Happy Holidays from Queens!

Hello, loyal Queens players. Sorry for being late. But better late than never. We, the management and staff of Queens Internet Cafe bid thee all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year 2008.

Expect more promos, new games and more gimmicks for Queens this coming year. Always check GM Tristan’s blog for new posts on games and MMORPG news.

Meanwhile, let me leave you with the 8 most popular gaming new year’s resolution.

That, after the jump…

Kuya Mands and Trinity at LIVE 2007

Here’s a shot of Kuya Mands and the rest of the Queens gang at LIVE 2007 taken from GM Tristan’s blog.

A lot of Queens players watched the Perfect World finals during day 1, Nov 3, 2007 at the World Trade Center. Holy Order of the Light went on to become the first Philippine champions of PW. Congrats!

Rhai, another avid Queens player, was with Frailty, his pRO guild and they even had a booth at the Level Up City! Great going guys!

Meanwhile, here’s another shot of the entire PW guild

 

If any guild members have any more pics and updates about the gathering at LIVE 2007, let us know by commenting below. Don’t forget to add the queens website to your blogroll

Thanks for all those who went to the event. Meanwhile, check out GM T’s post for more pics and details.

The 10 Commandments of Gaming

Here’s an interesting thing we found on the web recently.

We here at Queens thought we’d share this with you. It’s an article from gamerhelp.com and it lists the 10 commandments of gaming.

Since there are a lot of gamers here at the shop, maybe you should read this and remember.

The 10 Commandments after the jump

Let’s be Friends sa Friendster

Attention to all chatters and friendster addicts sa Queens!

Want to have MORE friends? Madali lang…

Just leave your friendster email below and type in a little bit about yourself. Also, be sure to add the Queens Friendster account -

queens.icafe (at) gmail (dot) com

and here’s the Queens Friendster profile page:

http://profiles.friendster.com/queenscafe

Seeya!

50 GB Install for A Game? WTF?!?

When we decided to expand, we elected to get 250GB hard drives for the new PCs at the ground floor. This is due to the fact that game installation requirements are getting bigger by the minute. Some online games and even PC games can reach up to 5GB.

But this new game by John Woo – Stranglehold requires a MASSIVE 50 GIG of hard drive space.

Now that’s massive.

I can’t believe there’d be a game like that! Whew!

But let’s not pass judgment just yet. Do check out the screenshot above and you be the judge. The detail is just incredible. I doubt that this game will be in Queens soon… but who knows, di ba?

The Future of Gaming?

Ubisoft has released some its games for free but are supported with in-game advertising. Is this the future of gaming?

Maybe we can all say goodbye to the huge costs of licenses. For a cafe owner, this is good. Also, for the consumer this is also good news. GM Tristan has blogged about how brands are now seeing the values of marketing to gamers. We here at Queens think that cafes should also get involved.

Meanwhile, Tech In Demand has also posted an article about the pros and cons of releasing games for free with advertising.

The details next…

Perfect World Perfect Match

GM Tristan just announced the newest community/submission contest for Perfect World.

It’s called PERFECT WORLD, PERFECT MATCH.

In this contest, you just copy a photo using the avatar making system of Perfect World and then submit it. So, all you PW Queens players! Sali na!

The photo below is from GM T’s site:

Check out the complete mechanics HERE

P150 Promo To End

Due to several rising costs, especially in the electric bill, we are considering ending our P150.00 for 12 Hours promo.

But don’t worry, our P100 for 6 hours is still valid. If you look around the shops in San Juan, Queens is still among those with the most reasonable rates and faster PCs with faster connections.

In fact, we just got an extra 2MBS Globe DSL line to augment our 2.5MBS PLDT DSL connection. We are now in the process of combining those broadband lines into a single router with a load balancer in the weeks to come. This is to ensure that there is virtaully NO DISRUPTION during your online gaming or Internet use.

We will be announcing the effectivity of the end of the P150 promo.

Thank you for your continued support and patronage for Queens. Do tell us what other promos you would want to see.

The Cafe Brotherhood

Why do players love to play in an Internet Cafe?

Well, first and foremost, gaming is a SOCIAL hobby. Sure, you can play at home by your lonesome. But it will sure be a LOT MORE FUN when playing in a cafe or Internet game shop, like Queens, of course.

Gaming is fun with the shouting and all that trash-talking. Besides, players can go outside and talk strategies about the games all night. Like with Perfect World and RF Online, which is the most played online games here in our shop – our players simply look forward to the next day so that they can meet their friends for another few hours of leveling up or making their guild stronger.

New At Queens: Transformers The Game (PC)

 The latest game installed at Queens is the Transformers PC Game from Activision.

In TRANSFORMERS: The Game for the PC, players are presented with dual campaigns as they choose from an unprecedented line-up of characters including OPTIMUS PRIME, MEGATRON, IRONHIDE, STARSCREAM, BUMBLEBEE and more. Gamers must master each character’s unique weapons, moves and instantaneous conversions from robot to vehicle mode as they rampage through fully interactive and destructible environments in their quest to protect or destroy Earth.

Enjoy this rampage for the battle for our planet. More after the click…