Eric Jou's posts

You know that scene in the Avengers? That scene where Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) starts talking about the faults…

Guns are a rarity in China. The only places you'd find guns are in military bases, State-run buildings with People's…

I'm a huge fan of Nintendo's strategy RPG series Fire Emblem. In fact, I'm just a fan of well done SRPGs (strategy…

Tantrums involving video games are nothing new, particularly when they involve children losing their gaming…

If you've read any international news regarding China recently, you'll definitely have read about the environmental…

Chinese online games have been able to get away with imitations for a long time because there was no other option.…

Sitting in what's often called a trashy cafe in Beijing's Wudaokou district, a friend of mine asked me a question,…

Ma Hong (a pseudonym) spent at least 10 hours every day over the last 5 years playing the same old MMORPG. She put a…

Chinese massively multiplayer online games are usually nothing to write home about; they have the pretty much the…

Arcades in China have an unfortunate association with gambling parlors, due to the fact that gambling in all forms…

Online games in China are a big business—so much so that every now and then a company will put out lavish rewards to…

Sick and tired of his son playing video games and not listening to him, a father in China decided to take matters…

Toys coming out of China have long had a bad rap. There's often talk of lead paint, dangerous and sometimes…

Lots of people play mobile games in China. The mobile game market has exploded in the last two years into a…

China has infomercials, a heck of a lot of them at that too, covering everything from breast enlargements to helping…

A young man in Fujian province is in deep trouble this week after going on a rampage through a mausoleum looking for…

Last week on Kotaku we talked about China's Pepsi-cooked chicken wing potato chips coming out of China as a weird…

A young man in Xi'an, a city in North Central China's Shaanxi province, anonymously tipped off police about illegal…

No one ever suspected a child when about $1600 went missing from a cellphone shop until after security cameras…

The Taiwanese tech manufacturing giant, Foxconn Electronics, is rumored to be starting up manufacturing plants in…