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According to StarCraft forum Team Liquid, 16 South Koreans are being implicated in the StarCraft match-fixing scandal that we heard about earlier this year. The site claims that three brokers, 11 professional StarCraft players and two others (for making bets with insider knowledge) have been indicted thus far. The match-fixing is said to have taken place in December of last year, when brokers corroborated with players to intentionally lose matches.
One of the players named in Team Liquid's report, Moon Sung Jin, has issued a rather grave formal apology via his Cyworld (South Korean social networking service) account. "I am sorry. Due to a hasty mistake, I have disappointed many people. I have nothing to say on this matter, and I do not have any intention of being forgiven," Jin wrote, according to 1UP, adding, "I will be entering military service on the 31st of May, and it seems like I am running away from the truth. I can only say that I will do my best to reflect on my actions and to be discharged as a better, more rational person. I am truly sorry once again."
Reports of the amount each player received varies, from between two to six and a half million won ($2,000 to $6,000) for the calculated losses, which were then allegedly pooled and used to bribe a host of other players.
The team on delivering over 100 unlockables (including Big Head Mode out of the gate), the possibility of online play, the achievement system and how NBA Jam's like Punch-Out!!
#xbox360
Here's something to fire your synapses on a Tuesday night: a comparison of the average review scores of Xbox 360 exclusives vs PlayStation 3 exclusives. More »
#gundam
This year is the 30th anniversary of Gundam plastic models (aka "Gunpla"). So, Gundam is getting a cafe, a large plastic figure and a life-sized counterpart (again). You know what this calls for? Yes, a Japanese cell phone. More »
#sega
The Creative Assembly, best known as the studio behind the Total War series of PC strategy games, will soon be putting down the history books and picking up what appears to be a pair of football boots and a...spreadsheet. More »
I remember seeing this ad, and I couldn’t figure out why Mega Man would want to take down Proto Man. Of course, after playing the game, the whole thing made perfect sense. Should I go ahead and ruin the secret? Is it really a spoiler if we’re discussing details from a game [...]
Battle details
- standard attacks are unleashed automatically
- each character has their own set of ‘arts’
- combine ‘arts’ with the ‘arts setting’ screen
- arts such as ‘Slit Edge’, ‘Back Slash’, Light Heal’, ‘Air Slash’ and ‘Shadow Eye’
- allies normally use their arts on their own
- ‘Party Gauge’ fills up as you cooperate with allies, and allows [...]
#activision
Activision and Treyarch are done teasing, releasing an extended, gameplay-filled look at their next inevitable blockbuster shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops, one minute and forty-three seconds worth of shoot 'em up spectacle. More »
#xbox360
Earlier, a SEGA countdown clock appeared. Ungh, we know. Countdown clocks are annoying! We hate them. Thank goodness this week's leaked Famitsu is here to steal its thunder. Ka-pow! More »
We've seen Master Chief do some bizarre stuff over the years. He's fallen in love with a Storm Trooper and even taken time off to pursue an acting career. Now he's trying to break into the burgeoning German music scene under the stage name of Michael Wendler, with his first single, "Piloten wie Wir." Somewhere right now, David Hasselhoff is probably crying into a cheeseburger.
But we digress. All of this exposition means nothing until you've actually watched Master Chief take you to the space bar, space bar, space bar. So head past the break and do that. Do that right now.
#3d
Dusting off its corporate crystal ball (The UbiBall®), publisher Ubisoft has predicted that in just two years time, half of all games will be capable of straining your eyes by appearing in 3D. Or, as they'll call it, ThreeDee™. More »
If you're a supporter of all of Sega's ludological offerings -- not just the ones that include attitude-infused blue rodents -- you'll want to check out the Sega Complete Pack on Steam. For $90, you can grab all of Sega's PC games currently available on the platform; a list that includes Empire: Total War (and all its expansions), Space Siege, The Club, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, Aliens vs. Predator and a whole lot more. (Sorry Mac users, but almost all of these games are still only available to the Windows crowd.)
If you're looking for something a bit more cost-efficient, Steam is also offering Aliens vs. Predator alone at half price, for $24.99. But why not chip in the extra $65 and pick up more Total War games than you could ever play in a single lifetime? That seems like a sound economic decision to us.
#activision
Activision and Treyarch are done teasing, releasing an extended, gameplay-filled look at their next inevitable blockbuster shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops, one minute and forty-three seconds worth of shoot 'em up spectacle. More »
Activision and Treyarch have released the first full-length trailer for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops. You may remember the initial teaser from a couple weeks back, but this one -- clocking in at a more satisfying 1 minute 42 seconds -- is, as promised by Treyarch community manager Josh Olin last week, "brand-new, 100% gameplay." Watch it in full after the break.
Call of Duty: Black Ops is set for a November 9, 2010 release. We'll be on-hand for what we can only imagine will be its very flashy playable debut at next month's E3.
#epicgames
Changes are coming to Epic Games' Gears of War 2, showing that the title hasn't been at all forgotten about now that the focus has shifted to Gears of War 3. Better still, there's a Gears 2 deal inbound. More »
#blorf
Enough. I am officially declaring this Double Down-eating developer competition over. Electronic Arts may not have really set the land-speed record for consuming Kentucky Fried lard, but it did raise $1,000 for - wait for it - cancer research. More »
#lifestyle
Gamers who fight in the virtual wars of Call of Dutys and Battlefields have piloted multi-million dollar aircraft and tanks, but is there a new opportunity to put them in control of real-world warriors like Viper or Iceman, military-trained dolphins? More »
