Archive for February, 2007

Command and Conquer 3 demo up! | Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Posted in Uncategorized

Any RTS fan worth his salt knows that Command and Conquer is one of the biggest RTS franchises out there, second only to (though some might say equal to) Blizzard’s Warcraft series. I remember enjoying C&C:Red alert and had a blast with C&C:Generals evenif it had nothing to do wit the original C&C timeline. […]

Anino Mobile Makes Filipinos Proud | Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Posted in Local Games

Anino Mobile’s entry in the IMGawards, Anima wars, won the “Best use of connectivity” award in barcelona last week, beating out entrants from the US, UK, Spain, Indonesia, and many other countries. The IMGawards were put together by companies in the mobile industry to help promote new and exciting ways of mobile gaming. […]

E-buys: Wii with 3 games for 20k | Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Posted in Wii

Hey kids, looking for a Nintendo Wii? Toy Kingdom forcing you to pay out of the ass for one? Well fret not, because I’ve found an e-bayer who’s letting go of his Wii with 3 games for the rather spiffy price of 20 thousand pesos. Here’s the scoop:
Used Wii - PAL Australia […]

What have I been playing lately? (PS2 version) | Monday, February 12th, 2007
Posted in bargain bin games

I listen to the 1upyours podcast on 1up.com religiously, and one of their segments is called “What have you been playing lately?” Since I have been a lazy bastard recently, Here’s 3 quick reviews of games that I’ve been playing for the past few months on my PS2. Yes, PS2, you really think […]

More on the Nintendo phone patent | Friday, February 9th, 2007
Posted in Mobile, DS, Wii

DS Fanboy has dug up what appears to be a patent application of Nintendo for a gaming phone. It was filed last 2001, way before the phone gaming market even started. There are many opinions on this and although it seems Nintendo has dropped this idea altogether and may NOT be aligned with their current […]

Be kind to your eyes. Play Unreal Tournament. | Friday, February 9th, 2007
Posted in PC

Gamasutra reports that a study has been made at the University of Rochester (NY) which concludes that playing Unreal Tournament improves overall visual acuity.

Wikipedia says: Visual acuity (VA) is acuteness or clearness of vision, especially form vision, which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal focus within the eye, the sensitivity of the nervous […]

Nintendo Gamer Magazine | Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Posted in DS, Wii

I don’t wanna argue about gaming mags again, but I’m just curious about this magazine I found at a local Mag.Net plainly-yet-clearly titled, Nintendo Gamer Magazine. It was the first issue and costs something around 400 pesos (pretty much the same as with any imported magazine).
The mag is Australia-based, and seeks to be the Nintendo […]

Great Games Experiment = mySpace for Gamers and Game Makers | Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Posted in DS, Indie, Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, PC, MMORPG

I got a hint that this was brewing and under development when I browsed through Jeff Tunnell’s blog a few months back. Jeff Tunnell is the public face behind GarageGames, makers of indie game engines and advocates of the Microsoft XNA game development platform for the PC and Xbox360.
Before I get too far off, well, […]

Jumboplay | Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Posted in PC

Ryan:
You know how we told you about the game rental service gamehopper? Well Here’s another company that’s offering all you can play downloadable PC games for the low cost of 270 pesos a month. Jumboplay.com has 68 games up for grabs for users who want to download their games legally. Typical downloadable […]

Jade Empire: Special Edition goes Gold | Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Posted in PC

Jade Empire: Special Edition is the PC version of the highly-acclaimed Xbox game (scoring 9.9 on IGN) of a few years back. Take Two Interactive, the game’s publisher, has announced that the game has gone gold, and will be released on Feb 27 in the US and Mar 2 in Europe - right on schedule.

For […]