Game Heroes Website Launched

August 7, 2008 · Filed Under Level Up, MMORPG News, LIVE 2008 · Comment 

Hey guys!

We recently launched our newest website: http://www.gameheroes.ph

Here’s the mantra: “They came from all over the world. They are men and women who have immortalized themselves in the annals of history. They always walk with a purpose and they will never back down from a challenge. Courage is their shield and Passion is their weapon. They are mavens, leaders, legends… they are heroes.”

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Crazy Kart Jeep and More

July 29, 2008 · Filed Under Level Up, MMORPG News, MMOments, Marketing, Crazy Kart · 9 Comments 

Crazy Kart is currently offline undergoing final preparations for the open beta on July 31. As per our announcement, we shall be deleting all CBT accounts. I know… some people may say “but I already have a high level character”. It’s standard practice for game companies to delete the contents of the CBT accounts (Update: We will only delete the avatars and the karts, accounts will remain). I mean, they are, after all, TEST accounts and were just given away to a limited few. Now, by Open Beta, all accounts will now belong to you (via registration at MyLevelUp) and yes, I promise, no more deleting afterwards.

Meanwhile, allow me to share what you’ll see once Crazy Kart goes back online for the CBT on Thursday.

Presenting, the Pinoy Jeep…

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Level Up Rewards

July 11, 2008 · Filed Under Level Up, MMORPG News, Perfect World, Ragnarok, RF Online, Flyff, Marketing · Comment 

It’s been a long time coming…

Remember all those Rewards points accumulating in your MyLevelUp? Yeah! Now there’s something in store for all you loyal Level Up players - the new Level Up Rewards program.

What is it, you may ask? Well, everytime you top up, you get special points (for every P5.00, you get 2 reward points). If you use the SMS service from the Gamer Sim you get 1 reward point for every service costing P2.50 and 6 reward points if you download MMS content.

You then simply go to the Rewards Program page and choose what in-game goodies you want for your character. If you can “afford” it, it’s yours! Automatically inserted. It’s that simple.

More after the break.

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Best Posts of June 2008 - gmtristan.com

July 1, 2008 · Filed Under Level Up, MMORPG News, Blogging, Musings, Marketing · Comment 

Wow! Time really flies fast… if you’re having fun (and stressed out too *wink*). But it was all worth it, mind you.

June was a busy month. Again. What else is new?

For starters, we announced a new game, Crazy Kart and then migrated the Level Up website to the Wordpress platform. This move was met with positive feedback and comments. Our sincerest gratitude. I’m glad that you liked it. On the downside, RF Online had to do a major economy fix so that we can fix a serious game breach - duping.

Oh well… we have our ups and our downs. But the thought that there are still thousands upon thousands of loyal Level Up players (like you) - keeps our blood running…. I kid thee not when I say that we’re all working hard to make your gaming experience even better.

In case you missed some of the stuff here at my blog, I’ve compiled the best posts of June 2008 for your convenience.

And that’s just a click away, sir…(or madam)

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Video: Crazy Kart CBT

June 22, 2008 · Filed Under Level Up, MMORPG News, Videos, Marketing, Crazy Kart · 7 Comments 

I’ve been playing the CBT of Crazy Kart for some time now. The game is fast and fun, that much I can tell you.

I’ve also been receiving a lot of your feedback via email and thank you for all the kind words and also for reporting some of the minor bugs and errors during the CBT. There are now a lot of players inside the games and the rooms are always full. It takes a mastery of the drift, the proper “curving” and strategy on using the “weapons” that makes the game exciting, challenging and fun. There are various degrees of difficulty when it comes to maps too.

The game gurus (or the GPS guys - Game Play Specialists) have helped me do an in-game video of the actual CBT. Thanks guys, I owe you merienda. There are individual and team races but the team races are the most fun.

Let’s see the video, shall we?

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Crazy Kart Begins Closed Beta

June 18, 2008 · Filed Under Level Up, MMORPG News, Crazy Kart · 18 Comments 

Good news!

Our newest casual online racing game, Crazy Kart has officially begun its Closed-Beta Testing yesterday at 1:00pm. This is just a reminder for all of you who registered for the CBT to CHECK YOUR EMAIL. We already sent you your usernames and passwords as well as the link on where to download the Crazy Kart CBT client.

As per my last post, the CBT will only be from 12 noon to 12 midnight as of the moment. This is so the people from SNDA (Shanda), developers of the game, can fix the CBT during the lull. But next week, it’s probable that we can go full day 24/7 testing.

The download link after the break

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What is this Funky Monkey?!?

June 16, 2008 · Filed Under Level Up, MMORPG News, Blogging, MMOments, Events · 1 Comment 

Hey peeps!

This image of a “Funky Monkey”(below) started appearing in Level Up games’ websites. Were we hacked? Is it a case of something gone bananas? Hmmmm….

I’m intrigued myself. Are you? Go to the levelupgames.ph website and then click this Funky Monkey to find out.

It’s a surprise!

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Freestyle Online Has a new Website

June 11, 2008 · Filed Under Level Up, MMORPG News, Blogging, Marketing · 1 Comment 

Great news!

Freestyle Philippines gets a new website and a makeover using the Wordpress platform. Yep, that means that the site is a blog now with the cool functionalities and features of ermm… blogs.

Thanks to great efforts of our Editor-in-Chief, Mr. Kevin Codamon, FS BM Hector Sagrado and Community Manager Toti Alido, the site is now up and running after several weeks of tuning and tweaking. Props to all of you for another splendid job!

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NBA Star to be in Freestyle?

June 10, 2008 · Filed Under Level Up, MMORPG News · 1 Comment 

This just in.

Good friend and blogger Joel writes in mmotaku about a certain “rumor” that an NBA star will be featured in Freestyle Online.

The news mentioned that the China operators of Freestyle are considering of getting NBA players (possibly Chinese) to be featured and/or endorse the game.

Check out the excerpt of the news after the jump…

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RF Online Philippines Rollback

May 31, 2008 · Filed Under Level Up, MMORPG News, RF Online · 54 Comments 

It really was a tough choice and a bitter pill to swallow.

Just last night, after thorough analysis and thought, I finally gave the green light to roll back character data of RF Philippines to the state of May 23, 2008 4am. And boy, it was a tough call.

Around that fateful time, a new and dangerous threat to RF surfaced - the Gold Dupe Hack. With this hack, a lot of unscrupulous players had BILLIONS of in-game cash and hundreds of thousands of gold. The economy was in ruins, prices of normal items skyrocketed and there was a huge excess of cash. Duping and screwed-up in-game economies are not new to us… we had to deal with them before but this one was quite alarming.

Thanks to great efforts of CCR, the developers for the game, the dupe was fixed fast. After the patch solution, I gathered the RF team to analyze the damage that was brought about by the cheat.

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