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How To Join Call of Duty Online
Don’t you hate it when a game that you’re dying for is in private Beta? It sucks being locked out of the fun, even if it is in the name of testing. Well if you’re one the many people who commented that they wanted to try out Call of Duty Online, Kotaku‘s got the guide…
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Kotaku EastTaiwan To Fine Parents of Kids Who Spend Too Much Time on Mobile
I used to think that Taiwan was less archaic and draconian than the Chinese mainland. Turns out I was wrong. Taiwan’s ETTV reportsthat last Friday, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan, think Congress, approved new regulations that would fine parents of children under the age of 18 are using electronic devices for extended periods of times. The heaviest…
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Four Creative (if Bizarre) Games from Global Game Jam Beijing
The Global Game Jam, where thousands upon thousands of gamers join together to create a video game over a weekend, is over, and this year, for the first time ever, the game jam also came to Beijing. China has had development teams participate in the GGJ in the past. Over the last four years, Shanghai…
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Kotaku EastCall of Duty Online is a Big Surprise
Forget everything you saw and experienced in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, forget Jack Mitchell and harken back to the days of Soap, Ghost and Price. Remember those good ol’ days with them boys? Well, you can relive that whole experience again and then some in the China-only Call of Duty: Online That’s right, CoDOL…
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EsportsThe 2014 Hearthstone Championship Trophy Is An Egg
Hearthstone is a game of ups and downs, where anything can happen at the drop of a card. That sentiment is even more true at competition level. This past weekend, China’s Blizzard operator, NetEase, held the quarterfinals to their new Gold League e-sports event, and the HearthStone competition was fierce. Announced and launched last year,…
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Dota 2 Event Prompts Legal Spat Between Streaming Sites
The video gaming live-streaming business is huge right now. Amazon purchased Twitch.TV for $970 million last year. Well, in the land where everything has a Chinese version, China, the Chinese equivalents of Twitch are in a legal war over the Dota 2 Asia Championships. Sina news reports that two of China’s newest and fastest growing…
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Kotaku EastTiny Android Box is Pretty Good for TV, Not So Much for Games
Yesterday in Beijing, Chinese handset maker Xiaomi revealed the Mi Box Mini, an Android TV-like device that can play games. Everyone and their mother (in Tech News) is monitoring Xiaomi, the *fourth largestsmartphone maker in the world behind Samsung, Apple and Lenovo (owners of Motorola). But that doesn’t mean everything they put out is gold.…
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Cute Dota Characters Make for a So-So Game
China seems to have a big thing for Warcraft. World of Warcraft is still going strong, and now one of China’s best mobile games, Dota Legend, is based off the original Defense of the Ancients mod. Released in February 2014, Dota Legend has climbed and at times dominated China’s mobile app charts. According to certain…
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The PS4’s China Launch Might Have Been Delayed due to Region Locking
Like the Xbox One months before it, Sony’s PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita have been delayed in China until further notice. The reasoning behind the delay? Sony needs to resubmit its business plans to the Chinese government. Sony announced last week that the PS4 and PS Vita would not make its scheduled Chinese launch date…
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World Of Warcraft Gets Another Mahjong Set
Last year, to celebrate Mists of Pandaria, NetEase and Blizzard released a World of Warcraft mahjong set. This year, perhaps due to the popularity of the Pandaria set, the companies are releasing a brand new set. The new set appeared on NetEase’s BMall.com, a website dedicated to selling Blizzard paraphernalia, over the Christmas holiday. The…
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Fan-Made StarCraft 2 Diorama Is All Kinds of Cute
It might have taken two years to make, but this StarCraft 2 diorama is just adorable. NetEase posted this series of images earlier today. Taken straight from the StarCraft 2 message boards, NetEase reports that the diorama was the work of StarCraft player “iPhone 4 Dish” and their friends. Made of “soft” clay, the diorama…
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China Does Not Require Region Locked Consoles
Back when the Xbox One was announced for China, one thought came to mind: would it be region locked? When the console was released earlier this year, it was region locked and completely neutered. Now, it turns out, the region locking put into effect by Microsoft might have been self-imposed. Sina games reports that over…
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Man or Woman, This Guy Cosplays Everyone
Cosplay is great. It can be well done, it can be poorly done, it doesn’t matter, so long as it brings joy to both the cosplayer and the viewer. Just take a look at this “coser’s” amazing cosplay! Currently trending on various Chinese gaming news sites and social media is a set of images supposedly…
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Farmville-like App Wants People to Put Their Phones Down
Focus, it’s apparently what old people say young people lack these days. Well in China, a new mobile app seeks to use public humiliation as a means to help its users focus better. Oh, did I mention that this app was also a game? The app, aptly named “Focus (专心)” has been making the rounds…
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Homebuilt Submarine Ready for Dive
For the past two years, 62-year-old Zhang Junlin has been tinkering away at an old warehouse, building a submarine with his friends. Now, fast forward into 2014, Zhang and his crew are about to take their puppy on its inaugural dive. ChinaNews brings us this series of photos of Zhang’s submarine, named Shenlong Number 3.…
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Kotaku EastChina’s Official News Outlet Thinks GTA Was Made in 1968
Chinese Central Television is interesting. It’s worth watching just to guess at what the Chinese government wants to disseminate, but one thing about CCTV that is true is that it’s often error prone. In a recent broadcast about violent video games, CCTV claims that GTA was made in 1968 1968 During a report about the…
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In China, The Xbox One Is Now $80 Cheaper
Microsoft’s Xbox One has had a pretty rough time in China. Despite good early sales, the system is having problems, and now with the looming PlayStation 4, Microsoft and its retail vendors have resorted to dropping the price of the console. According to Sina.com‘s gaming channel, Microsoft has dropped the price of the Xbox One…
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Assassin’s Creed Asia Isn’t Impossible, Says Ubisoft
Assassin’s Creed‘s a franchise that looks like it would be amazing if it visited either China or Japan. While that didn’t happen yet, according to Ubisoft’s worldwide Uplay director, that doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Speaking to a group of Chinese reporters on Thursday during the PlayStation China announcement, Ubisoft’s Stephanie Perotti talked about everything…
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Borderlands Online Lands In China in 2015
Earlier this morning, China time, the fine folks at Shanda Games dropped a bombshell. They’re bringing Borderlands to China. That’s right, they’ve announced Borderlands Online, a made for China action RPG/online shooter. According the press release sent out by Shanda and republished by various Chinese press, Borderlands Online will be both a PC game and…
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Chinese University Limits Students’ Computer Time
Time limits on public computers are normal. Time limits on private computers? Now that’s definitely not the norm. Sina News brings us a story about new personal computing rules at Hangzhou Normal University in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. Basically, the university forces students to install monitoring software that limits their daily computer time to about…
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