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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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 Joey Alarilla, hackenslash Editor
INQUIRER.net

IN A WORLD exclusive, South Korean developer Min Communications has presented a new title based on the RAN Online story, but which is a completely new game that offers cute characters and more accessible gameplay.

P.B. Kim, producer of Min Communications, who spoke through an interpreter, said the working title of the game was RAN AS (Another Story) but it is now known as OS Online. OS stands for “One with the Space,” and Kim said the idea is to take different stories from all over the world, including monsters from different cultures, and place them in one massively multiplayer online game.

Kim declined to say when the game would be launched, though it is now undergoing testing in South Korea. The use of cute characters is expected to broaden the appeal of the game.

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PLANTATION BAY, Mactan, Cebu, Philippines–IP e-Games president and chief operating officer shares the company’s experience in making RAN Online a success in the Philippines.

Tsao cited the need to keep coming out with new content to keep players interested in an online game.

“Our perspective of the market here is — it’s almost like television. If what’s on TV right now is say ‘Three’s Company’ or ‘Gilligan’s Island,’ shows from 10 to 20 years ago, the number of people watching TV wouldn’t be as high as when you put in ‘C.S.I.,’ ‘NBA’ and such.

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PLANTATION BAY, Mactan, Cebu, Philippines–IPVG CEO Enrique Gonzalez greeted the delegates attending the 2nd RAN Online Global Conference, the regional summit of all Asian publishers of the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, which the Philippines is hosting this year.

Dubbed as “Global Success, Global RAN,” the conference features the RAN operators from the Philippines, China, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand sharing their experience and best practices in making RAN the leading MMOG in different countries.

Watch this brief hackenslash TV clip on YouTube of Gonzalez exhorting attendees to unite and make RAN a truly global phenomenon.

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