South Korea is largely known as the most connected country on the planet. Unfortunately, will all of technology comes video game addiction, specifically to MMOs. Well, the government is making note of this and will soon introduce a 6 hour period of downtime for 19 of the country’s biggest MMOs. This will hopefully curb the ridiculous addiction some of these Koreans are facing.
Luckily, they will be able to choose which period of downtime they want be it midnight to 6 a.m., 1 to 7 a.m. or 2 to 8 a.m.
It may sound ridiculous, but what else is there left to do?
via kotaku
If you’re currently in South Korea with a Google Android powered device you better get ready for some bad news — Due to conflicts with the South Korean government, Google is being forced to remove every single game from the Android Marketplace. The reason for this being that the South Korean doesn’t want any games made available that they haven’t rated beforehand.
Pretty lame but Apple was forced to do the same not too long ago.
via gizmodo
North Americans are going to love this new MMO basketball game called “Freestyle”. Known to be one of the world’s popular sports today, JC Entertainment Corp. (JCE), an online game developer from South Korea, announced the launch of the MMO basketball game “Freestyle” in the North American market.
“Freestyle” is an online basketball game with streetball gameplay against other online gamers, and is one of the most popular online games in Asia since 2005. “Freestyle” was previously serviced through Sierra Online of Vivendi Games in North America market and already has more than 80 million users around the world, but JCE now provides the game service directly through its own global game portal “www.gamekiss.com”.
“Freestyle” combines hip-hop and street basketball through unique characters and gameplay. Each character has unique ability according to their basketball position, and the players can play 3 on 3 half court or 5 on 5 full court basketball game. “Freestyle” users can maximize their fun by creating multiple basketball moves through simple game interface with just A, S, D, and W key and arrowkeys on the keyboard.
In order to enjoy “Freestyle”, users can download Freestyle at www.gamekiss.com for free game client and learn more about the game in the “Freestyle” webpage.
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Even in the wake of a global economical crisis, EA is showing no signs of slowing down in their conquest for world domination. In their latest announcement, it was made known that EA has aquired South Korean based game developer J2MSoft Inc.
But why would EA aquire a relatively unknown, 50-employee large, studio? To increase their presence in the Eastern world, of course. EA hopes that J2MSoft’s roster of skilled employees will be able to develop online games, tailored to the Asian market with an EA branding.
Currently, J2MSoft specializes in developing free-to-play online games for the PC that make their money through in-game purchases and advertisements.
While not disclosing any information on the financial sector of the buy-out, EA lets investors know that the transaction is not likely to effect their 2009 results.
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