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Games As The New Pub

Posted by Zonk on from the hard-to-get-drunk-in-2L dept.

The Guardian Gamesblog has a column up talking about a panel held at the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival last week. A discussion was held with several folks from the online world development business, where they discussed games as new social playgrounds or pubs. From the article: "In Korea, the gamers play online games together. It's a social replacement. It's a way for non-social people to socialise. They've even started developing games for bored girlfriends of the guys who're playing Starcraft with their mates."

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  1. Re:Games for girlfriends?! by Meagermanx · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But in Korea, everybody's a gamer, so the Korean chicks have to settle. If we could just increase the number of hardcore male gamers here, we would be all set.