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Great city profile in this week’s New Yorker by Peter Hessler. The city profiled is Lishui, a third-tier Chinese factory town in Zhejiang Province, with a population of around two hundred and fifty thousand. The city economy ranges from impressionist paintings done for export to gold farmers in the online game World of Warcraft. A few choice quotes (Disclosure: The New Yorker sends me PDFs of their China-related stories): Lishui’s copy-artists view on world art tastes Chen and Hu cou

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Earlier in the month we spied the Radeon HD 5750 at a DX11 event in China, but we were left to speculate over specs and speed. Guesstimating be damned, though, as the 5750 is now on the shelves of etailers everywhere. Let’s take a look at how it stacks up.The first thing that can be noticed is that the 5750’s specifications fall short of the Radeon HD 4870. When translating the paper to testing, the spread still holds true: The 5750 frequently short of the 4870, sometimes by over 20 percent.From

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Chinese online games revenues jumped 6.18 billion yuan ($906m/£576m) during the second quarter, an increase of 39.5 per cent year-on-year, according to data released by research firm Analysys International. Hit the jump for the breakdown. China currently has more people online than any other country in the world, unfortunately it looks unlikely like western devs will be able to take any advantage of it, after the Chinese government banned foreign investment in the country’s online games

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The video gaming sector is grappling with China’s new, stricter interpretation of a ban on the involvement of foreign companies in the sector in China. In particular, the move could force Netease (NTES) to take its version of World of Warcraft offline, according to research firm Wedge MKI . That would also have negative implications for Activision (ATVI) , which licenses the game to Netease. In a research note, Wedge observes that China’s General Administration of Press and Publicat

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We reported last month on the return to China of Activision Blizzard Inc.’s ( NASDAQ: ATVI ) World of Warcraft , and how administrative rights over who regulates what regarding online games have been sorted out . Well, it appears that the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) is having its own interpretation of the government guidelines, Click here to visit NetEase.com’s World of Warcraft website. as they have undertaken a crackdown covering more than 200 ga

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