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N.Korea Turns to Online Game Hackers to Earn Hard Currency Elite North Korean hackers created and distributed programs that stole millions of U.S. dollars from popular South Korean on-line gaming sites, such as Lineage and Dungeon Fighter, according to a police investigation. The hackers, who are believed to have graduated from the North's prestigious Kim Il-sung University and Kim Chaek University of Technology, stole gaming items such as weapons, armor and other objects that players collect and store in their on-line games and trade for cash. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said on Thursday it had arrested five South Koreans,...

Chinese labour camp prisoners forced to play online games After a long day of hard labour, scores of Chinese prisoners are now being forced to spend their nights playing online games in order to win credit for their guards, a former inmate has claimed. By Malcolm Moore, Shanghai 9:22AM BST 26 May 2011 A 54-year-old prisoner at the Jixi labour camp in the northern province of Heilongjiang said he was forced to play games on the internet in order to build up credit that was traded by his guards for real money, a practice known as “gold-farming”. In many online...

He may not have many endorsements left, but the video game that bears Tiger Woods' name is out with a new version that's also available free of charge. Tiger Woods is back on the course, at least the virtual one. Video game giant Electronic Arts, one of the few companies that have stuck by the embattled superstar, is letting you play the latest version of the game that bears his name, right now, for free. "Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online" is now in beta, or testing phase, which means anyone with a PC or Mac and a good Internet connection...

Looking for people to join Mafia Gang on Mafia Wars......I need a crew....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - America may dominate the world in sports and culture but in one arena where size doesn't matter, the "Geography Olympics," the United States was 88th behind minnows such as Madagascar and the Marshall Islands. More than 46,000 Americans have taken part in this online geography competition started by a man with a mission: Roger Andresen, who quit his job as a fiber optic engineer two years ago when he realized most Americans have never heard of Nauru and don't know Cameroon is in Africa. Working from his home in Georgia -- the U.S. state, not the...

This online game seems to have too many liberals playing it. So I'd like to ask that you FReep it, but only if you want to "play" it daily for about five minutes. The object of the game is to set up your own government and decide issues- 1 or 2 a day, depending on your choice. You may join the United Nations, which needs serious FReeping, as the "resolutions" are often approved or denied on a lopsided vote in the liberal direction. Anyway, after you set up the nation, you will need to choose a region for your nation....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toppling Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) is in the war simulation game "Gulf War (news - web sites) 2" is the easy part. Coping with what comes next is more difficult. Players assume the role of President Bush (news - web sites) in the online game, receiving regular briefings from caricatures of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites). It starts with Baghdad's quick fall but then proceeds to an Iraqi anthrax attack on Israel, a retaliatory nuclear strike, revolt...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A new Internet game is poking fun at German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's unpopular tax increases, challenging players to yank the shirts off the backs of unsuspecting shoppers with a hook. It follows the "last shirt for Schroeder" campaign last year when thousands of Germans who thought Schroeder wanted to tear the last shirt off their backs with his plans to raise taxes sent shirts to his office in protest. When the cartoon chancellor, shown with Schroeder's trademark smile and clad in a trenchcoat, successfully grabs a shirt from a passer-by at a supermarket parking lot, he lets...