Gaming

THE DEVIL IS HERE. Top executives of e-Games put a solid front during Tuesday’s local launch of the highly popular online PC game Diablo III at the National Sports Grill in Makati City. e-Games was able to bag the distributorship for Diablo III and other upcoming Blizzard games after Blizzard’s partnership agreement with its previous local distributor expired last year.

For the first time since 2003 when Ragnarok was introduced to the local market, the pioneering online game will finally have a Filipino-themed “patch”, which will be rolled out globally after six months.

Asiasoft Online, which recently put up its local office in the Philippines, has officially rolled out the MapleSea Legends patch in the country.

MAKE OR BREAK. Nikolai Galicia, chief operating officer of Friendster, explains the gaming features of the pioneering social networking site during its re-launch as a social gaming hub at the M Café in Greenbelt, Makati City on Wednesday.

GAMERS ALL. e-Games chief Enrique Gonzalez and Level-Up Ben Colayco are interviewed at Domination 6 gaming event held at the World Trade Center on April 21. It was the first time that the two executives were seen together since the mega-merger of their online gaming firms.

Despite the sudden merger with fierce rival Level-Up, its all systems go for this year’s Domination 6 gaming conference at the World Trade Center Metro Manila in Pasay City on April 21.

The mammoth merger of the country’s top online gaming firms — E-Games and Level-Up Inc. – was formally completed on Friday, creating an online game publishing monster called Playweb Games.

Social gaming firm Gameloft has announced the release of four titles specifically optimized for Apple’s New iPad – “Order & Chaos Online”, “Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation”, “Asphalt 6: Adrenaline”, and “Gangstar Rio: City of Saints”.

The main players in the country’s multibillion online gaming industry – e-Games and Level-Up Inc. – have reached an agreement to merge their online game publishing businesses, the companies said in a statement on Tuesday.

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 11:55 PM PST Southeast Asia-based online game operator Asiasoft Corporation announced that it has joined forces with Trion Worlds, a developer and publisher of premium online games, to power the payment of Rift digital editions and subscription service in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. “We are very happy [...]