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China on a Budget
I’m always amazed when I hear of friends spending $350USD or more per day for hotels in Shanghai. Sure, they’re nice… but if you’re hardly in them, what’s the point. So I’m glad to read the WSJ has an article highlighting the many fine and cheap hotel options available across China. From the article: What…
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Insane in the Brain Game
Merry Christmas from the Insane Children and Spicy Horse! Ever wonder why the Insane Children are insane? Mad looks, twitchy fingers, exposed brains – all symptoms of playing too much DexIQ!
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iPhone Developer “Spicy Pony” Launched
Quick on the heels of news that the iPhone is gaining traction in China, Shanghai-based Spicy Horse gives birth to a mobile division aptly named “Spicy Pony”. Last week the Pony quietly released its first app – the unique brain trainer “DexIQ”. This week it makes official its entry into the iPhone arena with an…
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Chinese Review of DexIQ
DexIQ Challenge Select Screen Read my first review of DexIQ in Chinese this morning. Here’s an excerpt (translated by Google Translate): “DexIQ” is a very innovative game, the iPhone screen split in half, left and right side were a single game, while the right-hand man at the same time the player will need to manipulate…
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Alice as Art
Bird Bookshelf Many years after its release people are still talking about the artistic nature of the original Alice game. Here’s an article discussing the literary merits of the product (alongside a list of other good lit adaptations): Games Radar Top 7 Games Based on Books
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DexIQ – Launched!
Spicy Horse Games has just launched its first iphone app “DexIQ”. Head over to the iPhone App Store now and BUY IT! You can also read more about it on DexIQ.com or take a gander at this informative product description:
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DexIQ – Pre-launch Teaser
DexIQ Poster DexIQ is the cool new iPhone app from Spicy Horse Games. The concept was created by Spicy’s own Ken Wong (Art Director on Alice 2, Grimm, etc). DexIQ is currently going through the submission process with Apple. We hope it will get approved and released by end of year (2009). Once it’s on…
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When China Rules the World
Ancient Chinese Beauty I really enjoyed this article over on LA Times regarding Chinese vs. Western views of the world. The issue here is much deeper than Western-style democracy, a free media or human rights. China is simply not like the West and never will be. There has been an underlying assumption that the process…
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Adrenaline Vault Interview
PRC Flag I’m featured in a podcast interview over at Adrenaline Vault – some details provided over at their site: Episode 56’s guest is American McGee from Spicy Horse. American dropped what he was doing in China to chat about his history in the industry, and provided some interesting insight into where he’s been and…
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The World of Warcraft China Saga (pt. 2)
Greg Pilarowski has written another informative piece on the latest turn in the Blizzard “World of Warcraft” in China saga. From the article: Activision Blizzard’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) great adventure in Chinese bureaucracy appeared to have drawn to a peaceful close in late September with the commercial relaunch of World of Warcraft. On November 2, 2009,…