While Chinese Internet cafes are supposedly on the decline, but with a 126 million active players at net cafes across the country it's easy to see that net cafes are still a major player in the gaming scene of China. Such as it is, it's always interesting to see what kind of games are being played in the country's net…
2013 seems to be a great year for China's online video game market with the release of some pretty cool online games. Deviating more and more from the standard click and grind RPG format, Chinese game companies have been pumping out interesting and visually appealing games, foreign and domestically-developed alike.
China, the middle kingdom. The Orient. The place where the legality of game consoles are suspect has always been the home of internet cafes. The number of internet cafes, which served as dens to many of China's netizens, has suddenly gone down over the course of 2011-2012—by as many as 10,000.
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MOBA games are super popular in China right now. Sure, they’re super popular everywhere, but they are particularly popular in China—that's why, when a netizen asked online what China does better than the US, the most popular answer was Defense of the Ancients.
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Journey to the West is a classic Chinese tale that has been retold millions of times. It's been referenced by a variety of media, from the movie the Forbidden Kingdom to even Dragon Ball. But despite all the awesome adaptations of the main subject, Tencent's Asura Online might just be the coolest one yet.
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In an obvious publicity stunt,"Iron Mike" Tyson recently boasted on his Chinese blog that he could take down over 100 players in the recently released Chinese online role-playing game Xianxia Shi Jie.
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Last month, Luke brought us this little nugget of gold from the interwebs called 300 Heroes—a shameless League of Legends clone that offers users a chance to play as "over 300" different heroes from various intellectual properties. Despite the fact that it's such a terrible case of copyright infringement and possible…
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A sixth grader in China recently stole over $1000 worth of money from his mother to spend on video game currency. After finding out that he had stolen the money, the mother called the police to make a complaint against the net cafe that sold him the currency, gaining her a partial refund.
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Despite all that you read about the tensions between China and Japan, Japanese manga is highly celebrated in China. Chinese people cosplay as Japanese manga characters. They watch Japanese manga inspired animations. And they read manga—that is, until now.
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Pop-up ads are annoying; in-game ads are no better, but when in-game ads are pop-up ads, they can create a lot of mischief. Last week a Chinese gamer in Sichuan province was scammed by a pop-up ad within a popular online racing game.
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Earlier this month, Chinese gaming giant Tencent announced a "brand new" game that will be released later this year. The game, War of Zombies, isn't exactly a new game per se — it's actually been talked about since 2010.
Chinese internet company Tencent now owns 48.8 percent of Epic Games. [GI]
Bandai Namco games is working with Tencent Games to release a Naruto online game for China.
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It might be the most hardcore game on Facebook, but that doesn't mean Stomp Game's mecha-Diablo Robot Rising is too cool to celebrate the holidays. It just celebrates in a hardcore fashion.
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Chinese gaming and internet giant Tencent announced that it's acquired a minority stake in Epic Games. According to Tencent, the company looks forward to sharing info and innovation with Epic across various platforms.
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Chinese artist Xi Zhang works for online gaming powerhouse Tencent. He's been in the video game business for nearly ten years now.
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