In Real Life

At This Chinese Video Game Bar, You Drink

There are many arcades in China, some are shopping arcades, others are video game arcades. But Arcade, in Shanghai isn’t an arcade in any sense of the word, it is instead a bar.


July 15, 2009

Ubisoft Working On New Heroes Of Might & Magic Game

While there’s a new Might & Magic game on the way for the DS, those looking for something more… substantial will be happy to hear that Ubisoft’s Shanghai studio are working on something called “Heroes of MM”.


February 3, 2008
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Social Responsibility and the Chinese Gaming Scene

Henry Jenkins, an MIT professor who was at the International Games and Learning Forum in Shanghai earlier this month, has some very interesting general and gaming-specific observations on his blog – perhaps most interesting of all were his thoughts on the issue of addiction, social obligations of game companies, the piracy issue and a lot more – his somewhat-lengthy roundup is a great little synopsis of what I imagine were some really fascinating discussions. The connection between the one child policy (and the attendant ‘little emperor’ syndrome) and fears about gaming addiction among Chinese youth is not one I’d really thought of before: