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UncategorizedTen Things I Learned From the Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend
Of the more than a dozen hours I spent playing in the Guild Wars 2 press beta event this past weekend, seven involved actively battling enemies, three and a half were spent exploring, and a half hour was dedicated to creating my four different characters. The final hour involved trying to throw myself into a…
By Mike Fahey - Kotaku East
Nobody Makes Sexy Anime Lamps like China
Long known as the maker of the world’s goods, China has also been an art development powerhouse for the game and animation industries. But hentai cartoons? Video game developers and companies have been using China as a source of cheap labor to do basic game development to art development long before the rise of the…
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- Kotaku East
The People Who Make Your Game Consoles Still Make Next to Nothing
Taiwanese company Foxconn, the maker of most of the worlds electronics and our favorite gaming consoles, announced that it had raised the wages of junior level factory workers in Shenzhen from 1,800RMB (US$290) to 2,200RMB ($349) a month. The move to raise wages comes at no surprise as Foxconn and many of Apple’s suppliers in…
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Kotaku EastChina is Linsane. It’s Trying To Claim Jeremy Lin.
If you’re a basketball fan, or a New Yorker, you’ve definitely heard about Linsanity. It’s the underdog story of a Chinese American Harvard graduate being undrafted and cut from NBA teams before exploding in, well, “Linsanity”. And for the past two weeks, it has been the talk of the sports world. No one saw Jeremy…
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