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Re:Tencent replaces PUBG with a Chinese government-friendly ... by rqs on Thursday May 09, 2019 @03:24AM (#19866094)
Will you laugh if I tell you the game Half-life in China is called literally "Half of Life" (半条命)[0]?

Don't take that name too seriously, I don't think there is anything to it other than to make it sound better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Life_(video_game) (Notice the language selection)

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Re:Tencent replaces PUBG with a Chinese government-friendly ... by ttflee on Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:18AM (#19867545)
I laughed years ago.

It was less popular than Counter-Strike (which was acronymized as CS) in China when I was young. And I didn’t bothered with the translation for years before I realized the correct one.

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