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Civilization V uses six-sided hexagonal tiles

Apple has wanted to give iPhone hacker George Hotz a stern talking-to for a while now, but it looks like Hotz may have a new tech nemesis brewing. George Hotz told BBC news that he has successfully hacked Sony's PlayStation 3-and it only took him 5 weeks. Hotz claims he started the hack last summer, analyzing the console for about three weeks, and then finally cracked the PS3 in about two weeks not too long ago.

PlayStation 3 had a banner weekend-until last week, no PS3 game had sold a million copies in Japan until Final Fantasy XIII did all in one day. Final Fantasy XIII sold 1.5 million copies after just four days of shelf life. This edition of Final Fantasy also drove up console sales as well, giving Sony a little something to smile about. According to the Business Insider, Sony sold 245,406 PS3 consoles in Japan just last week-striking another record.

For game makers, their technological prowess in planning, characters, environments, and sounds is all-important and what makes them the most proud. In particular, the area of graphics is where the fiercest competition for survival is expected. As the years go by, boundaries between reality and games seem to get blurred. 

As a result of development of mobile phone's functions including touch-screen mode and 3D user interface mode, mobile game's realizations have also highly upgraded. 

Gaming fans and members of the gaming industry from all around the world will gather together for the exhibition show Gstar 2009 at Busan's Bexco Convention Center from November 26-29. This will be the 5^th year of this event, and companies and visitors from all over the world will come to preview the future of the gaming industry.

There is almost no market existing for video games in Korea, in stark contrast to online games that have been booming for a long time. Nevertheless, there is some surprising news that one of the video games developed in Korea has emerged as a box-office hit.

NCsoft, the company that created Aion, recently announced that they will release this game in North America on September 22, 2009. Aion, already released in Asia, won the award Best Korean Game of the Year for its "epic scale, immersive story, and stunning graphics and sound design" at the end of 2008.

Although it is unknown to many countries in the world, Team Fortress Classic 2 (TFC 2) is a popular game in the United States. A sequel to Team Fortress, Team Fortress 2 has better graphics and improved game play.