Eric Jou
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Opinion: Lifting China’s Console Ban Won’t Matter
9Thirteen years ago, China banned video game console sales in the country. Now, it seems like the ban is coming to end, and while that is good, the reality of it all is that the lifting of the ban means literally phooey to China, the world and video games.
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Rumour: The Former Face Of Onimusha Is Giving Up Video Games
Asian Superstar actor Takeshi Kaneshiro is supposedly giving up video games for good, according to an article by the Apple Daily News in Taiwan. Kaneshiro, who is best known for his movie roles in the Red Cliff, Fallen Angels, Chungking Express and the House of Flying Daggers, has been doing what many other famous people…
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Man’s Online ‘Girlfriend’ Turns Out To Be Part Of A Pyramid Scheme
In this day and age of technology and the internet, online dating is becoming more and more “normal”. Unfortunately, every now and again online relationships cause problems with one party being untruthful to the other. Well, for one Chinese man, his digital girlfriend turned out to be more than just a scammer.
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China Thinks Cartoons Need Ratings
Chinese television is pretty bad, being mostly propaganda mixed with some weird socially obnoxious reality shows, revisionist historical dramas and terribly butchered movies. But what seems to have drawn the ire of the Chinese State media this time around is the state of animation in China.