By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net

STARTUP game publisher EagleGame has announced the launch of its first game in the Philippines, HighStreet 5, with a premiere party on July 11.

In an interview with hackenslash, EagleGame marketing and communications manager Rio Encarnado said the company has switched on the game’s official portal where visitors can start downloading the game client installer in preparation for the open beta test on July 22.

The site also contains the game’s first patch, MetroCity.

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By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net

UPDATE: Editor’s note: Corrections made.

ONLINE game publishing firm Level Up! is looking to use mobile platforms for distribution of their content. The plan is part of the company’s content distribution enhancements, which started with a recent facelift of their online portal.

In an interview with hackenslash, Level-Up! New Media editor in chief Kevin “Kiven” Codamon said the old site was an early attempt to incorporate a few Web 2.0 features, notably integration of content from the different game portals and forums of Level Up!

The new site focuses on submission of non-text-related content from users, especially fan art, fan fiction, web comic strips, strategy guides, and tips-and-tricks.

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By Alex Villafania
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DESPITE being its best launch so far, IP e-Games has said it does not see its new game Cabal Online competing directly with its most successful game RAN Online.

According to IP e-Games president Steve Tsao, Cabal Online is targeting a different market segment. While Cabal is set in a more medieval fantasy world, RAN has a modern world setting.

Tsao did not reveal the number of registered players in Cabal but said they have “a 110- percent server capacity” and that it is becoming a problem. He also said their concurrent user number is exceeding 40,000, with their servers already operating at full capacity.

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By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net

AMPED GAMES has recently partnered with local startup game publisher GPlayon to market and distribute N-Age, a new massively multiplayer online role playing game that is set in an “urban jungle.”

Amped Games director Mitch Padua told hackenslash that GPlayon will still build the infrastructure for the game while Amped Games will serve as the marketing arm and game distributor.

“Our top-up cards can also be used to play N-Age,” Padua said.

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By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net

NEARLY a year since it introduced the game in the Philippines and the region, entertainment software publisher Asian Media will hold a major relaunch of Lineage II that is expected to have major overhauls in gameplay that will make it into a more “casualized” game.

The overhaul in the Lineage II strategy of Asian Media will affect its operations in Singapore and Malaysia.

In an interview with hackenslash, Asian Media chief operating officer Ronald Allan Aquino said there had been complaints that the game was difficult to play, making it appealing only to more serious players. By changing some aspects of the gameplay, Lineage II can allow casual players to have an easier time when they start playing.

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