26 Jul, 2007
It’s been 5 years since that historic day, July 24, 2002 when the father and son tandem of Nonoy and Ben Colayco founded Level Up Incorporated.
Time really flies. Now, still the undisputed leader in the local online game indsutry, we’re still here and ever growing. (It’s also my 3rd year officially. Woot!)
We celebrated our 5th year anniversary in Mag.Net at the Fort last night (boy… hang overs are tough, dude). Senior managers led by our CEO, Jane Walker and Level Up International COO Ben Colayco and of course, our big boss ABC - Mr. Nonoy Colayco gave inspirational talks and congratulated everyone for a job well done. Special mention went to everyone in the RO (for taking 3rd place in RWC) and Perfect World team and all who helped made it a successful Open Beta (the numbers are still growing even as I type!).
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25 Jul, 2007
This just in from ragnarok.ph
For a limited time, everyone’s favorite NPC - the Skill Reset dude, will be back!!!
In celebration of Team Philippines’ 3rd place finish, the pRO team announced that the Skill Reset NPC will be available for a limited time. That’s from today to August 1 only.
Check out the Skill Reset NPC Walkthrough here!
That’s it… enjoy!
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25 Jul, 2007
It’s official!
Version 8 for FlyFF Philippines will patch today, July 25, 2007. To support this, we just finished a mini-presscon at the Mandarin Hotel over lunch.
Joining us for the launch of FlyFF Version 8 were our friends from the media. We also took this opportunity to introduce the advances of Level Up in the field of “Advergaming” with particular attention to Nescafe Quests we did for FlyFF.
Joining us for the event were Level UP COO Pet Syling, Brand Manager for FlyFF Wudie “GM Atma” Morales, New Media Director JC Medina, Marketing Director Jake San Diego, “Game Boss” (LUI COO) Ben Colayco, and yours truly.
(Left to Right): Ben Colayco, JC Medina, Pet Syling and Wudie Morales
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24 Jul, 2007
In celebration of our anniversary, Level Up is giving away game cash for FREE! (Rok Points, Coupons, Blingy, Cookies and Tugrik).
That’s right, peeps! Starting July 24 up to August 31, 2007, we will randomly and secretly insert the following currencies to an active user’s (recently logged-in user) game account: 400 Coupons for Flyff, 1,000 Rok Points for Ragnarok, 330 Blingies for FreeStyle, 1,000 Cookies for Pangya, and 250 Tugriks for Khan!
That’s for each acount!
Check out the mechanics after the jump!
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24 Jul, 2007
Another exciting and frenetic week here at the office. (So what else is new?!?)
Top of the charts is the celebration of our 5th year anniversary as a company. We’re having a thanksgiving mass today at 5pm here at the office and then tomorrow, we have a small gathering cum party with friends after office.
I also organized the first-ever Level Up Toy Festival: where employees can get to showcase their toy collections and senior managers get to judge them. Submission begins this week and judging will be on Friday. I’m sure that the departments are gonna “out-do” one another in this cool internal event. I foresee a lot of Transformers toys to show up. Promise, I’ll post the pics ASAP.
Meanwhile, game updates and content are heating up… more when you click below!
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23 Jul, 2007
Just to make everyone’s life easier, here’s a complation of posts and links about the recent Ragnarok World Championships 2007 (RWC 2007) held in Seoul, South Korea last July 21 to 22.
Team Armada, representing the Philippines placed third in that event while Thailand is RWC 2007 Champion!
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23 Jul, 2007
If you’re one of the top MMO players in the world, beware. Some greedy bastards might just abduct you for your password.
This happened recently in Sao Paolo, Brazil when an armed gang of four kidnapped one the world’s best gamers.
To quote that report; “An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world’s top RPG gamers after one criminal’s girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google’s social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim’s head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000.”
The story gets better… read on…
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23 Jul, 2007
Weee!
The beta for Cliq - our SNS (Social Network Service) for gamers (and non-gamers too) has just started.
I already made a post about Cliq Beta a month back. Cliq is essentially a “friendster-like” application that will let you connect to your online friends, allies and guildmates.
With CLIQ, you can have a profile page, “testi”, blogs, photos, messages and guild functions. Note that this site is still in Beta and we would value your feedback. The Cliq team will be adding more features and functions in the weeks to come. I’m sure Cliq will revolutionize the gaming community!
Meanwhile, you can view my profile and add me as a friend here
Seeya at Cliq! Register NOW sa Cliq!!!
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22 Jul, 2007
Sadly, we didn’t bring home the gold but Team Armada-Philippines, official RP team to the Ragnarok World Championships 2007 held at the Lotte Activity Center in Seoul, Korea, took the bronze medal after defeating Germany 2-0.
Team Philippines lost to the Korea National team 2-0 in the bid for one of two finals slots. Korea went on to battle Thailand (who defeated Germany) for the finals. Thailand went to upset the host country 3-1 in their best-of-five finals match to become the 2007 RWC Champions!.
This is the best finish yet for our country in the second installment of the international Ragnarok tournament. The RWC 2007 ends today and the Philippine contingent will fly back to Manila tomorrow, July 23, 2007.
Carlo Ople aka Waukster, reports how the inclusion of a SinX (Assassin Cross) for the Koreans turned the tide of battle for them. “Extremity Fists flew left and right but at the end of the day, the Assassin Cross of Korea made the difference as he was able to take out Team PH’s Priest with a series of quick Soul Destroyers powered by their Minstrel’s Bragi’s Poem.” writes Waukeen.
Meanwhile, check out the video below courtesy of Joey Alarilla and Hackenslash.
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22 Jul, 2007
Just like I promised, I headed on over to Robinson’s Galerria yesterday at around 3pm to help the guys (and do a photo coverage) in the RF Online Boss Time Attack.
The event area (where the fountain is) at the Robinson’s Galerria mall was jam-packed with RF players and teams who were out to compete for the BTA. Also, a lot of Novus Citizens (who got themselves a LOT of raffle tickets) awaited the grand winner of the major raffle. The lucky dude got to take home a set of Perfect Elementals (lucky guy!).
Meanwhile, check out the photos I took from the event:
More photos after the jump…
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