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| Sinag Pilipinas representing Pasig City bested other teams from different cities across the country to be hailed as the champion of MLBB 515's Community Hero: City Rival. (Image Source: Orange Magazine PH/Mobile Legends Bang Bang PH) |
Among these events is the MLBB 515 Low Budget Cosplay Week, which ran from May 7 to 14, where participants recreate their favorite MLBB heroes with their creative minds and whatever resources are available in their homes. The top five most creative cosplayers were able to win a Nintendo Switch gaming console each. Meanwhile, those who have been watching any of the celebration's online events were able to collect in-game prizes and a free hero plus 10 Nintendo Switch gaming systems, Airpods and 20 Beats Solo headphones.
Capping off the celebration is Community Hero: City Rival, the first online inter-city MLBB tournament where teams from 40 different cities all over the country compete to become number one and win the lion's share of the Php300,000 prize pool. In the end, it was Pasig City that clinched the top spot in the competition after a gruelling series of intense matches and is hailed as the first Community Hero: City Rival Grand Champion. Following the highly successful 515 celebration, MLBB gamers were treated to a free Luo Yi hero and a special free skin upon opening the game on their smartphones and logging in using their MLBB accounts.
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TNT, the sister mobile services brand of Smart Communications, is celebrating its 20th anniversary in a big way with the launch of its Big Bente promo which gives subscribers an instant 20% refund on their load upon successfully registering to their preferred Giga offer. The Big Bente promo is simply TNT's way of giving back to its millions of subscribers who are bound to get much more out of their hard-earned money especially during these challenging times.
TNT unveiled the said promo by taking subscribers down the brand's 20-year long memory lane through an ad that features some of the biggest celebrity Ka-Tropas who have helped TNT grow and evolve into a solid mobile brand loved and celebrated by many Filipinos. These include former TNT basketball players Asi Taulava and Ranidel De Ocampo as well as Marvin Agustin, Dominic Ochoa, Jericho Rosales, Kristine Hermosa, Manny Pacquiao, Robin Padilla, Marian Rivera, Joshua Garcia, social media sensation Mimiyuuuuh, Pepe Herrere, and the brand's latest endorser Popstar Royalty Sarah Geronimo.
TNT subscribers may enjoy the Big Bente promo with every registration to Giga promos such as Giga Video, Giga Video+, Giga Stories and Giga Games either by dialing *123# on their smartphone or through the Smart app, available for free on Google Play and the Apple App Store. They can also expect more exciting promos as TNT marks its 20th year of bringing Filipinos closer via fun and accessible offers.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment has officially introduced a limited edition The Last Of Us Part II PlayStation Pro which will feature Ellie's design engraved on top of the console and of the Dual Shock 4 controller. The unit will be available on June 19, 2020 in leading game and toy stores nationwide for only Php23,990. It will include the PS4 Pro console, a limited edition PS4 Dual Shock wireless controller, and The Last Of Us Part II Blu-Ray Disc. Meanwhile, the Dual Shock 4 wireless controller and The Last Of Us Part II Limited Edition Wireless Headset will be sold separately as standalone items and they are priced at Php3,490 and Php5,980, respectively.
SIE also announced that Marvel's Iron Man VR for the PlayStation VR will soon be available in the Philippines. Gamers can avail of the PlayStation VR Marvel's Iron Man VR All-In-One Pack starting July 3, 2020 for only Php19,990. The pack contains the PlayStation VR headset, PlayStation camera, two PlayStation Move motion controllers and the Marvel's Iron Man VR standard Blu-Ray Disc. In Marvel's Iron Man VR, play as Tony Stark as he battles the mysterious Ghost, a hacker and anti-corporate activist who repurposes old Stark Industries weapons. Players can use the two PlayStation Move motion controllers to control the Iron Man suit and fly into the skies.
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ONE eSports, the professional gaming arm of the largest global sports media property in Asian history ONE Championship, officially announced the ONE eSports DOTA 2 SEA League in association with IO eSports. The tournament will feature seven invited teams - TNC Predator, Team Adroit, Boom eSports, Fnatic, Geek Fam, Reality Rift, T1 - and the top three teams from the regional online qualifiers which is open to all players in the Southeast Asia server (including Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Korea) vying to become the best team in the region and win the lion's share of the US$100,000 prize pool.
Kicking off the ONE eSports DOTA 2 SEA League are two sets of regional online qualifiers on June 4-5 and 6 where every game will be a best-of-one series until the semifinals which is slated to be a best-of-three series. The winners of the semifinal matches will fill up the remaining slots for the ONE eSports DOTA 2 SEA League. The main league starts on June 18 with matches played on a round-robin best-of-two series format over 16 days. At the end of the season, only the bottom two teams will be eliminated and the rest will move on to the playoffs on July 18-19 where it will be a double elimination best-of-three format except for the grand final which will play out in a best-of-five.
Interested participants can register for the ONE eSports DOTA 2 SEA League regional online qualifiers through a specified link until June 7, 2020 and eventually discover for themselves if they can be at par with the best teams in the region when it comes to one of the most well-loved multiplayer online games of all time today, DOTA 2.
