WAS at the World Trade Center this afternoon with hackenslash/INQUIRER.net reporter Alex Villafania and our new multimedia reporter Erika Tapalla to cover Level Up! Live.

One of the treats for attendees was the chance to play around with the early beta version of Ragnarok Online 2, the much-anticipated sequel to the title that launched the online gaming craze in the Philippines.

We asked Level Up! Inc. Ragnarok product manager Carlo Ople to give a demo of RO2 while Erika interviewed him and took video footage, and Carlo was more than happy to oblige.

So here’s a taste of RO2.

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By Alex Villafania, hackenslash Reporter
INQUIRER.net

ABS-CBN’s online gaming division Amped Games recently treated reporters to a few rounds of its first casual game GetAmped, which is primarily a combat game that feels almost the same as Nintendo’s extremely popular Super Smash Brothers series. GetAmped was developed by Japanese firm Cyberstep and will be the first Japanese online game to be made available in the Philippines. It just started its closed beta testing but an open beta test is scheduled for another month, allowing more players to try out the game.

For those who have played SSB for the GameCube and the much older Nintendo 64, getting into GetAmped will be easy: a player would have to first create an account to log in. Next, the player will be able to create an in-game character from six different base characters, each having a different color palette. The base characters are Fighter, Military, Superman, ESPer, Spy and Armor. They have unique character attributes such as strength, technique, speed, jump and defense and the player would have to choose wisely what type of style he or she would be employing.

Weapons can also be bought from the item shop and these would vary in strength and type. There are melee weapons such as baseball bats, 4×4 sticks or golf clubs while there are long-range weapons such as guns, cannons and missile launchers. These items would have to be bought using an in-game currency called Gs.

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CHECK out the cover and first three pages of Archie Double Digest #183, courtesy of our friends over at Archie Comics.

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By Alex Villafania, hackenslash Reporter
INQUIRER.net

PHILIPPINE-BASED game development firm Pixelstream gave a sneak peek into the next stages of development of an experimental game and a new game that could be released commercially.

The company also showed the new look of its proprietary Pixelstream Graphics Engine, which was ported to the Xbox 360 through the Microsoft XNA development kit.

A demo of the Pixelstream Graphics Engine was run on the Xbox 360 with new features being added, particularly a cel-shading texture scheme that can be toggled on and off.

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STORM’S back!

Nope not Halle Berry, but the one, true Ororo Munroe in the comic book.

Here’s the preview that Marvel sent us:

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