Archives for: December 2006

Real-Time Online Virtual Reality - coming to Reality?

Virtual Reality, a terminology many have forgotten. To some of us, we had the chance to experience Virtual Reality outside of research institutes - and it is an experience you and I will never forget and is longing for. The feeling is different, being… more »

Deeper Emotions Keep Gamers Playing

When in doubt, just read educational gaming news... Four groups of people were asked to play different games, including one group tackling MMOs. For those playing MMOs, the need for relatedness emerged "as an important satisfaction that promote… more »

A look into the life of LJ - a GSS and GM of Mobius Online Games

Let this be the first and the start of a new series gameshogun.ws Games blog will provide - GameMaster interviews and profiles. But this one is a link to another site that gives an insight into the life of a former Mobius Online (dme) Game Support Speci… more »

Casual Games List - December 28, 2006 Thursday

2008-03-19 UPDATE: Latest Updates will now be posted and maintained in one "blog post" only. Visit this link - Philippine Online Games List. December 28, 2006 Thursday - Latest list of Casual Games in the Philippines. Updated official website… more »

Persistent Worlds List - December 28, 2006 Thursday

2008-03-19 UPDATE: Latest Updates will now be posted and maintained in one "blog post" only. Visit this link - Philippine Online Games List. December 28, 2006 Thursday update for the List of Philippine Persistent Worlds or MMOG. 1) Fly f… more »

We're on Social-Networks 3.0..

Since we're into Social-Networks today and the past few days, here's a short excerpt about where we are today in regards to Social-Networking Services. I believe that we are now in Social Networks 3.0. After a fair bit of excitement and energy aroun… more »

ProfileLinker - Your Solution to Multiple Social-Network Profiles

Many of us have countless of Social-Network memberships, it all started when Friendster, MySpace, EveryonesConnected, all started to pop out-of-nowhere, with all our friends, relatives and even bosses started inviting us - it's a race to whoever gets the… more »

A Social-Network Service for Gamers, Developers and Publishers

This is one of the newest Social-Networking Service that entered the market and this time it is for gamers like you. Not only gamers, but [game] Developers and Publishers as well, like me and my colleagues. the Great Games Experiment is still in beta a… more »

Eskwela.com A Social-Networking for the Students and Alumni

I was reminded about Eskwela a Filipino SNS catering to all who went to schools (High School to College), by Aja Lapus via his comment in one of my post entitled - Philippine Social-Networking Services or SNS. Eskwela is for you, the student and alumn… more »

IPVG e-Games Philippines Business Plans and Ventures?

I was surfing our cable TV for interesting news and informative shows when I came across ANC's Business Nightly. This was a week ago (if I remember it correctly). Business Nightly is about well, business news and stock exchange. They have a guess gues… more »

Secret Worlds of Super Mario Bros 1

Okay, I really can't stop myself from blogging this, and I think I'll take this moment to share the trick now that there is what we call the "Internet". What trick? How to get to secret places in Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. 1. No, not those warp room… more »

Flying Spaghetti Monster - the Game

Remember the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? You don't? Oh my... here's some rundown on what it is all about... trust me, you don't want to miss this one. You know, after all, the best way to explain it is for you to read this Open Lett… more »

Protect Adults from Children

Yes, protect adults from children you politicians and anti-game activists! Those children you are dying to protect from an unfounded "games = violence" formula are the first ones who act and say BS. Don't get me wrong here, not every kid online do th… more »

One Wii to Rule Your House

Got a Nintendo Wii? For sure your family is playing that's why you are reading this. But how about transforming that Wii of yours to something that will control your entire house? And remember Nintendo said that "Wii will become the center of every ho… more »

World of Warcraft Weekly Maintenance this Tuesday... NO MORE

UPDATE: Please use this mirror if the site is slowing down.. just passed on if the server goes down... -> duggmirror.com. Very good idea and service. Thanks too to DuggMirror.com ----------------- There will be no scheduled downtime this coming… more »

Flags Added For Easy Translation Access

It's Christmas Eve, and while waiting for our Noche Buena, I took advantage of my time to add an easy translation link to 10 Languages. These are Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Deutsch or German, Espanol or Spanish, Francais or French, Italiano or Italia… more »

Happy Holidays To All of You!

Allow me, on behalf of the gameshogun.ws Blognet to greet everyone a Merry Christmas 2006 and a Happy New Year 2007!! God Bless to all and enjoy the Holiday Season! more »

Philippine Social-Networking Services or SNS

We are all familiar with Social-Networking Services or SNS, if you don't know what it is, then these are online services that provide a way for the public to find friends, relationship partners, activity partners, and connect to them, exchange thoughts,… more »

Perfect World and Bangu-Bang Mania - New Online Games for the Philippines

Beijing Perfect World Technology Co., Ltd. and Level-Up! Inc. signed an agreement on December 12 to bring the 3-D fantasy online game Perfect World to the Philippines. Mr. Zhu Qi, Vice-President of Beijing Perfect World Technology Co., Ltd., answe… more »

Level-Up 2.0 - New Website Launched

The launching of the new website of Level-Up! featuring both game line-ups of the merged Level-Up, Inc. and netGames, Inc. (If you want to see the site for yourself just head on over to www.levelupgames.ph or you can continue on and read what I have t… more »

The new version of Blogger "in beta" is dead!

Directly from the Blogger Dashboard: ------------------------ The new version of Blogger in beta is dead! Long live the new version of Blogger! (P.S. The old version of Blogger is not dead, but it would like to retire for a little while... maybe go… more »

3bubbles gone, welcome Gabbly

3bubbles gone? First, just want to announce that upgrading of the gameshogun.ws blog software was a success. Now, where is 3bubbles.com gone to? This is one service I've been testing (and invited to test) that allows blog owners to give a "chatroo… more »

Blog Upgrade

The gameshogun.ws Blognet will down for a few hours to give way to the upgrading of the blog software we are using. We will send an announcement once we are back online. Thank you for you understanding. more »

World of Warcraft: the Burning Crusade Intro Movie

Can't wait to see it? Well watch this video UPDATE: December 13, 2006 - The video was removed from YouTube, and rumours say that Blizzard requested that the video be put down. more »

YM Blocks .com

Today, I just noticed that Yahoo! Messenger or YM! is blocking all mass messages with instances of .com that are not included in their "allowed URLs list" - wherever that list is stored. This may be their new solution to the growing problem of viruses s… more »