A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
For our coverage of netbars today, we visit iResearch for some statistics.
Our appetizer: there are a decreasing number of netbars.
(green = 10,000s of netbars)
For our main course: the 2nd-tier cities have the most netbars.
(left = # netbars, green = first-tier city, yellow…
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Check out the current issue of The Escapist, which explores Chinese gaming. Includes articles on Chinese piracy, transnational work relationships, and Chinese game design. Great stuff. I especially liked the article by Patrick Dugan on different approaches to cross-cultural textual communication in games. Excerpt:
A design I’m currently developing utilizes the Celtic…
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Google has its “zeitgeist” feature which allows you to take the pulse of most popular search terms for the week, month, or even year; Baidu has a similar feature called “list of hottest Chinese searches” 中文搜索风云榜. Neither are particularly intuitive to me, frankly, since they both divide the search terms into strange categories–e.g., Google’s “spring break” list…
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We’ve recently been receiving a few blog comments that are spam messages from WoW gold farms. Such as this and this. (Funnily enough, neither of these are attached to a post related to WoW.) They are in English and one’s URL even has “US” in its title. But they are actually Chinese; the…
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Soul of the Ultimate Nation (SUN) 奇迹世界, a South Korean “action” massively multiplayer role-playing game developed by Webzen and licensed to leading Chinese game operator The9, was recently voted “Most Anticipated Online Game of 2006” by Chinese gamers. (Link to Chinese article). SUN is currently in closed beta…
Continue readingget ready: Soul of the Ultimate Nation 奇迹世界
EastSouthWestNorth points us to their translation of a BBS post that created the most famous pervert (translated from 变态) on the Internet (according to Tianya Post). The post speaks of:
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China joins the hand helds market, with the Ez Mini:
Specs include:
Games include:
Via Engadget(Chinese) via PostShow.
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The leading Chinese search engine, Baidu, lists top searches of the day just the way Google Zeitgeist does. Link to today’s top keywords. Arrow indicates growth rate, followed by number of searches, and my translations.
1 mp3 ↑ 99199
2 qq ↑ 78692 [QQ is China’s most popular instant messaging platform]
3 电影 ↑ 72689 [movies]…
Continue readingChina’s top keyword searches: hard to find on english language web