Less than a week ago, the developers of P.T.-inspired horror game Devotion were riding high. Their game’s February…
Violent games keep getting banned in China. Last month, as r/gaming pointed out, China banned nine games and forced…
It’s late December. Let’s take a moment and look back at some of the Kotaku East stories from over the past year.
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Sure, Iron Man 3 was filmed partly in China, but that’s still a Marvel movie and an American superhero. Tomorrow,…
Japan’s Fate/Grand Order character art was first censored in China in August of last year. Now, the game’s…
In order to prepare Rainbow 6 Siege for “expansion into Asian territories,” Ubisoft announced yesterday that it will…
Starting next week in China, players of Tencent’s popular mobile game Honour of Kings will have their info submitted to a police database to ferret out underage players and limit their playtime.
Spotted in China, this isn’t a crane game, but a money-blowing one. An electric fan is affixed where the claw should be and players try to blow bills into the slot. Read more
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Here is the latest game footage from Lost Soul Aside, the indie game that was inspired by Final Fantasy XV. This trailer was recently shown during the Sony presentation at China Joy, which is the country’s biggest game expo.
China’s OMG (Oh My God) dominates not only dominates League of Legends and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but also…
An advertisement for English language school Menten in China states that people have time to play video games, but…
The following photos were taken at an anime and game event in Beijing, China. The cosplaying gent is dressed as gay…
Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno is in Shanghai, where he’s checking out the world’s largest Unit-01 statue.
Earlier this year, 120 people were arrested in China for alleged connection in either designing or making PlayerUnkno…
Valve just announced Steam China. The goal is to introduce more games to China, though how that will work isn’t clear yet. In recent times, Steam has added some popular Chinese games. However, Chinese players have become Steam users’ go-to object of borderline-xenophobic rage thanks to cheating issues.
The Japanese light novel series New Life+: Young Again in Another World was slated to get a TV anime adaptation this…
Nijigenka (二次元化) is Japanese for “2D-ification.” It’s a term for when artists take photos of people and turn them…
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This weekend, a VR-only theme park opened in Guizhou, China. One of the park’s centerpieces, however, is not virtual…