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M4 at G4: Multimedia Masters Meet Mania
M4 at G4: Multimedia Masters Meet Mania was a two-day Philippine gaming convention held by the live service game publisher netGames and was the commercial launch party for the MMORPG FlyFF and the community portal Juanworld . The event was held on March 4 and 5, 2006 at the Glorietta Activity Center in Ayala Center, City of Makati.
The Memory of Ragnarok
The Memory of Ragnarok is a limited-edition 2-disc soundtrack album of the game Ragnarok Online by Korean video game music composer SoundTeMP. A limited number of copies was distributed in the Philippines by Level Up! .
Value-Added Tax (VAT) on Digital Services Law (Republic Act No. 12023)
Republic Act No. 12023 , also known as the Value-Added Tax (VAT) on Digital Services Law , is a law implemented in June 2025 that subjects a 12% tax on digital products and services by foreign providers. This includes digital games, microtransactions, and subscriptions from platforms like Steam and Nintendo eShop.
Gameclub
Gameclub was a live service gaming portal and brand operated by South Korean company Smilegate Holdings, Inc. in the Philippines. Gameclub was originally established in 2009 and was intended as the global gaming portal of South Korean company Liveplex Co. Ltd. It is best known for publishing the FPS CrossFire in the Philippines.
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.
Casual Connect Asia 2015
Casual Connect Asia 2015 was a 3-day international game development conference held from Tuesday to Thursday, May 19 to 21, 2015, at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore. Six Filipino games were showcased in the event.
StarCraft
StarCraft is a sci-fi RTS game developed by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. It was released in North America on March 31, 1998. An expansion, Brood War , was released in North America in December 1998.
Oversoul
Oversoul, Courage for Supremacy! was a free-to-play MMORPG developed by South Korean developer Magics Co., Ltd. for Microsoft Windows. It was published by in the Philippines by Z-Zone Online . The game started beta in late 2008 and was released commercially in 2009. The game ceased operations in the first quarter of 2010.
2012 CIDG raid of DataBlitz
On November 5, 2012, the Philippine National Police's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) , acting on a complaint filed by Philippine video game distributor X-Play Online Games Inc. , conducted raids on multiple DataBlitz establishments in Metro Manila due to the sale of unauthorized, gray market copies of NBA 2K13. At the time, X-Play had received the license from Take-Two Interactive, NBA 2K13's publisher, to distribute the game in the Philippines.