Tag archive: Guangzhou

The Beijing News has reported that an unnamed man has dropped dead after a three-day Internet gaming session.   It happened on Saturday in the cityof Guangzhou, in the south of China. The man, said to be around 30 years old, collapsed in an Internet café and was rushed to hospital. According to the newspaper, exhaustion was deemed thelikely cause and "police have ruled out the possibility of suicide.”   There’s… Read More

The machine, which debuted in Japan in early 2000 and the United States in late 2001, will hit Chinese shelves on December 20 with a price tag of 1,988 yuan ($240). That compares to $179 in the United States. “We have to realize the reality, that piracy cannot be controlled 100 percent, not only in China but also in other parts of the world,” Sony China Chairman Hiroshi Shoda told reporters Friday in an upscale Beijing cinema.… Read More

The new platform, called the iQue Player (and dubbed the “Nintendo Compact” elsewhere, although we're not sure where that title came from), will come with a memory card which gamers can use to download games from terminals in specific shops for a fee. The memory card will be tied to a single console, and games cannot be copied between cards, while the terminals themselves are expected to be closed systems provided by… Read More