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World of Warcraft Super Fan Re-creates Goblin Copter
After all these years, World of Warcraft is still incredibly popular in China, so it’s no surprise that there are some super dedicated fans. Like the gentleman who made this. Posted on the Chinese gaming forum NGA, self-described WoW fan wq241332496 built himself a Goblin gyrocopter. For the unfamiliar, here’s what the copter looks like:…
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LoL Clone Caliber of Spirit Definitely Lacks Spirit
During this year’s World Cyber Arena, an e-sports tournament in Yinchuan, China, another multiplayer online battle arena was added to the list of games that cyber athletes competed in. Rounding out the MOBA genre, Tencent’s “new” Caliber of Spirit is a cheap League of Legends knock-off. Developed by NetDragon, Caliber of Spirit was released late…
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Report: Microsoft Sells 100,000 Xbox Ones in China
The Xbox One, the first official video game console to launch in China in 14 years, has started its console life in the middle kingdom with a bang! According to Chinese news sources, the Xbox One sold over 100,000 units within the first week of sales. According to Chinese video games news site 17173, during…
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World of Warcraft Joins Forces With McDonald’s China
With the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Warlords of Draenor, coming in November, October seems to be a big month for Blizzard in China. The company’s doing everything to drum up hype for the game, from an online cosplay contest to now an offline promotional partnership with fast food giant, McDonald’s. Last week, three McDonald’s…
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Joke World of Warcraft Cosplay Is Funny and Wonderful
The latest World of Warcraft expansion, Warlords of Draenor, hasn’t dropped yet. That hasn’t stopped Chinese gamers from getting excited over it. To help the time go by faster, Sina Weibo’s official WoW account started a cosplay contest, and some of the entries they got were just gold. Gold. On Friday the 26th, the Sina…
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Kotaku EastPeople in China Actually Lined Up for the Xbox One
I’ll be the first to admit it: I didn’t expect it to happen. But now, Microsoft has proven me wrong. The Xbox One is China’s first official video game console in 14 years and, as of today, it is officially on sale. Originally slated for release last Tuesday, the console was delayed for six days.…
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Anime Cat is an Attack on China, Says Journalist
Doraemon, the blue earless robotic cat from the future, super popular in most of Asia, is under attack. Sort of. A Chinese newspaper is positing that the cartoon character is nothing more than a tool for Japan to subvert Chinese culture. Last Friday, the Chengdu Daily News published an editorial about Doraemon. In it, the…
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Microsoft To Delay Xbox One Launch In China
The first mainstream video game console to launch in China in over 13 years has just been delayed. The Xbox One won’t be sold in China starting tomorrow—instead, it’ll be released sometime before the end of 2014. In a statement put out on Microsoft China’s official Sina Blog on Saturday, Microsoft China says that the…
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The Secret of Life Is Video Games, Says 106-Year-Old Man
Retired college professor Xu Fenghuang has seen some of the most chaotic times of Chinese history. Despite all the excitement in his life, Xu’s spending his retired years playing brain games. Sina Games reports that Xu, who was a professor at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, spends parts of his day playing video games.…
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Police To Fight Gambling By Putting ‘Black Boxes’ in Arcade Machines
Gambling is illegal in China, super illegal, which is one of the many reasons Macao is now the gambling capital of the world. In China, gambling is often associated with video game arcades. To circumvent gambling in arcades, Shanghai authorities are now putting “black boxes” inside arcade machines. That’s right. Shanghai Morning Post is reporting…
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Kotaku EastIconic Chinese Cartoon Cat Is Back!
Back in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, before internet streaming and before anime, Chinese youth had a different form of animated hero; they had The Black Cat Detective. And now, he will be reborn in a new mobile game. The top image, published on Sina Games, shows the new “updated” look of the Black Cat…
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Zombie Invasion on Subway Leads To Online Complaining
Public transportation solves many problems in urban environments. Subways make commuting to work a whole lot more convenient, but what happens when you introduce a group of zombies onto mass transit? Well, as a group of 30 zombies found out in Wuhan, China, a little bit of panic and a little bit of rubbernecking. CnHan.com,…
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Report: A Merger Might Cause an Xbox-PlayStation Monopoly in China
Media reports are coming in that Chinese media companies BesTV and Shanghai Oriental Pearl Group are merging. The two companies are respective joint venture partners of Microsoft and Sony for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in China. Sina.com, a major Chinese news portal, published an article early today confirming month-long rumours that the two…
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Kotaku EastXbox One China, Right On Schedule
Chinese media is reporting that Microsoft’s Xbox One console is right on schedule for its September 23 release in the middle kingdom. Shanghai-based Dragon TV reports that the Xbox One has already gone through and was approved by the customs process in Shanghai and is now being packed onto trucks for shipment across the country.…
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Kotaku EastGiant Rabbit Appears, Lays Down On Farmland
Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, the man who brought the world the giant rubber duck and the giant floating hippo, has created another giant creature; a giant rabbit. Earlier this week, Hofman’s newest creation was unveiled in Taoyuan Taiwan: an 82-foot sculpture of a white rabbit as part of the Taoyuan Land Arts Festival. This new…
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How One Gamer Went from “Addict” to Entrepreneur
For 15 years, a young Chinese man was called a video game addict. He was looked down upon because of his hobby. But now, 15 years later, he’s been vindicated. He’s now an manager for a e-sports club in China. IFeng.com brings us the story from the Chongqing Evening Post of 22 year-old Li Yang…
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Cactuar Proposes To Girlfriend
I’m not sure what’s going on. This is probably the third romance related stunt to happen in China in recent weeks. What makes this one special though, is that it involves a “Cactuar” in the middle of Beijing. Tencent News reports that last Thursday in the Shijingshan district of Beijing, a masked man dressed in…
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Man Proposes with 1,001 Hot Dogs
Hot dogs are great! I don’t care what anyone else has to say about them, but I enjoy eating hot dogs. Well, it seems I’m not alone in this world as one young man in China has gotten all frank to propose to his girlfriend. This past Saturday, Chengdu Evening News reported that a 28-year-old…
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Kotaku EastArrested For Marijuana, Jackie Chan’s Son Could Face Execution
Chinese actor and singer Jaycee Chan was arrested for marijuana consumption and possession in Beijing Monday. The son of Jackie Chan, he could face up to three years in prison or, at worst, even execution if convicted. Last night, China Central Television(CCTV) reported that Beijing police had arrested 32-year-old Jaycee Chan, real name Fang Zuming,…
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Smartphone Gamer Dragged Through the Subway
Last week an incident broke out in the Beijing subway system. A young woman got into an altercation with her apparent boyfriend over a mobile phone game, it seems. The end result: she dragged the man onto a subway train. But was this just a PR stunt? Sina Games reports that the incident took place…
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