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December 2021 - April 2022 | Vol. XXX Special Issue
E-Earning Through Gaming? Christian R. Hulipas Playing online games provides a fun and challenging experience. It’s a nice alternative to the daily hassles of our lives. But getting paid to play online games? That would be even better! This is a direct quote from the College of Information Technology Education, Dean Aris. According to Sir Aris, Axie, Pegaxy, and MIR4 are three of the most well-known games where players earn through gaming. As quoted by Sir Joshua De Guzman; these games use NFT or Non-Fungible Token. They are generally built using the same kind of programming as cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin or Ethereum, but that’s where the similarity ends. NFTs are not limited to digital assets like digital pets, audio, or movies that are digitally available on a computer. According to Sir John Paul
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Rodrigo, it is important to also know the use of Blockchain. He quoted that a Blockchain is a collection of data and an example of this is the NFT, which is a cryptocurrency and is managed by the uncentralized database of companies like Binance. Players of the aforementioned games earn their money through points and with these points; they will convert it to cash. They earn these points through how long they play the following games. Non-fungible tokens are cryptocurrencies that can be used to spend in real life, like actual money. There is the recent news of an Indonesian artist that only took selfies and earned thousands of dollars, just by posting them on opensea. io. OpenSea is a decentralized marketplace that allows users to buy and sell non-fungible tokens. Founded in 2017, the NFT exchange initially began as a market for CryptoKitties but has expanded beyond collectibles. It’s currently a marketplace for a wide variety of digital assets, including art, domain names, game items, and music. According to Dean Aris, he mentioned that
gaming is a marketing instrument intended to grab the attention of high school students, obviously to persuade them to enroll in UPang eventually. To achieve that, the content of the lessons should be connected to their interests, and hence, gaming is a Photo from Phinma-University of Pangasinan Facebook Page no-brainer since it will still be to earn their degree and find is very popular among kids these days. real jobs or start their business ventures. That's the real reason. He also mentioned What students are experiencing from that most kids these days are into gamNFT gaming right now could be merely ing, either via PC or mobile devices and a trend and it might be just temporary. it wasn't a long ago when people were so So the university is making the students caught up in the Pokemon Go craze, then aware of the gainful opportunities from Mobile Legends. Recently, there's PUBG NFT gaming. There is no substitute for and Wild Rift. education. But lately, the integration of The current era is when technon-fungible tokens (NFTs) in some popnology has enabled us to transcend beular games gives gamers the chance to not yond our traditional limits. Look at how only enjoy playing games but also to earn the Internet has transformed communimoney in the process. It brought gaming cation, education --- life in general. Welto a whole new level and to many kids come to the modern age, where technolwho are looking for a side hustle; it is truogy has encroached on our lives and can ly an enticing option. affect the way we do things. The best advice for students
The 31st SEA GAMES: Philippine Champions Retain Dominance Hidilyn Diaz and Carlos Yulo bring pride to Filipinos anew as they bring home gold medals from the 31st SEA Games in Hanoi, Vietnam. Diaz, who bagged the Philippines’ first Olympic gold medal in ATokyo last year, ruled this year’s Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in women’s 55-kilogram event on May 20, 2022, managing a record of 92kgs in snatch and 114kgs in clean and jerk, garnering a total of 206kgs lift; 3 kilos beyond Thailand’s Samkun Tanasan who wrapped with a final record of 203kgs lift securing silver. In an interview with Olympics News, the weightlifter described her victory as “The beginning of my journey” as she looks forward to the next Olympic games in France in 2024.
Yulo on the other hand flawlessly surmounted the men’s horizontal bar event on a two-way tie with home bet Dinh Thanh Phuong with a score of 13.867 having both Olympians bring home a gold medal. The gymnast also secured a win in the vault final with a score of 14.700 surpassing Thailand’s Ikumporn Surintornta with 14.250 points and a team member Juancho Basena with 14.017 points. He exhibited an outstanding performance in the floor and ring events, and all-round. He has the most medals at the Games, so far. We can also recall that Yulo bagged a historic gold in 2019 at the World Gymnastics Championship for men’s floor exercise, he was the first male athlete to win a gold medal in the said event.
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