Counter Strike Korea: You can win a pig!?

Counter Strike Korea: You can win a pig!?

This is a cross post from a blog that I help co-author. To read it over there click this link, if not just read on.

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Seriously. I found this to be all too strange. In the Korean version of Counter Strike called Counter Strike Online 2 (licensed by Valve and developed by Nexon Korea with Valve’s Source Engine) you can play in a new mode called Pig Mode. Which looks something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1zDNsTRdl8&feature=player_embedded#t=0

To promote this new gamemode, Nexon Korea is selecting five people at random who share the mode’s trailer on various social media websites. The five people who win will receive a pig. Not a pig model, but an actual live pig. O_o