Did you know that we Filipinos can produce a 3D movie? Not just “a 3D movie” but a full-length 3D movie! The RPG Metanoia 3D Movie Animation is the Philippines’ first full-length 3D movie (live-action or animation). It has been in development for the past years and finally we will be able to watch this great movie this coming December 25, 2010 on the opening day of the Metro Manila Film Festival nationwide!

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OpenTTD 1.0.2 is the latest stable release for this highly popular clone of the classic DOS (and early Windows) game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Chris Sawyer, the original creator and developer of Transport Tycoon will surely be happy for yet another version of OpenTTD, keeping his game alive to this day.

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After taking a bath (gamers do take baths you know :p ) I realized how blessed I am to have been born in 1982 (the early years of Generation Y). Why? When I was growing up, I was there when electronic gaming – PC in particular – was in its childhood years.

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Lord of Ultima™ is the latest browser online game from Electronic Arts®, developed by Phenomic®. It is a browser-based, time-based strategy MMOG, an empire building game.

But despite its title and the typography of the word “Ultima”, it is not related to Richard Garriott’s popular RPG franchise Ultima or Ultima Online – not at all. I am telling you that early to save you from disappointment not like the lot of us currently playing this game.

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When the game first launched in closed beta test last May 7th, it received thousands of players and countless of visitors to the official website. Through the community’s help, the developers were able to squash as many bugs as possible – especially those that are causing game breakages.

Most of it are now gone, in just under one month.

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The Mummy Online is a free-to-play browser-based MMORPG set in Egypt during the first half of the twentieth century. Players will be able to explore the world of The Mummy while battling hordes of dead come alive because of another curse or guardian or evil dreaming of conquering the world.

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Sooner or later, Foursquare must standardize it’s venue naming convention. Truth be told, it should be now not later. Venue naming is already chaotic and it only adds more duplicate venues than before.

I even saw one user entering the same venue 4 times and another venue 5 times! Why? The venue can be written in different ways. I can say this guy is a seasoned Foursquare user because he added a lot of other venues, we can assume that he is aware of the rules and guidelines in entering a new venue.

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Wow, this is every gamers dream – a real-life experience of a virtual world game! Welcome to Game Nation, the world’s first experiential video game theme partk and resort!!

They said it themselves: Your dreams and fantasies will come to life in adventures yet to be told. You will become anything you like and live out the character you create. But this is no game. It’s real.

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I have been fixing Foursquare venue entries for three weeks now and I keep on seeing the same problems over and over again. Duplicate entries, wrong addresses, venues that are supposed to be different but not, and different formatting or the lack thereof.

Officially, there are no standard formatting for venue names other than using the establishment’s “official” name. For example, instead of Starbucks it must be Starbucks Coffee; instead of Kenny Rogers the correct name to use is Kenny Rogers Roasters. Additionally, there is no way in their current system to avoid the creation of duplicate entries and wrong addresses, most of these are coming from their mobile apps particularly the Foursquare iPhone app.

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Playdom, a leading social gaming company acquires Acclaim, a developer of online games, casual games, single-player games, and social networking games. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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SGDK2 is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed for developing multi-layer scrolling tile-based games. It includes a map editor, graphics editor, code editor (but coding is not required), plan editor, sprite definition editor, frameset editor, and tileset editor.

It is written in C# and utilized OpenGL. SGDK2 and games created from it requires the .NET Framework 2.0 and OpenGL v1.2 or later. Games will run in Windows and Linux that passes the requirements.

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Garena, the GSP company that’s going to publish a free-to-play version of Heroes of Newerth posted the latest FAQs asked by the players.

Here are the questions and answers HoN-Asean FAQs.

What exactly is a “sandbox MMOG” in the first place? Shouldn’t themepark MMOs better because the developer directs the game and controls the flow of the storyline?

I disagree, sandbox MMOGs are far better because it is YOU, the player and the community that moves forward the story of the world. YOU create history. YOUR every decision affects the greater whole.

Find out more what a sandbox MMOGs is here.

Heroes of Newerth launched to retail a few days ago globally. This means that for beta players and new players to be able to continue to play HoN, they have to purchase the game.

However, for some ASEAN Nations, Heroes of Newerth will be free-to-play, thanks to Garena (formerly GG-Game) for acquiring the license to publish it regionally.

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Blizzard Entertainment announced the suggested retail price for their highly anticipated real-time strategy game – StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, for their official Asian distribution.

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Valve Games are coming to Linux (finally) there is no more doubt about it. Games like Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Quake Wars, Unreal Tournament, are only some of a bunch of games Linux gamers will soon be able to install natively.

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Heroes of Might and Magic Online started its closed beta phase a few days ago. Developed by TQ Digital from China, licensed by franchise owner Ubisoft, the first English version is now available for lucky testers here in the Asian continent.

The game world is based on Heroes III with the graphics of HoMM V. The game was first launched in May 2008 to the Chinese-speaking market only, and the success prompted them to release it in the English-speaking Asians.

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A new DotA stand-alone game is launching on May 12, 2010 – Heroes of Newerth goes commercial!

HoN was developed by S2 Games, one of the popular game developer company around who create games not just for Windows but also for Mac and Linux players as well. Their other popular online games are: Savage and Savage 2, all set in the world of Newerth.

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The Saga of Ryzom or now known simply as Ryzom relicensed their game engine under GNU/AGPLv3 a “FLOSS License” (ie a license approved by both the Free Software Foundation and Open-Source Initiative). They also licensed their game arts under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike v3 (“CC By-SA 3″) license.

Anyone can now create their own MMORPG using a well developed and tested game engine at the same time having not to worry about the eye-candy. Read more about here.

A report from the Dermatologists said that skin sores can develop over long game sessions on the console platforms, like what happened to the 12-year old girl that developed what is now dubbed as PlayStation palmar hidradenitis.

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