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Apex Tech Fanatic Supreme | PC: Online Game, Made in U.S., Seizes the Globe World of Warcraft has become the first truly global video-game hit since Pac-Man in the early 80’s.  | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by New York Times |  | | | | | | | | |
SEOUL, South Korea — At 10:43 p.m. one recent Saturday, in a smoky basement gaming parlor under a bank in this sprawling city’s expensive Daechi neighborhood, Yoon Chang Joon, a 25-year-old orc hunter known online as Prodigy, led his troops into battle. “Move, move!” he barked into a microphone around his neck as a strike team of some 40 people seated at computer terminals tapped at keyboards and stormed the refuge of the evil plague lord Heigan, fingers flying. Full story at NYTimes | |  | |  | | |
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