Archive for the 'Gaming' Category


Tongits Game runs on Adobe Air

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Tongits is a new game that runs on Adobe Air and was developed by Rico Zuniga. Listed below are its features:

Drag & Drop Interface. The game feels like the real thing with its intuitive drag & drop interface.
Realistic And Challenging AI. The computers play like live human tongits players.
Innovative Way of Organizing Cards. Just like [...]

Has your XBox 360 been recalled?

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Just over 4 weeks ago, I discovered that local XBox 360 stores have been pulling out the consoles from their shelves. Despite the growing competition between the PS3, XBox 360 and the Wii, I suspected something big would come up soon from the Redmond company.
A week later, Microsoft announced it’s going to extend the [...]

Is internet and gaming addiction a disorder?

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Only 14 years ago, the Internet was a phenomenon. Today, doctors want to call internet addiction a mental health disorder. The American Medical Association is preparing to recognize ‘Internet/video game addiction’ as a ‘formal diagnostic disorder’ as reported by Spong News.
This move would have wide ranging implications within the law as the ever-growing list [...]

Online Gaming companies moving towards Payment Gateway business models

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

The popular method for starting an online gaming company in the Philippines is that you talk to a developer in Korea and then you pay for the license of their game for a specific locality. You set-up the servers here and form the various departments needed to keep the game running. However, due to the [...]

I’m No Myth: The Girl Gamer Experience in the Philippines

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

I started playing PC games seriously about six years ago, with my baptism of fire being the now-classic Dungeons and Dragons-based Neverwinter Nights 1.
Some time after a freak system crash erased all my game data, I turned to MMORPGs for solace.
For the first MMORPG that I tried playing, I was lucky enough to join a [...]

Online Gaming Companies Announce Major Titles for 2007

Friday, March 16th, 2007

2007 is shaping up to be the biggest year for the online gaming industry. Almost all of the major players have already announced their acquisition of various top online game titles. This is definitely a good thing for the pinoy gamer because he will have a choice in determining what he wants to play. Each [...]

Nintendo Wii is good for your figure

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

CNN writes that the Nintendo Wii can actually be used as a weight reduction regimen.
They reported that Mickey DeLorenzo has lost nine pounds in 6 weeks by playing a total of 21 hours on the Wii. That would make it an average of 30 min/day of play time. But who plays only thirty [...]

World of Warcraft Servers Halted by User Traffic

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Netcraft reported that a massive influx of users, brought about by the latest expansion pack : The Burning Crusade, caused the World of Warcraft (WoW) servers to come to a halt for about an hour last Wednesday (US Time)

Second Life Client is now Open Source

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

In a blog post titled “Embracing the Inevitable” , Linden labs announced that they have Open Sourced the Viewer source code for the very popular online virtual world: Second Life.

Blast from the Past : Red Storm Rising the best Submarine Simulator

Monday, January 1st, 2007

In 1986, Tom Clancy and Larry Bond worked together to create a techno-thriller novel that touched on the topic of a conventional war (without nuclear weapons) occurring between the former Soviet Union and the United States of America. It was titled : Red Storm Rising, after the battle plan used by the Soviets.

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