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Kotaku East
Bringing Anime Food to Life
For Chinese who grew up in the 80s and 90s, Japanese anime had a profound impact on their lives. You can walk along any Chinese university and see someone wearing a Rukawa Kaede basketball jersey from the basketball anime Slam Dunk. Walk down to some young hangout areas, and you’ll see Chinese girls wearing Arale-chan…
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Kotaku East
Idiot Calls in Bomb Threat to Imitate Video Game
Bomb threats are never fun; they scare the living daylights out of people and create massive delays at airports. One Chinese gamer, thought it would be fun to imitate the plot of a video game and decided to issue a false bomb threat against Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport. On the evening of April 27, the…
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Kotaku East
Meet China’s Video Game Rumor Monger
As gamers, we all know that Blizzard, known notoriously for their “it’s done when it’s done,” policy, is the master of building game hype. In China, there are so many game companies filling the online space, meaning that marketing and hype has become somewhat problematic. Opting for the Blizzard method, some companies refuse to say…
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Kotaku East
China’s First Official Home Console Is Much Better Than Anticipated
When I first saw the Xbox Kinect, I was a GA (Game Advisor or peon) at GameStop,. I felt a sense of wonder and I thought, “This must be the future”. This morning, when I saw the finally released Eedoo CT510, I felt the same sense of wonderment that I had when I first saw…
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Kotaku East
China’s First Home Console Is Expensive and Elusive. Yet, I Found One.
China’s first home grown console hit China late last month. But the console was incredibly hard to find. This wasn’t because it was flying off shelves. It was because nobody had heard of it. Originally known as the Ebox and the iSec, the now named CT510 from Eedoo felt very much like vaporware. In China,…
By Eric Jou
