On April 2nd, 2021 with 14 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: In the world's largest gaming market, China, console games play a relatively small part as their revenue has been meagre...
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China,
Games,
Index
On December 18th, 2020 with 64 comments
An award-winning Taiwanese horror game was removed from storefronts by the beleaguered developer CD Projekt Red amid a backlash from Chinese gamers, hours...
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China,
Games,
Index
On August 3rd, 2020 with 60 comments
The Chinese government will soon require video game users to log in with their real names. According to the South China Morning Post, the government is rolling...
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China,
Government,
Privacy,
Games,
Index
On April 10th, 2020 with 41 comments
A Nintendo Switch video game has been pulled off China's grey market e-commerce platforms, Reuters' checks show, after Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong used the...
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Nintendo,
China,
Index
On December 8th, 2019 with 96 comments
The Global Times is a daily tabloid newspaper published "under the auspices" of the Chinese Communist Party's People's Daily, according to Wikipedia.
And...
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China,
Government,
The Media,
Games,
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On November 27th, 2019 with 106 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A master player of the Chinese strategy game Go has decided to retire, due to the rise of artificial...
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AI,
China,
Software,
Games,
Index
On November 6th, 2019 with 36 comments
New anti-addiction guidelines for minors that set out limits for time and money spent on mobile games have been introduced by China's state censor, following...
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China,
Games,
Index
On November 1st, 2019 with 86 comments
Blizzard Entertainment kicked off its annual BlizzCon fan expo today with a direct apology from president J. Allen Brack regarding the explosive Hong Kong...
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Businesses,
China,
Games,
Index
On October 25th, 2019 with 28 comments
The latest Call Of Duty (CoD) game has been released, amid calls to boycott its publisher's products. From a report: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare is the...
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China,
Games,
Index
On October 19th, 2019 with 78 comments
An anonymous reader quotes the Verge:
Blizzard has suspended three college Hearthstone players for six months after they held up a sign that read "Free Hong...
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China,
Games,
Index
On October 12th, 2019 with 78 comments
"Activision Blizzard Inc., facing the threat of a boycott, reduced the punishment it meted out to a tournament player who voiced support for Hong Kong's...
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China,
Games,
Index
On October 10th, 2019 with 210 comments
Following Blizzard's decision to suspend a Hearthstone player for expressing support of protests in Hong Kong during an official tournament broadcast, some...
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China,
Games,
Index
On October 9th, 2019 with 105 comments
Fortnite developer Epic Games said in a statement that it will not ban players or content creators for political speech. From a report: The message comes after...
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China,
Games,
Index
On July 30th, 2019 with 182 comments
If the US-China trade war continues to escalate, consumers could soon find themselves paying more for PlayStations. From a report: As with other electronics...
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PlayStation (Games),
Businesses,
China,
Sony,
United States,
Games,
Index
On June 26th, 2019 with 122 comments
President Donald Trump's plan to increase tariffs on goods produced in China would affect a wide range of consumer goods. One gadget that could see a price...
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Microsoft,
Businesses,
China,
Nintendo,
Sony,
United States,
Games,
Index
On May 8th, 2019 with 53 comments
Tencent has pulled the plug on its wildly popular video game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) in China, a likely victim of government restrictions on...
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China,
Games,
Technology,
Index
On December 11th, 2018 with 183 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: A panel of censors set up to vet mobile video games in China has signaled it will be hard to please. State...
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China,
Censorship,
Software,
Games,
Entertainment,
Index
On December 3rd, 2018 with 138 comments
Valve officially announced this week the arrival of Steam China in Shanghai. But Chinese gamers are telling the PC gaming platform to "get lost!" From a...
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China,
Games,
Index
On November 12th, 2018 with 40 comments
The Chinese government doesn't want children playing games for several hours every day. It said as much in a public notice from August. Now, Tencent is going...
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China,
Games,
Index
On October 24th, 2018 with 45 comments
China's regulators have ended the issuance of game licenses through a stopgap approval process, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the...
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China,
Games,
Index
On August 31st, 2018 with 33 comments
China's regulators plan to curtail the number of online games and discourage play-time, part of a broader effort to tackle device addiction and other ills that...
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China,
Games,
Index
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