![]() The good news is that the rise of digital storefronts allows those who haven’t been part of the game industry until then to make a return, reviving and refreshing their past concepts. A sad fate, but one far too common in the days of modern mobile gaming. At some point, the game was removed from storefronts, and only a Metacritic page, a single review, and a couple of Youtube videos suggest the game even existed. From their Disney Mobile division came a singular game released for the iPhone and iPad, which quickly ended up forgotten. One of these was The Incredible Machine, which for some reason or another, ended up with Disney, of all companies. With Vivendi Games’ own hideous transformation into the unending mass that we currently know as Activision Blizzard, plenty of their back catalog would end up scattered in the shuffle. Incredible Machine, The / The Even More Incredible Machine. ![]() Reported by Pema Ngodup for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Sporadic protests including the scattering of leaflets calling for Tibetan independence have continued in Dza Wonpo since then, with a monk named Tenzin Nyima, also called Tamey, dying in January of injuries sustained from beatings and torture in a Chinese prison after being released in a comatose state.Ĭonsidered a separatist by Chinese leaders, the Dalai Lama fled Tibet into exile in India in the midst of a failed 1959 national uprising against rule by China, which marched into the formerly independent Himalayan country and annexed it by force in 1950.Ĭhinese authorities maintain a tight grip on the region, restricting Tibetans’ political activities and peaceful expression of cultural and religious identity, and subjecting Tibetans to persecution, torture, imprisonment, and extrajudicial killings. ![]() This week’s meeting and raids followed meetings earlier this year in Dza Wonpo in which Tibetans were forced to sign a document pledging not to keep or circulate photos of the Dalai Lama on penalty of criminal prosecution and cut-offs of state aid, according to Tibetan sources.Īuthorities also inspected a local old-age home on the pretext of cleaning the facility and confiscated a number of the banned photos, giving facility residents pictures of China’s president Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders to put up in their place, one source said.Īlready tightly restricted following widespread protests in Tibetan regions in 2008, Dza Wonpo’s local monastery drew increased police attention in 2012 when monks refused to host Chinese national flags on the monastery’s roofs. “Those who were arrested are currently being held at the Sershul county police station,” RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity and citing contacts in the region.Ĭhinese police then called a meeting on Wednesday, three days later, telling local residents aged 18 and above they would penalized for failure to attend, the source said, adding, “The focus of the meeting was to warn people not to keep any pictures of the Dalai Lama or to share any information over their cell phones.”Ī second raid of houses in the township to find banned photos was then launched that same day, the source said. Taken into custody in Sunday’s raid in Dza Wonpo township in the Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture were 19 monks from a local monastery and 40 laypeople whose homes were thoroughly searched by police, a Tibetan living in India told RFA. Police in western China’s Sichuan province arrested about 60 Tibetans found with photos of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama this week, intensifying a campaign against possession of the banned images, Tibetan sources say. ![]()
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