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Ragnarok World Championship 2008
The Ragnarok World Championship 2008 , or simply RWC 2008 , was an international tournament for the MMORPG Ragnarok Online that was held on October 18 and 19, 2008 at the World Trade Center in the City of Pasay, Philippines during the Level Up! Live 2008 event. [1] The Philippines participated in the event with the help of the game's local publisher and event organizer, Level Up! .
Electronic Sports Gaming Summit 2023 (ESGS 2023)
Electronic Sports Gaming Summit 2023 , or ESGS 2023 , was a three-day gaming convention held from Friday to Sunday, November 3 to 5, 2023, at the World Trade Center, City of Pasay, Philippines. It is the tenth ESGS event held in the series and is the first and only time its convention was held in a place other than the SMX Convention Center Manila .
NIKKE goes to Manila Ocean Park 2.5th anniversary celebration
Goddess of Victory: Nikke celebrated its 2.5th anniversary in the Philippines on Sunday, May 4, 2025, at the Manila Ocean Park in Metro Manila. The Ocean Park location was chosen due to the release of the newest unit in the game, Little Mermaid, also known as Siren.
Assault Fire
Assault Fire is a free-to-play multiplayer online FPS developed by Chinese developer Tencent Games for Microsoft Windows. It was published in the Philippines under Level Up! and later by PlayPark from 2013 until 2017.
Starcade
Starcade was a Filipino video game news and reviews website of Philstar.com that ran from 2005 until 2008.
Legend of YMIR
Legend of YMIR is a Web3 MMORPG developed and published by South Korean company Wemade Co., Ltd. It was released globally on October 28, 2025, and a Manila server was released on March 10, 2026. The game is integrated with the blockchain on the WEMIX platform.
Bus Hostage by Policeman
Bus Hostage by Policeman is a 2010 satirical but controversial whac-a-mole Flash game developed by Bari Silvestre of Keybol Games and was published on Newgrounds. The game was based on the August 2010 Manila hostage crisis. It was widely criticized for its poor build quality as well as being insensitive to the subject matter.
Electronic Sports Gaming Summit 2014 (ESGS 2014)
Electronic Sports Gaming Summit 2014 , or ESGS 2014 , was a two-day Philippine gaming convention held on the weekend of November 15 and 16, 2014, at the SMX Convention Center in SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City, Metro Manila. Joebert Yu, who would later establish Gariath Concepts, was the head organizer of the event.
IP E-Game's listing on the Philippine Stock Exchange
On Feb. 17, 2010, Philippine live service game publisher IP E-Game Ventures, Inc. (IP E-Game) , which operated the gaming portal E-Games, made history by becoming the first video game company to be listed publicly in the Philippine Stock Exchange . However, the decision to become public came towards the end of the live service gaming boom in the Philippines, and it made the company one of the worst public stock investments available at the time.
Level Up! cLiq
Level Up! Cliq (stylized as cLiq ) was a short-lived social networking site established under Level Up! in 2007.