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A few errors in some of the articles covering this.

Scott Warner (Ex EA/Ubi) is joining @timistudios, an already existing studio under Tencent (and the most famous one).

TiMi already has an office in LA. The team most recently hired staff there for the Pokémon collab title.
TiMi, which was founded in 2008, has been expanding in NA for a bit now and has been looking to hire talent to set up a permanent international studio beyond China. Also taking a more multi-platform approach.

Scott will be a new studio director working on AAA projects.
In addition to working on hit titles such as Honor of Kings, Call of Duty Mobile and the upcoming Pokémon collaboration title, TiMi studios is also looking to create original IP that has global appeal in order to develop a strong global presence.
Some of the jobs Tencent is hiring for in North America.

Includes TiMi studio (Honor of Kings) and Lightspeed & Quantum Studio (PUBG Mobile)

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McDonalds is hosting a 5G conference in China to unveil its latest product.

It's teasing some type of smart product with slim bezels, the latest tech, facial recognition, high quality sound, camera and 5G.

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Yes, I'm just as confused as you are.
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Ight, time to complain to the authorities for false advertising. wtf this has to do with 5G.
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Your're going to see a lot of reactionary "Animal Crossing banned in China" stories over the next week. So I wrote the thread below to explain the full situation, which still sucks, but is a bit more complicated than what headlines will suggest.
User generated content will always be an issue in China because the government wants to be able to control platforms strictly.

If the govt does not have any control over a platform (or game in this case) and that platform becomes big then it will likely be blocked in some way.
For example. Facebook and Twitch are blocked in China because it is an overseas service that the govt cannot control.

A Chinese version of Minecraft was able to be approved and release because it is controlled by NetEase who can monitor user generated content in game.
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Animal Crossing does not have an official release in China, but fans could still buy an imported version of the game from overseas.

Today, listings of the game were removed from Taobao (It's like ebay) and fans can no longer purchase the game from the site.

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China strictly regulates the video games market and requires that games and consoles must be approved before being officially distributed in the country.

Recently, Tencent worked with Nintendo Switch to get approval for Switch hardware sales which officially launched Dec 2019.
However, the approval process is long, cumbersome and requires content to be inline with China's gaming regulations.

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