Eric Jou

These May Just Be China’s “Hottest” Pro-Gamers, Says Chinese Game Site

In some parts of the world, professional gamers garner just as much respect and adoration as the likes of Lionel Messi. In China, some of them are revered online like rock stars, and now Chinese game site SGamer.Com is asking which professional gamer is the most handsome. Let’s a take a gander at some of…

Godzilla Made from Pine Tree Branches Is a Lovely Fire Hazard

In the movies, Godzilla is a creature born from a perversion of nature and created from nuclear waste. Taiwanese graduate student Li Yi-Kai’s version of Godzilla is different. It’s completely made up of natural waste: fallen branches. Li, a landscape architecture graduate student in Taiwan’s Nanhua University rose to prominence after photos of his home…

Report: China Wants a Dominant Computer OS

Windows, Android, Mavericks, iOS, these are just some of the world’s most popular operating systems, and they all have at least one thing in common: They’re all not made in China. Tired of using foreign created software to power their computers, China is looking to promote their own domestically created desktop operating system. As reported…

Like Elsewhere, Chinese Airline Food Doesn’t Look So Great

As someone who travels by plane at least eight times a year, I consume a lot of airplane food. Of the variety plane food I’ve eaten over the years, Chinese airplane food has been probably on average the worst. Well, according to Chinese social networking site Weibo, I’m not the only one who feels this…

China Wants To Make It Easier For People To Publish Games

Publishing games in China has always been an interesting dark art, but now the Chinese government wants to regulate it in the hopes that it might make things simpler. Published in the People’s Daily, the communist party of China’s mouth piece, the General Administration of Press Publication, Film, Radio and Television has come out with…

Two Gamers Are Going To Jail For Stealing $6,405 In Virtual Items

Stealing is bad. Stealing items in online games is also bad, and usually there’s not much that can be done to combat it—so it’s super good news that two Chinese internet thieves have been sentenced to prison terms. According to a report released today, in early April, two men, surnamed Wang and Cai, were each…

Taipei To Fine People Glued To Smartphones While Crossing The Street

Looking to make crossing the street a little safer, Taiwanese legislators have proposed fining pedestrians who cross the street while “distracted” by mobile phones. The proposed law will fine any pedestrian deemed “distracted” about $10 for each infraction! According to Taiwanese media, there are over 14,000,000 mobile internet users in Taiwan, many of whom are…

No, China’s Depressed Youth Do Not Keep Cabbages As Pets

Imaginary pets are cool. I’m not knocking them down. Kids with pet rocks, you keep on trucking. What I’m here to say today is that the latest weird photos coming out China are not a trend. Lonely Chinese youths aren’t walking cabbage pets. It’s unknown how Western media outlets such as the UK’s Metro and…

Xbox One To Drop In China This September

The Xbox One will finally be heading into China later this year. Microsoft’s home console, the first console officially announced for the Chinese market, will launch sometime this September. Microsoft will launch in China with the help of domestic internet TV company BesTV. Last year, Microsoft announced a joint venture with Shanghai based BesTV in…

Fans Angry After US TV Shows Are Pulled From Chinese Sites [UPDATE]

Once a upon a time, people living in China could legally watch some of the most popular American television shows online for free. That was last week. Over the last half decade or so, Chinese online video sharing websites have been slowly but surely bringing in American, British, and Korean television shows over to China…

Man Photoshops Himself Into Girlfriend’s Childhood Photos

Sure, I’ve engaged in a little bit of creeper-like behavior with a few of my former girlfriends in the past, as shocking as that may be—but this is something else. Spotted on China’s Twitter-like microblog, Weibo, and plastered all over China’s various media photo slideshows, is a series of photos of a photographer named Wan,…

Chinese Man Makes $2,400 A Month Selling Smartphone Screen Protectors

Let’s face it, modern smartphones, with their giant glass screens, are in constant danger! Those glorious screens can be easily scuffed. To protect them, people often put on screen protectors—and in China, applying screen protection might actually be a profitable livelihood. Currently trending on China’s Twitter-like microblog Weibo is the story of a young man…

D’aww… Kim Jong-Un Used To Look So Cute

It’s hard to imagine the rotund dictator and supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was ever a cute innocent child, especially after what he did to his uncle last year. But lo-and-behold, North Korean central news agency KCNA recently released a series of photos of the young leader for all to see.…

Chinese Porn Identification Officer is Sickened By Porn

Somewhere in the world, some guy might think being a porn censor is the best job in the world. Sitting around and watching porn all day may look good on paper to some, but according to an actual Chinese government porn watchdog, the job is sickening. Censorship is a big part of what makes China…

The 13 year-old video game console ban was “lifted” late last year with the creation of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. Since then, there have been revisions to the regulations on how the FTZ will be governed. Today, People’s Daily reports that the regulations are now set and game consoles are okay for sale in…

Shaolin Monks Own Smartphones, Are Not Allowed To Play Video Games

The Shaolin Temple, that place you hear about in all those Wu-Tang rap songs, is very much part of the 21st century. But despite the Shaolin monks and their affinity for technology, according to the abbot, video games and television are off limits. Shi Yongxin, the abbot of the Shaolin Temple in China’s Henan province,…

Chinese Movie Poster is Advertising the Wrong Thing

Every year, less than 50 foreign movies are allowed to be shown in theaters in China. Transcendence happens to be one movie that’s allowed in China this year, but looking at its marketing materials, one might think that it’s Johnny Depp shilling something other than a movie. Last Friday, on April 18, the latest science…

Meet China’s Next Cat Celebrity

As much as I love dogs, cats are the ones who rule the internet, and in China it’s no different. Taking China’s largest social network by storm in conjunction with the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, is this Beijing kitty, Piggycat KeLe Ke Le, which just happens to be the same name for…

Taiwanese League of Legends Pro Gets Charged for Insulting The Police

A Taiwanese man was recently charged with obstruction of police business after badmouthing police officers on an online forum. First reported by Taiwan’s CNA News and Apple Daily, Taiwanese celebrity gamer Zhang JiaHang of League of Legends fame was approached by the district court of Taichung Taiwan. Zhang was charged with something along the lines…

Burger King’s Poo Poo Smoothie Sounds Disgusting, Is Delicious

Asia seems to have a fascination with scatalogically-themed things. From the dessert restaurant in Taiwan and Japan (with a location in NYC), to now Burger King China’s latest cold beverage, the PooPoo* Smoothie. Smoothies are great. A blend of ice, various fruits and juices creates a cold, flavorful burst of taste in the mouth with…