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While surfing around, I came across game-specific blogs dedicated to its existing or upcoming players. These blogs are maintained by two of the popular Gamer-Bloggers in the Philippines. But first the games - Age of Conan Philippines, Warhammer Online Philippines, and World of Warcraft Philippines.

Follow up:

No, these are not official websites, these are fansites - blogs to be exact. It is investing in popular IPs by creating websites which will later have advertisements, forums, and hopefully a vibrant and supportive community. It is about tapping that potential Community who are not being catered by anyone, for example World of Warcraft players who are in the Philippines or the Filipinos.

The World of Warcraft Philippines blog is being handled by Carlo Ople with theme designed by Kiven Codamon.

Next is Warhammer Online Philippines, managed by Kiven Codamon, quoting from their about page:

Pinoy Warhammer is the first and leading Warhammer Online MMORPG source for Filipinos.

We are fans of the Warhammer games and of the franchise itself and We are doing this because of our love for the game. Other notable MMORPGs we spent our lives on are: World of Warcraft, City of Heroes/Villains, EverQuest 2, Ultima Online, Lineage 2, Ragnarok Online, Perfect World, RF Online, Age of Conan, Dungeon Runners, Hellgate: London, Mythos and a ton of console and handheld games.

Finally, Age of Conan Philippines also by Kiven. This is how I discovered all the other blogs mentioned (and not mentioned) above. Instead of seeing the “official” AoC-PH website, I instead arrived in a fanblog. The design is the basic theme of Wordpress, either the project was dropped due to the announcement of an Official Age of Conan distribution and support locally or the theme is still being designed by Kiven. An update on AoC from Kiven:

For the age of conan blog, mejo tinatamad na kasi most people i know playing AoC right now is waiting for Warhammer Online. =)

All three fansites are hosted on Skaizer, a Dreamhost reseller a host offering Wordpress service for local Filipinos. I noticed one thing from their list of clients, majority are working for Level-Up or are Level-Up blogs as well as Inquirer their clients are Level Up! Inc., Freestyle Online Philippines, Codamon, Waukster, GMtristan, Game! Magazine, Hinge Inquirer Publications, PC Magazine Philippines, Abuggedlife, Mar Roxas, and many more popular companies, products, portals, and bloggers - I’m sure you are familiar with most or all of those mentioned.

I can only assume that Skaizer is a hosting service by Level-Up, Inquirer, joint-venture, or someone who have connections to both companies and its employees. Now of course, it is possible that those listed were hand-picked, so it could be anything. Not related according to Kiven.

Here are the whois information of all sites:

And the links:
Skaizer
Age of Conan Philippines (a fansite)
Warhammer Online Philippines (a fansite)
World of Warcraft Philippines (a fansite)

Congratulations and best of luck to all fanblogs. Im glad to see people seeing value in creating portals, fansites, Communities around games and each IPs. Something the now defunct PhilGaming.Community did (which even had an upcoming wiki for each games). I hope the rest of the Filipino Gamers see the value as well and start creating fansites and portals for those things that they love.

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