IT’S OFFICIAL. The Philippines will be the official host to this year’s RAGNAROK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. You read that right! More than 10 teams from around the world will fly in to Manila, Philippines so that they can compete in the biggest online gaming tournament for Ragnarok Online.

The long wait is over. Cabal Online will be finally available here in the Philippines. Closed Beta Testing will start this coming May 15, 2008. Download and registration are now also available. You can download the Cabal Online CBT clients in any of the following download links (torrent is also available via mininova).

EDUARDO PASION, VP for Marketing of IP e-Games, has revealed to hackenslash that iPlay, the newest mash-up in the local gaming community, is set to evolve the casual gaming titles of eGames.
“Even Audition and O2Jam will evolve into something we have never expected them to evolve into,” Pasion said.
This is in light of his [...]

It was a sad news for some gamer when a game shuts down, just like ROSE Philippines last August 6, 2007. Now another game from Level-Up is closing. As quoted on hackenslash:

GAME publisher Level Up! will not be renewing its license for the online casual game PangYa with Korean developer Ntreev and publisher Hanbitsoft, effectively [...]

The 2008 Philippine Online Gaming Summit is almost upon us and as part of this momentous occasion, Level Up! will be giving away prizes just for you!
Simply go to the 2008 POGS at Trinoma Mall on January 13, 2008 and head on to the LU registration booth for your raffle passport. All you have to [...]

Good news to LU! gamers, another innovation from LU! Games which would add security to our game accounts:
Listen up, Level Up players!
We’ve got good news! Introducing the new MyLevelUp! Virtual Keyboard. The virtual keyboard allows you to input your password via mouse clicks thereby avoiding keystrokes. This is designed to protect you from malicious [...]

I have been invited for an interview 2 weeks ago at QTV. It was aired last night 10pm (GMT+8:00) on “SAPULSO” (a news magazine program). I was one of the 4 players who was interviewed. Aside from gamers, there are also GM’s and Professor who were asked for their opinions regarding impact of online games [...]

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For Early Birds:Set your alarm clock early on November 3 and 4 ‘coz Level Up! has got some fat grubs for the Early Birds of Level Up! Live 2007: Logged and Loaded!Once again, Level Up! will be giving away awesome Early Bird prizes for the first 200 attendees who will come flying down to the [...]