By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines — A video game convention scheduled this month hopes to encourage growth of the video game industry in Asia, its organizer said.

“We would like to see the competitiveness of video game industry in Asia-Pacific to the level similar to the ones in Europe, Japan and the US. We believe competition would bring positive results to the industry, where everyone would strive to make the best game and provide the best game services,” said Leipziger Messe International (LMI) Asia Managing Director Joerg Zeissig about the upcoming Game Convention Asia (GCA), the Asian adaptation of a major European video game conference. LMI is organizing the GCA.

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THE JULY issue of GAME!, the gaming magazine of INQUIRER.net’s sister company Hinge Inquirer Publications, is already out in newsstands.

Here’s an announcement from the GAME! team to give you an idea of the goodies the July issue has in store for you.

GAME!, the Philippines’ best online gaming magazine, whips up a storm this July with facts and trivia on the most anticipated gaming event of 2007 — the Ragnarok Philippine Championships!

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INQUIRER.net is one of the sponsors of New Worlds: Transformed, where fans of science fiction, fantasy, role-playing games and comic books are expected to converge in droves.

Here’s the press release:

Do you love Harry Potter? How about those amazing Transformers?

Admit it: you were a fan of something at some point in your life. Books, TV shows, movies, comics, and many other creations in the media can make an indelible impression on anyone and stay for the rest of our lives.

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FINALLY, the new hackenslash is online, and surprise, surprise, it’s the latest site in the growing INQUIRER.net Blogs network.

With the hackenslash relaunch, we’re making history as the first INQUIRER.net site to be transformed into a blog. As the gaming and multimedia editor of INQUIRER.net, one of my responsibilities is to be the Final Boss a.k.a. editor of our hackenslash gaming site, and I felt that the blog format would be perfect for our needs and the needs of our readers.

Not only that, but we can take advantage of the synergy and drive more traffic to our fledgling blog network, while also bringing together our newly launched services such as our video channel, podcasts and Flickr pages to offer a true multimedia experience.

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