BBC reports on the massive scale of gold farming for WoW. To most Chinese, it’s a full-time job. With a population of over 1.3 billion people, the growth of the gaming population has been incredible. From just around 22.3 million players less than a year ago, this has ballooned to 147 million. A growth of 559%.
Blizzard has began a crackdown on these operations which has been closely monitored by the blogosphere.
Thought I’d share with you an (official?) video of the Holy Order of the Light, one of the most respected guilds in Perfect World Philippines.
Great job, guys! Nice vid. I challenge other guilds to come up with their own guild videos and just contact me if you want to be featured here at my blog.
Cheers!
Happy Weekend!
Thought I’d share with you something I found at my high school mailing list; Dave Barry’s 19 Things That It Took Me 50 Years To Learn.
Some are funny yet true.
Read on…
Ok, boys and girls… this just in.
Frank Pearce, Blizzard co-founder hinted on the possibility of a fourth race for Starcraft 2. He said that ““We don’t have the resources or time to add a fourth race to the launch of StarCraft II, but I’m sure in the event that we decide to do an expansion set it’s a feature that’ll come up for discussion,”
If you’re a Filipino and maintain a gaming blog, yours could be the best gaming blog. The official Level Up Gaming Blog Award is now open for nominations for the Philippine Blog Awards 2008.
Yours truly, Codamon and Waukster will be the official judges. It’s so easy to join.
Check out the full mechanics after the jump.
Ey… if you’re a true-blooded gamer (or maybe just a natural geek)… tell me what’s wrong with the scanned ad photo above? It’s an ad by Sears.
Just comment below…
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Being a member of the gaming industry, I always try to keep up with industry news. My latest find was a survey conducted in 2007 by Jill Duffy – The Game Industry Salary Review. Note that the figures above are NOT the Philippine standards (I could only wish. sigh).
They sent email invitations to Game Developer magazine subscribers, Game Developers Conference 2006 attendees, and Gamasutra.com members in January 2007, inviting them to participate in our annual salary survey. There were 5,600 respondents. Of course, the figures were in USD (US Dollars). I wondered how much the monthly compensation of gaming professionals were in PHP, hence the graph above. The standard in the US and other countries is “annual compensation”. We Pinoys measure it in “monthly”.
More after the break…
Last February, I featured part 1 of this video from Markee Dragon. In part 2, Markee shares his own expriences about addiction, divorce and RMT (Real Money Trading) in MMORPGs.
Enjoy!
We all know how cool the small Asus EEE notebooks are, right? It’s great for blogging but not for real computing. For me it’s a secondary laptop to take with you to Starbucks or during your travels.
If you think that gadget is great, check out the new Asus innovation, the Asus EEE Box
Check out the video review about and then hit jump for the actual specs and price.
Yesterday, while thumbing through Gamasutra, I came upon a very interesting (and enlightening) post penned by Veteran educator and game designer Ernest Adams entitled The Tao of Game Design.
In that piece, Ernest compares the Asian discipline of Tao to designing games.
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