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South Korea Says StarCraft Like Gambling
December 16, 2013
Card Player – Controversy has emerged in South Korea over a bill designed to combat addiction to computer games like StarCraft, the Associated Press reported. The bill, which is backed by 14 ruling party members, includes provisions to limit advertising. A separate bill would take 1 percent of the gaming industry’s revenue to create a fund to curb addiction. These might seem insignificant, but it has the gaming industry there in a dizzy. Game makers reportedly have said that the bill is a death sentence for their industry. The AP pointed out that “a law passed in 2011 that bans…