Level Up! Games

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Level Up! (also known as Level Up! Games or LUG) is a publisher of online games in the Philippines, Brazil and India.

1 History
- 1.1 LEVEL UP 2.0
2 Services
3 Ownership
4 See also
5 Note
6 External links
- 6.1 Official
- 6.2 Unofficial

[edit] History

The company began in April 2003 as the first online gaming publisher in the Philippines . Demand for the MMORPG quickly spread, and by June 2003, Level Up! services could be received anywhere in the country from a number of affiliates. The company brought many first to the Philippines, including OZ World by Ozmedia and Ragnarok Online by Gravity Corp., the first MMORPG in the country.

In January 2005, Officials from Level Up!, distributor of Ragnarok in the Philippines, have returned from Brazil and India where the firm is making its first attempt at offshore expansion . Level Up! recently hired three managing directors for each country: Andrea Bedricovetchi for Brazil, Venkat Mallik for India and Minnette Navarrete for the Philippines.

Late 2005, There have been news and speculations between Level Up! Games and Philippine Telecommunications Company PLDT. The complete merger between the two companies is to be set early on 2007. ^[1]

Currently, Level Up! offers a wide range of entertainment for the Philippines , India & Brazil.^[2]

[edit] LEVEL UP 2.0

Philippines: End of 2006, The merging of Level Up! Inc. and netGames, Inc. is now finished. Level Up! Inc. will be retained as the name of the new merged company.^[3]

The implementation of the new website of Level Up! which reflects the 2.0 transition of the company was spearheaded by O'Neil Buena & Keith E. Morales