Sports & Entertainment
YGG Play Summit 2025 returns to Manila
Yield Guild Games (YGG) has announced the highly anticipated return of the YGG Play Summit, the world’s largest player-focused Web3 gaming event, scheduled from 18 to 22 November 2025 at SMX Aura in Bonifacio Global City (BGC), Metro Manila.
Smart brings live collegiate volleyball, elite basketball to fans via PusoP.com
Mobile services provider Smart Communications, Inc. is strengthening its support for Philippine sports by livestreaming top volleyball and basketball events through PusoP.com, a free digital platform for local and international sports.
Alas hopes in FIVB championship ends in epic battle with Iran
Six match points. Six moments to dream. But in the end, only silence. Alas Pilipinas stood on the brink of something historic—a ticket to the Round of 16 in the 2025 FIVB Men’s World Championship—armed with six chances to seal the deal, in front of a roaring, breathless crowd at the Mall of Asia Arena.
DigiPlus, PhilFirst launch player surety bond
DigiPlus Interactive Corp., the digital entertainment company behind BingoPlus, ArenaPlus, and GameZone, has partnered with Philippine First Insurance Co. Inc. (PhilFirst) to launch the country’s first-ever surety bond program for online gaming players.
Alas stuns Egypt in FIVB pool game: redemption in 4 sets
It was a win long in the making—and for Alas Pilipinas, it felt like a cleansing rain after a dry season of close calls and unfulfilled promise. In front of an ecstatic home crowd at the Mall of Asia Arena, the Philippine men’s national volleyball team stunned World No. 21 Egypt in four searing sets—29-27, 23-25, 25-21, 25-21—in what may go down as the most memorable night in the country’s volleyball history.
