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Chinese state media calls gaming ‘spiritual opium,’ slamming stocks

August 4, 2021
Source: nypost.com nypost.com
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More On: gaming Sony boasts 10 million PS5 units sold since November launch Activision CEO says he was ‘tone deaf’ in defiant response to sex-harass suit California sues Activision Blizzard over ‘constant sexual harassment’ Netflix pushes into gaming with new executive hire Chinese state media on Tuesday slammed online games as “spiritual opium,” sending stocks of the country’s largest video game company tumbling. Economic Information Daily — a newspaper affiliated with China’s biggest state news agency, Xinhua — made the provocative comparison in an article in which it said young people in China were addicted to online games and called...
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