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ACGHK, Hong Kong’s closest equivalent to the San Diego Comic-Con, comes hot on the heels of the book fair every year in late July. Attended by a much younger (and more male) demographic, the “animation, comic & games expo” is, in reality, dominated by toys and comics-related…
This month, South Korean boy band sensation Big Bang arrives in Hong Kong as the newly-minted spokesperson…
Continue readingAnti-shanzhai memes, copycat gamemakers and Korean popstars
In my recent trips to China, I’ve spotted various instances of Angry Birds merch and kids from all over playing the game on their PCs. According to their CEO, they’ve been downloaded (through official channels) 50 million times in China already. It seems that the phenomenon has not gone unnoticed at the head office. From TNW…
Continue readingAngry Birds the next big cartoon character in China?
Pacific Epoch noted in a small item on Tuesday 9/12 that the very popular South Korean Kart Rider 跑跑卡丁车 game hit 700,000 concurrent Chinese users recently. We’ve written about Kart Rider before, mostly to say that it’s a big, big deal in online China and yet remains almost invisible in the English language…
Continue readingKart Rider 跑跑卡丁车 rides to Chinese gaming glory
Why is it that one of China’s “classic” games of the past 4 years is still virtually invisible on the English language web? I Googled it, I Google Blog searched it, I tried to Technorati it but couldn’t get through on this particular Chinese server, I Google News’d it, I Terra Nova’d it, I Pacific Epoch’d it (and I Donews’d it for…
Continue readingMoli Baobei/Crossgate 魔力宝贝 BBS
PostShow points us over to two sites that have great illustrations of childhood games that existed way before the age of computers.
Site with better illustrations / site with better games.
(This post is my interpretation/summary of two ESWN articles entitled Red Rubber Ball & Freedom of Identity, Speech and Assembly on the Internet.)
This all began when someone, somewhere thought that a Japanese company bought some Netease shares. The same certain someone (or some people) then noticed that one of the…
Continue readingMMORPG love for Japan