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This Spring sees the release of Tactical Intervention on the PC, a game noteworthy because its development has been led by one of the co-creators of Counter-Strike. So the fact the two games look similar is no coincidence. More »
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And you think server downtime is bad. Spare a thought for players of Japanese/Korean MMO M2, which thanks to a little accident has actually been deleted. Forever. Like, it's gone, and is never coming back. More »
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Sorry to get all Jeremy Clarkson on you for a second, but after seeing this trailer for upcoming MMO Bless, that's the first thought that popped into my head. More »
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It's hard. Just ask StarCraft II player Kim Shee-Yoon, aka "Eve". More »
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Video games regulators in South Korea say MMO publishers there have obstructed an investigation into "jackpot items," predicated on the idea that players risking in-game currency for random-item payoffs is in fact a form of gambling. More »
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MapleStory, the South Korean sidescrolling MMO (above), allows players to get hitched if they so choose. Sadly, many of the unions are not parted by death but divorce—20,344 out of 26,982, to be precise. More »
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North Korea has officially responded to allegations it supported a hacking network that allowed it to gold-farm some $7 million out of South Korea-based MMOs. North Korea's (adjusts glasses, clears throat) "Committee for Peaceful Unification of the Fatherland" on Sunday released a statement saying, in effect, "no u." More »
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An awesome tale from Friday's New York Times alleges that Mister Fun himself, Kim Jong-il, finances his nookular ambitions with the proceeds of an MMO-gold farming operation. More »
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Yeah, this is how big StarCraft is in Korea. They can break out the Protoss v Terran gags on national TV. More »
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As you may have noticed, Fine Art is a new feature here on Kotaku where we celebrate the work of video game concept artists. More »
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Most people just aren't interested in watching video games. They'd rather be playing them. So why is strategy juggernaut StarCraft such an exception to the rule? More »
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National Geographic's Taboo series looks at gaming and internet addiction in South Korea in tonight's episode, focusing on a "15-year-old South Korean boy in rehab because he's hooked on video games." More »
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Koreans are notorious for their passion for StarCraft. Thing is, passion alone can't account for these StarCraft II models. There's genius at work here, because believe it or not, these models are made out of paper. More »
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Korea is bonkers for StarCraft. So bonkers that we often quarantine the country's love for the game as something to be avoided and/or ridiculed. Yet little by little, the Korean StarCraft scene is getting its dues overseas. More »
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This is Eemma, a Swedish student with a camera. And if you've ever wanted to know what it's like to go and see professional StarCraft players face off in Seoul, she's your gal! More »
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One of the world's most popular Kart racing games is coming to Apple portables and Android devices soon, and no it's not the one created by Nintendo. More »
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There seem to be few gaming stories out of Korea lately that don't involve some sort of fatality. In this case, a 19-year-old college student died after a 12-hour-session with an FPS at an Internet parlor. More »
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Korean pop isn't new to the Japanese music scene. It's been around for years now, but in 2010, it hit big in Japan in a major way. But what does that say about video games? More »
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Here's a story full of holiday cheer: A Korean woman, who'd just finished a four-hour social gaming session when her 3-year-old urinated on the floor, strangled the toddler and left his body to decompose in the home for three days. More »
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While Kinect will inevitably come to PC gaming one day in an official capacity (it's of course already being used by hackers), there have been no games actually revealed making use of the peripheral. Until now! More »
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Warface, the online shooter destined for Asian markets and published by Crysis creators Crytek, may not have sounded like much at first, but take a look at it in action. More »
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Or should we say, Korea pushes the PlayStation Move's buttons? Because that's what's happening here, and the controllers, bless them, don't seem quite sure what to do about it. More »
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The first two official trailers for Mega Man Online, the sidescrolling MMO, were both two minutes of nothing but cinematics. Here's more than twice that amount, all of it gameplay. More »
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Why? Because all it makes us want is a Mega Man movie, not some side-scrolling online game. More »
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A sad reminder tonight that video games don't always end up in good times: a 15 year-old boy from South Korea has murdered his mother then killed himself following "a fight over Internet games". More »
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Starcraft in Korea falls somewhere between a national sport and a religion. So you'd think, then, that Starcraft II would have been a big hit there. Nope! More »
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A new Xbox 360 means new Xbox 360 bundles for the holiday season, and one of the first cabs off that yuletide rank for 2010 seems to be this Canadian offer, including two full games with a 250GB console. More »
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PopCap Games, the company behind ridiculously addictive games like Bejeweled and Plants Vs. Zombies, has teamed up with MMO company NCsoft to create PopCap World, an online multiplayer social game service launching in Korea later this year. More »
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According to several reports from over the weekend, the ratings board of South Korea is cracking down on the distribution of unrated video games in the country, and has everything from homebrew games to Valve's Steam service in its sights. More »
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And here we were thinking Mega Man Online, the Korean MMO being worked on by Capcom and Neowiz, would be a pedestrian affair. Seems the pair have something a little more epic in mind. More »
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Starcraft is big in Korea, but for some it can be too big, and they develope a serious addiction to the game. Ah well. Nothing some hard drugs can't cure! More »
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StarCraft might not be South Korea's national pastime, but that doesn't mean sometimes it seems like it is. More »
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World of Warcraft developer Blizzard's decision to force users to use their real names on the game's forum has some people in an uproar. Maybe those upset by the move should take it up with Korean lawmakers. More »
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Do you think you could beat a pro-gamer from Korea at Starcraft or Warcraft? You can't. You won't. You don't have a chance in hell. More »
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Wait, no. That's not right. Korea is getting two Starcraft II jumbo jets. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5571473&view=rss&microfeed=true It's not just match-fixing allegations making waves in Korea's Starcraft scene; Blizzard has just caused an uproar by switching official broadcasters, a move that "threatens the infrastructure and funding of pro Starcraft in Korea". More on Team Liquid. More »
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The scandal enveloping Korea's professional Starcraft scene appears to be worse than first believed, with eleven gamers under investigation amid allegations that gambling organisations have been running a "training institute" to lure players into illegal match-fixing. More »
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Certainly tamer than Russian strippers grinding on Counter Strike players. More »
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If there were ever two things made for each other, that would be real-time strategy game and South Korea. They love each other so much it hurts. More »
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Wracked by sensational news reports that have made the nation a caricature for games addiction, South Korea is imposing throttling and even six-hour blackouts on 19 MMOs comprising 79 percent of the local market. More »
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