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This Is What Happens To Your Discarded iPhone
Have you ever wondered what happens to a discarded iPhone? Does it crackle in the sun? Does it wallow in the electronic filth until its battery leaks and runs? Maybe it just sits there like a dusty brick. Or maybe, just maybe, it breathes life anew in the land of China. As we have posted…
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Flappy Bird Proficiency Required for Game Developer Job in China
Now…I’m not too sure I understand the whole Flappy Bird thing. I haven’t played the game, so while I might be in the dark, for potential employees of one Chinese game company, Flappy Bird knowledge might just be the way into a job. According to China News, an odd online job listing appeared online in…
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Cease And Desist! Toei Animation Looks To Tackle Chinese Bootleggers
Toei Animation, the Japanese animation powerhouse behind some of our (and hopefully your) favourite animations, has started to investigate and send out cease and desist notices to Chinese companies for copyright infringement. Reported by Chinese gaming website Gamelook, Toei has reached out to a few Chinese gaming companies asking them to take down games that…
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China’s Communist Mouthpiece Wants Less Sex in Gaming
Sex sells. It’s a cheap and simple ploy that video game marketers have used for years. The Chinese game industry is no different. In recent years, famous Japanese adult film stars have been tapped to represent and market games to consumers, but now, one of the country’s biggest newspapers has come out against sex in…
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Three Amazing Chinese Indie Games, Created in Just One Weekend
Developers from all over the world took part in the Global Game Jam in late January. Over 4000 games were made in the span of a weekend, with about 15 coming out from China through the game jam location in Shanghai. Let’s take a look at what the Chinese developers came up with. Over 30…
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Kotaku EastMiddle School Flag Team Twirls it to Assassin’s Creed Liberation
Video games often have epic music. The Encounter music from Metal Gear Solid will always be burned into my mind as something that instills urgency. Music from the Assassin’s Creed series is the same, so no wonder that students from Taipei’s Dongshi Middle School used the music for their flag-twirling performance. Dongshi Middle School’s Flag…
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A Brief History of Chinese Game Consoles
China and video games have a long and ridiculous history, but in the age of the internet, it’s a story that’s yet to be completely put together. And so, here at Kotaku, we will try to make sense of the history of consoles in China. Stay awhile, and read? One of the earliest game consoles…
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Kotaku EastDarth Vader, You Can’t Eat Chinese Food with a Mask On
As many of you might already know, Chinese New Year has come and this year, 2014, is the year of the horse. To recognize and greet those who celebrate the event, some companies (and even world leaders) have created video greetings. However, all of those pale in comparison to one that comes from a galaxy…
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Kotaku EastGamers Walk Over a Thousand Miles with Their Online Friends’ Help
The year of the Snake is winding down and the year of the Horse is dawning upon us. In China, this means the beginning of the annual “Spring Festival Rush” known as “Chun Yun,” where millions upon millions of Chinese travel home to celebrate the lunar new year with their families. While the rest of…
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The Death of a Taiwanese Game Shop
Shopkeeper Ms. Wang has run a video games shop in Taipei for well over 10 years. Located in the underground Taipei City Mall, Wang’s shop is one of two mom and pop stores that specialise in selling retro games. Now, after more than a decade, she’s talking about calling it quits and moving on towards…
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Taiwan’s Military Scouts Recruits at Game Expo
The Taipei Game Show, that “other” TGS, is like every other video game show out there. Lots of pretty people, lots of gamers, and games games games galore. However, this year’s Taipei Game Show has something not so normal: within the depths of the game show convention is a recruitment base for Taiwan’s military. Taiwan…
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Naked Buddhas Attack! Attack On Buddha?!
In Attack on Titan, humanity is on the verge of extinction brought upon by giant naked humanoids called Titans. Well in Jinan, in North China’s Shandong province, the cartoon world may be merging with the real world according to recent sightings of giant, naked butthas. Warning, you’re about to see some naked statue butt. In…
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Kotaku EastHow Kickstarter Opened Up Consoles to a Chinese Developer
For game designer Loup Zhou, working on video games had always been a passion that he grew up with one that he couldn’t escape. Originally from Beijing, Zhou, grew up playing video games on PC and console. Zhou says he remembers playing on the original Nintendo Entertainment System. “I brought an original Famicom from a…
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Mall Burns Down as Employee Plays Video Game
Last October, a shopping mall in south Beijing caught on fire due to an electrical malfunction in a McDonald’s. After a few months of investigation, it now appears the fault of the fire lies in the hands of one lazy mall worker who was too busy playing a game on his tablet computer. The People’s…
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Can Huawei’s Android Console Play PS3 Games? Chinese Media Think So
Last week during the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Huawei, Chinese hardware maker and subject of international security concerns, showed off their newest toy — the Huawei TRON. According to the Chinese media, the TRON can supposedly play PS3 games. PS3 games that have been set for the Huawei TRON. The Ouya-esque Android-based…
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Chinese Fans React to Japanese Anime Character’s New Haircut
Chibi Maruko-chan, one of Japan’s longest-running animated shows, has had a slight change recently. The titular character, Maruko-Chan, got a haircut, and Chinese fans are having a field day. That’s right, Chinese fans, in China, are reacting to a Japanese anime character getting a haircut. In the recent-ish 936th episode of Chibi Maruko-Chan, Maruko-Chan changed…
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Crack Down on Chinese Government Corruption… With a Flash Game
The People’s Daily, the de facto mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party, has recently put a flash game on their site. This particular flash game, despite its cartoony nature, depicts a particularly sensitive subject matter in the People’s Republic—fighting government corruption. Ever since the new leader of the Chinese communist party came to power in…
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Hold Your Horses, Don’t Get Excited about Consoles in China…Yet
Earlier this week, China’s State Council sneakily released a document about regulations in the nifty Shanghai Free Trade Zone. Due to this release, media outlets have been calling China’s archaic 13-year ban on video games consoles to be over. I’m here to rain on everyone’s parade. The new official documentreleased on Monday by the Chinese…
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China’s Video Game “Retail” Displays Look Suspect
Last week, photos of last generation video game consoles have appeared online in China. No, these aren’t any regular old photos, the consoles in these photos are in retail display kiosks inside Chinese brick and mortar electronics shop Suning. These photos have spurred up the talk that China’s video game console market will open up…
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Kotaku EastWas Naruto Ripped Off By a Chinese TV Show?
Since relations with Japan have come to a low of late, China has been churning out anti-Japanese television shows, games, and more. Ironically, while hating on all things Japan, one of China’s newest anti-Japanese productions seems to have stolen music from Japan’s own Naruto. That’s right, an anti-Japanese television show with music from Naruto. Go…
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