Games & Gaming

Army Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Private 1st Class Janelle Mae Frayna captured her fourth title in the blitz category of the 2022 National Women’s Chess Championships grand finals at the Philippine Academy for Chess Excellence in Quezon City on Wednesday. The 25-year-old Frayna, the country’s first woman Grandmaster, also pocketed the silver medal in the Standard chess category of the tournament …

Have you heard of the word “blockchain”? “Blockchain,” says Wikipedia, is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to change, hack or cheat the system. It is a digital ledger of transactions that is duplicated and distributed across the entire network of computer systems. In other words, the contents, infinite of them, are …

M88 Mansion, Asia’s online gaming giant, presents Sevilla FC midfielder, Ivan Rakitić as a featured player for the LaLiga Santander Season 2022-23. In line with this, several activities were drawn up for Rakitić including an exclusive interview with the Croatian superstar. He also guested in a special podcast called Monday Motivations in Indonesia.  In a statement, Rakitić mentioned: “I’m truly …

The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved on third and final reading a measure seeking to grant Filipino citizenship to Barangay Ginebra resident import Justin Brownlee. With 274 affirmative votes, no negative vote, and one abstention, the chamber passed House Bill 6224 to allow Brownlee as a naturalized player of Gilas Pilipinas to the FIBA Basketball World Cup next year …

Six aerobic gymnasts led by Southeast Asian (SEA) Games bronze medalist Charmaine Dolar are set to join the Suzuki World Cup 2022 in Japan on December 12-14. The Filipinos will be up against the best athletes from Australia, Hungary, Japan, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mongolia, Thailand, and Chinese Taipei in the tournament scheduled to be held at the Ota City General …

President R. Marcos Jr. has issued a challenge to the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) for better performance among Filipino athletes come the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.  POC president Bambol Tolentino said recently that Marcos wants the Philippine team to exceed its historic four-medal haul in Tokyo in 2021 highlighted by Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo’s gold medal in weightlifting.  “The President wants …

The Philippines ended its campaign at the Thailand Open Track and Field Championships with five gold medals, including two from the women’s heptathlon and men’s 4x400m relay events recently.  Sarah Dequinan tallied 5,280 points in the women’s heptathlon while the 4x400m relay team of Edgardo Alejan Jr., Michael Carlo del Prado, Joyme Sequita, and Francis Medina prevailed after clocking 3:11.83 …

The University of Santo Tomas (UST) still looked like the championship contender that it is despite the three-year absence after a 106-70 beatdown of Adamson in the return of the UAAP women’s basketball tournament on Saturday at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City. In the first UAAP women’s basketball game amid the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the Golden …

World Games champion Junna Tsukii is looking forward to a podium finish in the Asian Championships this year. The Filipino-Japanese karateka will banner Team Philippines on December 16 to 20 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. “It would be nice to get a medal. But first, I have to sharpen my skill in preparation for the tournament,” Tsukii, who turned 31 on Friday, …

Philippine Airlines mounted a special flight to Surakarta, Indonesia, last July 26 to transport The Philippine team participating in the 11th ASEAN Para Games.   PAL flight PR8541 to Surakarta’s Adi Soemarmo Airport, flown with an Airbus A321CEO jetliner, carried the Philippine para-athletes with their coaches, secretariat, and officers of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) and Philippine Sports Association for the …