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CEO of major Korean MMO company arrested

Posted: 06 May 2012 03:22 PM PDT

According to reports from Korea, the CEO of CJ Games, Kwon Young-shik, was arrested last week on 2nd May. CJ Games is the gaming branch of CJ Entertainment Media (EM), which in turn is one of the 4 major departments of the CJ group. What was he arrested for?

Well, he actually sold in-game currency for real cash, although the prosecutors stated that happened back in 2008, when Kwon was a director in CJ Internet (previous name for EM before restructure) overseeing game operations. Along with him, another CJ employee involved was arrested as well, who apparently is just a normal non-executive staff. The illegal scheme came to light when the 3rd party trader was caught
just recently, although it was not reported why he was arrested in the
first place.

The alleged total haul of Kwon’s activity of selling in-game currency for cash back then is reportedly near the USD 800,000 mark. Following Kwon’s arrest, the authorities raided CJ Games’ Netmarble (the MMO portal’s name) offices for evidence the very next day on 3rd May. Netmarble has said that the company will give its full support and aid for the ongoing investigation.

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Monster Hunter Frontier (JP)

Posted: 06 May 2012 11:57 AM PDT

(Benchmark download) So, Monster Hunter Frontier Japan will be having a huge update which will apparently change the game to “Monster Hunter Frontier 2″, adding in tons of new content, including monsters, areas, weapons, character actions and more. Seeing that it is a Pay to Play game, getting into the server is not really that easy.

Capcom and Japan’s biggest gaming website, 4Gamer, released a benchmark program which I thought I should share with you guys. I recorded the video, made using in-game graphics, which you can see above.

Do note that my final benchmark score is actually much higher (screenshot below), as taking the video ate up over half of my score points…Once again, the download link can be found here (link).

Monster Hunter Frontier, sadly, does not seem bound for the English market. The Korean server closed recently (link) and the publisher went as far as to declare never to publish a foreign title again. If you are having fits reading this, head on and try out a China-developed clone, Hunter Blade (link), which is available in English now.

Similar Article can be found at: http://www.mmoculture.com/2011/09/monster-hunter-frontier-jp-benchmark.html

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