Level Up! To Launch New Online Shooter
October 19, 2009 by Joel Tan
Filed under Coming Soon, Level Up! Games, MMOFPS
Level Up! Games, an online games publisher based in the Philippines, is set to launch a new massively multiplayer online first-person shooter. As to which game it is, everybody but executives of the gaming giant remains in the dark.
“We are very excited to launch this new game, ad we are confident that this will be the first-person shooter that Filipino gamers will be talking about and getting their action gaming fix from,” said Jane Walker, chief executive officer of Level Up! Games, in a statement.
The only clue that Level Up! has given as to the title of the online game is that it is powered by Valve’s Source engine. What’s Valve and the Source engine, you ask? Why, Source is the most well known graphics and physics engine for first-person shooters. It gives life to Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike, two of the most popular video game shooters.
As for Valve, well, it’s an American video game development company based in Bellevue, Washington. Founded in 1996, the company is better known for its first product, Half-Life, and its star Gordon Freeman.
Between you and me, I think this new MMOFPS that Level Up! is bringing to the Philippines is Sting: The Secret Operations, the first Korean online shooter that uses the Source engine. Doesn’t ring a bell? Maybe some of the game’s other aliases can shed some light. The game, developed by YNK Games of Korea and distributed by YNK Interactive, is also known as Sting Online, Code Name Sting (Japan), and K.O.S.: Secret Operations (North America).
Sting: The Secret Operations from YNK Games
If my hunch proves correct, then Sting will be Level Up!’s second title from YNK, the first being the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Rohan: Blood Feud.
Well, we’ll know soon enough what this new first-person shooter is. Level Up! is scheduled to unveil the game at one of the Philippines biggest online gaming events, Level Up! Live 2009, on November 7th, 2009.
While we’re waiting for that event, let’s check out the game trailer for Sting: The Secret Operations:
Damn THIS GAME SUCKS I CANT WAIT TO MYLU LIVE
) LET BE THE GAMERS UNITE AGAIN !
it’s about time that the philippines has a premier mmofps…. unlike the ones we currenly have. cheap sounds and graphics.
GO GO GO LEVEL UP!