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Chinese prisoners were forced into 'gold farming' – building up credits on online games such as World of Warcraft.

As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle goblins and cast spells.

Liu says he was one of scores of prisoners forced to play online games to build up credits that prison guards would then trade for real money. The 54-year-old, a former prison guard who was jailed for three years in 2004 for "illegally petitioning" the central government about corruption in his hometown, reckons the operation was even more lucrative than the physical labour that prisoners were also forced to do...

Retrode 2 is a clever little USB accessory that lets you play your old SNES and Sega Genesis cartridges on your PC, the way they were meant to be played… with a controller – it has ports for both types.At $85, it is a little bit pricey, but if you have a large game collection that you don’t want to let go then it is one sweet piece of equipment. Working retro consoles are only going to get more expensive and harder to source – and this kills two birds with one stone.

Your will need to download an emulator for each system, but those are free and easy to find.

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This short movie was created for the Ubisoft E3 2011 Press Conference to introduce Ghost Recon's trailer. It's a tribute to Syndicate, an old RTS game.

I've never been big on the Metal Gear Solid games myself, but I know it has tons of fans, so it's no surprise that this limited-edition Metal Gear Solid Version of Risk is about to hit store shelves.

BioShock fans, get ready to bust out your wallets so you can cover your desktop with a whole bunch of cool action figures.