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Just last night, Level Up unveiled the theme song of Ragnarok World Championships 2008. The song is amptly named “Barrio”, which is Tagalog for a Filipino town or village. The song is all about defending your home - which is perfect for the theme of this year’s Ragnarok World Championships. The song was made by a Cebu Rock band named Powerspoonz and I can honestly say that they are one of the best Filipino rock bands I’ve ever heard. You can expect a lot of great things from these guys and I wouldn’t be surprised if they make it big time in the coming months.

I’d like to invite all of you to visit the Level Up Music Website and listen to the song. You can also listen to it on the Game Heroes website. Listen to the song first then come back here and let me know what you think. Personally, I believe that the song is kick ass and it really captures the Ragnarok generation here in the Philippines.

Go Team Philippines! w00t!

Barrio, Powerspoonz, Ragnarok World Championships 2008, RWC

Tags: Ragnarok-World-Championships-2008, RWC, Barrio, Powerspoonz

I feel very honored to be featured at Ratified for being a part of The Philippines Top 100 Blogs for 2008. The interview was conducted by Miss Janette Toral, one of the most influential women in the Philippine Blogosphere and the esteemed author of Blogging from Home.

For the recognition and the opportunity to talk about this blog’s growth in 2008, THANK YOU!

To my readers and the people who continue to come back to read about romance and relationships, THANK YOU!

I feel like crying. [Update: I am now crying]

My niche blog about romance and the intricacies of relationships has really evolved from being an angsty, gothic themed blog to an angsty, heart-filled one; much like my sojourn from adolescence to advanced adolescence (lol).

I talk about relationships because I believe that no man or woman should pass through life without feeling the miracle of love in various forms. The fun, flirting and seduction phases of finding love serve as wonderful steps that we take to get to that place called forever.

Romance is not a scenario but a state. We experience it when we accept ourselves and learn about the miraculous things that we can give to another person. Everyone is special and has the capability of making other people happy. We only find true happiness when we love…

… and my job as a romance blogger is to spread the LOVE!

So stoked right now, so if you have a question about relationships, please send me a note via my contact page and I will feature your questions in my next posts.

Thanks Again and More Power to Ratified dot Org.

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I’m not really a radio person. I’m more of a visual guy so I don’t enjoy radio as much as your average person. However, I do listen to the radio every morning when I drive from Quezon City to Makati for work. That’s when I used to hear Mo Twiser, Mojo Jojo, and Andi 9 for their Good Times with Mo morning show. I finally had the pleasure of meeting Andi 9 last October 4 during the 1st Crazy Kart Drift Invitational. Since I knew her from radio, I had no idea what she looked like, lol. I actually only found out she was Andi 9 when her handler introduced her to me since she was covering the event for MTV/TV5.

First impressions and more after the jump!

First Impressions
The first thing that struck me about her was “Why ‘da hell is she just on radio?” Then I remembered she’s now on TV and doing more events hosting lately. I haven’t seen her host yet live but I’m pretty sure she has the charisma and the charm to succeed in that particular field of entertainment. While waiting for the coverage to start, I was able to chat with her about a few things. We talked about how she loves to do radio DJ’ing and that she’ll probably continue doing it for a long time to come. I was planning on asking show biz questions like if she was really having something with Mo Twister but I had to go out of the tent since I needed to oversee the event. Chismis alert! LOL.

Anyway, good luck to Andi 9 and her career! I know she’ll continue to do well in the coming years.

Andi 9, MAGIC 89.9

Okay - this is pretty simple. I know not everyone is “masipag” enough to download the client for Grand Chase even though it’s just 500mb. Our sales force is already starting to roll-out the CD installers to all 10,000 internet cafes nationwide to make sure that your favorite cafe gets Grand Chase installed on their terminals. To make life easier for everyone who doesn’t want to download, all you have to do is to go to the Cosplay Mania Event this coming Sunday at SM Mega Mall. Why? Because we’re giving away FREE GRAND CHASE CD INSTALLERS, POSTERS, and CBT ACCOUNTS at our booth! I don’t know how many we can give away but I’m sure we can accomodate at least the first 500-1000 people who sign up.

What to do with the CD Installer if you get one? Er… simple.

1.) Install it in your PC
2.) Give it to your I-cafe owner/bantay and have them install it
3.) After installing pass it to your friends ‘coz you don’t need the CD to play

For the poster, you can put it up on your room or give it to your i-cafe so they can post it on their windows or something.

Don’t forget! CBT starts on October 14! w00t!

Grand Chase, MMORPG

Resident Evil 4 was released a long time ago on the PS2 but I must say that the Wii version is a helluva lot more fun that on the PS2. The motion controls contribute a lot to this. So we here at PinoyGaming.net think that it deserves its own review. So get ready for terror, screaming, item searching and whole lot of shooting and stabbing in this survival horror masterpiece.

Resident Evil 4 continues the story set by the previous Resident Evil titles. You’re no longer fighting zombies though, but parasite infested humans, ugly, Spanish, parasite infested humans. You’ll hear the word “morir” (Spanish for “to kill”) a lot.

You play the role of Leon a brash and dashing (papogi effect grabe) American agent assigned to rescue the President’s kidnapped daughter. Napaisip nga ako eh. Bakit di buong battalion pinadala dun, bakit isang tao lang at iisang baril lang binigay. Di man lang machine gun.

The game looks good for a game released a year or so ago. You won’t see advanced shaders, bump mapping and other new graphic technologies but the look of the game contributes a lot to its eerie “gusto ko nang gumising sa bangungot na ito” feel. The Wii renders the images so well since it is a dated engine. My only complaint is the troublesome over the shoulder camera angle that sometimes blocks your view of enemies coming from behind unlike previous versions of resident evil.

The game sounds fantastic. Plug your Wii to a TV or a sound system with true surround and you’ll be losing sleep for days. Ilang beses na ako napatingin sa likod ko baka may mumu pag naglalaro ako mag isa. Sometimes the music scares you even when there’s no scary event on screen.

For gameplay, this game is HARD. Even on regular mode the game is really hard for one particular reason. There’s not enough ammo for all the mumu to kill. You will keep trying to conserve ammo. You will use your knife instead of shoot 80-90% of the time. I myself shoot parasite infected Spanish people on their needs so when they hit the floor I just stab them instead of shooting them dead. What’s even harder is that there are hundreds of them. So when you see a savepoint, SAVE!! Naiinis ako dahil yung Leon di man lang nagdala ng bag na puno ng bala. Pistol lang dala kukonti pa ng bala.

The game is filled with puzzle after puzzle. Enemies that require strategy to take down and the best part of the game is it is totally immersing. Low ammo, all alone, hard enemies, by the time you finish the game you feel like you just climbed Mt. Everest while carrying a jeepney on your back.

The game is highly replayable too. You unlock new weapons, new costumes, new game modes and yes, new characters to play as you finish the game more than once. I for one discovered the Chicago Typewriter (Thompson submachine gun) and I couldn’t wait to play the game again with it. It made the game a lot easier when I had it with me. There’s also a game within a game using a different character but we won’t tell you too much regarding that, it will ruin the story.

Bottomline this game is definitely a must have for any platform, PC, PS2 but we highly recommend playing it on the Wii since the motion controls just fit in greatly with the gameplay. If you are a fan of survival horror or you just want to test your gaming skillz, this game is for you.

Graphics 8
Sound 10
Gameplay 7
Replay Value 8

A sequel to Suda51’s No More Heroes has been revealed at TGS! And the game is titled No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle. Desperate Struggle… DS?

Damn, guess No More Heroes was successful enough to warrant a sequel

One of the main draws for gaming events are cosplay shows and booth babes. Let’s be honest here - who doesn’t want to see booth babes and have pictures taken with them? When I was in last year’s Gravity Festival in Korea, I shot hundreds of photos of Booth Babes, Lol. Anyway, I’ve compiled pictures from the following events: Gravity Festival, Ad Congress 2007, Crazy Kart Drift Invitational, and the Philippine Motor Show. I was able to make a short MTV/Pic slideshow and I’ve decided to cal lthe video “Booth Babes Volume 1.0″. Watch the video after the jump!

Hopefully I can make Volume 2.0 soon.

Booth Babes, Cosplay

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Portal: Prelude, a fan-made prequel to the original Portal has now been released. This unofficial mod details the events before GlaDOS gained total control of Aperture Science. It will be interesting to experience what a fan’s interpretation of the prior events leading to the original Portal would be.

To download the game, just visit their website:
Portal: Prelude Website

For the past few days, we’ve been getting calls, e-mails, and comments about how the Grand Chase CBT client doesn’t work. Well er… that’s because it’s not yet open to the public guys. We just let you download the client and get your accounts in advance so there won’t be any traffic during opening day. Anyway, the good news is that we now have a sure date on when we will start CBT. On October 14, 2008, we will open CBT and we’re inviting all of you to join in on the fun! Grand Chase will surely be the next big thing in the Philippines and it would be bad if you missed out on all the action.

If you haven’t signed up for a CBT account, please visit the Grand Chase website and get one. Note that you don’t have to win a raffle to get the CBT account! All you have to do is to input your e-mail address and we’ll send you the account information in 1-2 days. After getting the account, just download the client through the Grand Chase website as well. By the way, feel free to drop by at the Cosplay Mania event on October 12. We have a public GC game trial there and we will be giving away Grand Chase installers, CBT accounts, and posters for FREE!

That’s it for now. Hope to see you guys during the CBT!

Grand Chase MMORPG

Okay, I found this from Mike’s blog and I just couldn’t help but repost this here. Here’s a fan-made trailer of the Dragonball Z live action movie. I daresay that this one beats the original one by leaps and bounds. Lol.

It’s over 9,000!

Dragonball Z Live Movie

I’ve always wanted to blog about the celebrities and politicians that I come across and meet in my life. Since I’ve been thinking of a new gimmick for this blog, I guess now is the best time to do just that. I’m launching a new section called Celebrity Impressions wherein I just talk about my first impressions about celebrities that I meet. For the first post, I’ll talk about Gaby dela Merced, who I had the pleasure of meeting last October 4, 2008, during the Crazy Cart Drift Invitational.

First impressions and a video interview of Gaby after the jump.

First Impressions
In all honesty, Gaby dela Merced struck me as an ordinary girl when I first saw her. She was wearing a blue sweater-like top, jeans, and sneakers when she arrived in the event venue for the Crazy Kart Drift Invitational. She’s really not too girly, but not too tomboyish as well. She trikes me as your not-so-girl-but-still-a-girl-next-door type. What I mean is that she’s not too maarte and she’s more down-to-earth than your normal celebrity. She also doesn’t come across as mayabang, which is very nice since her presence doesn’t actually drown you out. She blends naturally into the environment that she’s in.

What’s funny is the first thing she wanted to do when she arrived was to play Crazy Kart. At least I know for sure that we’re getting a good endorser since she herself is an avid fan of the game. It’s not like your other endorsers wherein you just pay for the pretty face and the name but they actually don’t use your product. In other words - hindi pilit. Gaby is a gamer and a racer which really makes her the logical choice as the brand ambassador for Crazy Kart. In fact, there was an article published in this blog about Gaby as a gamer several months ago.

To end this post, let me share with you guys the video interview of Gaby dela Merced done by our Multimedia Head, Joey Alarilla. In this video, Gaby talks about how she was selected as the endorser of Crazy Kart and how she became a gamer herself.

Looking forward to having her visit more of our events in the future. Cheers!

ABS CBN, Crazy Kart, Gaby dela Merced

Level Up will be sponsoring Cosplay Mania this coming Sunday, October 12, 2008! Just like what we did during Road to Live, we’re going to have another public Grand Chase trial. Not only that, we will be giving away free Grand Chase CBT accounts and Posters as well. Oh diba? Hehehe. Cosplay Mania is organized by Cosplay.Ph, a Cosplay organization led by a good friend of mine - Pablo Bairan. To those who don’t know him, he’s actually Nethermir from the Chaos server. If I’m not mistaken, he’s the first level 99 Knight in the Philippines. Anyway, I hope to see you guys at the event! It will be at the SM Megamall Mega Trade Hall 3 and it will start at 10AM and will last until 9PM.

To promote the event, they came up with a very interesting video. Watch it after the jump!

The only weird cosplayer I found in the video above is the one that portrayed Edge from WWE. He got all the movements right though especially the jumping up and down part, lol. Hope to see you guys at the event! Cheers!

Cosplay Mania, Grand Chase MMORPG

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The first ever trailer of Dragonball Z the movie was released a few days ago and… well… uhm… it friggin’ sucks. Hollywood really did a number on this franchise. They’re making it look more like a television drama series than the action packed anime that we’ve all come to appreciate and love. Anyway, if you’re up to it, you can watch the trailer after the jump.

Source

Don’t you just hate it how they’re making Goku look soooo… gay? And the fact that Piccolo looks more like a snake is even more weird. Really sad.

Dragonball Z Movie Trailer

Last Saturday, we had the 1st Crazy Kart Drift Invitational. This was actually part of the Road to LIVE event which was also held at the SM Mall of Asia. In the Crazy Kart event, we unveiled the Crazy Kart Car and we even had it do drifting similar to what you see in the Initial D. anime! Pictures cannot really describe what drifting is all about – and that’s why I made it a point to get a video of the car actually moving sideways while burning rubber. Hope you guys enjoy the video! Watch it after the jump.

I’d like to thank the Crazy Kart team and Burnt Rubber Productions for working on this event. Thanks also to all the amateur drifters who came and showed everyone how good they were with handling their monster machines, lol.

Crazy Kart, Drifting

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Pregnancy. Some find it scary, some find it wonderful… some see it as a choice. In my case, the choice was clear. You could say I’ve been planning for my sojourn to motherhood for as long as I can remember. I promised myself that before I even think of getting pregnant, I would live the single life I have always dreamt of. What I didn’t anticipate, however, is how emotionally and psychologically tiring the transition would be from single girl to mom.

Romance becomes a priority for a pregnant woman because of the world of mood swings and hormones that comes with carrying a child inside you.

Q. Do pregnant women still want ‘it’?
A. Absolutely. When the craving for food starts, the ‘urge’ heightens.

The only thing is, most men won’t acquiesce to a pregnant woman’s requests. As someone I know told me “I don’t really care what your gynecologist says about trimesters and sex, it will never go down in history that I caused a miscarriage because I couldn’t control myself”. Fear of what could happen, rather than misinformation, causes a lot of men to dodge the open invitation to make love during pregnancy.

A Man’s Role in Romancing his Pregnant Partner

There are a lot of ways to tend to a girl’s emotional needs during pregnancy, and one of these is MASSAGE. While rubbing her back or her tired legs, tell her how beautiful she is (and do not use the word “still”!). When a woman knows her body is changing, she needs constant reassurance that she is still desirable. Here are some things that guys must know in relation to a pregnant woman’s emotional vulnerability during pregnancy.

• She knows that the melon-shaped ones have become papaya-shaped, and this disturbs her, whether she admits it or not.
• She can tell if you’re ‘looking’ at other women, and she will make you pay for it, one way or another.
• She has given up making her old clothes fit and has embraced the fact that she will be wearing those trendy maternity clothes for a long time.
• She appreciates the love you shower on your unborn child but she also craves affection directed at her.

How to Romance a Pregnant Woman

1. Shop for her - Your concern for her becomes obvious when you shop for maternity clothes with her. One good trick to make her feel good about her new body is to point out some clothes that will make her most outstanding assets come out. (View the Juicy Maternity Jeans and Paige Maternity Jeans by Bellydance)

2. Research ways to lessen (or at least lighten) stretch marks - Your initiative to buy her the coconut products that claim to lessen stretch marks will make you her hero! These are the first things that a woman notices on her skin during pregnancy.

3. Take her to a Baby Moon - A babymoon is a vacation that would-be parents take to relax and serenely prepare for the arrival of their child. This is a time to reflect on the wonders of parenthood and to remind each other of their love.

The Importance of a stress-free pregnancy becomes obvious after the birth. Some sources discussing Post Natal Depression in women indicate that PND is more likely to happen if a woman did not receive much emotional support during pregnancy.

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