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Kotaku East
Taiwanese Weather Girls Ripped Off By Chinese Weather Girls
Last December, Guangdong Satellite TV Station introduced a change to their regular weather broadcasts. Instead of stuffy meteorologists or on-air reporters reporting the changes in the weather, they hired a group of undergraduate Chinese girls. The group, called Pin-Ko Pie, is made up of nine college girls who have “modeling” experience. These nine girls take…
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Kotaku East
Let’s Check Out China’s Team Fortress 2 Clone, Final Combat
Whenever I visit an internet cafe in China, be it Shanghai, Beijing or wherever, it always surprises me how many of the games available are MMO’s or bad rip-offs of western games. Normally I would scroll past the Chinese fare and move onto something a little more domestic like Call of Duty or Ages of…
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Kotaku East
In China, Hire Your Online Fans and Internet Defenders—Cheap!
I listen to This American Life a lot, and for the longest time at the end of each show Ira Glass would say, “This episode of This American Life is bought to you by Reputation.com.” For long have I pondered what exactly what it is that Reputation.com does. Do they Google-bomb Google or do they…
By Eric Jou
