By INQUIRER.net

FILIPINO player Kevin Patrick Chung will fly to Singapore to compete in EA Play, which will be held on March 15 to 16 at Marina Square’s Central Atrium as part of the company’s plan to further foster interactive community exchanges in the Asia Pacific.

Chung topped the Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars tournament held at the Villman Cyberzone at SM Megamall.

“I think successful naman, it being the first competition we’ve held, and the limited amount of time for the set-up,” said Jo Oliver, operations manager of event sponsor DataBlitz.

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By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net

A GROUP of student entrepreneurs from the University of the Philippines-Diliman is organizing a Metro Manila-wide WarCraft III: Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) tournament that aims to bring together the various groups of DOTA players in an effort to find the best players for a chance to compete in international DOTA events.

DOTA is one of the most popular local area network games worldwide and has a wide following in the Philippines. It is played on a five-on-five team-based match wherein the opposing teams’ primary objective is to destroy a structure in the middle of a map called “Ancient” while staving off each other.

The UP Circle of Entrepreneurs (UPCE) organized the Aenigma 2008 DOTA Tournament as part of their annual business-related project. This is the first time that the group has organized a gaming tournament on a wider scale and the group also hopes that it will be a regular event.

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By Relly Carpio
INQUIRER.net

ROLL out the MCV! On March 1, from 1 to 8 p.m., EA Games and DataBlitz will hold a Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars tournament at
Villman, Cyberzone in SM Megamall. The winner gets to go to (brace yourself) EA Play 08 in Singapore (you can scream now).

Contestants must be 18 and above. Simply register at www.DataBlitz.com.ph to be included in the roster.

“Being the exclusive distributor of EA Games here in the Philippines, we were contacted to hold this EA-sanctioned tournament,” Jo Oliver, operations manager of DataBlitz, told hackenslash. Oliver added that the rules for the tournament came directly from EA.

The first prize includes a roundtrip ticket to Singapore with one night hotel accommodation, C&C Kane’s Wrath with Limited Edition Razer Death Adder Mouse from EA, P5, 000 in cash, Internet Security 2008 with jacket from Trend Micro, Imation products worth P1, 200, Villman premium items worth P500 and a year’s subscription to Playground, the newest gaming magazine in the Philippines.

By Joey Alarilla, hackenslash Editor
INQUIRER.net

ONE of the games I’m really looking forward to playing (apart from Halo 3, of course, heh) is Will Wright’s upcoming PC title (which will also be available on the Nintendo DS and mobile phones) Spore. I had the pleasure of seeing the Spore presentation of Maxis’ Pollinated Content Producer of Spore Caryl Shaw last December in, er, S’pore, and even took a video of the then recently unveiled Creature Editor.

To further whet your appetite, here are the latest screenshots from EA, covering different phases in the evolution of your creatures.

Here are screens of the cellular phase.

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By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net

BANGKOK, Thailand–Chipmaker Intel is launching a game that hopes to showcase the power of its vPro processor technology.

The game, dubbed Silicon Commander, is set in a sci-fi world called the Domain, where players can command an army of intelligent robots, the game’s website said.

Given the power and privileges in the Domain, players can command minions of robots, called Clients, to gather Silicon as they do battle, it added.

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