Archive for the ‘Video Games’ Category

Shooting cutesy Pixar characters for free? Priceless.   In the land of PC video gaming and multiplayer, the Philippines is a land of its own. What dominates our market is basically what you’d call LAN party games and MMORPGs. It evolved through time as people decided that they couldn’t manage the costs of full priced [...]

  You know what Sony likes? In the immortal saying of one Kevin Butler, its two words: mon tage. That’s because Sony always shows a couple of montages at its E3 press conferences. Hot in the heels of mostly getting their PSN and Qriocity servers back up for E3 (after it was hacked), Sony is [...]

Microsoft Interactive Entertainment’s Don Mattrick takes the stage   The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, just kicked off today with Microsoft’s Press Release held at the Los Angeles Convention Center early Monday morning. What’s an E3? It’s basically the year’s biggest show in video games – and Microsoft is starting it with a bang. A [...]

  One of the more popular games out there for iOS and Android has definitely been the cult-hit called Game Dev Story. Since the Android Marketplace now allows purchases in the Philippines, and Game Dev Story went on a sale recently, we picked up the game for about PHP 62.00. Yes, only 62 big pesos. [...]

  Our first purchase on a now-Philippine enabled Android Marketplace was Death Worm by PlayCreek. Back then, there was a dearth of choices, since most publishers haven’t yet enabled their games to be purchased in the Philippines – despite Google’s unlocking of the country for transactions. Two weeks later, we notice that we could purchase [...]

  Better never than late, right? Or was that the other way around? PopCap games have finally announced the release of Plants vs. Zombies for your Android phone. On a slightly sad note, it will launch on the Amazon Android Market first for two weeks, with the first day free – which doesn’t much matter [...]

  If you haven’t heard of Rovio’s Angry Birds or PopCap’s Plants vs. Zombies, then your brains have probably already been eaten by angry, plant eating, zombie birds. But if your brain is still intact, then you’ll know that these two games are some of the most popular casual smartphone games out there. And now, [...]

  If you still hold a grudge against those peaceful, egg-loving Green Pigs, and even if you may or may not already have conquered them on almost all platforms they come in, then you’ll be happy to know that you can still fling those Evil Angry Birds at Green Pigs in the comfort of your [...]

Photo Credit: Reuters, Wall Street Journal   Sony’s in a lot of trouble these days, as some of their major online services, including the PlayStation Network, have been hacked – and pretty badly too. It had to shut down most of its online services, including Qriocity, PSN, and Sony Online Entertainment (Sony MMO titles). With [...]

The Nintendo Wii   Nintendo have just announced that they are indeed working on a new Wii console and it will be playable this June at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). The new console will finally be able to run High Definition games – something that the Xbox 360 and PS3 have been enjoying for [...]

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