If you’ve seen the movie Blood Diamond starring Leonardo di Caprio and Jennifer Connely, you’ll understand this situation better.
This news is quite disturbing. Imagine, people enjoying their games on Playstation 2 at the comfort of their homes for the price of deaths in Africa. It is said that a rare metal called coltan is used [...]

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A bomb was dropped a few days ago within the gaming community. A bomb in the form of a controversial statement by none other than the president of the Olympics, Jacques Rogge, 66-years old. In a recent interview with The Times, Rogge said, and I quote:
“Kids are attracted to visual, interactive forms of communication. It’s [...]

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After months of waiting, I finally got my own Nintendo DS Lite! And now here are my reactions about this cool contraption.
When I got to store, the only available color was black. Thankfully and luckily, black was my preferred color ’cause as they say, “black goes with everything”.

The very first game I tried was of [...]

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Ever since the opening of Philippine Ragnarok Online’s Valkyrie Server, I have been closely monitoring the status of botting on the server. I’ve also been very vocal about my opinions on what Level Up is doing (or not doing) against bots and how the botters are constantly challenging the gaming company. Although I’m talking about [...]

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As I was just discussing last post, War of Emperium in Valkyrie server is currently in a state of limbo. However, as of 9:00pm on January 9, 2008, players were shocked to see agits being occupied. Obviously this siege is unofficial because first of all, there wasn’t any official announcement about the return of regular [...]

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Philippine Ragnarok Valkyrie Server has been around for quite sometime already and yet there are glaring bugs that still haven’t been addressed properly. I’ve made a compilation of the most famous bugs that are very much affecting the community.1. Login Difficulty - This is perhaps the number one problem of Valkyrie server. It is very, [...]

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This game is one of the two reasons why I’m itching to buy a Nintendo DS. The other reason is New Super Mario Bros. for DS. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for Nintendo DS is one of the most top rated games of the year 2007. And why? [...]

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It’s the end of 2007, and everyone’s wrapping up how best to end it. I’m here to talk about how Philippine Ragnarok Valkyrie server fared at its launch year.
When Valkyrie server opened in October of 2007, everything was still going smooth and everyone was happy. [...]

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Have you ever been scammed in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) before? I have, and it ain’t pretty. But it’s really a learning experience, a lesson in who to trust and who not to trust. Scammers usually avoid capture because they hide behind their avatars and false identities, and they are usually thousands [...]

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The War of the Bots issue seems to have subsided a bit. After Level Up perma-banned more than 3,000 bot accounts, looks like the botters at Philippine Ragnarok Valkyrie Server took refuge for a while back at their base camps. The hottest topic right now is the upcoming Valhalla server. It is a new server [...]

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