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Is China’s LARP and mystery room crackdown beginning?

January 16, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

China regulates online games very firmly. It would make sense for them to start controlling offline games, especially when businesses and commercial interests are involved.

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: china, larp

The Chinese government just burned every copy of this Cthulhu Kickstarter

March 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The Sassoon Files is a Cthulhu mythos set of tabletop RPG scenarios and campaign world set in 1920s Shanghai.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, china, cthulhu, Sons of Singularity, time travel, Trail of Cthulhu

Wear your scary robo-armour to work – see what happens next!

June 13, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

All hail to Chinese telecom worker Wang Kang. Why? Not only does he have a rhyming name – he so inspired by the 2008 Iron Man movie that he built his own scary looking armour suit. Then he wore it work. This is what he told press; No colleagues knew my mission, and some of […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: china, iron man

China bans time travel

April 15, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

There will be no Doctor Who on Chinese TV. There won’t be any Star Trek either. Why not? The Chinese govenment has banned any and all time travel in TV or in movies. There. Of course. That’s your answer. If you’re wondering why the Chinese have done this then you need to consider the importance […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: china, doctor who, star trek, time travel

China bans foreign money for game development

October 13, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

China has banned foreign firms from investing in the domestic games industry. The authorities hope this is a way to curtail Western attempts to skirt around strict censorship laws. The ruling has come from the General Administration of Press and Publication and the National Copyright Administration and is so strict that foreign firms may not […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: china, legal

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