Global gaming PC brand Predator continues to
overpower the competition in the local gaming PC market with the opening today
of High Grounds Café, the country’s first and only fully branded gaming café.
Operated by the country’s top gaming café brand
TheNet.com (TNC), High Grounds Café will definitely capture the attention of
both gaming enthusiasts and professionals alike. It is fully armed to the teeth
with top-of-the-line and powerful Predator gaming PCs in a gaming environment
that’s unlike any other in the country today.
Located amid this city’s
entertainment capital, High Grounds Café featured only the best gaming desktops
courtesy of Predator, with 110 units of the Predator G1 (GTX 1080) and Predator
G3 (GTX 1060) on hand for hours and hours of playing.
The Predator G1 squeals with beastly
bravado that suits today’s brawny gamers with its ultra-powerful Intel Core™ i7
6700 processor (8M Cache, up to 4.00GHz) inside and 32GB DDR4 2133MHz memory for
enough show and swagger and truly rock the house with its fiery performance
regardless of gaming title while the 3TB 3.5-inch 7200 RPM and 256 GB M.2 2280
Solid State Drive combination is a force to reckon with in terms of storage
capability. For visual clarity that lets you get your head—and eyes—into the
game, trust the NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 with 8GB of GDDR5 graphics card to
deliver the goods when it comes to an awesome and immersive game experience.
The Predator G3, meanwhile, boasts
of the same overclocked Intel i7 processor for that ferocious roar in every
game, powerful 16GB DDR4 2133MHz memory and 2TB 3.5-inch and 128GB Solid State
Drive combination for the utmost in storage capacity and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX
1060 with 3GB GDDR5 graphics card that lets you stun your enemies with
out-of-this-world graphics and dominate the esports scene.
Pair these two gaming monsters
with the 24-inch full HD Predator XB241H monitors that support NVIDIA G sync
technology to boost your game day with its no-tear and less-stutter performance
for fast-paced games and ferocious visuals that will certainly stun any
onlooker.
Thus, expect screams, shrieks of
delight in conquest and supremacy to rock the High Grounds Cafe as hundreds of
players can be accommodated there at any given time. Gamers can also enjoy glorious snacks and other
meal-time favorites during breaks from their game triumphs so they can recharge
their batteries and be ready to dominate the competition again.
The opening of High Grounds Café is also the
perfect battleground for the launch of the Predator 21 X which gives gaming
pros and tech enthusiasts the best and most fearsome gaming laptop ever.
Targeting the well-heeled and loaded tech lovers out there who will spare no
peso in getting the most advanced and powerful gaming rig around, the Predator
21 X is a perfect fit for gamers who seek a whole new level of immersion in
terms of sound and visuals, interaction, cooling and power efficiency never
seen before in any gaming laptop.
The Predator 21 X is a humongous beast of a laptop
that comes with a robust 21-inch-wide FHD (2560 x 1080) IPS screen with 2000R
curvature for unbelievable visuals, 7th Generation Intel Core™ i7
processor, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 SLI with 16GB GDDR5X graphics card coupled
with 64GB of DDR4 system memory, plus
Acer ColorBlast™ technology for the clearest and most abundant colors ever to
reach a laptop.
TNC.com owner Eric Redulfin said High Grounds Café
breaks the barriers in what used to be Internet-surfing-only cyber cafes. “The
environment now is totally different in terms of cyber cafés. What used to be
just for Internet surfing and browsing metamorphosed into complete full-fledged
gaming centers. Of course the Internet is still there but gaming now takes the
spotlight and the attention of game-loving and esports aficionados in the
country.”
Redulfin bared that High Grounds Café will also be
the perfect breeding ground of future Filipino esports stars who can give esports
players from other countries a run for their money. “The Philippines is a young
entrant in the global esports arena. Compared to other gaming countries, I
could say we’re behind but that was 2-5 years ago. Now, even if we started
competing only last year in tournaments abroad, we gained much attention
already with the recent triumph of the TNC Pro Team during WESG,” he said.
The TNC Pro Team, bannered by members Marco Polo
“Raven” Fausto, Carlo “Kuku” Palad, Samson Solomon “Sam_H” Hidalgo, Timothy “Tims”
Randrup, and Ryo “ryOyr” Hasegawa, made history by becoming the first Filipino
grand champions at the World Electronic Sports Games (WESG) 2016 Defense of the
Ancients (DotA) 2 competition. The team took home a rich total prize pot of
US$800,000 (roughly Php40 million) after defeating the Cloud9 team from Denmark
in a heart-pounding finals match.
Redulfin and team manager Paulo Sy both admitted
it’s tough to maintain a competitive team that should be well trained and
funded. But with the arrival of the Predator desktops at High Grounds, they
know that more and more esports “athletes” or gamers will have full access to
powerful PCs that can deliver the best—and only the best—experience in leisure
and competitive gaming.
“The players train for 8-10 hours every day and
they need the best PCs to help them visualize and conceptualize strategies for
every game. With their power and brawn, the Predator desktops are a big help in
our aim to promote esports and hopefully, we can find the next best players
that will bring pride to our country in future esports competitions abroad and
help promote TNC as well,” declares both Redulfin and Sy.
“We are glad that TNC decided to use Predator
desktops as their only gaming rigs at High Grounds Café. It just goes to show
that Predator remains to be the only preferred gaming PCs by serious esports
competitors who only want the best with the most premium components found
inside, those that won’t conk out in the heat of the game any time of the day.
Esports is serious stuff and is ultra-competitive that needs only the best PC
for gameplay, and Predator is definitely it, without question,” explains Clark Gurden,
Predator Brand Ambassador, Predator Headquarters.
For his part, Jerome Matti,
NVIDIA Consumer Sales Lead, Philippines, said: “We build the ultimate platform
for gamers. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and 1060 GPUs are based on our most
advanced Pascal architecture that delivers amazing speed and power efficiency,
plus innovative new gaming technologies. And our advanced G-SYNC monitors are
designed to give gamers incredibly smooth, tear-free gameplay. Together, they
redefine what makes a perfect platform for the new generation of content. And
with Acer’s exquisite craftsmanship, we are able to bring the world’s most
advanced platform to the Philippines’ biggest iCafe, High Grounds powered by
TNC. We are thrilled to see more and more GeForce PC gamers in the
Philippines!”
For more about the Predator gaming system, go to the Predator
Philippines Facebook page - @PredatorPhilippines.
