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Chinese Professor Calls For Graduates To Give Up DOTA
Like school graduations in the US, Chinese graduations also have commencement speeches; speeches where possibly famous or respected people give a”pep” talk of sorts to inspire the new grads. In one university in China, the commencement speaker took to a slightly different route with his speech, to urge new grads to stop playing video games.…
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Chinese Sixth Grader Steals From Mother To Buy Digital Currency
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. China’s People’s…
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Tencent Pisses Off Chinese Fans By Buying Manga Rights
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. Earlier this year, the Chinese internet giant Tencent signed a publishing deal with Shueisha inc, the…
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Pokemon X and Y Dated for October 12
Nintendo just revealed the release date for the next installation in the Pokemon franchise during this morning’s E3 Nintendo Direct. In addition to the release date Nintendo also showed off new features such as a Pokemon touch element and a new Pokemon type. The Pokemon touch element, Pokemon-Aime, allows players to interact with their Pokemon…
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UPDATE: Chinese Man Forgets Wife And Child At Temple To Visit Arcade
A woman and her three-month-old child were sighted crying at the gates of the Confucius Temple in Nanjing last week. The reason why the woman was so distraught was because she had lost her husband and couldn’t find him anywhere. Reported byJiangsu China, a local printed version of the Xinhua news agency, the young mother…
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Update: It’s a Hoax! Alien Invasion In China? Man Claims To Have Electrocuted an Alien
Chinese microblogs are abuzz today after pictures appeared on Sina Weibo, of a Chinese man claiming to have found an alien. That’s right, one Chinese man claims to have found an alien! First pointed to us by our good friends at the Shanghaiist, the extraterrestrial was discovered by a Mr. Li in Binzhou Shangdong province.…
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My Afternoon At Beijing’s Nonexistent Game Conference
Last Thursday, the annual China New Generation Cyber Game Industries Expo was held in Beijing. The expo was meant to show off the latest in China’s ever expanding online gaming industry. The only problem was…the event didn’t happen. Last Thursday, I had met a contact for lunch in Beijing. After lunch we had planned to…
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Defence Of The Diaoyu Islands, Chinese Newspaper Style
Chinese media company Global Times is a controversial company. They publish a lot of ridiculous articles, slideshows and videos. They’re prone to making mistakes, particularly when it comes to Japan. Despite all their issues, there is one thing that they’re doing that no other major Chinese news outlet is doing, they’re hosting video games. On…
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Chinese Health Study: Video Games Making Children Dumb
China has released various studies in the past about the adverse effects of video games on the development of young people. Over the weekend the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Wuhan, Hubei province released a report showing that more than half the city’s teenagers have less understanding about life and death than primary school…
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Parents Donate Dead Gamer Son’s Organs To Save Sick Patients
We’ve seen this story many times; a Chinese gamer partakes in a grueling marathon of Internet gaming and then passes away. These stories rarely have a good ending. But for five people in Guangzhou, China, the untimely death of one young man means a new life. Reported on Sunday by the New Express paper, 18…
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Internet Helps Desperate Mother Save Son
Chinese Internet Cafes aren’t the best place for minors; so much so that legally they’re not allowed to let them in. Unfortunately for Chinese parents, there are a few “black” Internet cafes that operate unscrupulously. Luckily, one mother was able to win her fight against a conscienceless net cafe. On Thursday, the Guangzhou Daily reported…
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Meet China’s Photoshop Trolls
Photoshop is a great and powerful tool. It can take ordinary pictures and make them spectacular… or make them horrible. In China, there are many people with awesome Photoshop skills, and those who don’t have any ability usually ask people for help online. Sometimes these requests go wrong. Horribly wrong. Basically, this is what’s going…
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Man’s Video Gaming Prompts Wife To Petition For Divorce
A young Chinese man in Sichuan province is in a little hot water with his wife and the courts because of his affinity for video games. The man, Zhang Ping, is being taken to court by his wife for neglecting his household chores in order to play online games, reports News Guangdong.com. 25 year-old Zhang…
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What Chinese People Think About The New Xbox
The original Xbox and Xbox 360 weren’t allowed to be sold in China due to the country’s console ban. With the ban looking to stay in place for the foreseeable future, the availability of the Xbox One as well as other next-generation consoles in China is questionable. Regardless of the availability, Chinese gamers are still…
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Man Mistakenly Beaten For Playing Mobile Games On Bus
Mobile games are great; they allow people to game pretty much everywhere. From gaming during the daily commute to gaming while waiting for the bus, mobile games can enrich people’s daily lives. Sadly, for one man in China, the joys of playing mobile games had lead to an undeserved beating. According to China’s GuangMing Daily,…
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Iron Man 3 To Get China Centric “Prologue”
Despite the luke-warm responses to Iron Man 3‘s special China cut, the movie’s co-production company is looking to make the Chinese portions (most of which are cut from international release) into a short prologue film. Two weeks ago we talked about the additional 4 minutes of footage found in the Chinese version of Iron Man…
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In Game Pop-up Scams Chinese Gamer
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. The victim, surnamed Li, works in the garment industry in a small…
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Chinese Man Jailed For Running For-Profit Private Server
Running a private server can be hard and it can cost a lot of money. In China, one man made a lot of money running a private server and now he’s headed to jail. People’s Dailyreports that the Banan district Court of Chongqing, Sichuan province sentenced a young man to three years in prison, four…
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I Want China’s World of WarCraft Mahjong Set
NetEase, World of WarCraft’s China operator, has just started pre-order sales for a limited edition WoW: Mists of Pandaria Mahjong set. The set looks like two of China’s biggest names in gaming have combined and spit out a baby. According to NetEase’s homepage, there will only be 1000 of these special Mahjong sets available world-wide.…
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Kotaku EastCheck Out China’s ‘New’ “Genuine American-Style Zombie Shooting Game”
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. Developed by Korean publisher Vertigo Games, WoZ has actually been around since 2010 but never released.…
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