A blogger showed a computer club in North Korea where you can play Dota 2 (14 photos)

Visitors can also choose from other games – there are about 70 options on the list, including popular titles like Counter-Strike 2, Left 4 Dead, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. But there's one small caveat.





The first gaming computer centers have opened in Pyongyang, sparking interest among both local residents and foreign observers.



A blogger with the nickname JustCherry visited such a club and posted photos and videos of what she saw on the social network X (formerly Twitter).





Visitors can now choose from over 70 games, including global hits like Dota 2, Counter-Strike 2, Left 4 Dead, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, as well as classic titles.







A distinctive feature of these establishments is their isolation: all computers operate exclusively on the local network, without access to the global internet, so the user experience is limited to internal matches between visitors of the same establishments. Clubs.



The computers' specifications are also hidden, but according to the blogger, they work without any issues.







The club operates on a membership card system, and the cost per hour of play, when converted from local currency to US currency, is around $2. In the evenings, the computers are always busy. The room quickly fills up with gamers.



Most games have interfaces in Korean, Chinese, and English.







The emergence of such clubs is rare in North Korea, where access to computer games and the internet was previously strictly limited. Experts do not rule out that this could set a precedent for the emergence of new entertainment services and the expansion of digital opportunities for the country's residents.