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Young Chinese Surgeon Attributes Medical Success To Long Nights of Counter Strike
Post 80’s generation Chinese (people born on and after 1980) get a lot of flack in China for being a group of entitled children. The reasoning behind this scorn for the post 80’s generation partially has to do with the fact that they were born during a time when China first started economic reforms and…
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Love Don’t Cost A Thing, Well Maybe An iPhone 4
A young boy in Wuhan, Hubei province, was left heartbroken over the weekend when he learned that his feelings for a girl in his class were unrequited. After learning the object of his affections didn’t feel the same, he decided to ask her directly only to be told “xxx bought me an iPhone 4”. After…
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Dude, Your Wife Wants You To Go To Bed!
Recently a forum post showed up on one of China’s most famous World of WarCraft forums and has been making the rounds online. A young female WoW player posted a rant about how she hates her husband’s WoW addiction. Not only did she post about how angry his addiction made her, she also asked gamers…
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Kotaku East
How Iron Man Inspired One Man To Create His Own Armor
In a small two story 76 square meter loft located 30 minutes from the northern edge of Beijing just outside the fifth ring road, 27-year-old Wang Xiao Kang sits at his work desk looking at blueprints. Towering right over the slightly hunched Wang on a bookshelf as he reads his laptop screen is a 7…
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Cloud and Boy Might Seem Familiar, But It’s Still Great Fun
I don’t get to play a lot of Windows Phone games, mostly because I don’t own a Windows Phone and because there aren’t enough of them to warrant buying a Windows Phone. However, during last month’s game developers conference, I got to play a Windows Phone exclusive game developed by a student team from Taiwan.…
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Kotaku East
Let’s Go With Uncle Go, One of China’s Most Interesting Indie Games
Over the last three years, I’ve been attending the Game Developers Conference China (not to be confused with the China Game Developers Conference) and I’ve had the opportunity to sit down and enjoy the creations of many independent developers show casing their work for the Independent Game Festival China. I’ve got around to playing FTL:…
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Non-Gamer Gets Screwed By Game Companies and Banks
Seeking damages and reparations for money he lost, Mr. Shao of Foshan, Guangdong, has filed a lawsuit against two of China’s largest game companies, as well as China’s equivalent of PayPal, and a bank. What exactly is Shao so peeved about, apart from his lost cash? Apparently the money was going into accounts for online…
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Students Immortalize Cafeteria Chefs With Card Game Spoof
Rumor has it that the immensely popular card game Three Kingdoms Killers became popular because of the Communications University of China in Beijing. So it only makes sense now that a mock game, “Three Kingdoms Chef Killers”, is something that students at the University would come up with. The mock game replaces the base characters…
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Internet Cafe Webmaster Steals Internet From Internet Cafe
An internet cafe webmaster in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, was recently arrested for stealing user information, passwords, and money from the very same internet cafe he was working in. The method of his crime was something that seems like something lifted from the 1999 movie Office Space. The internet cafe webmaster, surnamed Zhang,…
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One Game Account, Two Gamers
In China, video game property is starting to become legal property. What that means is, player accounts and virtual assets are starting to become real business and this change in the law is starting to affect some players in a negative way. Earlier this year, Wang, 24, purchased a gaming account from a friend of…
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Portrayed as a Loser, Gamer Steps Out To Confront Bad Reporter
Defense of the Ancients, aka DOTA, champion Wei Shanchuan (卫山川) doesn’t have many regrets regarding his professional gaming career. Why should he? He’s fairly young and he’s won many national tournaments in China. So when he was approached by a reporter for a profile piece on his life as a gamer he was eager to…
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Kotaku East
China’s Board Game Magazines Are Totally Not Just About Board Games
China’s one of the few places in the world where print media is still being consumed by the masses. Part of the reason for that is the State running most (if not all) media. Because China still consumes print, I am able to show off one of China’s more interesting geek-chic publications, China’s Board Games…
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Kotaku East
14 Year-old Swallows Pencil Lead To Escape Internet Addiction Clinic
Sent to an internet addiction rehabilitation center for, well, being addicted to the internet, 14 year-old Chen Wei (a pseudonym) couldn’t take the treatment at the center. So much so that he tried to kill himself to escape. Chen Wei from Wuhan, Hubei province, was “addicted” to online multiplayer games. Not sure what to do…
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Kotaku East
Gamer Plays DOTA Instead of Celebrating Anniversary, Gets Hurt In Process
Anniversaries are often important days, particularly those that involve relationships. One gamer in China’s northeastern city of Changchun chose to play DOTA instead of celebrating his anniversary with his girlfriend. Good things did not happen. On Halloween, 27 year-old Zhao and his 26 year-old girlfriend Xiao Qing were supposed to celebrate their two year anniversary…
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Kotaku East
Exchange Student: I Love You China, But Your Games Suck
An editorial written by a South Korean exchange student about Chinese online games has been circling the Chinese internets as of late. In his article the author talks about his love for China and all things Chinese, but he delves furthest into his disdain of China’s video games and its gaming industry listing his top…
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Kotaku East
China’s Homegrown Console Still Lives!
China’s first officially not really for video games but really for video games console, the CT510 has received a much needed price drop, sort of. The price drop seemed interestingly timed as the Lenovo-backed eedoo, the people behind the CT510, set up shop across China to lure in consumers. Not only did the price drop…
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Kotaku East
The Rise of China’s Board Game Cafes
China is a big place but with its huge population (1.4 billion) mostly gathered in urban environments, space is becoming more of a commodity. Grown from this need for space, “board game cafes” began to spring out in major cities much like internet cafes did. In early 2010 a new trend broke out in China,…
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Kotaku East
Man Allegedly Charges $9,000 in Virtual Money to His Company, Ends Up Arrested
Over the weekend a Chinese Security guard was caught using company phones overnight to telecharge for virtual currency that can be used with video games. He spent about 60,000 RMB of the company’s money. The 23 year-old security guard from Anhui province, nicknamed “Xiao Zhu”, joined the company in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province in February. He…
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Chinese Gamer’s Diet Causes Her To Get Stomach Cancer
Food safety has been a huge concern in China as of late. Ever since the melamine dairy scandal broke in 2008, Chinese people have been on the up and up on food safety, so much so that China has even rejected 6 brands of Korean made instant noodles due to allegations that the noodles have…
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China Upset With Apple Because Siri Can Find Prostitutes
Apple’s artificially intelligent personal assistant software, Siri, has come under fire by Chinese critics recently over concerns that the program could be used to find “distasteful services”. Since Siri’s inception into the Chinese market with iOS 6 in August, Chinese netizens and prudes have complained that Siri has been too functional; now it appears they…
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