By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.NET

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines’ top gamers fought but checked out early in all of the games at the World Cyber Games 2008 in Cologne, Germany, according to the game’s official website.

None of the Filipino video gamers were able to break through round 16, just three steps closer to the championship finals which was held November 10.

The eight-man Filipino team joined four of the 14 games included in the WCG 2008. These are the PC games “Command and Conquer 3,” “Counterstrike 1.6” and “WarCraft III: Frozen Throne.”

The country also sent one player for the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.

Nevertheless, the Filipino gamers did manage to win a few rounds early on before facing more formidable players.

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By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net

THE Philippines is hosting the upcoming RAN Online Global Tournament scheduled on October 4 at the SMX Convention Center, according to local game publisher IP e-Games who is organizing the event.

IP e-Games Vice President for Marketing Ed Pasion told hackenslash that the Philippines was chosen because of the size of the RAN community in Asia, as well as the support it is getting from RAN players in the Philippines.

IP e-Games said this will be the first time that the Philippines will host the RAN Online Global tournament after Thailand in 2007.

The global competition will have the best RAN players from the Philippines, Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand playing in a local area network-based competition.
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MANILA, Philippines — Intel is challenging Asia’s gaming journalists and amateur gamers to the first Intel Asia PC Gaming Showdown.

The event aims to showcase the best gamers from among gaming journalists in India, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Participants will play three PC games, including racing game Need for Speed Pro Street, first-person shooter Crysis and the soccer game FIFA 2008. All these games are developed by Electronic Arts.

Lisette Paras, account manager for Howorth, organizer of the competiton, said participants can only join following an invitation from Intel.

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Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net

MAKATI CITY – Even if it is has the word “world” in its title, the World GameMaster Tournament (WGT) will not send the top winners of the Philippine competitions to any international contests.

Organized by Taiwanese computer manufacturer Asustek, the company announced the Philippine competition and is preparing for the two months-long contest.
However, Asus Philippines Marketing Manager Jason Teh said this would be the first time that the company is starting its contest in the Philippines and considers this event as a testbed for the continuation of the project in the future.

“For now, winners will only play in the Philippines. They won’t be going anywhere yet,” Teh said.

Other countries like India, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and Thailand have already conducted their own WGT competitions.
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By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines — Taiwanese computer manufacturer ASUSTEK (Asus) is set to introduce the World GameMaster Tournament (WGT) to the Philippines to boost the idea of gaming as a spectator sport.

The WGT is considered as the biggest computer gaming event in Taiwan, which started in 2006 and has spread to India, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, United Kingdom, South Korea, and China.

It highlights mostly PC games including Call of Duty 2, F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) Counterstrike, Need for Speed and the WarCraft 3: Frozen Throne mod Defense of the Ancients (DoTA).

For the Philippines, only three games will be featured, namely DoTA, Need for Speed Prostreet, and Counterstrike, Asus said.
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