleges in the Philippines, is seriously considering offering a Game Development Course. I was shocked myself when I heard about this but you can’t really ignore the growing global demand for games - and I’m not just talking about the online games that we’re used to here [...]
This was actually featured in various news channels - local and cable. This bizarre event happened in Australia’s Bathurst raceway. A Kangaroo literally jumps into the racetrack and dozens of race car drivers try to avoid slamming into the poor thing. Fortunately for the Kangaroo, the drivers were really good and he didn’t have to [...]
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