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Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire is a 2024 Filipino esports film directed by Mikhail Red and starring Loisa Andalio and Coleen Garcia. It was released to Philippine theatres on October 23, 2024. The film uses the real-life game Project Xandata by The Studio of Secret6, Inc. when portraying its fictional esports world.
Ragnarok Philippine Championship 2006
The Ragnarok Philippine Championship 2006 was a nationwide tournament for the MMORPG Ragnarok Online that was organized by its publisher Level Up! . It is the third Ragnarok Philippine Championship event held in the country. The national finals were held on September 30 and October 1, 2006, during the Level Up! Live 2006 event at World Trade Center in the City of Pasay, Philippines.
Rakion: ROG Domination 2025 3v3
The Rakion: Republic of Gamers (ROG) Domination 2025 3v3 was an on-ground Philippine tournament for Rakion SEA . It comprises four tournaments in four locations around the Philippines and a finals tournament where the four champions compete to become the Domination 3v3 champion. It is part of the Rakion: ROG Domination 2025 series of tournaments.
Manny Pacquiao: Pound for Pound
Manny Pacquiao: Pound for Pound is a casual action fighting game released by the Karkadann Games, a studio launched by the Abu Dhabi Media from the United Arab Emirates. It is the first officially-licensed video game by the Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao in which he takes the role of the game's main character.
Ghost of Tsushima's PC port delisting for non-PSN countries
In May 2024, the highly anticipated Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut PC version was removed from digital storefronts for countries not supported by the PlayStation Network (PSN) . The PSN is not officially supported in the Philippines, hence its players were directly affected. This move encouraged software piracy.
NosTale
NosTale is a free-to-play MMORPG developed by South Korean developer Entwell Co., Ltd for Microsoft Windows. It was published globally by South Korean publisher ServeX Co., Ltd. in 2008 . IP e-Game Ventures Inc. on its E-Games portal acted as a distributor of the global server in the Philippines from 2008 to 2010.
MBSoft Corporation
MBSoft Corporation was a Philippine live service game publisher that published the turn-based MMORPG TS Online in the country.
Philippine Game Festival 2015: Game Fest
The Philippine Game Festival 2015: Game Fest was a Philippine game development convention organized by the Game Developers Association of the Philippines and was held on Friday and Saturday, October 2 and 3, 2015, at the The Alpha Tents at the Alphaland Southgate in Makati City, Metro Manila. The event's theme was "Beyond Reality".
The Philippine Video Game Arcade Ban of 1981
The Philippine video game arcade ban of 1981 was enforced by then-Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on November 19, 1981, under complaints that video game arcades were a "destructive social enemy, the electrical bandit" that was weakening the moral fiber of the young and turning them into a generation of obsessives. [1] It resulted in the total ban of arcades until the ousting of Marcos in 1986, although the ban was mostly enforced in Manila only.
Controversial assumed NCCA position on Josie Rizal
On late March 2015, a controversy was started on the assumption that the Philippines' National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) , a government agency, had taken a negative stance against the newly-announced Tekken 7 character Josie Rizal . The public assumed that the NCCA was willing to use its government powers to impact the development and release of the character. The controversy led to the harassment of the agency by Filipino fans, even though in reality, it never had an opinion on Josie Rizal.