By Relly Carpio
INQUIRER.net

WITH a blazing speed of 9 minutes and 24 seconds, Philippine Team (Team PH) member Ayhin dealt the coup de grace to the Chinese Team’s King for Team PH’s win at the Supreme Destiny World Championship League. This win gives Team PH at a chance for a tie with leading team Korea, and a sure shot at the quarterfinals.

Team PH was the blue team for this match, with China, um, playing red (talk about coincidences). As usual, Team PH showed solidarity with the full field of 26 team members and four reserves present. China had to deal with only 18 members on its team.

“It’s surprising,” said Sonny Carlos, IP e-Games product manager for Supreme Destiny. “We were expecting a full field from China.”

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By Relly Carpio
INQUIRER.net

TIMEZONE will hold a Manila Cup Challenge for Maximum Tune 3. Players of the third installment of this manga turned arcade driving simulation game need to have have a fully tuned 820 HP car memory card to qualify.

Competitors may register at any Timezone branch with Maximum Tune 3 machines on March 8 to qualify for the pre-final round. They will need to shell out a P200 fee to cover the welcome kit, pre-finals and championship rounds.

They will then compete in the pre-finals on March 15 at the branch where they registered. The finals will be held at Timezone Glorietta 4 on March 31 at 2 p.m.

By Relly Carpio
INQUIRER.net

AMD has announced that their newest graphics processor, the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2, is now available in the Philippines.

“The GPU was launched internationally last November 2007, but was still unavailable till last week when the first shipments arrived,” according to Ryan Sim, ASEAN sales manager of AMD.

The ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 is the first to break the teraflop barrier, or one trillion floating point operations per second, and is nearly double the performance of its predecessor. It is also the first performance-leadership graphics card to support Microsoft’s new Direct X 10.1.

The ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 has support for the ATI CrossFireX, though the software support to enable it is still planned for a late Q1 2008 release. It supports the Unified Video Decoder and ATI Avivo HD for H.264 and VC-1 high definition content. It also has integrated HDCP and audio for HDMI video. Combined with ATI PowerPlay technology the card will be able to “dynamically raise or lower GPU power depending on the usage scenario,” according to the announcement.

The suggested retail price of the ATI Radeon 3870 X2 is P17,960.

By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net

IT certainly is the most absurd mini-cartoon series ever created but it does a lot of good for the heart, because it’ll make you laugh pretty hard. Harvey Birdman is one of the characters in “Adult Swim,” a late-night show that is one of Cartoon Network’s most original comedy animations. It is quite a surprise that a video game was released by Capcom to emulate the show’s off-beat humor. The PlayStation 2 game Harvey Birdman, Attorney-at-Law is largely an interactive video game that takes the player to the world of Harvey Birdman, a retired 1960s superhero-turned-lawyer for a law firm called Sebben and Sebben. The entire series is very short; about four to five hours, depending on your speed of gameplay.

Speaking of which, this game doesn’t have much gameplay. Would-be players of Harvey Birdman may have to be told to watch out for its lack of the normally fast-based gameplay that is expected of a video game. There is barely enough playing around and it’s basically a TV series offshoot squeezed into a DVD game. Its interactive nature is more of pointing and clicking on items on the screen, moving forward and backward and, well, that’s basically it. However, what it lacks in gameplay it makes up for with its utter absurdity to comedic effect. The humor used in this game is just as good as the Adult Swim TV series and it will give players moments of laughter, especially with the dialogue of the characters.

Just as in the TV series, Harvey Birdman will take on court cases that range from finding out who robbed a bank to proving that Harvey’s partner, Peter Potamus (another Hanna-Barbera cartoon character way back in the 60s) is not an arsonist. You play Harvey Birdman to solve these cases. Each case will require Harvey to search for evidence or clues that he can use during the court case. Harvey can interact with witnesses (most of whom are also 60s characters) and police officers to help him out with his cases.

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By Relly Carpio
INQUIRER.net

IT took all of 10 minutes and 33 seconds, and this time, there wasn’t any doubt with the win. With over a fourth of their King’s life left, the Philippine team’s (Team PH) Spy99 dealt the killing blow to Team Brazil’s King in their latest battle in the Supreme Destiny World Championship League.

“After the loss to the Global Team, Team PH learned their lesson and didn’t take any more chances,” said Sonny Carlos, IP e-Games product manager for Supreme Destiny. “They went with a new strategy and it worked very well. Nasasayangan nga sila, kasi dapat sweep na kung hindi nangyari iyung sa last match.”

Once again, Team PH fielded a complete team of 26 soldiers to Brazil’s 22. Team PH split into three teams, each taking one of the paths to the opponent’s fort. They hunted down the King’s Commanders and took them down. Once inside the fort, they reformed to create one siege unit and took down one barrack. They then split into two — one group to keep destroying the two other barracks and the other moving on to assassinate the enemy King.

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