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How To Design an Online Game

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

It used to be simpler 8 to 10 odd years or so ago, the online gaming market wasn’t as cramped, cutthroat and saturated like what it is today. In today’s unforgiving industry, a LOT of games get designed, put on the proverbial closed beta axe and (around 80% to 90%) will never get to see [...]

Beware Of Scammers

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Scammers are getting wiser. Since we started Ragnarok in the Philippines way back in 2003, scammers also started their fiendish “art”. The most common method was impersonating a GM and asking for your username and password. Sadly, a lot of people fall for these tricks. Now, they use more complicated methods; replicating a game’s customer support [...]

How To Manage Online Gaming Expenses

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Even if the game is Free-to-Play, you need money to sustain your online gaming. If you play at an Internet Cafe, you will spend on hourly rentals – this is usually P20 per hour here in the Philippines. Don’t forget your essentials like food, drinks and transportation and you’ll only be limited by your daily [...]

LIVE 2010 Season Is Officially Underway

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Last Friday, thanks to all the Head Judges and the support teams, we launched the official website of LIVE 2010. This year’s theme is “For Guild and Glory”. We’ve also retained the “classic” LIVE logo (which I really love) and chances are, we won’t be making any changes to it soon. Anyways, the Regional cafe-based [...]