Dekaron SEA New Event

Glorious new promo from the guys of Team Dekaron. Check it out.

It’s all about EXP Boost this Lenten Season. Boom, baby.

The Age of Dekaron

It has been a year since I started working in mobiusgames (DME). From my first day at work, our team was tasked with marketing two new games that will change the playing field of online games for the Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia.

Regardless of other people’s opinions, there are some indubitable facts which the local gaming industry MUST acknowledge: GONG! and Dekaron started the trend that got the competition scrambling for new titles, much like MU Philippines did years ago.

The Truth on Tetris and Trauma

According to a recent study by researchers at Oxford University, playing Tetris can reduce trauma.

From the Yahoo! Videogames article:

[Researchers] exposed volunteers to traumatic experiences, then made some of them play Tetris half an hour later.

I wonder if said induced trauma includes sodomy via an upright Z-block while Russian instrumental music plays in the background.

Can you imagine walking into a testing facility and there’s this researcher dude telling you, “Welcome, and thank you for participating in our experiment. We’ll be shooting bullets through your vital organs. Probably, we’d even dip your balls in barbecue sauce and let a rabid grizzly bear loose in this room to gore your genitals out with its huge, eviscerating paws. You have the option of going to the next room instead, where we’ll also coat you in barbecue sauce, but instead of a rabid bear, we’d let loose a horny, 250-pound biker to tenderize your sweet ass. That’s just for starters. We have devised several traumatic experiences tailored to fit your individual profiles. Have a great day!”

And then afterwards, while you’re still bleeding, you crawl towards one of the researchers, begging for some medical attention, for some help, or for him to just end it all with a clean shot to your brains,  he kneels in front of you, and says, “Here, have a brick game.”

In the near future, in an emergency room somewhere:

Resident: What happened here?

Paramedics: Trauma victim. A scaffolding collapsed, and an iron bar flew right into this little boy’s stomach, skewering him.

Resident: Any family members with him at the time?

Paramedics: (checks his notes) His father was with him, but another iron bar dropped on his head. The boy witnessed it all. That’s actually bits of his own father’s brains on his chin right now, doctor. (pointing)

Resident: My god! How traumatic. (To her interns) We need a brick game here STAT!

Nintendo Patents Gaming for n00bs

Great. Just what we need. More gaming accessibility for n00bs.

Honestly, I’m sort of torn on this news. On one hand, I think it’s great that the industry is reaching out beyond its core demographics of pre-, post-, and pubescent male teens. The more diverse the community, the more dynamic the scene will be. With the coming and the eventual rise to domination of the Wii, Nintendo has prove that by minimizing the learning curve, everyone’s inner gamer will be unleashed. More and more moms are playing Wii Sports with their teenagers, and there’s a steady increase in number of “girl gamers”.

On the other, we all know that Nintendo’s only doing this to sell more. Expand your target market, expect more revenues. Maybe that’s not so bad. Maybe decentralizing the expertise on gaming will be ultimately good for the industry, or maybe, by trying to appeal to wider demographics, the gaming experience will be compromised. With game developers targeting a more basic, neutral, common ground in order to attract 40-yo housewives and their 13-yo sons, we can expect a “popularization” of game play, narrative, and–gasp!– even visuals!

What do you think?

Game of the Year 2008

Yahoo! Games announced their “Game of the Year 2008″ for several genres. Check it out here.

Sorry, guys, no gold for Bush Shoe-throwing Game. Maybe next year?

Extasiege’s Vicious Summoner in Phoenix Armor Set

Yey. I’ve finally reached level 68 with my Vicious Summoner. It can now wear the phoenix armor set completely. Check out these photos I took:

Happy Vicious Holidays!

Have a hackin Christmas and a slashin New Year, my boiatches!!!

Dekaron Commissioned Quests Guide

Hello, boiatches. Still not getting any, I see.

Anyway, I’ve been noticing a lot of search results that’s been generating traffic to this site is related to Dekaron Commissioned Quests. It’s funny coz I never posted any comprehensive guide to Dekaron Commisssioned Quests here, except, well, a mention in passing. See, when I used to work for mobiusgames, blogging those kind of stuff was actually part of my job. Now that I’m focusing on a different career path (for the time), I’ve taken it slow when it comes to writing guides and tips.

But since you insist, I guess I can afford to spare some time and write a little something about Dekaron Commissioned Quests.

Extasiege’s FFVII: Crisis Core Saved File

It’s official. I have gone beyond the limits of my own multimedia delusion that I am now sharing my Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core Saved File because I believe in the relevance of my own digital celebrity status.

"This is one of those shit why people say we're gay, guys."

Ok, let me be clear about this. I’m not claiming you should download my saved file because it’s the best, it’s the most awesome, it totally pwns. It’s not. My gameplay’s pretty mediocre, pwnage wise. I’m sharing it with you guys simply in the spirit of generosity and for the sake of discussion. It’s not an awesome gameplay.

However, there are pretty neat stuff I’ve acquired through the process of exploring this FFVII prequel for the PSP. For one thing, I’ve managed to unlock the Genji Armor (so, that means the DMW’s complete as well). The HP booster I’ve fused with a Curaga materia’s not bad either at 7++%, and Zack’s at LVL 8+, and the Mission Mode’s 87% complete. There’s still A LOT OF ROOM for exploring before you finish the story mode (which I finished back when I was level 40-something. Genesis –the final boss, duh– is a pushover, so there’s no snag in unlocking the New Game+ mode).

Besides, it’s THE gameplay of, eherm, THE Siege Malvar. That amounts to something, I hope. It’s worth checking out, at least.

And over at Jam Online, Jerome Ancheta has posted the trailers for two new Final Fantasy installments: Final Fantasy versus XIII and Final Fantasy agito XIII.

The Final Fantasy versus XIII trailer looks pretty awesome, innit?  It’ll be out on the PS3 soon. Well, it looks awesome because it’s a cinematic trailer. Can’t wait to see the gameplay trailer, though. The trailer offers no clue as to the new gameplay, whether they’re going to implement a new system, or a hybrid of the old ones (the DMW, the ATB, etc). FFversusXIII looks like it’s set on a futuristic world with elements of fantasy in the undercurrent. So far, the FFVII series of games is the only installment in the franchise that plays with the neo-gothic feel of a science-fictional millieu, and I don’t know if you agree with me, but the FFVIII was an all-out cowboy romance to be categorized in any coherent genre.

TechPinas.com: The Philippine Technology Blog

Hello, my dear gametards. I’d like you to check out this website: TechPinas.com: the Philippine Technology Blog, and go there regularly for the latest news, tips, and gadget-porn that may be related to our lives, even in passing.

You may also want to read up my interview with TechPinas.com’s webmaster.