#Newspaper
International news: āCoronavirus Attackā game from Steam
(26 Apr) A few days ago, a game called "Coronavirus Attack" was launched on Steam, the game features a virus that causes people to become selfish zombies. The virus have spread throughout the country. Many carriers have fled, in order to control the outbreak, a lab produced a coronavirus to destroy the zombies.
The Easter eggs in the game include the secret number "198964", "Taiwan is not China", "Free Hong Kong", and other achievements. The game is also priced at 64 yuan, so it attracted many Chinese players to leave negative comments about how the game is humiliating China, insults to Taiwan and Hong Kong citizens and other reviews.
Yesterday, some Chinese players found they are unable to search the game on Steam. At first, they thought their protest finally made Valve Inc take the initiative to take āCoronavirus Attackā off the shelves.
Surprisingly, Steam blocked any Chinese IP from accessing the gameās webpage and netizens outside China can still play.
The Chinese players were infuriated as they think Valve Inc is protecting racist views and they called for resistance.
However, interestingly, a few weeks earlier, Steam marked Taiwan as a country, which caused many Chinese netizens to be dissatisfied and called for a boycott, but it caused another group of players to rebound because they were worried that there would be no games to play in the future, resulting in arguments between the two groups on the Internet.
Source: Facebook (å°ē£ä¹ęäøåéØ°čØ)
https://bit.ly/2W2xIIe
#Game #Steam #CoronavirusAttack #Taiwan #HongKong
International news: āCoronavirus Attackā game from Steam
(26 Apr) A few days ago, a game called "Coronavirus Attack" was launched on Steam, the game features a virus that causes people to become selfish zombies. The virus have spread throughout the country. Many carriers have fled, in order to control the outbreak, a lab produced a coronavirus to destroy the zombies.
The Easter eggs in the game include the secret number "198964", "Taiwan is not China", "Free Hong Kong", and other achievements. The game is also priced at 64 yuan, so it attracted many Chinese players to leave negative comments about how the game is humiliating China, insults to Taiwan and Hong Kong citizens and other reviews.
Yesterday, some Chinese players found they are unable to search the game on Steam. At first, they thought their protest finally made Valve Inc take the initiative to take āCoronavirus Attackā off the shelves.
Surprisingly, Steam blocked any Chinese IP from accessing the gameās webpage and netizens outside China can still play.
The Chinese players were infuriated as they think Valve Inc is protecting racist views and they called for resistance.
However, interestingly, a few weeks earlier, Steam marked Taiwan as a country, which caused many Chinese netizens to be dissatisfied and called for a boycott, but it caused another group of players to rebound because they were worried that there would be no games to play in the future, resulting in arguments between the two groups on the Internet.
Source: Facebook (å°ē£ä¹ęäøåéØ°čØ)
https://bit.ly/2W2xIIe
#Game #Steam #CoronavirusAttack #Taiwan #HongKong
#Newspaper
Chinese version of Paper Mario
Editorās note: Above game news reports: Nowadays, the game language translators in PRC are prohibited by CCP from mentioning relevant words about āHuman Rightā or āFreedom etc.. As a result, the game in Chinese version can only reflect those banned words in another way, I.e. āMario needs a tidy appearance, Mario needs a calm lifeā; instead of correctly translating the actual meaning of āHuman Rightā, āFreedomā etc.
This phenomenon simply reflects a situation that the freedom of speech/press and Human Right are extremely poor in PRC. CPPās prohibition of such translation is one of the ways to control mindset of its people and manipulate the freedom of academic/acquisition of knowledge in the jurisdiction.
Source: Facebook , Plurk
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#PaperMario #Censorship #game #FreedomOfPress #FreedomOfSpeech
Chinese version of Paper Mario
Editorās note: Above game news reports: Nowadays, the game language translators in PRC are prohibited by CCP from mentioning relevant words about āHuman Rightā or āFreedom etc.. As a result, the game in Chinese version can only reflect those banned words in another way, I.e. āMario needs a tidy appearance, Mario needs a calm lifeā; instead of correctly translating the actual meaning of āHuman Rightā, āFreedomā etc.
This phenomenon simply reflects a situation that the freedom of speech/press and Human Right are extremely poor in PRC. CPPās prohibition of such translation is one of the ways to control mindset of its people and manipulate the freedom of academic/acquisition of knowledge in the jurisdiction.
Source: Facebook , Plurk
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
#PaperMario #Censorship #game #FreedomOfPress #FreedomOfSpeech
#NetizenVoice #Game #Censorship
āThe Marvelous Snailā, are you playing games which censor your speech?
Editorās note: This game was developed by a Chinese company Qcplay Limited and published by LTGames Global, a Hong Kong company. LTGames is a sub-company of another Chinese company G-bits Network Technology (Xiamen) Co. Ltd. So the so-called āHong Kong companyā is just a camouflage. Then on its official site we can see the game "äøęč°čæ·å®®" listed, which was developed by the same team who developed "The Marvelous Snail".
ā¬ļøā¬ļøā¬ļø Continue reading
āThe Marvelous Snailā, are you playing games which censor your speech?
Editorās note: This game was developed by a Chinese company Qcplay Limited and published by LTGames Global, a Hong Kong company. LTGames is a sub-company of another Chinese company G-bits Network Technology (Xiamen) Co. Ltd. So the so-called āHong Kong companyā is just a camouflage. Then on its official site we can see the game "äøęč°čæ·å®®" listed, which was developed by the same team who developed "The Marvelous Snail".
ā¬ļøā¬ļøā¬ļø Continue reading
ā¬ļøā¬ļøā¬ļø Continue reading
#NetizenVoice
āThe Marvelous Snailā, are you playing games which censor your speech?
(24 Jul) Recently a new game āThe Marvelous Snailā was launched on Taiwan region Google Play and App Store. As soon as it was announced, along with advertorials from internet figures and tremendous advertisements, the game has secured the top position in both online stores.
//Chat restriction is no new element in pro-Beijing games... How much can you compromise against freedom?
//how do you know there would not be a day the in self-censorship in game would censor words the CCP doesnāt want people to mention and display words like āsuicideā, āmaking moneyā in Putonghua Romanization like Tiktok?
//Anyway, I canāt stand a game exercising censorships in a so-called Taiwan server like how it did in China. I have deleted it.
//a player in āåäæ ę ē·£åā got chat restricted for 10 years for saying āOkay, China Wuhan Pneumoniaā.
//Freedom of speech is something would gradually disappear if you donāt defend it.
Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/The-Marvelous-Snail-are-you-playing-games-which-censor-your-speech-07-26
Source: Yanwu's Facebook
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
Further reading:
International news: āCoronavirus Attackā game from Steam
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19960
Self-composed song contains hidden Morse code āLiberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Timesā, mobile game Cytusā Hong Kong music director resigns as Chinese netizens threaten to boycott
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23644
Animal Crossing taken down from TaoBao without any heads up
Joshua Wong claims he will keeping playing despite receiving death threats
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19466
#Game #TheMarvelousSnail #CCP #SelfCensorship #Kowtow #Taiwan #FreedomOfSpeech #Censorship #WuhanPneumonia #HongKongProtest
#NetizenVoice
āThe Marvelous Snailā, are you playing games which censor your speech?
(24 Jul) Recently a new game āThe Marvelous Snailā was launched on Taiwan region Google Play and App Store. As soon as it was announced, along with advertorials from internet figures and tremendous advertisements, the game has secured the top position in both online stores.
//Chat restriction is no new element in pro-Beijing games... How much can you compromise against freedom?
//how do you know there would not be a day the in self-censorship in game would censor words the CCP doesnāt want people to mention and display words like āsuicideā, āmaking moneyā in Putonghua Romanization like Tiktok?
//Anyway, I canāt stand a game exercising censorships in a so-called Taiwan server like how it did in China. I have deleted it.
//a player in āåäæ ę ē·£åā got chat restricted for 10 years for saying āOkay, China Wuhan Pneumoniaā.
//Freedom of speech is something would gradually disappear if you donāt defend it.
Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/The-Marvelous-Snail-are-you-playing-games-which-censor-your-speech-07-26
Source: Yanwu's Facebook
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo
Further reading:
International news: āCoronavirus Attackā game from Steam
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19960
Self-composed song contains hidden Morse code āLiberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Timesā, mobile game Cytusā Hong Kong music director resigns as Chinese netizens threaten to boycott
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23644
Animal Crossing taken down from TaoBao without any heads up
Joshua Wong claims he will keeping playing despite receiving death threats
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19466
#Game #TheMarvelousSnail #CCP #SelfCensorship #Kowtow #Taiwan #FreedomOfSpeech #Censorship #WuhanPneumonia #HongKongProtest
Telegraph
āThe Marvelous Snailā, are you playing games which censor your speech?
#NetizenVoice (24 Jul) Recently a new game āThe Marvelous Snailā was launched on Taiwan region Google Play and App Store. As soon as it was announced, along with advertorials from internet figures and tremendous advertisements, the game has secured the topā¦
#Game #BruceLee
#StreetFighterII in #NintendoSwitch replaces the flag of Hong Kong game character with China's Emblem
Source: Stand News #Feb19
Read more
ā¬ļøā¬ļøā¬ļø
#StreetFighterII in #NintendoSwitch replaces the flag of Hong Kong game character with China's Emblem
Source: Stand News #Feb19
Read more
ā¬ļøā¬ļøā¬ļø
#Game #BruceLee
#StreetFighterII in #NintendoSwitch replaces the flag of Hong Kong game character with China's Emblem
#Capcom has recently released a video game Capcom Arcade Stadium in #NintendoSwitch, which contains 32 classic games such as Street Fighter II: Turbo.
A Japanese user recently noticed that the flag of a Hong Kong game character, Fei Long, was changed to the flag of the People's Republic of China and shared the photo on Twitter.
The photo has caused some heated debates, and some criticised that the company's political correctness has gone too far.
"Fei Long" was a game character in Street Fighter II in reference to Bruce Lee. In the game, although his representing country was shown as Hong Kong, the national flag beside it was the flag of China.
Some users pointed out that it was not the first time Capcom has replaced Hong Kongās flag in its games. Since 2018, Fei Longās representing country flag in Street Fighter II in arcade game version has been replaced from the British Hong Kong flag (Dragon and Lion flag) to the regional flag of Hong Kong in order to āfollow the trendā.
Source: Stand News #Feb19
https://www.thestandnews.com/culture/switch-%E7%89%88-%E8%A1%97%E9%9C%B82-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B%E8%A2%AB%E6%94%B9%E9%85%8D%E4%BA%94%E6%98%9F%E6%97%97/
#NationalFlag
#StreetFighterII in #NintendoSwitch replaces the flag of Hong Kong game character with China's Emblem
#Capcom has recently released a video game Capcom Arcade Stadium in #NintendoSwitch, which contains 32 classic games such as Street Fighter II: Turbo.
A Japanese user recently noticed that the flag of a Hong Kong game character, Fei Long, was changed to the flag of the People's Republic of China and shared the photo on Twitter.
The photo has caused some heated debates, and some criticised that the company's political correctness has gone too far.
"Fei Long" was a game character in Street Fighter II in reference to Bruce Lee. In the game, although his representing country was shown as Hong Kong, the national flag beside it was the flag of China.
Some users pointed out that it was not the first time Capcom has replaced Hong Kongās flag in its games. Since 2018, Fei Longās representing country flag in Street Fighter II in arcade game version has been replaced from the British Hong Kong flag (Dragon and Lion flag) to the regional flag of Hong Kong in order to āfollow the trendā.
Source: Stand News #Feb19
https://www.thestandnews.com/culture/switch-%E7%89%88-%E8%A1%97%E9%9C%B82-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B%E8%A2%AB%E6%94%B9%E9%85%8D%E4%BA%94%E6%98%9F%E6%97%97/
#NationalFlag
No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world
In the years after it was founded in 1999, the Swedish video game company Paradox Interactive quietly built a reputation for developing some of the best, and most hardcore, strategy games on the market. āDeep, endless, complex, unyielding games,ā is how Shams Jorjani, the companyās chief business development officer, describes Paradoxās offerings. Most of its biggest hits, such as the middle ages-themed Crusader Kings, or Sengoku, in which you play as a 16th-century Japanese noble, were loosely based on history.
Source: The Guardian #Jul15
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/15/china-video-game-censorship-tencent-netease-blizzard
#Cults #Politics #Ghouls #China #Game
In the years after it was founded in 1999, the Swedish video game company Paradox Interactive quietly built a reputation for developing some of the best, and most hardcore, strategy games on the market. āDeep, endless, complex, unyielding games,ā is how Shams Jorjani, the companyās chief business development officer, describes Paradoxās offerings. Most of its biggest hits, such as the middle ages-themed Crusader Kings, or Sengoku, in which you play as a 16th-century Japanese noble, were loosely based on history.
Source: The Guardian #Jul15
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/15/china-video-game-censorship-tencent-netease-blizzard
#Cults #Politics #Ghouls #China #Game