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Kotaku East
Thieves Had No Place To Run, Except for an Internet Cafe
Two young men in Yueqing, Zhejiang Province China, were taken in by police earlier last week for pick-pocketing. The two young men in question, Xiao Pan and Xiao Bing, are only 17 and 14 years-old respectively. Xiao Pan had ran away from home and had been living on the streets for a while, surviving by…
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Kotaku East
Why Come to China? One Foreign Game Developer Responds.
Game development in China is no longer just a domestic thing. Foreign power houses such as EA, Zynga, and Ubisoft have major studios working on big titles in China. However, many of their best console titles won’t reach Chinese players until either the game is released in PC in Chinese or pirated by Chinese hackers.…
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Kotaku East
The Wonderful and Seedy World of Chinese Arcades
Hot, loud, flashy, and incredibly smoky. These are some of the best ways to describe the sensation of walking into an arcade in China. And when walking in during peak hours, the lines to play the latest fighting games usually snake across cabinets. It’s interesting to see that China still has a flourishing arcade industry…
By Eric Jou
