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What Chinese People Think About The New Xbox

The original Xbox and Xbox 360 weren’t allowed to for sale in China due to the country’s console ban. With the ban looking to stay in place for the foreseeable future, the availability of the Xbox One as well as other next-generation consoles in China is questionable.


Chinese Newspaper Confuses The Japanese Military With… DeviantArt

A website for Chinese newspaper Global Times recently published photos of a new Japanese military helicopter “design concept”. Too bad it’s not real. It’s not even made by the Japanese military.


Man Mistakenly Beaten For Playing Mobile Games On Bus

Mobile games are great; they allow people to game pretty much everywhere. From gaming during the daily commute to gaming while waiting for the bus, mobile games can enrich people’s daily lives. Sadly, for one man in China the joys of playing mobile games had lead to an undeserved beating.


A Rare Look Inside China’s Porn Censors

Last month, Kotaku posted a job listing for a porn censor in China. Maybe you applied! Maybe you didn’t. But if you were curious as to what kind of people censor porn in China, here’s your chance to have a peek.


Iron Man 3 To Get China Centric “Prologue”

Despite the luke-warm responses to Iron Man 3‘s special China cut, the movie’s co-production company is looking to make the Chinese portions (most of which cut from international release) into a short prologue film.


Chinese Man Jailed For Running For-Profit Private Server

In the Banan district Court of Chongqing, Sichuan province, a young man was sentenced to three years in prison, four years probation and fined $US48805.80 for running a for-profit private server of the massively multi-player online role playing game, The Legend of Mir 2.


In Game Pop-up Scam’s Chinese Gamer

Pop-up ads are annoying; in-game ads are no better, but when in-game ads are pop-up ads, the can create a lot of mischief. Last week a Chinese gamer in Sichuan province was scammed by a pop-up ad within a popular online racing game.


Chinese Game Accused Of Stealing From World Of Tanks

Two Chinese companies are being taken to court by developers Wargaming.net, accused of stealing intellectual property to complete their game Project Tank. Wargaming — who are behind one of the biggest games in the world, World of Tanks — have made the accusation in claiming Project Tanks is “disturbingly similar” to their own title, and have filed suit.


Chinese TV Uses Jon Stewart To Criticise The US, Misses The Point

In many countries, there’s freedom of speech. You can criticise your country’s government and leaders on, for example, television. On China’s state-run TV, you cannot. Enter Jon Stewart.


Chinese Employees Made To Crawl In Public

You are looking at what appears to be a publicity stunt. An awful, humiliating publicity stunt in which company employees in China had to crawl in public.


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