Yisong Han

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NEW: China’s video games market is a $50 billion opportunity in 2025. The total number of gamers will reach 753.7 million in 2029. Our new China Gamer Behavior & Market Insights Report provides key insights on player demographics, behavior and engagement. Read More: 🧵

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March 3rd marks the birthday of George Miller, the legendary filmmaker and actor behind Tarman in Death Stranding 2! 🎉 Happy Birthday to the great George Miller! 🎂 #DeathStranding2

So many bad news I hate this fking world

My article "Sex as Reward in Games" can be found among great company in the recently published Handbook of Sex and Sexuality in Games Studies by Bloomsbury. You can find more details and buy the book here: bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbury-… (if you're interested in reading my article dm me)

I am beyond thrilled to share my latest publication, titled “The visibility of Chinese game localizers on Gcores: Personal branding, networking, business collaboration, and game distribution”, published in @l10njournal 🎮👾✨ Link: l10njournal.net/index.php/home… Chinese game localizers are increasingly active on social media platforms, using them for online sharing and engagement. My study focuses specifically on their social media practices on Gcores 机核 @Gamecores_ (gcores.com), a prominent Chinese media platform. Using a combination of netnography and practice-led research, I draw on my experience as a content creator on Gcores to introduce the process and features of online sharing. Additionally, through content and discourse analysis of the shared materials and audience comments, I delve into the broader implications of these practices. The findings shed light on the interconnection between game localization, the visibility of translators, the game community, and media communication. I hope that my work offers readers fresh insights and innovative perspectives for both research and practice! #L10N #gamelocalization #translation #localization

@AmirZoraqi Thank you so much!! 😊

@YisongHan_ Congratulations, Yisong! Looks like a really interesting read. Thanks for the open access!

✨ My first publication! Open access! doi.org/10.1177/155541… It is an expanded version of the research I presented at DiGRA Australia 2024, and it’s also a part of my PhD work. It focuses on how players explore and express gender through avatar customization.

A huge thank you as well to all the participants who contributed to this research—your perspectives and insights are truly at the heart of this work.

I’m incredibly grateful to my supervisors, Xavier Ho and Jess Berry, for their guidance, support, and encouragement throughout this process. Your insights have been invaluable.

@sevenofquills Yay! 🌟🌟

@YisongHan_ Following!

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The enforcement of Australia’s new law on #LootBoxes that games containing them must be rated at least M (not recommended for under-15s) is an absolute JOKE. Pokémon TCG Pocket (@PokemonTCGP) released on 22 October 2024 discloses loot box presence and was rated just G (nada).

Things haven’t been going smoothly lately - The NVivo software provided by university has expired. So now I have to document my coding manually and then transfer it into NVivo once the issue is resolved. But that’s gonna add a lot of extra work. It's defs the end of the world.🙂

@Kayde_Nuen Yeah it might be not that easy to find the specific names of the writers especially in a mobile game, as they are often remain behind the scenes

@YisongHan_ omg thank you for sharing this!! I had been curious about who is involved in this and tried to find names of the writers for this game but couldn't really find anything (probably also because of language barrier?)

anyway, I usually am in the triple AAA/competitive games loop, aka the games with mostly men as their player bases but playing a game that's so consciously aimed at women was somewhat of an eye-opening experience lol

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The MC customization screen is being fully redone with a lot of new features. Here's the first preview of it! You'll be able to choose any color you want for each layer (even using specific hex codes), give it a name, and save it for future use.