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G-Star 2018
G-Star 2018 was a video game trade exhibition held from November 13 until 18, 2018, in Busan, South Korea. It is part of the annual G-Star event by the Korea Association of Game Industry and Busan IT Promotion Agency. Ten Philippine companies participated in the event, and two game entries from Philippine game developers won awards.
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.
Grand Chase World Championship 2009
Grand Chase World Championship 2009 , also known as GCW 2009 , was an international tournament for the live-service action game Grand Chase . The event was held in Daegu, South Korea on December 29, 2009. Seven countries with three players each participated in the event, for a total of twenty-one players.
World Cyber Games 2007
World Cyber Games 2007 is the seventh mainline World Cyber Games event. The Grand Final was held at Qwest Field in Seattle, United States on October 3 to 7, 2007.
Gear Box: Puzzle Party
Gear Box: Puzzle Party is a 2004 mobile casual game developed by Philippine game developer Spoon Interactive Arts as an entry to the Sony Ericsson Game Developers Challenge 2004.
Mobile Legends Philippines Athena League: Queens of the Arena - Women's League (Season 1)
Athena League : Queens of the Arena - Women's League , also known as Athena League Season 1 and later Athena Cup Season 1 , was an open, online-only, all-female tournament organized by CBZN Perspective for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang in the Philippines. It served as the country's qualifier for the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Women's Invitational 2025.
HEX: Shards of Fate
HEX: Shards of Fate was a free-to-play digital MMO trading card game developed by American developer Cryptozoic Entertainment. It was originally announced to be distributed in the Philippines under Level Up! , but the plan did not fall through.
ePLDT's acquisition of Level Up! Inc.
In February 2006, Philippine technology company ePLDT, Inc. announced that it had acquired a majority stake in the live service gaming publisher Level Up! Inc. from its parent company, Level Up! International Holdings Pte. Ltd. This acquisition led to the merger of the operations of the gaming portals netGames (owned by ePLDT) and Level Up! , with the former's branding being dropped in favor of retaining the latter.
US visa denial of Philippine representatives for BlizzCon's North American Hearthstone Qualifiers 2014
In September 2014, two Hearthstone Philippine representatives for the BlizzCon North American LAN Qualifiers, Chalk "Chalk" Zaldivar and Euniel "Staz" Javiñas, were denied US Visas that prevented them from participating in the US$250,000 BlizzCon Hearthstone World Championship.
Matteo Guidicelli's controversial PlayStation 4 unboxing video
On June 2020, Filipino-Italian actor Gianmatteo Fernan Guidicelli , better known as Matteo Guidicelli , published a controversial unboxing video on his YouTube channel where he unboxed a sponsored PlayStation 4 Pro bundle. It gained notoriety for his lack of enthusiasm in the video and his sloppy unboxing of the package.