China Stand Up

There is quite a bit of nationalistic pride in China these days with the recent events as well as the upcoming Olympics. My MSN list is filled with: China - from all my Chinese friends.

Zero Punctuation reviews Turok...

Ouch!

Abu Dhabi & Hollywood

Scene Stealer
Oil and Hollywood Don’t Always Mix
By BROOKS BARNES
Published: March 23, 2008
Media companies have signed major deals to bring movie-themed parks to the Middle East, but Hollywood is having a harder time drawing investments designated for movies.

Guitar Hero DS

This controller looks pretty cool.

Forbidden Kingdom

Street Fighter Stuff

Here's a video of SFIV Gameplay:


...and here is a video of some crazy skills in SF3:


...and here's the related article:

Gamble your life away in ZT Online

This article is pretty interesting:

ZT Online (征途) is a popular Chinese-made massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) run by Giant Interactive. Despite offering games that are free to play, its third-quarter earnings beat out competitors Netease and Shanda.

The game is the brainchild of Shi Yuzhu (史玉柱), an entrepreneur who struck it rich marketing a vitamin tonic called Naobaijin (you may recall the TV ads featuring Dashan that were inescapable a few years back). Shi's surveys of gamer habits led him to create a game that was tailored to gamers who had more money than time.

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