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One Company Is Dominating Chinese Internet Cafes (Apparently!)
While Chinese Internet cafes are supposedly on the decline, but with a 126 million active players at net cafes across the country it’s easy to see that net cafes are still a major player in the gaming scene of China. Such as it is, it’s always interesting to see what kind of games are being…
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China’s Video Game Industry Pulled In Over $13 Billion. Yes, Billion.
As the year comes to an end, year-end statistics are trickling out from every which way. Over the weekend, the China Game Industry Annual Conference’s China Games Party has released info on how much revenue the Chinese game industry has brought in over the course of 2013. Chinese video game companies pulled in over $13…
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Why China Banned Battlefield 4, Modern Warfare 2, and 40 Other Games
Censorship is a pervasive issue all across the world, but nowhere is it more evident than it is in China. Here, media content falls under extreme scrutiny before it can be released to the public, and video games are no different. China’s Ministry of Culture has, over the years, released public notices denouncing certain games…
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Kotaku EastHong Kong’s Government Explains Money Troubles… With Cartoons
In Hong Kong, government-provided public services are considered pretty good. Supposedly, the social welfare net is also pretty good. Technically being part of China but with a passport that is accepted by many western countries, Hong Kong is overall a pretty good place to live. However, in recent years, the local government’s pockets have been…
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WoW Hacker Group Mastermind Sentenced To Two Years In Chinese Prison
Late last week, in Zhejiang province’s Songyang county court, ten men were sentenced to prison terms of up to two years. These men didn’t commit super heinous crimes, but they did commit a terrible one: they were found guilty of hacking and defrauding over 10,000 World of WarCraft accounts. The sentence hearing and the results…
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Kotaku EastEric’s Top 5 (Chinese) Games of 2013
The year is coming to an end, and lists seem to be the thing to do right now—so I’m jumping on the bandwagon. Unlike the rest of the Kotaku crew, I’m relegated to a part of the world where mainstream games and the like aren’t released. Traditional gaming platforms such as consoles are a gray…
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93-Year-Old Chinese Man Poses Nude For Art
Ninety-three year-old Li is more than meets the eye. Li has worked a myriad of jobs, from making rat poison to collecting garbage, also volunteering for the army. But now, Li’s famous for his latest job: working as a semi-nude model. First appearing on Chinese image board TTmop, Li’s story is an interesting one. Originally…
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Battlefield 4 Hurts China’s Feelings
Electronic Arts’ Battlefield 4 has been out for some time now, but now it seems China’s got a problem with its portrayal in the game. An opinion piece in China’s patriotic military newspaper, Zhongguo Guofangbao, says that games such as BF4 portray China in a bad light and purposely mislead Chinese youth. Now, here at…
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These Are China’s Top Five Home-Grown Cartoons
Modern animation in China has largely been dominated by foreign imports. Anime like Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece are extremely popular. However, China’s own animation industry is slowly getting better; here is a list of some of their best home-grown cartoons. Rainbow Sea [星游记] Released in 2011, Rainbow Sea is a fairly new and popular…
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Chinese CEO: China To Get Xbox One In Late 2014
China, the land where game consoles are currently still in a quasi-banned state, the console wars pretty much haven’t started yet. Gray market imports of both PlayStation 4s and Xbox Ones are slowly trickling in, but it seems that, after all, the scales might tip in Microsoft’s favour. According to an article published by one…
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In China, Online Games Just Keep Getting Better
2013 seems to be a great year for China’s online video game market with the release of some pretty cool online games. Deviating more and more from the standard click and grind RPG format, Chinese game companies have been pumping out interesting and visually appealing games, foreign and domestically-developed alike. One such example is Blade…
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China’s Internet Cafes Are Disappearing. What’s Going On?!
China, the middle kingdom. The Orient. The place where the legality of game consoles are suspect has always been the home of internet cafes. The number of internet cafes, which served as dens to many of China’s netizens, has suddenly gone down over the course of 2011-2012—by as many as 10,000. Now, you may be…
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China’s Underground Dwellers Find Their Homes Cemented Shut
China is a place of extremes. On the streets of Beijing, one can see cars that only ever appear in the New York Auto Show and extremely posh women holding the latest designer bags from Paris. But beneath that splendour is a hidden part of China: a class of residents living below the poverty line.…
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Kotaku EastWhen K-Pop Meets Chinese Traffic Police, Hilarity Ensues
Today, December 2, 12/2, is just a regular day in the world—except for traffic police in China. Today, the numbers correlate with the phone number for Chinese traffic police, 122, and because of that the fine traffic cops of Huizhou city in Guangdong province have released a nifty music video. Set to the infectious Korean…
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Report: Chinese Government To Loosen Grip On Online Games
China’s Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily reports that the two Chinese ministries responsible for monitoring and approving online games will revise their criteria in terms of approving what games get released in China. In a quote within the People’s Daily, which printed the Guangzhou Daily report, Ministry of Culture Cultural and Internet Commerce department head…
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Summon The Gods! It’s Time For Tower Defense
Cartoonish graphics, simple and intuitive game play, free-to-play, Oh My Gods: Tower Defence has it all, and yet even though it’s a grand game that’s 100 percent free, it’s not exactly a perfect ten. The second international release by Chinese publishers Yodo1, the Chinese-developed Greek mythology-themed tower defense OMG:TD is literally what you’d expect when…
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Chinese Store Clerk Gives Zero F**ks About Being Robbed
Anyone who’s ever worked in a convenience store or watched Clerks knows that the job is hard, not very rewarding, and there’s always a chance of running into a robbery scenario. One Chinese convenience store has gotten robbed so much that the store clerk who works there is no longer fazed when she gets robbed.…
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Arcade Tokens Mistaken for Real Chinese Money
Arcade tokens have always been a form of currency. Oftentimes, they come in the form of smaller or lighter coins with cute, arcade-themed decals; but what happens when an arcade token is minted like actual legal tender? For the buses in Shenyang, China, it means unscrupulous passengers getting free public bus rides. Earlier this month…
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Chinese Indie Creates Movember-Inspired Shaving Game
Movember is coming to an end and a shave may be coming up for those that grew their beards in support for men’s health issues. However, for one Chinese independent developer, the shaving has only just begun. Beard Power, a recently released mobile game by Little Big Fun in Beijing, China, is a game where…
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Blizzard’s Hearthstone Might Have Competition in China
Blizzard Entertainment’s upcoming digital trading card game, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, is eagerly awaited by fans all around the world. In China, the game is currently in a semi-open beta. Things aren’t all sunshine and rainbows for Blizzard, however, as there are issues abound and competitors to squash. Late last week, Hearthstone’s Chinese card store…
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