OUR hackenslash gaming site is now a blog.
It’s our very first site to be transformed into a blog, and it’s the seventh blog in the INQUIRER.net Blogs network.
Find out why we turned it into a blog.
SOME of you are probably aware that a number of online games have a thriving underground economy of players selling virtual items and even their high-level characters.
But are you aware of just how much real money some people are willing to fork over in order to get a coveted weapon or acquire a high-level character from the start?
How about P50, 000 for a high-level game character? Or P75, 000 or even P100, 000?
EPISODE 4 of hackenslash: the podcast is online.
Level Up! COO Sheila Paul and marketing services manager Jake San Diego talk about Ragnarok 2 and Perfect World. Hosted by Joey Alarilla, Leo Magno, Jayvee Fernandez, Alex Villafania and Claire Chan, with special guests Ike Entiendes, Erap Espada, Market Roxas, Danton Ajinomoto and Gloria Labandera.
FINALLY got to meet an online friend in real life, and what do you know, she wants to stab me with a plastic sword. Click on the thumbnail for the full-size pic, which is courtesy of Jayvee Fernandez.
That’s model, FHM babe and girl gamer Sofie Garrucho, who visited the INQUIRER.net office when we recorded Episode 3 of hackenslash: the podcast on Feb. 21.
Our guest for the “Hot Seat” segment was Greg Kittelson, president of Filipino-developed social networking site GrooveNet.ph, and Sofie also joined us to give the perspective of a GrooveNet member.
(Originally published as a column piece on Jan. 24, 2007)
AS I’ve said in my previous column piece “The revolution will not be televised, but blogged,” I believe 2007 will be the Year of the Filipino Blogger.
I’m glad Filipino blogger Abe Olandres, whom many know by his nick yuga, finds himself agreeing with this assessment, though it seems the comments on his blog post have gone on a different tangent, as some apparently felt it was offensive to Filipinos who work overseas, particularly blue-collar workers. While I respect where people in both sides of the debate were coming from, I think some things were said in the heat of the moment, and I just didn’t want to add to that. Or maybe I was just lazy, heh.
Abe’s site, by the way, is arguably the most popular Philippine blog — heck, apparently ABS-CBN even used it as one of the answers to the trivia questions in its game show “Pilipinas, Game KNB?” (To those who aren’t familiar with Filipino SMS-speak, that’s pronounced “Pilipinas, Game Ka Na Ba?” meaning “Pilipinas, Are You Game?” It’s a spin-off of Kris Aquino’s earlier game show “Game Ka Na Ba?” and… why the hell am I recounting Filipino show biz history, heh.)
