korea
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StarCraft World Champion Beaten By 16-Year-Old Kid
10Korean StarCraft player INnoVation is by far the best in the world since the first expansion Heart of the Swarm came out. But he just got beaten by another StarCraft pro gamer who’s only 16 years old.
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Fine Art: The Works Of NCSoft Artist Park Jong Won
Park Jong Won is a Korean concept artist who currently works for NCSoft, the MMO giant behind games like Lineage, Aion and Guild Wars. The art you’ll see below are my favourite pieces from his portfolio, because, to me, they’re the covers to books I’ve never read, but if I saw them staring back at…
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Fine Art: Koreans Give Western Fantasy A Shot In The Arm
Maybe it’s because western artists are dealing with a genre that is so close to their own culture and history (or at least close to it), but there’s a reason the majority (though not all!) of fantasy art ends up looking the same. It tends to stick too close to the real deal.
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MVP Baseball Returns, But Only In Korea
Few noticed back in April, if it was even announced stateside, that EA Sports’ MVP Baseball series was returning as an online game in South Korea. It’s an interesting re-emergence of a brand many sports gamers remember fondly, but it offers little hope of the game actually returning in North America.