Category archives: Gaming

Luna Online: Cute but Fatal

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Aug 14, 2009- The GameOPS crew was invited to the Luna Online launch at Ortigas. Expectations were high on whether one of us could win the iPhone at the competition. When the smoke cleared, none of us were successful (maybe we didn’t brought our MMORPG game on).

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and we all thought that the sega megadrive was dead

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We live in a time where a Sega console is only the subject of legend. The new generation might be surprised that they were a company who used to produce gaming consoles but my friends and I have had a very good relationship with the Sega Megadrive and the Saturn. That was until console sales dropped and Sega was forced to cease its hardware manufacturing and focus only on game production.

At the half of this decade, new and exciting games were published and one of them that made a notable dent in the market was Guitar Hero. Using Guitar Hero was like reliving one’s dreams of becoming a rockstar hence its high popularity.

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To my surprise Techtoy, a Brazillian gaming company is still making the Megadrive/Genesis and Master System and they have been successful in innovating the once thought extinct system. Now they have come up with the Mega Drive 4 Guitar Idol which is a white affair and comes with 87 classic SEGA 16bit games. The game is pure 16 bit goodness and tries to emulate the entire Guitar Hero affair but not too much to illicit a lawsuit.

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StarCraft 2 Cinematic Trailer

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I became old waiting for this one. Watch the clip below for the Cinematic Trailer of StarCraft 2. Watch out for Sarah Kerrigan’s appearance!

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PS3 Slim is a Go!

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The slim PSP will be 32% smaller and 36% lighter than the regular PlayStation and will use 34% less power. It will also ditch the standard 80 Gig of HDD and replace it with a 120 Gig HDD. The PS3 slim will be sold on September and will retail at $300.

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XBOX Micro Media Center

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The powers of minutiarization strikes again!This time a talented modder stripped his old XBOX and changed the case into a polyurethane case that is drastically smaller than the Wii. The DVD drive is gone. Madness you think? Nope it really is designed for XBOX Media Center. Nice concept indeed!

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ASUS ENGTX280 Review

First Impressions

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Rumors:PS3 Slim

This shaky video ambiguously shows what might be the new PS3 slim and it’s in the Philippines. Watch through the Shuriken bar video. via GameOPS

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Be A High Roller At Your Own Home


When my grandma was still alive(true story!, she loved to gamble. We used to play poker for pennies and that pennies was from her! Then if she was bored we go to a casino that is a good three hour drive away from our place. All the fuss just to play in the slot machines. Well, technology today really can replace all that hullabaloo and allow you to play on the comfort of your own home.

Are you tired of driving to a casino just to play the slots or blackjack? Well, you can play at the convenience of your own home! You don’t know how? That is the tricky part! No worries though best usa online casinos provides a repository of the best online gambling sites around.

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Toad: The Finger Since 1985

Whenever you kick Bowser/Koopa’s butt Toad appears and tells us ” Sorry but our princess is in another castle”. Looking closely, hey! Toad is giving us the finger on both hands! Whoever did the original Toad sprite is one sick dude!

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PSP Go is A Go!


Sony has officially announced the release dates of the brand spankin’ new PSP Go.
Specs are:
Bluetooth and WiFi
A 3.8 inch screen
108 grams(43% lighter than the PSP 3000 imagine that!)
Contains a whopping 16gig of internal storage!and is still expandable via external storage(whoa!)
New slide out gamepad.

The new PSP Go will be first released on October in North America and Europe with a price of $249. The Japanese version will cost $280(‘coz everything from Japan costs more) and will be released on November.

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