Check out my latest CNET Asia blog post.
Here’s an excerpt.
Wow, I knew My Brute had gone viral and become the latest online craze, but I didn’t expect to see a Facebook ad which I just stumbled upon.
I guess this shows that many Filipinos have been signing up for My Brute. Funny thing is that the Facebook ad points to the account of a player who has a–get this–a Level 33 Brute, and if you look at this Brute’s cell, you’ll see that this player already has 3,019 pupils as of this writing.
Read the full story. And challenge my Brute at joey-a.mybrute.com
I did it — twice!
Here’s an excerpt from my CNET Asia blog post.
Yup, the famous Dutch pro gamer Manuel Schenkhuizen, better known all over the world by his nickname “Grubby”, seems to have also fallen under the spell of the latest online craze, the Flash game My Brute.
As I blogged yesterday, this game has become viral all of a sudden. While Googling for some tips since My Brute has no game guide, I discovered that Grubby, who twice won first prize in the World Cyber Games in Warcraft III (WCG 2004 and WCG 2008), has also created his own Brute, Grubtor, and has been kicking ass in the arena. Singaporeans would remember Grubby being in town for WCG 2005, which the Lion City hosted on Nov. 16-20 at Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
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Here’s an excerpt from my CNET Asia blog post.
For some reason, this Flash fighting game called My Brute has become an online craze. I’m not sure why it suddenly became popular yesterday, but Plurk users here in the Philippines started posting links to the Brutes they had created.
It’s a simple game that can easily get you hooked. You create a fighter, called a Brute, to fight other Brutes. When you challenge other players, you don’t even have to do anything once the fight starts. Matches are automatically resolved based on your Brute’s stats and weapons. The game is viral because if you recruit people to become your pupils, you earn experience points per new recruit and whenever your pupil gains a level. Sounds like MLM or a pyramid scheme, huh?
Read the full article, and challenge my Brute at joey-a.mybrute.com
