Um, we're sure you're really interested in new trends within the Chinese gaming industry on display at the 9th China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference (aka Chinajoy) held in Shanghai over the weekend. After all, there's all sorts of exciting developments about the country's still maturing digital entertainment landscape, which has yet to produce the sort of world-beating entertainment properties regularly featured at game conferences like the Tokyo Game Show, or the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) held annually in Los Angeles. However, we have little to say on the subject, and unfortunately can only provide as a consolation prize this modest gallery of women (and perhaps at least one or two males, we really can't say for sure) hired for, uh...um...sorry, we lost our train of thought. We're just going to look at a few more pics to figure out what they were hired for. It'll come to us, we're sure. more ›

Bad news for those of you who were tantalized by our pictures of The China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference (referred to as ChinaJoy) last year. Shanghaii Daily reported today that the government bureaus in charge of the convention decided to place more emphasis on gaming than on cosplay and sexy outfits this year. more ›

ChinaJoy, the annual gaming convention that's supposed to be China's version of E3, has hit Shanghai today! The 8th China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference opened its doors at Shanghai New International Expo Center, where it will stay til Sunday. Like every year, this one was chock full of press conferences, game developers, game seminars and exhibitions - but we know what all you non-nerds were really hoping to see: more ›

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More photos on the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute page, use Flickr and tag your photos “shanghaiist”. Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on our site (and here). more ›

The 7th annual China Digital Entertainment Expo and Conference (referred to as ChinaJoy) is in town this weekend, and it's chock full of game developers, exhibitions, and of course, pretty girls in costumes. more ›