Weeks ago, the Philippine Department of Tourism and MTV Network had a press release of their new campaign called Awesome Philippines. Included in this project is an Island inside Second Life. Yes, the Philippines in Second Life. Today, I have found that island in-world. The keyword I used in SL’s search was “MTV Revelations” since for some reason, the keyword “Philippines” gives a different result.

Of course, you can visit the island directly through this SLURL.

Here’s a peek of what the island looks like

Above are the overview images of the island. From afar, you can see the Chocolate hiils.

The other parts of the island below.

Bohol’s Chocolate Hills

Bicol Region’s Mayon Volcano

…and the famous Boracay.

Last but not the least, the best way to see them is to visit the Philippines for real.

For now, you can visit the Awesome Philippines island in Second Life here.

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…almost done and it’s oooozing with awesomeness! The finished RX78 Gundam’s pictures are now emerging over the net and I can’t help but host some of them. So now, who wants to go to Japan? The Gundam is in North Shiokaze park and of course, here are the pictures. 

To see the full documentation of this real-life Gundam for the 30 year anniversary of the series, you may visit this blog.

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I’ve seen it all over the news now. The Philippine Department of Tourism and MTV Network’s international campaign called Awesome Philippines has created an island inside Second Life. Of course, being one of the people blogging about Second Life here in my country, I AM PROUD.

It has only been a year since I started traveling around the country and being able to see its beauty with the help of the company I am working in right now.  Anyway, I can’t just keep the beauty of this home country of mine to myself so I’m really glad that everyone I know in Second Life that lives outside the Philippines can now have a glimpse of the Philippines.

Quoted from the news:

On the island, visitors can dive virtually with whale white sharks at the mouth of Donsol River, Sorsogon; go windsurfing on a beach modeled after the famous white sands of Boracay; fly above the majestic 1,268 Chocolate Hills of Bohol; and visit Mount Mayon, the Philippines’ most active volcano with 48 eruptions to date.

So far, I’ve tried searching for it inside Second Life and found nothing. I guess the island is so new and not yet accessible by the public. Once I got the chance to visit it virtually, I’ll take some screenshots.

Time to visit virtual Donsol, Mayon and Boracay!

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A week ago, I announced here that RF Online’s Update “Novus Rising” has been announced by RF GM Cydie at the Level-Up! Live Blog. Earlier today, Community manager, Vessago, announced the Novus Rising FAQ and with it is the patch date which is April 24, 2009. (Yes… this friday) So download the new RF Online - Novus Rising Client now before the server maintenance on Friday.

You can download the new RF Online client at the following sites:

http://ftp.levelupgames.ph/ - for Direct Downloads

http://torrent.levelupgames.ph for Torrent Downloads

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2515312 - Torrent uploaded by me.

For those who want to download via torrent, I’m seeding the full client with the main seed in our office. The trackers for this torrent are:

http://202.57.118.94:6969/announce - Level-Up! Tracker
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce - Public Tracker 
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce - Public Tracker

Not being redundant or so but here’s something that you should take in mind while downloading the client.

Download and Installation Instruction

1. Before Installing the Novus Rising Client on April 24, uninstall your old RF Online-ph client.
2. If you want to be sure, install only on the 24th of April.

For more information with regards to Novus Rising, please visit www.rfonline.ph or the RFboards.

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If there’s one online game in the country that has been through a lot of hardship and challenges, I can say that it is definitely RF Online.

Earlier at the Level-Up! Live Blog, RF Community Manager, Vessago and Brand Manager, GM Cydie, announced that the patch / fix for the server downs in RF Online is here and currently being tested.

The Novus Rising patch includes the blue and yellow patch of RF Online Global. The level cap will be increased to level 65 as well. In my opinion, this is a good move since the dupped items caused by the bug and player misconduct in the past is level 50 to 55 items. Increasing the level cap will make this dupped items useless.

For more details about the Novus Rising patch, keep on visiting www.rfonline.ph

PS: Most of you know that I work for Level-Up! as Perfect World’s CM. Even if so, I’m not allowed to say or blog anything unannounced at our official sites. So just wait for Cydie and Vessago’s official announcement on the details of the patch. Thanks.

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China Business Headlines recently posted in their site that a new MMO from Perfect World (Nasdaq:PWRD) is developing a new 3d western fantasy MMORPG. The news is from Perfect World’s senior employee according to 17173.com.

Here’s the complete report:

Online game company Perfect World (Nasdaq:PWRD) is developing a new 3D western fantasy MMORPG, Project Em, for the global market, reports 17173.com quoting a Perfect World senior employee. The game was jointly developed by well-known production teams from several countries, not Perfect World’s Zulong or Wanju game studios, said the report. Project Em has not announced a release date.

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We’ve been playing Rohan Online since August 2008 in its International Version and recently, Level-Up! Inc. has launched its Philippine Version in Closed Beta Testing.

Now we want to share on how to allocate those stat points and where to put the skill points for the Human – Guardian Knight build. I myself have been playing a Dekan character since the start and I only started using a Guardian Knight last December.

Guardian Knight Build

I’m using a dual-wield Guardian Knight with a sword as the main weapon and a dagger in place of the shield. Remember as well that if you want your Guardian Knight to wield 2 weapons, the dagger should be in place of the shield slot.

Anyway, my stat has been distributed to 3 STR: 1 VIT every level.

3 STR: 1 VIT build gives me enough strength to deal damage and the VIT, of course, gives me HP and defense.

Skill Point Distribution

As for the skills, here’s how I distributed them.

5 Frozen

1 Taunt

5 Rising Might

5 Sharpen Blade

1 Invoke

Only to those skills. Yes. I only distributed 17 points out of 50 in the Knight class. I saved the other 33 for the Guardian Skills which are the following. For the Frozen, I chose Frozen since it slows down monsters and other players.

5 Sword Mastery

1 Taunt Roar

5 Rush

5 Crazy Strength

1 Final Crash

5 Crazy Standing

1 Blue Drain

5 Order

5 Heavy Weapon

5 Crit Aura

1 Roha’s Blessing

5 Knight Symbol

5 Stone Skin

These skills gives me superb offensive power and at the same time defense to survive most of the PVE and PVP attacks.

If you think I can improve this build farther, feel free to leave a comment and hopefully you learned something here.

Thanks.

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As most of you have already noticed, we gave a few Rohan Philippines Closed Beta Accounts on Plurk and here. My stock of accounts has been sent already to those who left a comment here at chinoyray.com and I would like to say thank you to those who joined.

Rohan Philippines – CBT Coming Very Soon

Of course, if there are CBT accounts already, that means that the Closed Beta is almost here. So watch out for the announcement at our official site – http://www.rohan.ph

More CBT Accounts

I know. I know. A lot you are still asking for Rohan CBT accounts. Once I get my hands on another set of accounts, I will give them away. Maybe at my personal blog, my Multiply or at Facebook.

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