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The Year in Chinese Music: Top Albums of 2025

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2025 in Chinese Gaming: Hits, Flops, and What’s Next

Even without a blockbuster like 2024’s Black Myth: Wukong, China’s gaming market continued to grow robustly in the past year, fueled by exciting new titles and a more stable regulatory environment

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Let the Wind Take You: Inside China’s Latest Sprawling Wuxia World | Review

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Indie Hopes and Creativity at China’s Largest Board Game Convention

Board games have supposedly been played in China for 4,000 years. But are local designers ready to take the industry to new heights?

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We gathered people to play the hottest game of the year. Here’s what they had to say about it.

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Little Tyrants: A Brief History of Chinese Video Game Consoles

A new generation of researchers and archivists reexamines the underappreciated history of China-made video game consoles, challenging long-held notions about the devices remembered dearly by millions of Chinese