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Netflix Removes Squid Game Phone Numbers After Man Gets 4,000+ Calls
I daresay that more than a few of you reading this have spent the last week happily watching ‘Squid Game’ on Netflix. And you’ll get no criticism of that from me either as it’s brilliant! However, as you may remember, the series showcases a number of phone numbers for the…
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Game ‘Boosting’ in South Korea Could Carry A Jail Sentence
New Gaming Laws Introduced in South Korea While we have perhaps not gotten to the stage yet of applying any actual laws to gaming in the West, it is something that parts of Asia take very seriously. For example, last year a gamer was sent to prison in South Korea…
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South Korea To Make ‘Game Boosting’ Illegal
South Korea To Make ‘Game Boosting’ Illegal It can be rather frustrating when you’re playing a competitive online game to find that while one of your opponents is fairly ok, the other seems almost Godlike. Well, at least compared to your ability. This isn’t, however, particularly uncommon. The term ‘boosting’…
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New Busan Korea Control Map Goes Live on Overwatch
New Overwatch Map Now Playable on Public Servers Blizzard introduced a new Busan, Korea based control map on their Overwatch public test servers three weeks ago. Now users on the public server will finally be able to play it starting to day. As long as they install the latest patch…
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Blizzard Announces New ‘Busan’ Control Map for Overwatch
New Korean-centric Content Overwatch has released two new Korean-centric content recently. One of which is the latest map set in Busan, and the other is a cinematic featuring Korean superstar D.Va. This cinematic short gives fans a look into the life of the actress/eSports athelete turned mech-pilot. It especially focuses…
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Experts Claim Korean University Are Working On Killer Robots
Korean University May Be Working On Killer Robots Overall, the opinions on our future living along sides robots are generally not good. Many people, including the late Professor Hawking, are convinced that our end will likely come at the hands of, if not robots, then AI. Elon Musk has regularly…
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Professional Starcraft Player Arrested For Alleged Match Fixing
Professional Starcraft 2 Player Arrested In the last 5 years, the world of online gaming has expanded massively both in terms of provides and prize monies. As with many sports, many consider them having ‘made it’ when bookmakers begin taking bets upon them. One professional gamer, has, however, found himself…
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China Looks Into Possible NAND and DRAM Price-Fixing by Suppliers
China’s National Development and Reform Commission’s Pricing Supervision Department is looking into the possibility of NAND price fixing according to the China Daily. The price of NAND has seen a 32% jump this year, with DRAM price surges past half of 2016’s. Suppliers continue to state lack of supply as…
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Company Agrees to Pay $1m Bitcoin Ransom
A company who has been the victim of repeated ransomware attacks has agreed to pay an incredible $1m. By paying the ransom it is their hope to regain access to 3,400 customer accounts details currently locked out. This represents one of the biggest confirmed payouts directly to ransomware. $1,000,000 Dollar…
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LG G6 Flagship Smartphone Launched Sporting 18:9 Display Ratio
LG has abandoned the modular approach with their latest G6 flagship smartphone at the Mobile World Congress 2017, instead utilizing an IP68 rated water and dust resistant metal and glass construction. With no Samsung Galaxy smartphone on the floor, LG’s G6 was the talk of the town and grabbed attention…
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LG to Unveil G6 Smartphone and Smartwatches at Mobile World Congress
While Korean electronics giant Samsung will be absent in this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, another Korean company is getting ready to take center stage and unveil their latest flagship G6 smartphone: LG. The new LG G6 features rounded corners and a slim with an unusual 2:1 aspect…
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Blizzard Bans 10,000 Overwatch Cheaters
Blizzard is starting the new year by banning a whole lot of hackers on Overwatch caught using aimbots. More than 10,000 cheaters have been kicked off by Blizzard Korea including several users who have resorted to “Nuke King” attacks. Nuke King is a targeted form of denial of service attack…
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Black Desert Online Offers 7-day Free Trial
Pearl Abyss’ Massive Multiplayer Online RPG Black Desert Online is offering a 7-day free trial for users to experience an open-world gaming experience unlike any other game currently out there. Most notable in the game is just how gorgeous the visuals are in the seamless open world, including the environments…
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Korean Engineers Build 13-foot Tall Manned Bipedal Robot
In a scene reminiscent of Iron Man 2, Korean engineers demonstrate a working manned bipedal robot in a series of Instagram videos posted by its designer Vitaly Bulgarov. The good thing is that these are the good Koreans this time at the South instead of Kim Jong-Un’s squad and seems…
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John McAfee Points Finger over Massive DDoS Attack
On Friday (21st October), a malicious party was responsible for a huge DDoS attack on Managed DNS infrastructure provider Dyn, taking out sites like Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, and reddit in the process. The attack – which Dyn described as “global in nature” – involved tens of millions of IP addresses…
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