Chinese Stir-Fry (ft. Searanex)

Get your woks out because we are going to stir up a couple of Chinese stories today. We'll offer that with side dishes of mashed no upgrades and steamed tutorial and end it all with big ol slice of 5G cloud gaming on this episode of Joystick and Mouse. http://www.joystickandmouse.com http://shop.joystickandmouse.com/ https://www.patreon.com/joystickandmouse Our Guest Searanex - https://twitter.com/Searanex Story Links last week we told you about China's new law limiting minors to 3 hours per week of gaming but does that have unintended ramifications. Better yet will it help at all? This article gives another perspective on this new law and what it means for the Chinese gaming industry.  https://www.ft.com/content/ffca0c80-b6b4-473f-9be2-c3a313e94f62 With that take on the China law in mind, should or could the western countries and companies do something similar? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/04/why-the-industry-should-heed-chinas-crackdown-on-video-game-players Well the honeymoon is over for folks that are holding off and getting that PS5 and are still buy triple a titles for their PS4. Sony announced this week that Horizon: Forbidden West will be their last game that gives free upgrades to the new console version.  https://kotaku.com/sony-will-no-longer-offer-free-next-gen-upgrades-for-it-1847621301 Every game starts with them. We've all seen them .. we all hate them. Yes of course I'm talking about game tutorials. Some times they are done well and some times not so much so what do we think of them. Are there any that we remember as being really bad or really good? https://www.wired.com/story/the-case-for-video-game-tutorials/ Full Stream Ahead Indian telco giant Airtel conducted a cloud gaming test last week that may show the future of the technology. https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-cm/airtel-demonstrates-india-s-first-cloud-gaming-experience-on-a-5g-network-121090201005_1.html https://www.livemint.com/