Long read: The beauty and drama of video games and their clouds

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Big In Korea

have posted an interesting article taking a look at the computer games craze in South Korea, where as many as one in three people regularly play games, and thousands of computer gaming venues called "PC rooms" are springing up. And if you think that the growing sport of professional gaming is big in the USA and Europe, in Korea it has already reached epidemic proportions, with top players starring in TV commercials! And all this from a country where computer games were banned until two years ago. It's a crazy world...