By Joey Alarilla, hackenslash Editor
INQUIRER.net

MEET Sarah Catindig, one of the four lovely models I interviewed in Plantation Bay, Mactan, Cebu last week during the 2nd RAN Online Global Conference.

You’ve already met RAN Calendar Girl Jonah, so now say hello to Sarah. Sarah took up Journalism in college — watch the video interview I conducted to find out why she shifted careers from writer to model.

Here’s a pic of Sarah in her RAN Online schoolgirl costume taken by Terence Ver Angsioco of IP e-Games during the RAN Online Global Conference.

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ALEX VILLAFANIA (left) kneels before the mighty Gabby Dizon, who is using the +9 sword of the “Father of hackenslash,” Leo Magno, heh.

Gabby, the chairperson of the International Game Developers Association Manila Chapter and co-founder and president of FlipSide Games, jams with the hackenslash crew in Episode 7 of hackenslash: the podcast. Plus, have a bite of our first Hero Sandwich as we spoof “Heroes.” Hosted by Joey Alarilla, Jayvee Fernandez and Alex Villafania. Special guests Longwinded Sorry-Ass, Miki Sandman, Hiro Nakatempura, Peter Vermicelli, Nathan Vermicelli and Sando Masasushi, with cameos by Dare Bendit, I Suck Mendez, Jessicka and Psy War.

Warning: Parental guidance is advised due to mature themes and some profanity.

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By Alex Villafania, hackenslash Reporter
INQUIRER.net

PHILIPPINE online game publisher Digital Media Exchange (dme) has recently made available a local payment gateway for the massively multiplayer online game EVE Online, which is played on international servers.

Philippine players of EVE Online would be able to pay their monthly subscription through dme’s payment gateway MobiusGames.net.

Likewise, players from other Southeast Asian countries would also be able to pay through MobiusGames.net since prepaid cards are also available outside the Philippines.

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PLANTATION BAY, Mactan, Cebu, Philippines–Here’s a video I took of IP e-Games marketing director Ed Pasion a.k.a. Captain Passion recounting how the RAN Calendar Girls project was conceived.

This was taken on March 23 during the 2nd RAN Online Global Conference, which the Philippines hosted this year.

By Alex Villafania, hackenslash Reporter
INQUIRER.net

UPDATED: Macromedia Flash is of course now known as Adobe Flash. Thanks to anomalous_underdog for the heads up.–Joey Alarilla

A STARTUP video game development firm called Skyrocket Interactive Inc., a startup video game development firm, is eyeing to entice large corporations to use video games as a marketing tool, instead of fully focusing on creating original games.

In an interview with hackenslash, Skyrocket Interactive president and CEO James Ronald Lo said the company’s development approach would be on “advergaming,” a concept wherein a video game has a direct or indirect reference to a popular consumer brand.

Advergaming provides major brand names to extend their marketing reach to either a niche of gamers or an existing community of video game players. Likewise, advergaming can also use games as an interactive value-added service to their existing customers.

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