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CCTV’s Annual Pop Culture Video Contains More than 10 Game Easter Eggs
833 View2022-12-23
On December 19th, Chinese state media CCTV released a creative art video about the Song Dynasty masterpiece Along the River During the Qingming Festival on Bilibili. The video shows 132 cultural easter eggs in a contemporary way and includes pop culture symbols from the past 10 years.
Among them, there are many video game and anime IPs, including Genshin Impact, Pokémon, Onmyoji, Eastward, etc. See how many you can recognize.
Genshin Impact
The first game easter egg is Keqing from HoYoverse’s Genshin Impact. She was depicted selling ngau zap (beef offal) in the picture, which references a meme related to her Chinese voiceover. The Electro character’s powerful skill Starward Sword sounds like the dish instead when she speaks her line fast.
Psyduck and Travel Frog
This year, before Children’s Day, KFC China introduced three brand new Pokémon toys for kids’ meals to celebrate the festival. Surprisingly, Psyduck became a viral sensation on social media during that time.
Travel Frog is a free-to-play mobile game developed by Hit-Point Co., Ltd. that operates in Japan, released in November 2017. In the same year, Chinese developer Lingxi Games won the IP authorization for the game and launched a version of the game in China.
Onmyoji and Honor of Kings
Onmyoji is a turn-based RPG mobile game developed by NetEase Games. It was launched in June 2016. The MOBA Game Honor of Kings was developed by TiMi Studio Group and published by Tencent Games. Zhuang Zhou, the champion shown in the picture on the right, is a support tank hero in Honor of Kings.
These easter eggs also include Eastward and F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch, which are shown in the picture above.
There was also an image showing the League of Legends team EDG winning the World Championship in 2021 and so on.
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Eggy Party Went Viral During the Holiday, Especially Among Young Women and Girls
Weilin Li -- Superpixel
Eggy Party, a mobile party game developed by NetEase Games, became surprisingly trendy during the Year of the Rabbit holiday, as the game topped the App Store list for free games and ranked second place on one of the TapTap lists.
The biggest feature of this new trend is that this battle royale obstacle course game, with a gameplay similar to Fall Guys, is especially well-received by young female Chinese players, from primary school students to college graduates.
Superpixel4K2023-02-08
Honor of Kings Held Heroes LIVE Event at Universal Studios Beijing
Recently, Honor of Kings, the world-renowned MOBA mobile game launched by Tencent, has cooperated with Universal Studios Beijing to hold offline themed events.
According to the staff of Universal Studios, the event took the Changan area in Honor of Kings as the background and selected the 11 most popular playable characters from the game to perform on the stage. The official guidebook also stated that there would be an Honor of Kings-themed parade in the park where visitors could meet and interact with their favorite heroes and take photos. The souvenir store in the Changan area also has Honor of Kings-themed vital chains, anime cutouts, and badges for sale.
Superpixel2K2022-04-11
【ChinaJoy 2020】 FIRST LOOK: TapTap Exclusive & Most Anticipated Games
The China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference(ChinaJoy) has come again. This year, ChinaJoy brings a bunch of new games and some will be revealed later, they are promising and anticipated. Without further ado, let's get a fast trip to briefly know them.
◙ [b]Devil May Cry Mobile[/b]
Game Tag: Racing, Fast-paced, Multiplayer
A beta gameplay video has been posted. With the badass characters, dazzling action design, and gothic visuals, it still is a DMC.
TapTap Editor2K2020-08-03
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