Eric Jou

  • Chinese Health Study: Video Games Making Children Dumb

    Chinese Health Study: Video Games Making Children Dumb

    China has released various studies in the past about the adverse effects of video games on the development of young people. Over the weekend the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Wuhan, Hubei province released a report showing that more than half the cities teenagers have less understanding about life and death than primary school…


  • Meet China’s Photoshop Trolls

    Meet China’s Photoshop Trolls

    Photoshop is a great and powerful tool. It can take ordinary pictures and make them spectacular… or make them horrible. In China, there are many people with awesome Photoshop skills, and those who don’t have any ability usually ask people for help online. Sometimes these requests go wrong. Horribly wrong.


  • Man Mistakenly Beaten For Playing Mobile Games On Bus

    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.


  • In Game Pop-up Scam’s Chinese Gamer

    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.