Microsoft and TikTok - Talks Of Acquisition Continue
Microsoft has confirmed the rumors from a few days ago - the company is negotiating with the Chinese company ByteDance to take over the American branch of TikTok.
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Bart Swiatek
August 3, 2020
Rumor: Microsoft Interested in Buying TikTok
According to unofficial information, following recent comments by US President Donald Trump about the possible ban on TikTok in the United States, Microsoft is in talks with the Chinese company ByteDance to take over the American branch of the company.
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August 1, 2020
Trump Administration May Ban TikTok in the US
President Donald Trump is said to consider banning TikTok in the U.S. because of security concerns.
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Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
July 8, 2020
CS:GO - Weapon Skin Sold for Record Price of $100,000
According to user ohnePixel, a Chinese collector paid 100 thousand dollars for StatTrak M4A4 (Howl) skin for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. This is the most expensive item of its kind in history.
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Bart Swiatek
July 7, 2020
Apple's Chinese Problems; Thousands of Games Without Updates
Apple had to suspend updates for thousands of games from the App Store in China due to the lack of proper license from the Chinese government. What does this mean for iPhone developers?
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Mateusz Popielak
July 2, 2020
Hackers From Anonymous Join the Attack on TikTok
The group known as Anonymous claims that TikTok is a tool used by the Chinese government to spy and contains numerous security gaps.
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Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
July 2, 2020
Halo The Master Chief Collection - Differences in Chinese Version
A comparison of two versions of Halo The Master Chief Collection - the Chinese version and the „general” one, which has been published on most of the world's markets - has appeared on the web. We can see on it that the changes included mainly enemy models and the cut-scene showing Gravemind.
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Agnes Adamus
June 29, 2020
Cyberpunk 2077 Conquers China - Highest Pre-sale Figures in the World
The Chinese are very interested in Cyberpunk 2077 - players from the country are responsible for the largest number of pre-orders of this game in the world. This is despite the fact that CD Projekt RED's game cannot be officially released in China without significant changes in content. The Polish company prepared a full Chinese language version.
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Bart Swiatek
June 29, 2020
YouTube Automatically Censored Phrases Inconvenient for Chinese Government
Some comments that were critical of the Chinese government began to disappear from YouTube. This is all the more surprising because the service is not available in China anyway.
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Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
May 27, 2020
Valve is Testing a Censored Chinese Version of Steam
Valve Software is working on a Chinese version of Steam - the program was announced in 2018 and recently received an alpha version. The application differs in several respects from the variant known from other regions of the world.
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Bart Swiatek
May 25, 2020
Rainbow Six Siege - Ubisoft Sues Google and Apple
Ubisoft is suing Google and Apple for the alleged copyright infringement related to Rainbow Six: Siege. The publisher claims that a Chinese game has appeared in both companies' stores, Google Play and Apple App Store, which is a faithful copy of the popular shooter.
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Damian Gacek
May 17, 2020
Chinese Censorship Reaches Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord
A post published on a Chinese forum suggests that Asian users of Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord may get banned for using nicknames that do not comply with Chinese standards - e.g. referring to local politicians, protests or suggesting a connection between the coronavirus and Wuhan.
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Bart Swiatek
May 4, 2020
Xiaomi Accused of Spying Users
Xiaomi has been accused of violating its users' privacy. MI browsers are said to collect personal data that allow for a user to be identified even in incognito mode.
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Mateusz Popielak
May 4, 2020
New Data Shows Intel's Dominant Position in China
Data from the Chinese benchmark Master Lu shows a picture of the PC market in China. The Chinese are most likely to use Intel processors and graphics cards from Nvidia.
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Bart Swiatek
April 17, 2020
Huawei Aiming to Enter GPU Market?
Huawei is recruiting employees for the new department, whose task will be to build server graphics cards. These may be one of the last elements for China to achieve technological independence.
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April 14, 2020
Animal Crossing New Horizons in Trouble in China
There was a lot of controversy about Animal Crossing: New Horizons in China. The game was supposed to be banned because of virtual protests, but in fact the situation turned out to be different, although the game still has problems with distribution in this country.
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Adrian Werner
April 11, 2020
Industry Expert on Why Plague Inc. was Banned in China
Daniel Ahmad, senior analyst at Niko Partners, gave three reasons why Ndemic Creations' Plague Inc. was removed from distribution in China. The reasons included the lack of a proper license.
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Milosz Szubert
March 17, 2020
TikTok Censors Posts From Ugly and Poor People
TikTok ordered its moderators to hide videos of users who are ugly or poor and censor statements related to the political situation that occur during streams.
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March 17, 2020
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Plague Inc. Removed From Chinese App Store for „Illegal” Content [Updated]
Plague Inc. was removed from the Chinese App Store. The reason for this is „content that is illegal in China as determined by the Cyberspace Administration of China”. For the time being we do not know the exact reasons for such a decision, although it can be assumed that it is related to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic.
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Paul Wozniak
March 2, 2020
The Chinese Play Even More Because of the New Coronavirus
The coronavirus epidemic in China has caused the Chinese to spend their extra free time playing video games with friends. The mobile game Honor of Kings has broken its average activity record per day, and several titles on the Douyu streaming platform are twice as popular as a year ago.
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Paul Wozniak
February 18, 2020