Everyone gathers for that one special class photo. [Photo handout from Cubizone] Community and Media event held as part of 10th Anniversary festivities (Left) Personalities from various communities gather as Cubizone celebrates its 10th year in the business. [Photo handout from Cubizone] (Right) Cubizone’s letter to the guests. Cubizone gathered its community and media friends on the last Friday of May 2019 at Marco Polo Ortigas Manila for its Community Blowout as part of its 10th year Anniversary. ...

Mobile game expands to Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and Russia soon. Yes, Russia. The great guys at Cubizone continues to inform me about MIA Online Mobile, and I’d like to have them speak for themselves as they release their new game updates: CUBINET, a member of 7 Senses Group, shares that the MIA ONLINE: 3D OPEN WORLD ACTION MMORPG will be available this year in different regions across the globe to battle it out on a new feature slated for released which is the Cross-Server Platform! ...

Manila and Pasay folks, get ready! The last weekend of April still has lots of things in store for us — just look at these two events which will be held on the same weekend. Pinoy Gaming Festival 2019 Summer Assembly April 26 to 28, 2019 — Music Hall, SM Mall of Asia This year, Globe Telecom and Cyberzone will be co-presenters to bring out more summer gaming goodness at the event. It will be a 3-day weekend filled with games, activities and sizzling hot esports action courtesy of Playbook Esports, plus some surprise goodies from our event partners. And to continue the long tradition, PGF Summer Assembly 2019 will be a FREE ADMISSION event. ...

New and Bigger Venue, More Activities— and this time, unexpected guests! May is already becoming a busy month for me as I will be in two events — the second one will be the 2019 Pinoy Otaku Festival to be held at Robinsons Novaliches Trade Hall from May 17 to 19, Friday to Sunday. This year’s POF theme is “Asobu” / “Let’s Play”, which leans more on having an interactive experience for all visitors. ...

Completing Aniplus’ Spring 2019 lineup is the continuation of RobiHachi and the third season of Bungo Stray Dogs. RobiHachi New Episodes: Tuesday 12:00am with replays every Tuesday 11:00pm (Show page) RobiHachi is an original animation series produced by Studio Comet. The series will be directed by Shinji Takamatsu, who is well-known for directing popular titles such as Gintama: The Movie, Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!, Haven’t You Heart? I’m Sakamoto and Grand Blue. ...

Say it with me, mga bai: “Oh-zeen,” hindi “Oh-zayn.” Imagine a conversation between a group of people: “Tara, Cebu?” “G.” Now, imagine if this was the team behind the Ozine Fest series of events. This is probably how Ozine Fest Cebu was set. Otakuzine has been in the events (and the magazine) business for a decade now, and I believe it’s their first time that they will go out of town and into SM Seaside City Cebu’s Sky Hall this May 18–19, 2019. ...

Two new series to follow “Attack on Titan 3” in the channel’s season lineup Last time, I told you about Attack on Titan returning to Aniplus. This time, they sent me a follow-up adding two more titles in this season’s simulcasts. AFTERLOST Premiere: 7 April 2019, every Sundays 12:00am ...

E-sports and Pop Culture Festival to be held at the Iloilo Convention Center Dubbing itself as “the Largest Esports & Pop Culture Event in Visayas-Mindanao,” Globe and ISC Events presents CONQuest 2019 to be held on June 22–23, 2019 at the Iloilo Convention Center. CONQuest is running on its third year, and they bring to the Ilonggos the fun of gaming and pop culture. CONQuest brings e-sports and pop culture personalities to the heart of the Philippines — popular streamers, content creators, illustrators and cosplayers such as GLOCO Gaming, Suzzysaur, Asurai, Cong TV, RogerRaker, Hazel Quing, Liui Aquino, Aeonix, Little Things PH, Libreng Komiks, Overdrive Design’s Rd Rogacion, Twitch’s Mark Candella and more are announced as guests for this year’ event. ...

Upcoming collaboration between Do it for the Aidols and DareDemo Sekai set on May 5 I’ve been through a handful of idol-related events such as the 1st Manila Idol Matsuri and BONDS Indie Idol Fan-meet* last year, and I can say to myself that I’m not yet done with idols outside MNL48 (this I will explain in Episode 36 of the podcast to be released on Sunday afternoon Manila time). This May 5, I’ll be at The Roxy Events Place in Quezon City as our friends from Do it for the Aidols (DIFTA) and DareDemo Sekai will be collaborating for the first Aidol Fiesta. ...

Philippine Fan gathering to celebrate Japanese drama & movies The first time I got to a JDoramaEiga PH event is when they held a block screening of Itoshi no Irene at Robinsons Galleria as part of the QCinema Film Festival last year. Guess what: They even got the lead Cebuana actress Nats Sitoy to join in the screening, and a Q&A was done afterwards. Now, they sent me an email telling me more about their first fan gathering for this year, JDoEiga Matsuri which will happen this April. ...