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A game travels overseas, becomes re-interpreted

Mafia is a decently well-known game within role-playing communities. To put it succinctly (see wikipedia for a more elaborate explanation of the game), it’s a game played by a group of people in a living room, where people are secretly assigned... ...full story at Virtual China

from Virtual China on Fri, Jun 06 2008

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06 Jun 07 visit CCTV blamed over soccer star's playing pirated game  »  Shanghai Daily WHEN English Premier soccer star Thierry Henry played a video game on program broadcast on China's Central TV last week, he probably didn't know it was a pirated game -- but many of the viewers did.
26 Sep 08 visit Foreign officers compliment China's latest war game  »  People's Daily More than 110 military representatives from 36 countries had sung high praises for the troop's performance after they observed a war game of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Zhurihe, Inner Mongolia on Thursday. The war game was played at...
18 Dec 08 visit Is the global financial crisis making people work harder in the office?  »  Shanghaiist Tudou cofounder and mastermind behind the Chinese online game site game.com.cn (we wonder how much he paid for that domain name!) Marc van der Chijs seems to think so:This week we were analyzing the traffic figures on our Chinese online game sites...
26 Apr 07 visit Ending online addiction is not virtually impossible  »  Shanghai Daily CHINA'S online game watchdog today defended the effectiveness of technical barriers against online game addictions, because many people doubt whether the system can prevent children from online game addiction.
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