It was a dark and stormy night...

The day was 24th of April 2000. Rocky Opiña and John Phillips Bengero envisioned of submitting a FAQ for Fear Effect to GameFAQs. Halfway through the FAQ, Rocky realized that they should instead have a site like GameFAQs. Rocky quickly made a name for the site, GameOPS. The name stands for GameOPSpiña, or OPS which refers to Rocky's surname. Phillips then started making a logo for the site.

GameOPS was first conceptualized to have a database of FAQs, Cheats, and Reviews for different video games. Our aim was to provide Filipino gamers the help they need in completing or buying a video game. With Rocky Opiña being a self proclaimed RPG King, and Phillips having video game experience since childhood, they started reviewing games and making FAQs for them. However, since there are a lot of games to review and make FAQs to make, the launch of the website was postponed.

During this time, Phillips began the restructuring of GameOPS. From a GameFAQs like site, Phillips suggested to Rocky the concept of having News content to the site. Phillips picked the abs-cbnNEWS.com as the first layout of the site. The site also had a new and sleek logo, which was made by Jefferson Junatas.

With the nearing of the launch date, the idea of having readers sent their own reviews to help us was proposed by Rocky and then said the first slogan: "Speak Your Mind". He then followed it with another "It's Not the System, It's All About the Game".

On October 26, 2000 Rocky and Phillips uploaded the first ever issue of GameOPS. The staff grew and grew. More ideas for the site started flowing. Germaine Ang suggested to have a PC Tips section while Rocky had an idea of having a spy reporter. But due to our school works the site was not updated regularly. On March 2001, the site was temporarily shut down. Jay Encarnacion started to work on several game reviews for old systems, while Rocky seemed to be no longer interested in contributing the site. Phillips now started to work on GameOPS version 2. Version 2 is an original design and no longer imitates the layout of abs-cbnNEWS.com.

With the dream of becoming a site like GameSpot, GameOPS promises to bring you all the news, reviews, and information you need to know about video games, because GameOPS is the ONLY Ultimate Filipino Site for Video Games.