No horsing about: how a racehorse sparked a gaming revolution
A new app, inspired by a Japanese thoroughbred, has injected much-needed life into mobile gaming there
13 December 2021 - 20:17
When an ageing racehorse, Makahiki, broke records by winning his first race in five years in Kyoto in early October, Japanese social media was flooded with comments from an unlikely group of racing enthusiasts: gamers...
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