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Gamers flock to 24-hour McDonalds

A friend mentioned this to me when I was back in Hong Kong: Young professionals, after overworking themselves far past midnight, gather in McDonalds armed with… PSPs and Nintendo DSs. Even though they are strangers to one another, they will get... ...full story at Virtual China

from Virtual China on Tue, May 13 2008

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