At a recent StarCraft II match, there was a Diablo III limited edition raffle. The winner was jazzed to get the game. The guy in the white shirt is not that winner on a technicality. A heartbreaking one: his age.
People line up to buy video games for various reasons. Maybe they actually want the game. Maybe they want to sell the game. And maybe they’re just being nice to the ones they love.
At the Diablo III launch in Seoul, the country’s most famous cosplayer collective, Spiral Cats, was on hand to help kick of the game’s Korean release.
It looked like Grand Theft Auto, but it was very real — and almost very deadly.
Diablo III is coming out. Soon. And people (like this individual) are very excited. South Korea is no different. Gamers are jazzed about Diablo III. And whenever there are jazzed people, there are unscrupulous individuals ready to take advantage.
Like this! Above is a sample of the game’s Korean voice track compared with the English voice track. While some non-Korean speakers seem to think this voice track is pretty groovy (even saying they’d prefer it over the English track), many Korean speakers aren’t exactly thrilled.
In professional Korean gaming, they don’t get much bigger than Lim Yo-Hwan, aka “BoxeR”. His fan club has a million members, he has big time endorsements, and he is dating famed actress Kim Ga-yeon. He’s known as the “The Terran Emperor”.
The logo of South Korean electronics company LG is supposed to resemble a human face. The “L” forms the nose, and the forms the face and mouth. But after seeing this GIF, all I can think of is wakka wakka.
