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Kotaku East
Seven Sure Fire Ways to Get Chinese People to Play Your Game
There are way too many online games in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and getting players to play your game is difficult especially when your company is competing against the likes of Blizzard. So how do Chinese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong companies entice and draw in gamers? The answer according to Taiwanese media is girls.…
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A Chinese Idol in a Movie About Chinese Gaming Adolescence
Zhao Yihuan, best known as the Chinese Dairy Queen girl, has been making the rounds lately to promote her latest movie Qing Chunqi 3 (青春期3 which roughly translated is “Puberty 3”). While the primary focus of her latest media push has been on her movie, Zhao is also using her movie to promote the new…
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Kotaku East
This Car’s Trunk Is Open for Illegal Chinese Business
Street vendors in China are a common sight—even those peddling their wares from the back of their car. These vendors sell everything from small animals to counterfeit handbags any thing that can fit in an automobile trunk. This photo, taken by Darnell Gardner Jr. is of a street vendor in Gulou Beijing selling goods from…
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Kotaku East
Chinese Anti-gaming Expert Turns Out To Be (Surprise!) a Hypocrite
A famous Chinese anti-gaming expert has his foot in his mouth after appearing at a “game tasting” event in Shenzhen last week. Tao Hongkai, a professor studying addiction at Central China Normal University, has been around in China for ages giving seminars and talks about the evils of online gaming. But last week, it seems…
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Kotaku East
Old Gamer Beaten by His Wife and Begs Judge for a Divorce
Last week, a 50-something Chinese man got on his knees in Baishan City in Jilin Province, China. He begged a judge to grant him a divorce from his wife, even though the two recently retook their vows. The man, Li Gang, makes about US$473 a month working, while his wife Wang Li is a home…
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Kotaku East
China’s Stupid Ice Cream Banana Won’t Melt, But I Ate It Anyway
Summer in Beijing is hot, really hot, and it is quickly approaching. For a fat Asian American who grew up in New York City, the summer is a season of pain and moob sweats, and walking around in office clothes does not help. Thankfully a new ice cream sensation has swept over Beijing and much…
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Angry Birds Land Coming to a China Near You
It looks like the creators of Angry Birds, Rovio, isn’t satisfied with only one nest for their avian children. Not only are they planning on building an Angry Birds theme park in Finland, they are working on multiple roosts in China. Reported by the China Daily in Shanghai, Rovio’s Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka says that…
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Kotaku East
Growing Up on Mario and Sonic. Growing Up in China.
Doodling away at his desk, a skinny and unassuming young man, Li Feng, ponders how to draw a political cartoon regarding missile defense shields. Li, 32, is a graphic artist for a media company in Beijing and he attributes his choice of career to his upbringing, an upbringing in China, with video games. “When many…
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Reviews
Sizing Up China’s Home Video Game Console, the CT510
China’s first foray into creating a mainstream video game system is a solid try in the right direction, except the system isn’t a game system, it’s an Online Multimedia Motion-sensing Device. The eedoo CT-510 already exceeded my expectations when I first saw it, it did exactly what it set out to do, entertain while providing…
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How Chinese Browsers Are Aiming for the Big Leagues
Unity Technologies and Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd announced last month of an agreement which will allow over 400 million Chinese Internet users to access Unity3D-powered 3D games through 360 browsers. Qihoo’s 360 browser along with its 360 anti-virus software are immensely popular in China. So popular in fact that according to Baidu.com’s statistics that…
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Kotaku East
Angry Birds Pork Products, How I Wish They Came With Scrambled Eggs
China has some very interesting culinary habits some of which folks from the west will find just outright whacky. One slightly normal but definitely strange habit is the Chinese love for pork products, and in particular the ham sausage (火腿肠). Now Rovio and Chinese pork products producer, JoyCome, have partnered together to bring Angry Birds…
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Kotaku East
Bringing Anime Food to Life
For Chinese who grew up in the 80s and 90s, Japanese anime had a profound impact on their lives. You can walk along any Chinese university and see someone wearing a Rukawa Kaede basketball jersey from the basketball anime Slam Dunk. Walk down to some young hangout areas, and you’ll see Chinese girls wearing Arale-chan…
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Kotaku East
Idiot Calls in Bomb Threat to Imitate Video Game
Bomb threats are never fun; they scare the living daylights out of people and create massive delays at airports. One Chinese gamer, thought it would be fun to imitate the plot of a video game and decided to issue a false bomb threat against Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport. On the evening of April 27, the…
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Kotaku East
Meet China’s Video Game Rumor Monger
As gamers, we all know that Blizzard, known notoriously for their “it’s done when it’s done,” policy, is the master of building game hype. In China, there are so many game companies filling the online space, meaning that marketing and hype has become somewhat problematic. Opting for the Blizzard method, some companies refuse to say…
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Kotaku East
China’s First Official Home Console Is Much Better Than Anticipated
When I first saw the Xbox Kinect, I was a GA (Game Advisor or peon) at GameStop,. I felt a sense of wonder and I thought, “This must be the future”. This morning, when I saw the finally released Eedoo CT510, I felt the same sense of wonderment that I had when I first saw…
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Kotaku East
China’s First Home Console Is Expensive and Elusive. Yet, I Found One.
China’s first home grown console hit China late last month. But the console was incredibly hard to find. This wasn’t because it was flying off shelves. It was because nobody had heard of it. Originally known as the Ebox and the iSec, the now named CT510 from Eedoo felt very much like vaporware. In China,…
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Kotaku East
The Continent of a Boring MMO… Zzzzz…
Chinese and Korean online MMO’s are a dime a dozen, and Tecent and Webzen’s latest MMO, The Continent of the Ninth, definitely feels stale. Despite the gorgeous graphics and a very simple battle system, I wasn’t taken byThe Continent of the Ninth. It is by no means a bad game; it just felt boring to…
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Kotaku East
How Tourists Are Encouraging Chinese Knock-Offs
There are countless markets in China that sell un-branded merchandise that appears to be blatant knock-offs, but there are certain places in every major city in China that sell knock-off and counterfeit goods right in the open. Located in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, these markets are huge tourist traps. They sell…
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Kotaku East
Own Online Property in China? The Chinese Government Will Recognize It!
Starting in May, Chinese netizens will soon be able to own and pass down online property as China launches its first virtual property notarization services. The legality of who owns online property, and what to do with online accounts if the players die or get e-divorced has long been a topic of interest in China.…
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The Decline of the Chinese Gaming Industry. One Dude’s Opinion.
China’s game industry to many, is nothing more than copy and pasting Western and Japanese games. China knows it, the world knows it. A Taiwanese game developer named “Marco” came out and talked about the possible death of the Chinese gaming industry. The following are excerpt explains Marco’s change from Taiwan to the Mainland, and…
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