How Gaming Became the Next Front in the War Over Hong Kong

‘Overwatch’ players have repurposed a Chinese character into a symbol of the protests, as the debate over the city spreads to the video game world

Andrew Leonard
OneZero
Published in
4 min readOct 10, 2019

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Credit: Blizzard

IfIf we needed any more proof that the intersection of meme culture, gaming, capitalism, and politics is a defining element…

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Andrew Leonard
OneZero

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