WTF: Nintendo Wii vs. Vii Rush

I know this is quite old, but I could only find photos of this before - now at least we've got some info regarding this Chinese-brand Wii rip-off. More after the jump.


And just remember this is all translated from the Chinese Engadget via Google Translate:



Let us close this feeling under VII products: power rods vii, of the 2.4 g shock wireless controller. 360°感应玩家动作。 360 ° induction player moves. 定位是5岁+的儿童及其家庭，目前售价为1,280元（奇怪，好像之前是说不到1000RMB），虽然游戏扩展性不佳，但显然是为了蚕食WII没进入中国留下的市场空白，这款产品大约在10月底11月初上市。 Positioning is the age of 5 + children and their families, currently sells for 1,280 yuan (strange, as if that is less than before 1000 RMB), although the poor scalability of the game, but apparently not to erode WII entered the Chinese market left blank, this product around the end of October early November listing.




我们只能说，任天堂可能得重新考虑是否进入中国了，XBOX是不是也要紧张下，哪天跑出个中国版，别怪我们没提醒哦。 We can only say, Nintendo may have to reconsider whether to enter China, Xbox is also tense, which day outside the Chinese version, we do not blame remind oh. 瘾科技想听听大家对这款产品的更多观点。 Addiction Technology want to listen to your more of this product perspective.



Engadget China has more here (source)

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PS3: Improve Your PS3 Framerates

Found this little tidbit for all you PS3 owners:

Setting the BD/DVD upscaler set off, HDMI 24fps off, HDMI audio set on bitstream, PS2 upscaler/smoother set off.

Disable system display notify/ mediaserver off / all other automatic setting set to off / internet disable if not multiplaying and other setting etc will all help improve framerates...

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TECH: McDonalds Offers Up McWifi UK-Wide

In a disgustingly underhanded move sure to please chubbsters and shareholders across Her Majesty's Great Island, McDonalds has announced plans to introduce free Wi-Fi access in its 1,200 outlets across the UK.

McDonald’s Restaurants chief executive Steve Easterbrook said: “The launch of free Wi-Fi in our restaurants in the UK is an exciting move that we believe will further enhance our customers’ experience when they visit us.”

Yay, now we have even more reason to justify that extra Big Mac or two (and plus, we get to order fries now instead of all those damned 'Grande' Lattes when we want free Wi-Fi access. Suck on that Starbucks!)



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VIDEO: So Called - You Are Never Alone

Weird. Check it.




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WTF: The Weirdest Japanese Products

I don't think I even need to write captions for these as they speak for themselves. More here if you're still interested.

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VIDEO: Prankee Yankee (Prank Wars 6)

The latest from the Prank Wars series, from the guys over at College Humor:



How bad was that? But you know you want to watch the rest of them, so here they are.

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Xbox 360: Halo 3 Asian Version English Language Fuck-up?

Having tried my studious best to avoid the marketing behemoth that has become Halo 3 meant I totally missed out on this one nearly a week ago; apparently the Halo 3 version as released in Asia (Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan etc) came missing one crucial element: an English language audio track, meaning if you were one of the several hundred thousand foreigners living anywhere in Asia and wanting to play Halo 3, you'd have been expected to do by reading the English subtitles.

Not only that, but the snafu extended itself by way of proclaiming on the Halo 3 box that the languages supported were either Chinese / English or Japanese / English, which usually means the spoken language in-game, but in this case - only referred to the English subtitles.

Word is that Microsoft is reportedly telling Halo 3 buyers they "should have read the small print" on the back of the box. Way to go, Bill.

UPDATE: Stores across Hong Kong are now selling the Singapore version - which comes with both the English & Mandarin language audio tracks. Just make sure the copy you get says English Version in the bottom left on the front cover, and Made in Singapore on the bottom right of the back cover...

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TECH: Amazon Opens Its DRM-Free Online Music Store

Amazon has fired the first major shot across Apple's bow with the launch of the copy-protection-free (DRM - digital rights management) Amazon MP3 service. Individual songs are supposedly cheaper than those from iTunes at 89-99 cents, and up to $9.99 an album. All tracks are encoded at 256k and can be played back unlimited times on any hardware; be it MP3 players, iPods, mobile phones, etc.

All we need is for this service to be truly international and available to everyone worldwide, and we might see Steve Jobs actually do something about the fallacy that iTunes is turning out to be. Amazon MP3 reportedly has more than 2 millions songs on offer - but whether or not they're all crap remains to be seen.


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TECH: Demonoid Shut Down By CRIA

As one of the most popular private-yet-totally-illegal Bittorrent sites out there, Demonoid.com was always going to come under government scrutiny sooner or later. Now it seems as if the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) has had enough of the site's nefarious activities, and have finally ordered it to be shut down. (So thats why half of my torrents have suddenly gone into the red...)

EDIT: Just as The Pirate Bay, Torrentspy and countless other BT sites managed to stay open by moving to offshore ISPs, word is that Demonoid will be up and running again in a few days. Fear not.

EDIT 2: Guess whose back in business? (Minus Canadian "customers")

Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers has allegedly been taken offline by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). Both the tracker and the website have been unresponsive for nearly 24 hours now.

Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIAAs of now it is still unsure what exactly happened, but the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reports that the CRIA is responsible for the downtime.

TorrentFreak contacted some of the Demonoid administrators, but they are not sure what happened either. It is certainly possible that Demonoid’s Canadian ISP pulled the plug after being pressured by the CRIA. The Demonoid server is still pinging, but the ISP could have firewalled the everything after they received some serious legal threats. Deimos, the founder and the head admin of the site is unreachable and has not responded yet.

This is not the first time Demonoid suffers major downtime due to pressure from the anti-piracy lobby. Demonoid had to move its servers from The Netherlands to Canada in June after The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN filed a subpoena against Demonoid’s ISP. BREIN had asked the ISP to take Demonoid offline and hand over the administrator’s personal details, but Demonoid relocated their servers before any harm was done.

Unfortunately, it now seems that Canada is not the “safe haven” as they expected it to be.

Demonoid tracks over a million .torrent files and is the second largest BitTorrent tracker after The Pirate Bay. The shutdown of the site and tracker is a huge blow for the BitTorrent community that lost 2 of the most popular BitTorrent trackers (TorrentBox was taken offline for US users a few hours ago) within 24 hours.

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As of Tuesday, 25th September 2007, Demonoid is currently down. There were no warnings from any moderators of the site but both the main torrent page and the forum (fora) are no longer accessible. It is still possible to ping the IP address of the site and it locates itself as in Canada. As of 6:45pm on 9-25-07, SSH and SMTP services are no longer active.

Torrentfreak.com has since reported this is due to legal actions from the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) who ordered Demonoids ISP to shut down the site.

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VIDEO: Smile

One of the creepiest short CG films you're likely to ever see. Made by two college students in Israel, enjoy...



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