THIS recent win proves again that Filipinos are at par with international players of video games.

Filipino players Carlo Racela and Daniel Chua both placed high among the players in the International Tekken 6 Championships held at the TriNoMa Mall in Quezon City last Saturday.

Racela beat Australia’s Andrew Kim in a race-to-five match for the championship round.

Incidentally, Kim had beaten Racela during the round-robin matches that pitted five of the other players. The equally matched Kim and Racela gained four wins and one lose each before facing off.

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By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines — Thailand remains the undisputed champion in this year’s Ragnarok Online World Championships (RWC).

Thailand is followed by South Korea and Indonesia in second and third place, respectively.

The Thai team is composed of Ratchasak Kanchanasapha, Mana Pattharavilaloet, Minlawat Tararuthai, Somporn Sinsanguan, Hatsakan Santitaweechai, Ekkasit Nimket, and Narin Sukwisutthichot.

This is the second time the Thai team won in the RWC. They won in last year’s RWC held in their home country.

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By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines — While waiting for the upcoming World Cyber Games Finals in Germany, the organizers of the WCG Philippines tournament has started the WCG League in an effort to spur continues training of gamers hoping to get into the annual WCG Finals, local organzer eSports said.

The WCG League starts on October 18 and will be held at the Cyberzone of the SM Mall of Asia.

For now, two games will be highlighted and both are for the Microsoft Xbox 360. These are Guitar Hero III (GH3) and Soul Calibur IV (SC4).

For GH3, the game mode will be one-versus-one and will be set on expert. There will already be a selection of songs including “One” by Metallica, “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns N’ Roses, the extremely difficult “Through the Fire and Flames” by Dragonforce, among others.

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By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net

GADGETS Magazine Editor John Nieves will head to Hong Kong at the end of the month to represent the Philippines in the first Intel Asia PC Gaming Showdown, which is a competition open to gaming journalists and amateur gamers.

Nieves will be facing off against game journalists from Thailand and Malaysia.

Nieves won the top prize in the Philippine leg of the competition, which pits gaming journalists in three games from Electronic Arts; Crysis, Need for Speed Pro Street and FIFA 2008.

In an interview, Nieves said he has already been practicing on FIFA 2008, the only game that he is not strongly familiar.

“Crysis plays much like most first-person shooters that I’ve played before so it’s easy to pick up and I’ve been playing the Need for Speed series since it came out. Soccer games are more difficult for me because I’m not much into sports games,” he said.

The grand winner of the Hong Kong finals will take home an high-end Alienware gaming PC powered by an Intel Core 2 Extreme processor while the second place winner will be awarded with a Creative Gigaworks S750 gaming speaker system.

By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net

NO, they’re not the infamous beast from Voltes V, a famous and classic Japanese anime about a super robot. It is a seven-man team that won in the recently held Ragnarok Online Philippine Championships.

The so-called “Bozanian Beastfighters” will represent the Philippines in the upcoming Ragnarok World Championships in Manila on October 18.

Members of the Bozanian Beastfighter are Frederick Banaag, Cris John Dimaunahan, Emmanuel de Leon, Ralph Christopher Magbag, Mel Bryan Unera, Jeffrey Custodio, and Miguel Luis Angeles.

They beat the teams Renegade and Demented who were in second and third place, respectively.

The event will also coincide with the annual Level Up! Live annual convention at the World Trade Center in Pasay City.

This year’s winning team is the same team that represented the Philippines in the Ragnarok World Championship 2007 held in Seoul, South Korea. The team won third place against 10 other countries.