Police in South Korea are investigating reports that professional players of an online strategy game accepted bribes to fix matches in the largest e-sports scandal in history.
According to the BBC 'StarCraft' is an enormously popular online game in the country, so much so that battles in the virtual world are often televised with people betting on the outcomes.
Now it's being alleged that some of the players, who receive sponsorship and coaching, deliberately threw their games in order to benefit gambling websites.
Gaming website Gamepron has said that some consider the affair the internet equivalent of the 1919 Black Sox scandal when US baseball players were bribed to lose games and hand the World Series to the opposition.
