There’s a great big trade war between US president Trump’s administration and China. Trump wants to Make America Great Again by making everything in America more expensive, by shifting manufacturing away from China. There are some unfathomable trade tariffs looming that’ll see goods involving Chinese manufacture even more expensive. While it hasn’t been implemented yet, there’s a very real possibility of a 25% tariff on things like consoles – making them more expensive to make, more expensive to bring into the US and more expensive to sell.

Nope! Instead, what you see here is a sixth scale figure of “The Gunslinger” from LIM Toys. The fact that this toy just so happens to be pretty much identical to the protagonist of the best-selling Rockstar Games sequel to their popular western sandbox, is coincidental at best.

The news is just getting worse for Huawei as more announcements get made on how the proposed US ban on their tech will affect the company.

The dark days may be over for game-starved fans of interactive entertainment in China, after a six-month freeze on new video game arrivals. Well, kind of.

The Chinese government's heavy hand has come down hard on the gaming industry as of late, with the titanic Tencent feeling Beijing's brunt with a crackdown on the local games industry. Now, Tencent is looking to avoid being caught in those crosshairs again, with the implementation of a strict set of rules aimed at streaming across all of its products.

The SouljaGame console was pretty much piracy 101, offering around 3000 games across various platforms from the past. Basically, they were TV game machines with built-in 64-1 in carts, only like totally more of them. A knock-off in body and soul, it wasn’t long before Soulja Boy found himself having to remove the consoles from his storefront as various lawyers swooped in for the legal kill, but that hasn’t stopped the enterprising mastermind behind the Crank It song from attaching his name to another device.

Valve has begun to realise that even with record-breaking numbers of users and games on their side, it can’t just be business as usual for Steam. In a blog post, Valve detailed new features for their system, such as a library update, an entry in the Chinese marketplace and a new events system. Here’s a quick breakdown of what Valve has planned for the future of Steam.

Detailed in Operation: Let’s Get Some O’ That Sweet Sweet Chinese Cash, Ubisoft explained earlier this month how Rainbow Six Siege would be toning down its environments by removing any reference that contained blood, sex or gambling within it, lest the Chinese censors cross their arms and refuse to classify the game for release within the borders of that nation. That mission has been aborted, I repeat abort the mission.