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The World Is Ending, Let’s Get Married!
A relatively young Chinese couple got married earlier this month on the premise that the world was ending and they didn’t want to be alone. Twenty six year-old Xiao Ai was effectively alone for most of his adult life. Graduating college, Xiao Ai began working as an engineer specializing in automation. Due to the nature…
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Chinese Students Recreate Resident Evil, Freak Out Everyone
A group of art students at the Nanjing University of the Arts thought it was a good idea to create a Resident Evil fan film for a student get together. They proceeded to recreate scenes straight out of video games after hours on school property, bringing in dummy body parts, fake blood and weapons. They…
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Nearly Twenty Chinese Bureaucrats Fired for Gaming at Work
Bureaucratic work is understandably boring but it has its perks: a steady income and a stable job. However, nineteen government employees in China’s far west province of Xinjiang have taken their jobs for granted, spending their office hours playing video games. The government employees were caught in late august after unannounced inspections by the local…
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My Uncomfortable Lunch At The Hello Kitty Dreams Restaurant
I like the color pink, and I’m not ashamed to say it. I wear pink shirts, I have a pair of pink boxers and a few pairs of socks that accidentally became pink but nothing could’ve prepared me for my lunch at the Hello Kitty Dreams Restaurant. It was an overload of pink. A few…
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Argument Over Video Game Martial Arts Turned into a Real Fist Fight
The Chinese “Golden Week” is normally a very quiet week. For the many Chinese, it’s a week off work to relax. For others, it’s a vacation nightmare because all the tourist destinations are packed with people. Well during this “Golden Week”, two young men from Deyang, Sichuan province thought it was a good idea to…
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Man Loses Job, Spends Seven Months Living In Net Cafe
29-year-old Jiang Tao has been dwelling inside an internet café in prefectural city of Changde in China’s Hunan province for the last seven months. During that time, Jiang pretty much ate and slept at the café leaving the soft glow of his computer monitor only to clean himself up. While it may seem that Jiang…
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What Protests? Says Foxconn
Foxconn, the assembler of most of our electronic playthings is in the headlines again this week after reports started to appear about a potential strike happening during China’s “Golden Week” holiday last week. Early reports painted a picture of upwards from 3000 to 4000 employees striking at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant located in central China’s Hebei…
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I Want More Sleeping Dogs
I know, I know, I’m late to the party. I finally beat United Front’s amazing Triad story, Sleeping Dogs. Our very own Tina Amini gave the game a glowing review and I’d have to agree; the game is spectacular, however upon completion I got to thinking. Why aren’t there more games like Sleeping Dogs, or…
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The Wonderfully Weird World Of Chinese Oreos
My mother used to tell me not to play with my food, but the rule never applied to Oreos. It’s almost as if the cookie was meant to be played—you take apart the Oreo, lick the creamy center first and then eat the cookie as a whole. The Oreo (and the way to eat it),…
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Hardcore Gamer Lives In Net Cafe For Two Months, Claims It’s Training.
A Chinese man in Wuchang, Hubei Province, China has been living inside an internet cafe for over the past two months. When questioned as to why he was in the cafe, his answer was, “I’m training for gold.” The man, 23-year-old surnamed Wang, has been staying in a net cafe located on the corner of…
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Chinese Cosplayer Attacked for Dressing as, Um, a Chinese Character
Over the last two weeks China an Japan have been at a war of words over who owns the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands. This dispute has created turmoil within China, as Chinese protesters run amok attacking anything that is even remotely related to Japan. Last friday, it appears the protests may have taken a wrong turn as…
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Macau: The Gaming Capital Of The World But With Less Games and More Games
Macau or as the Chinese spell it, Macao, is the gaming capital of the world. Its annual gaming revenue stream is set to be five times that of Las Vegas by the end of this year and it’s expected to continue to grow. However while Macau is the gaming capital or Asia, all it really…
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The Factory That Makes The iPhone 5 Is Under Attack by Its Own Workers [Update]
Foxconn, the company best known for suicidal workers, terrible working conditions, and building anything and everything Apple, had to shut down one its assembly plants today because of a supposed riot that took place late Sunday night. According to a quote from Foxconn via Chinese web portal Sina.com, the plant was closed Monday to allow…
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Lift of Console Ban Rumors Squashed By Ministry Of Culture
Whereas most of the media in the world focusing on China last week was interested in the random disappearance of the new President to be, gamers in China were wondering if the console ban would soon be lifted. However despite all the wishing and praying the Chinese government’s Ministry of Culture came out last week…
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The Ten Biggest Scams In The Chinese Gaming Market
The Chinese gaming market is a very complicated and confusing one. Not only is it chock full of problems, but it is also one that is full of a lot of rumors and scams. Chinese internet portal NetEase has put together a list of 10 of China’s biggest gaming lies. The following are translated excerpts…
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One Tap Philosophy, The Driving Force Behind Coconut Islands
You’ve all seen it, Chinese game studios copying and stealing from Western studios and profiting from the act. While this may seem to be norm, there is a single blade of hope growing out from heaps of fertilizer. Small Chinese indies such as Coconut Island Studios are looking to create something that is their own,…
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Even Chinese Olympic Gold Medalists Have To Visit The Gray Market
Chinese swimming hero, Sun Yang won two gold medals at the recent London Olympics this year. Despite getting a free pair of customized Beats By Dre, Sun seemed to still lack a video game system. The above picture, dated July 31, 2012, is just making the media circles in China right now. It shows Sun…
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Behold The Glory Of Taiwan’s Terrible 1990’s Live-Action Dragon Ball Movie!
Every now and then I would jump over the great firewall of China and check what’s on Facebook. Early this morning I discovered Dragon Ball Z: Saiyan Saga. This fan-made film brought joy to my eyes as I clicked on link after link trying to learn more about the project, however my joy was soon…
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Chinese Gamers Say They Don’t Like Japan But They Like Japan’s Games.
Over the last few weeks tension have been high between China and Japan. The situation over the territorial disputes has led to some brash decisions from all those involved, some of these actions had turned out rather violent. As Kotaku reported, Japanese media was quick to point out some of the ironies of the anti-Japan…
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Heroic Father Makes iPhone Game for His Daughter
To see his four year-old daughter smile and giggle, 31 year-old Nanjing resident Fang Peng decided to create a game for his daughter to play. Realizing that all the games on his tablet and smartphone were games more geared towards adults, Fang aimed to create a game so simple that even a baby would be…
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