Facebook, Twitter and the entire digital world is abuzz with Diablo 3. Our copies (for the office) arrived today. Wooot!

I warned the Marketing team that weird excuses will not be valid for absences tomorrow! Lolz!

Anyways, here are more pics of the obvious excitement!

Bye! Gotta go home early!!!

It’s the first day of 2012. I’d like to take this opportunity to greet all my friends and readers of this blog, a HAPPY, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

May you have health, success and a more awesome 2012!

I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank all of you, my dear readers, for being loyal and for regularly dropping by the blog. This 2012 will be gmtristan.com’s 5th year. Although some tech pundits believe that blogging and the blogging industry has taken a downfall due to the rise of microblogging services like Twitter and Facebook (pages), I promise you that I’ll still bring you the latest content and news.

Thanks again!

Peace all!

GM T

If Pac Man were an FPS game, it would look like the video (after the jump)…

Via Neatorama

Boy oh boy oh boy!

Finally, we can confirm who’s in and who’s not. A recent release of a promotional poster for the Avengers movie shows them all!

Hi-res poster image follows…

Here’s the cast:

• Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America
• Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man
• Chris Hemsworth as Thor
• Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye
• Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Ramanoff/Black Widow
• Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner/Hulk
• Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
• Tom Hiddleston as Loki

The movie will be shown 2012

Via ComicBookMovie.com

A couple of months ago, I purchased this awesome board game from Fantasy Flight, Mansions of Madness. “Mansions” is an H.P. Lovecraft (Cthulhu) themed game where you play the role of investigators. One player will be the “Keeper” to direct the story and progress the plot. It’s a great synergy of table-top RPG and boardgames and me and my buddies, love it!

Anyways, the boxed set came with a lot of unpainted minis. So I decided to try and paint them….

Mansions of Madness Minis Painting (Characters)

Here are some photos of the unpainted characters. They’re all high quality plastic and have passable detail.

After a primer, base color, wash, highlights and dry brushing, I came out with the finished product below…

Meanwhile, I tried to speed-paint the monsters by giving them a flat black base coat and more dry-brushing and some detailed effects…

Hope you liked ‘em!

I also bought the D&D hack-n-slash boardgame, Wrath of Ashardalon. It also came with a ton of minis… will get me occupied for a couple of months! Wohooo!

Then it’s off to go back to table-top RPG gaming with a new gaming group.

But that’s another blog post. Lols

Seeya!

It’s official.

We’re now the official partner of LiveGamer. And you can now use Level Up Top Up cards to buy Facebook credits for your favorite games such as Warstorm, CityVille, FarmVille, Restaurant City, Zombie Lane, Texas Holdem Poker and much, much more!

See the “How To” after the break…

How To Buy Facebook Credits using Level Up Top Up Card

It’s quite easy to purchase Facebook Credits using Level Up! prepaid cards.  All you need to do is click the Account button on the upper right part of the Facebook interface and click on Credits Balance.

Choose buy more in the Credits Balance portion.

Click the More Payment Options link when this window pops up

And you should see the Level Up! payment option displayed!

Just enter the Prepaid Card number and the PIN on your Level Up! prepaid card to load up, and you should have your account credited with the corresponding Facebook Credits.  Very easy!

For conversion rates, it’s like this:

• LU Card 50 (50.00 PHP) : 6 FB Credits
• LU Card 100 (100.00 PHP) : 13 FB Credits
• LU Card 350 (350.00 PHP) : 45 FB Credits
• LU Card 500 (500.00 PHP) : 65 FB Credits

See? Now everyone can be happy!!!! Time to pay for those games and get the advantage you want.

Spread the word! Don’t forget to share.

Thanks!

The Philippine Ragnarok Online team is very busy doing finishing touches in preparation of the launch of Dewata (that’s the correct spelling, guys!), a new Indonesian-themed map to be released into the commercial servers very, very soon.

Dewata is just one of Gravity’s projects to make “localized” maps and content for all their publishers. And yes, our very own, the Philippines is also in the works *wink*.

Dewata has the following components

• The Dewata town/city map
• The Dewata Field Map
• A new Dewata dungeons
• Some new and cool monsters local to the place.

Here are more screenshots:

Dewata will be patching very soon! For more details, please monitor the official pRO site at http://www.ragnarok.ph

Don’t forget to share! Thanks.

Note: some information from Doddler RO Wiki. Some features may change depending on testing results for pRO

The longest holiday here in the Philippines is upon us. During Maundy Thursday, we Catholics observe the tradition of “Visita Iglesia” where we visit 7 (some visit up to 14) churches.

Now with very high gasoline prices, humidity and the summer heat, this may task is not fit for everybody. Good thing, the Catholic Church (CBCP) launched VisitaIglesia.Net where you can do your Visita Iglesia online right in the comfort of your couch. Yeah, this is endorsed!

Meanwhile, if you want to do the real thing, here are suggested routes for Churches and a list of old churches in Metro Manila might be of help.

Have a safe and blessed Holy Week, everyone!

Don’t forget to to re-share this article. Thanks for dropping by.

GM T

When I was young, I painted a Batman logo on the hood of my grandfather’s pickup (ahh, the good ol’ days of my puberty). Nothing beats driving around town with a pop-culture-inspired vehicle. Oye!

But these “car-modders” have taken it to the extreme.

Let’s check out what they made, shall we?

Cartoon and Movie Cars Come To Life

1. Scooby Doo Mystery Machine

2. Speed Racer

3. The Batmobile

4. Ghostbusters Ecto One

5. Optimus Prime

6. Cars the movie

Via Oddee

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Finally completed my Darth Vader 1/6 scale vinyl model kit. This took around 2 weeks to build, clean assemble and paint. The challenge with this project was that there were around 3 to 4 “variants” of black that was used for the kit; flat black, semi-gloss, and gloss.

More photos after the break…

Darth Vader 12″ 1:6 scale kit (modeled by GM Tristan)

I documented my WIP (Work in Progress) at my Facebook album.

Hope you liked it. Thanks for dropping by!