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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. “Deep, endless, complex, unyielding games,” is how Shams Jorjani, the company’s chief business development officer, describes Paradox’s 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. “Deep, endless, complex, unyielding games,” is how Shams Jorjani, the company’s chief business development officer, describes Paradox’s 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
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Germany calls on China to allow further investigations into COVID origins
German Health Minister Jens Spahn called on China to make it possible for investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic to continue, saying more information was needed.
Speaking during a visit to the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva on Thursday, Spahn also announced a 260 million euro ($307 million) donation to WHO's ACT-Accelerator programme, which aims to ensure the entire world, including poorer countries, receive coronavirus vaccines and tests.
"I call on China to make it possible for the investigations into the origins of COVID to be continued," he said.
Source: Reuters #Jul15
https://reut.rs/3itCQk3
#Germany #China #Covid19
German Health Minister Jens Spahn called on China to make it possible for investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic to continue, saying more information was needed.
Speaking during a visit to the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva on Thursday, Spahn also announced a 260 million euro ($307 million) donation to WHO's ACT-Accelerator programme, which aims to ensure the entire world, including poorer countries, receive coronavirus vaccines and tests.
"I call on China to make it possible for the investigations into the origins of COVID to be continued," he said.
Source: Reuters #Jul15
https://reut.rs/3itCQk3
#Germany #China #Covid19