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BIG Festival 2025
The Best International Games Festival 2025 or the BIG Festival 2025 was an independent games competition in Latin America. The 2025 event was part of gamescom latam and was held from April 30 until May 4, 2025, at the Anhembi District Convention Center in São Paulo, Brazil.
Geek+Pop Alpha 2025
Geek+Pop Alpha 2025 was a fandom pop culture convention held from Friday to Sunday, February 28 to March 2, 2025, at the World Trade Center Metro Manila in Pasay City, Philippines.
Pinoy Gamers
Pinoy Gamers was a weekly console-based Filipino video game television show that aired on the Makisig Network (Sky Cable channel 76). It was organized by Gamehopper in collaboration with online Filipino gaming communities Pinoy Xbox, Pinoy-N, and PinoyPS.com. The show is no longer in production.
Pretentious Game
Pretentious Game is a 2012 casual platforming puzzle game developed by Filipino developer Bari Silvestre of Keybol Games. The game was originally created as an Adobe Flash game for the Ludum Dare game jam on the Newgrounds platform in 2012. It has since been expanded upon and was ported to iOS and Android in 2014, and was also published by BulkyPix on the Steam platform in 2014. The game is similar to Thomas Was Alone.
GameX
GameX was a game credit (ePIN) distribution portal launched by Philippine-based telecommunications company Smart Communications, Inc. in 2014. Unlike traditional distributors like Load Central, which requires middle-man retailers, GameX allows the users of Smart's line of cellular services, Smart, Talk N' Text, and Sun Cellular, to either use their mobile prepaid load and convert it directly into game credit, or have it charged to their postpaid bill.
HoYo FEST 2025 Philippines
HoYo FEST 2025 Philippines is the Philippine leg of the annual HoYo Fest celebration. It was held from Thursday to Sunday, July 24 to 27, 2025, at the SMX Convention Center Manila in Pasay City, Metro Manila.
Ruinarch
Ruinarch is a simulation game developed by Maccima Games. It is published by Philippine publisher Squeaky Wheel Studio on the Steam platform, and Polish publisher Klabater on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 , Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch .
The Police Killing of Joshua Laxamana
On August 17, 2018, 17-year-old Joshua Laxamana was gunned down by the Philippine National Police in Rosales, Pangasinan, Philippines . Joshua allegedly drove past a checkpoint and shot at the pursuing police, which forced the latter to retaliate and kill him. Joshua's companion, 15-year-old Julius Sebastian , remains missing . This happened during the height of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs.
PokéCon PH 2023
PokéCon PH 2023 was a Pokémon fan convention organized by the Pokémon Philippines community. It was held on Saturday, May 13, 2023, at the Upperbox event hall of the Promenade Mall in the Greenhills Shopping Center in San Juan City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Spoon Interactive Arts
Spoon Interactive Arts , previously known as ePLDT ContentDev , was the content division of the Philippine I.T. company ePLDT, Inc. which specializes in mobile application and web development.
