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Kotaku East
For the PS Vita, It’s a Long Hard Road Back to China
The Playstation Vita was released last week in the US and while Sony hasn’t released sales numbers for any region other than Japan, it is evident that China’s “gray market” dealers are stocking up on Vita systems, games and accessories. One vendor Kotaku spoke with in Beijing recommended the Vita over the 3DS and suggested…
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Kotaku East
The Three Biggest Gaming Companies You’ve Never Heard Of!
The Big Three, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are names that almost every gamer recognizes. However, in China there are three companies that are just as big as those, and you probably have never heard of them before. Tencent, NetEase, and Shanda, three major Chinese companies that are expanding their reach beyond China. Combined, they capture…
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How One Photographer Conquered Chinese Cosplay
A few weeks ago Kotaku showed you some cosplay photos from photographer Mengjie Luan. Meng, a 29 year-old web editor, has been snapping off pictures of Chinese cosplayers over the last 5 years. Meng sat down with me last week to show off some of his photos and to talk about the Chinese cosplay community.…
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The PS Vita Might Break the Console Ban! (Again!)
Sony it appears has somehow found a way past China’s video game console ban and may just be releasing its latest portable the Playstation Vita in the world’s most populous country. As we have reported before, video game consoles are banned in China and the only place to buy them is the “gray market”. According…
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Nobody Makes Sexy Anime Lamps like China
Long known as the maker of the world’s goods, China has also been an art development powerhouse for the game and animation industries. But hentai cartoons? Video game developers and companies have been using China as a source of cheap labor to do basic game development to art development long before the rise of the…
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The People Who Make Your Game Consoles Still Make Next to Nothing
Taiwanese company Foxconn, the maker of most of the worlds electronics and our favorite gaming consoles, announced that it had raised the wages of junior level factory workers in Shenzhen from 1,800RMB (US$290) to 2,200RMB ($349) a month. The move to raise wages comes at no surprise as Foxconn and many of Apple’s suppliers in…
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Kotaku EastChina is Linsane. It’s Trying To Claim Jeremy Lin.
If you’re a basketball fan, or a New Yorker, you’ve definitely heard about Linsanity. It’s the underdog story of a Chinese American Harvard graduate being undrafted and cut from NBA teams before exploding in, well, “Linsanity”. And for the past two weeks, it has been the talk of the sports world. No one saw Jeremy…
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Move Over Romance, It’s Time for the Killers
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was a Chinese historical fiction novel written in the 14th century, and it wasn’t about romance at all—well not romance as in love. It is a story about the struggles of three kingdoms and their battle for power and dominance over China. The story is full of treachery and…
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Meet China’s New Nerd Goddess
Over the course of the Chinese New Year, a young girl took China’s internet population by storm. Unlike other previous net celebrities, this lady didn’t do it by showing off skin, being outrageous, or destroying public goodwill towards the red cross, instead she did it through cosplay. She became famous because of a series of…
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Boy, Is China’s Illegal Gray Market Blatant
Looking for pc games in China? Not a problem, they’re sold everywhere. Console games and consoles? Not a problem, they’re also sold everywhere, despite the fact that video game consoles are banned in China. The sale of gaming consoles in China falls into the category of the gray market. Despite the connotations of a black…
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My In-Flight WiFi Is Better than Yours!
Back in November 2011, Air China (China’s national airline) launched its in-flight wifi service. Unfortunately it wasn’t a real wifi network, users only connected to the in-flight intranet instead of the real internet. Users could access services such as the in-flight movie and music selection but not social networking sites or instant messenger services. Now,…
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The Taipei Game Show Is Looking To Go International
TGS, no not the Tokyo Game Show, but instead the Taipei Game Show is closing today in Taipei, Taiwan. In its 10th year the Taipei Game Show is looking to attract more visitors by becoming more international. Companies such as Sony Computer Entertainment and Mircrosoft have set up large booths to show off their latest…
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