The One About Granado Espada Gamer Girls
So I've gotten to know quite a couple of girls within the Granado Espada community and upon learning from Philippines [CM]Veya that she was planning to set up a Granado Espada Gamer Girl site in the near future, I thought that this might be the right time to bring the female community to the next level - of bringing them into the spotlight, holding various events and promotions specially for them, as well as to perhaps, cater to their needs as a female gamer.
I'm currently working on a proposal to pitch to beauty product companies for a weekly feature in September of the various gamer girls in our community from all walks of life and countries. Hopefully the pitch works out so that our charming featured ladies can each walk away with a little something for their beauty regime.
In any case, I've started up a Granado Espada Gamer Girls group on Facebook here and a Friendster version over here. If you're a Granado Espada Gamer Girl, do join up and share a bit about yourself in the group. I think it'll be pretty darn awesome to share various tips & experiences about our lives - whether it is about our virtual lives in GE or our real life ones.
I'm sorry dudes, but ONLY dolls (read: chicks, females, girls, women) are allowed into this group. I'll be kicking out all other male population on a periodic basis. Nothing personal, it's just... gender. Both guys and dolls can join up the Official Granado Espada Group on Facebook over here.
In the meantime, if you have any ideas on what kinds of contests, events, promotions you hope to see for the Granado Espada Gamer Girl Group, do drop me an email or post it on the Facebook/Friendster message boards. I'll be happy to hear your ideas!
Credits: Above picture created by [CM] Veya
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The One About More Fashionista Boxes!
Fairy Wings. Katana Sword. Horn of Baphomet. Nadachi Sword.
More random boxes scheduled to come out tomorrow! Knight's Cache, Fashionista's Chest, Najib's Weapon Box and Artist's Trove have random drops of the above items, amidst other consumable items. The Katana and Nadachi swords have an awesome winrAR of 30! I guess this pretty much puts it in the same family of Elite 92 weapons. These weapons are veteran exclusive though.
Here's a sneak preview:
Nadachi Sword
Katana Sword - Pretty amazing the snow hasn't melted yet...
Fairy Wing
The perfect combination: La Ventisca + Corona La Ventisca (Hat) + Fairy Wings
Fairy Wing - Back View
Horn of Baphomet - Back Costume
Fashion To Die For: Samurai Costume + Samurai Hat + Horn of Baphomet + Katana Sword
Before I end off, another piece of potential good news. I received an email from a GE gamer requesting an extension of the Vicente costume event since there were some gamers who were affected by barracks slot bug for a while. Which I thought was very good feedback. We've requested IMC to extend the event by 2 weeks, till 14 August 2008, Thursday. If we get the green light, we'll be announcing it to the community shortly.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The One About EA SPORTS FIFA Online 2 Press Conference
I just returned from a trip to Perth on Sunday, and was just in time for our EA SPORTS FIFA Online 2 Press Conference which was held yesterday, on Monday. The game will be available in English and Thai for the Singapore and Thailand markets respectively. Our Singapore press conference was simultaneously held with our partners, True Digital Entertainment (TDE) in Thailand.
In addition to Singapore and Thailand, EA and us (IAHGames) will also be launching EA SPORTS FIFA Online 2 in other Asian countries such as Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines at a later date. EA SPORTS FIFA Online 2 is slated to be available in the Vietnamese language as well in the near future.
Partners and friends of the media gathered together at Boulevard for the press conference:
Mr Roland Ong (CEO of IAHGames) kicked off the press conference with a welcome speech, followed by Mr Thiravid Thanapadungkiat (Assistant Director of TDE) and Mr Chris Thompson (Vice President and General Manager, Electronic Arts Asia Pacific Pte Ltd):
IAHGames Product Management Team then gave a presentation of the features of the game and screened the unreleased trailer:
The main highlight of the day came in a match between Singapore National Goalkeeper Lionel Lewis and WCG champion gamer Mohamed Phirkan! As the two of them prepared themselves for the showdown match, there were excited murmurings within the crowd, with all kinds of speculations as to who would win. Would real life soccer skills make a virtual difference on the pitch?
Singapore National Goalkeeper Lionel Lewis jokes with WCG champion gamer Mohamed Phirkan before their exhibition match at the EA SPORTS™ FIFA Online 2 press conference in Singapore.
... And it was such an exciting match! The thing I absolutely love about virtual soccer matches is how action packed and fast paced it all is. Never a dull moment of bringing the ball from one end of the pitch to the other end and vice versa. The audience was enthralled. You could feel the tension and excitement in the air with cheers and laughter, especially during epic moments like red cards and when someone scored an own goal!
In the end, real world expertise overthrew virtual champion in a score of 2-1.
Real world expertise meets a virtual champion as Singapore National Goalkeeper Lionel Lewis faces off against WCG champion gamer Mohamed Phirkanin an exhibition match at the EA SPORTS™ FIFA Online 2 press conference in Singapore. Lewis won the match 2-1.
VIPs Roland Ong (right) CEO of IAHGames, Chris Thompson (center) VP & GM of EA Asia Pacific and Thiravid Thanapadungkiat (left) Assistant Director of True Digital Entertainment applaud a shift in the action as EA SPORTS™ FIFA Online 2 is displayed for the crowd.
A Q&A session followed and refreshments came after. Guests and friends of the media also had an opportunity to try out the game at the various test stations available:
All guests were given a token of appreciation, a goodie bag consisting of an IAHGames sports pouch, sports towel, sports water bottle and an EA notebook for their attendance:
Over at Thailand press conference, things were in full swing as well. You can check out the article over here, if you can read Thai that is... If you can't, then just simply let the peektures do the talkin':
More photos found here.
Official press release found here.
Sign up for EA SPORTS FIFA Online 2 Closed Beta Testing here.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
The One About Singapore Cosfest 2008
Singapore's Cosfest 2008 was held recently over the first weekend of July. As always, a huge event with thousands of cosplayers all over the island coming together. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend the event due to Top Speed's maiden CBT launch that same weekend. Nevertheless, I'll still try to piece together a poem of what happened that weekend based on pictures, courtesy of Singapore Community Manager, [CM]Rohnaga.
IAHGames had a booth onsite...
With a mysterious counterman as dark as night...
Game trailers played on into the night...
The registration queue numbers were just aight...
But then, it grew when people saw the light...
In the midst of Espada's fight...
And even with Naruto's sorry plight...
The time was now for fighter's good fight...
And Scouts were indeed a welcome sight...
With a charming elementalist on their right...
And on the left, a templar knight ...
Their final photo shoot was indeed dynamite!
Phew! That was close. The only rhyming words I had left on my list were 'eat vegemite' and 'go fly a kite'. I certainly don't see a career switch to 'Full Time Poet' in the near future. Or ever...Tuesday, July 01, 2008
The One About V2.6 Downloads & Important Announcements!
Since this is gonna be up on the website later on, I'm just gonna emphasize the most important points:
Remove All Your Items from Market Manager & Cabinet!
Players are advised to remove all their items in the market manager and cabinet prior to the maintenance. Items in the Market Manager and Cabinet will be wiped out when we upgrade to the next version.
V2.6 Manual Patch / Full Client Download Links
You can download the manual patch from these following links.
IMPORTANT NOTE: PLEASE ONLY EXECUTE THIS MANUAL PATCH ON/AFTER 3 JULY 2008, THURSDAY, OR YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LOG INTO THE CURRENT V2.4 VERSION.
Manual Patch Download (To patch from Version 2.4 to Version 2.6) - Size: 219MB
For existing V2.4 Granado Espada gamers, please download the V2.6 The Requiem manual patch to update to your current client:
Full Client Download (Version 2.6) - Size: 4.18GB
IMPORTANT NOTE: PLEASE ONLY EXECUTE THIS FULL CLIENT ON/AFTER 3 JULY 2008, THURSDAY, OR YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LOG INTO THE CURRENT V2.4 VERSION.
For new gamers, please download the full V2.6 client from any of these sites:
Full Client – Segmented into 7 components
AusGamers
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/36875
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/36876
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/36877
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/36878
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/36879
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/36880
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/36881
Family Reputation Reset
Family reputation plays an important role in V2.6, thus there will be a family reputation reset for the upcoming expansion. All family reputation points accumulated prior to V2.6 will be converted into Nutrition Potions. Every 1,000 family reputation points will be converted into 1 Nutrition potion.
Vicente Rio Event
The Vicente Rio event that I described will be taking place from 3 July 2008-31 July 2008! Start prep-ing yourself for a major power level session! And be prepared to see an army of Vicente clones everywhere in the first week! The costume will be given by IMC on 31 July 2008, Thursday, during maintenance.
Ok. Back to work now. Busy busy. Too many things to do, too little time!
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