Friday, November 26, 2004

wow fix

After being wowed by the World of Warcraft open beta, I'm feeling withdrawal symptoms since I haven't gotten my hands yet on the retail game. WoW was launched in North America, Australia and New Zealand on Nov. 23.

Now you know one of the things on my Christmas wish list.

Read "A blizzard of WoW players."

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---------------oOo--------------- double the fun?

I'm still waiting for the Sony PSP, but with the launch of the Nintendo DS dual screen portable game player in the US on Nov. 21, we now have another gadget to lust after this Christmas.

Read about it in YOU Technogear.

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---------------oOo--------------- more mmos

Netgames already has plenty to offer with the 3D online game Khan, while Level Up has the popular Ragnarok Online. But what happens when these two team up and bring in the big guns?

Read this YOU Technogear story to find out.

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---------------oOo--------------- madness encased in words

Hey Niki, check out our Friday YOU Blog Addict, hehe.

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---------------oOo--------------- anime fair

The University of the Philippines Anime Manga Enthusiasts (UP AME) will hold the "Una KAME!" anime fair at the UP Bahay ng Alumni on Dec. 4 from 1 to 9 p.m. Check out the YOU Cross-Campus story for more details. If your school org has an upcoming event, e-mail me the details and pics (please send as JPEG attachments and include brief captions) and I'll see if we can use them for Cross-Campus.

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---------------oOo--------------- miss world online vote

Go to http://missworldvote.streamos.com/voteform.php and vote for Philippine bet Ma. Karla Bautista at Miss World 2004. Cebuana Karla is a MassCom student at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. The Miss World 2004 winner will be crowned on Dec. 4 in Sanya, China. Visit http://www.missworld.tv for more details. Thanks to China-based Alain for e-mailing me and asking me to plug the online voting form.

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Thursday, November 25, 2004

Sam loves this PC game -- she can manipulate the mouse to make the boat turn left and right and even round corners. But she also giggles while trying to run over pedestrians and her boating instructor, Mrs. Puff the puffer fish.

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Sam playing the boat race game from the SpongeBob Squarepants PC CD-ROM Operation Krabby Patty. 

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But Daddy, I want this Khan cap. Maybe I'll also play Khan one of these days. 

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Here's Sam insisting on wearing the Khan cap. 

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Aw Mom, how will my experiment be a success. Ah well, I'll just give a cute smile. 

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The other day, Sam announced she was conducting an experiment. She filled one cup with water and another with rubber bands, then started mixing them. 

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Posing with lucky members of the audience. 

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Who do you want to kill? 

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So, which character class do you want to play: Micko, Sorcerer, Assassin, Knight or Necromancer?

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The characters of Khan make a spectacular appearance at the Netgames event on Nov. 20 at Eastwood City's Big Kahuna 

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That's RJ Maclang, formerly of Intel and now sales and marketing director of Netgames, the Philippine publisher of the Khan massively multiplayer online game. Saw him again after a long while when we had a meeting this afternoon at the Netgames office. I've known RJ from way back during the days of the first HP-Intel Synergy event at El Nido, when Pia Guanio was still an associate editor of an Internet lifestyle magazine and joined us in Palawan. 

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Head for the coast. By the way, before I forget, can I just say how irritating that mineshaft was? 

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This town ain't big enough for all of us. Can't really show screenshots from this chapter, unless you fancy lots of chopped headcrabs, zombies (both the regular and fast kind), plus plenty of rotting corpses. Didn't think so, heh. All I can say about Ravenholm is that it's fun to slice and dice by using the grav gun on the buzzsaw blades, and zombies make great flambe.

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Yup, you can grab and hurl things, and catch objects in mid-air with your grav gun. 

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Wanna play fetch? 

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Alyx and her, uh, pet. 

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You'll fall in love with the gravity gun -- trust me. 

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Sorry, juvenile, I know. 

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Alyx doesn't like the good doctor. Uh ladies, we're on the same team -- or are we? 

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Hey it's Alyx and her dad Eli. Don't be surprised if he sounds like Benson and Rafiki, heh.

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She's really happy to see you -- really. 

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