The Evening Report: Big in Korea Edition

Back in high school I was friends with some people that were in a band. They were pretty good, but the whole band thing was just something they did; they had no aspirations of becoming a legitimate thing once they graduated. The year after most of them graduated the bassist took a trip to South Korea, and came back swearing up and down that he had heard one of their songs from their MySpace page blasting from a shop in Seoul. We all laughed and “We’re big in Korea” became a favorite joke.

What does that have to do with the news? Absolutely nothing. Hit the jump to see what’s hot.

Joystiq beat me to the punch with an excellent piece on League of Legends‘ new Co-op versus AI mode. Frequently namedropped friend of the site Richard Mitchell offers up a pretty sweet look at it, and being a League of Legends fanatic myself I can personally attest that the AI has had a significant upgrade.

The Anniebot is totally hacking, I swear.

Source: Joystiq

Apparently Japan loves super ridiculous names for their video games. Square-Enix’s Dissidia: 012 Duodecim Final Fantasy landed in the number one spot on it’s debut week over there, selling more than three times the amount of copies as the runner up. Honestly, they could name it whatever the hell they wanted and I’d still be picking it up — the addition of my favorite Final Fantasy VIII character is enough to win me over.

Source: Gamasutra

If you’re an absolute avatar item collector on Xbox Live you might be interested in doing a little testing for Microsoft. Joining in on the test locks you out of online activity, but the end reward is some sweet items that set your dude up like a mad scientist. If you’ve got the time and the willpower to miss out on all that sweet online gaming action this might be the thing to do. If the reward was an actual mad scientist get-up I’d be all over it — the Frankenstein I’m currently fleshweaving demands a certain attire, after all.

Source: Giant Bomb

It might seem a little on the light side tonight, but can you really blame us? PAX East is in full swing. Lots of interesting panels and presentations are happening right now, so we’ll be showing those off once they’re all online. You know, the place where all us non-PAX attendees are. When we aren’t at our support groups for missing the event of the year.