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Meet Rococo. The Taiwanese cosplayer is making waves in both her homeland and throughout Asia. Who is she? She's Rococo! More »
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While Japanese cosplayer Ushijima Ii Niku ("Good Meat") was in Taiwan, she caused a media storm after showing up to an event in her underpants. The incident even made the evening news there. But that's not what is pissing of the country's police force. More »
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When your loved ones are down, you'll do anything to cheer them up and make them laugh. For 50 year-old Hu Han-yan, getting his father's spirits up meant one thing: a Hello Kitty haircut. More »
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It was only last fall that Macau-born Sunny Lin's cosplay made waves throughout Asia. Japan declared that Lin was the closest to a living incarnation of Boa Hancock from One Piece. More »
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You thought the Kitty-chan dentist office was cute? It is. The Hello Kitty plane, though, isn't just cute. It's cute that flies. More »
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Early last year, pro gamer Linda Liao made waves when she joined Team Razer's competitive gaming team. Lao isn't only a pro gamer. Oh no, she's much more. More »
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A Japanese cosplayer wearing a NSFW costume grabbed all the headlines at the recent Fancy Frontier event in Taipei. But that wasn't the only game, I mean costume, in town. More »
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Now in its tenth year, the Taipei Game Show was expected to draw over 300,000 visitors. As previously reported, this year's show also packed in overseas game companies to show new hardware, like the PS Vita, as well as new games. More »
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As Kotaku previously reported, a 23-year-old man recently died at a Taiwanese internet cafe. Nine hours later, someone noticed. More »
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Won't somebody think of the children? You think of the children; Ushijima Ii Niku ("Good Meat") is going to push every envelope she can with her daring cosplay. More »
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TGS, no not the Tokyo Game Show, but instead the Taipei Game Show is closing today in Taipei, Taiwan. More »
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Chen Rong-yu of Taiwan checked into an internet cafe in the city of New Taipei on Tuesday evening to play popular multiplayer PC game League of Legends. Wednesday evening a waitress found the 23-year-old sitting rigidly in his chair, hands outstretched towards the computer. More »
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Terry Gou, head of Foxconn, gets the Next Media Animation treatment, complete with an umbrella that deflects suicide jumpers. More »
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Slam Dunk, first a manga and then an anime, was instrumental in popularizing basketball in Japan, as well as other parts of Asia. Students at the National Taiwan University of Arts paid tributed to the anime's opening with this brilliant shot-by-shot recreation. More »
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Your local news station might have a weatherman. It might have a weather woman. Taiwan has weather girls—make that, Weather Girls. More »
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National Taiwan University is the country's most prestigious institute of higher learning. The country's first Nobel prize laureate is an alum. It's where the best of the best get educated. More »
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"Guile's Theme" isn't the only thing that makes life better. So does the Super Mario Bros. theme, as evident by this video. More »
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Throughout Asia, it's common to see attractive celebrities pose with game hardware. The celebs might not be gamers themselves, but they're famous. Most can flub their way through without a gaff. Rainie Yang could not. More »
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SimCity 4's world creation suite is a wonderful thing, allowing players fine control over the hills, valleys and rivers of their virtual building plot. It's so fine, in fact, people can try and recreate entire countries. In this case, Taiwan. More »
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The Occupy Wall Street movement has gone global, and Taiwan is as upset about the division of power and wealth as the demonstrators in New York. To underline their anger, well, what better universal symbol than the Angry Birds, seen in posters throughout this Taiwanese news broadcast. More »
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Meet Sunny Lin. The Macau-born sexy pin-up cosplayed as One Piece's Boa Hancock—something that quickly drew the attention of the Japanese internet. More »
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Next year, Nintendo is releasing a new home console, the Wii U. Taiwanese component makers tell tech site DigiTimes that Sony is readying a new home console for 2012. But that's not the interesting part. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5817874&view=rss&microfeed=true Today, Sony revealed that starting on May 28, the PlayStation Network and Qriocity will gradually resume in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. South Korea and Hong Kong aren't quite ready to get back online just yet. [Sony] More »
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At the Taipei Game Show earlier this year, event areas had girls on stage dancing to pop tunes. But that's not where the real action was. More »
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In Taiwan, an inflatable Android robot was enlisted to promote the Sony Xperia Play cell phone. But it wasn't just any inflatable robot, it was a dancing inflatable robot. More »
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This year's Taipei Game Show recently wrapped up. And while it's short on breaking news when compared to the Tokyo Game Show or the E3 gaming expo, it does look like a grand time. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5766896&view=rss&microfeed=true Ninety-Nine-Nights is being turned into a PC MMO (with art by former SNK man Falcoon) for Japan and Taiwan. More »
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Nintendo has contracted the production of its Nintendo 3DS cartridges to Taiwan-based solid-state maker Macronix. And apparently, those cartridges offer enormous memory space. More »
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Monster Hunter Frontier, Capcom's massively multiplayer online role-playing game, is currently only available in Asia on the Xbox 360 and the PC. But Japanese people cannot play with people in other countries. Here's why. More »
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China might already have its own version of Monster Hunter. That isn't stopping Capcom from moving forward with launching MonHun in China. More »
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Whether it be StarCraft or Warcraft, game developer Blizzard has a look. It has style. Pizazz, if you will. More »
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Think you have it rough? You might! But gamers in China have it rough. Consoles, while widely sold, are illegal. This means that gamers do not have official support. The government continues to crackdown on online games. More »
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Next Media Animation continues to make a game out of Taiwanese news, with a summation of trash TV show Jersey Shore that captures Snooki's true essence. More »
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In Taiwan. With this lady. More »
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ChinaJoy, the region's version of the E3 gaming expo, has kicked off. The PC game-heavy show is known for its big booths, booth companions and cosplayers. More »
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On July 27, 2010, real-time strategy game StarCraft II is going on sale in over fifteen countries. There are more than fifteen countries on Earth. More »
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Cover of Business Today, Taiwan's leading financial publication, spied by reader Howard C. I've no idea what the headline in fact says, but yes, hitting a coin box repeatedly is a sound financial strategy. More »
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In November 2009, golfer Tiger Woods' life changed forever. So did TV news in Taiwan. More »
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From the folks that brought the Wii molester "monk" and the Tiger Woods brouhaha to life with the magic of computer animation comes this: an Al Gore avatar trying to get some lady to grab his junk. Technology! More »
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Wait, no. That's not right. Korea is getting two Starcraft II jumbo jets. More »
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