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Kabam brings one of China's biggest hits to the West, and you play it on … YouTube?!

Kabam will launch the popular Chinese action-fighting game Blades of Excalibur next month on the web in the U.S., but you can play it now as a demo on YouTube.

You can now play a Flash-based game demo on YouTube, where videos of gameplay are also being hosted. That means that Google’s YouTube has added web-game hosting functionality in addition to its other game promotion services.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.