Gaming Madness in China: Attacking the Police, Driving out a Japanese Porn Star, Faking a Kidnapping

Some crazy things happen in the world of Chinese gaming. Rather than giving each its own article, from now on we’ll be trying to do a semi-weekly roundup of the craziest stories so that you can find all the madness in one place. Here’s what went down this week.

Chinese Model Battles Japanese Porn Star Sola Aoi for the Hearts of Chinese Nerds

How do you win the hearts of China’s otaku community? Step 1: Be super hot. Step 2: Pose naked with a giant rubber duck. That’s the approach Chinese model/actress Gong Yuefei took for the photo shoot pictured above, which she said in an interview is part of her campaign to eclipse porn star Sola Aoi in the, ahem, hearts and minds of China’s gaming community. Gong says that as a homegrown “Calabash Baby” she should easily be able to defeat foreign “Ultraman” Sola Aoi.

Unfortunately for Gong, her ploy to play to the hometown crowd seems to be a bit too on the nose, and in the comments on QQ games several readers point out that it was porn videos, not sexy photo shoots, that originally won Sola Aoi the adoration of Chinese gamers. And while Gong’s photo shoot is pretty damn porny (so much so that the link below is probably NSFW), she can’t go so far as to do actual porn because that’s illegal in China.

(via QQ Games)

Gamer Attacks Owner, Police After Being Told He Can’t Live in Internet Cafe

Mr. Wang was on a gaming binge, and after three or four days straight in an internet cafe in Shanghai, taking naps by putting his head on the desk, he apparently figured why not just cut to the chase and set up shop permanently? He left and came back a few hours later with a pillow, comforter, and some daily necessities in hand, intending to become a more permanent fixture in the cafe. The manager, concerned that this would drive away other customers, immediately stopped him and asked him to take his sleep breaks in a local motel rather than on his keyboard.

Wang wasn’t into that idea, and immediately began arguing with the manager. The argument escalated to a shouting match, and then a physical fight as Wang began to hit the manager in the head with his fists. The manager fled to call the police and Wang went back to his game, but when the police arrived, they too suggested that Wang couldn’t live in the internet cafe, starting another argument. Wang refused to cooperate, and when an officer told him that if necessary, they could bring him by force to the local police station for questioning, Wang grabbed the man’s scrotum (seriously, you can’t make this stuff up) and pinched it, causing a minor injury.

Needless to say, the police subdued Wang and brought him back to the station for questioning. Ultimately, a judge decided that due to the injury he had caused during his attack on the police, Wang should be formally arrested. Luckily for Wang, he won’t need to carry around his pillow and comforter anymore — I’m pretty sure the prison will provide that free of charge.

(JusticeNet via QQ Games)

Gamer Fakes Kidnapping to Cover Up Card Overdraft

Earlier this month, Chongqing police were utterly baffled by a kidnapping case they just couldn’t seem to figure out. Over the course of a ten-day kidnapping that apparently involved taking the victim to an ATM and forcing him to withdraw cash, the kidnappers somehow managed to completely avoid appearing in any surveillance camera footage.

Ultimately, it turned out that this was because they actually didn’t exist. 23-year-old gamer Liu — the supposed victim of this kidnapping — had gone on a binge playing an online game called Shen Wu, and after charging 6000 RMB ($952) in the game and withdrawing another 6000 RMB for life expenses, Liu discovered to his horror that he now had an overdraft of nearly $2,000. He didn’t have the money to repay this on his own — he’d been skipping work to play the game — so he knew his only option was to go to his parents. But he also knew they wouldn’t be pleased to learn he’d blown so much on a computer game, so he invented the kidnapping story.

He didn’t expect that his mother would drag him to the police station and force him to report it, but that’s exactly what she did. And Liu’s rather specific story, which implicated a classmate named “Li Hongwei” in the crime and ended with Liu’s daring nighttime escape on May 12, fell apart under the scrutiny of a sustained police investigation. Needless to say, Liu is now in police custody.