A RAID on two Sim Lim Square shops yesterday afternoon turned up 10 Nintendo Wii gaming consoles illegally modified to play pirated games.
This is the first time modified or ‘modded’ Wiis have surfaced here. Illegally modified Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo Dual Screen game consoles have been seized in past crackdowns.
The raid also yielded 21 disks of pirated Wii games and a hard disk of pirated games, said Mr Cyril Chua, lawyer for video-game industry watchdog Entertainment Software Association (ESA).
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc unveiled its first personal training product on Thursday, tapping into the growing appeal of video games as fitness systems as seen with Nintendo Co Ltd’s hit title “Wii Fit” earlier this year.
The $60 title, EA Sports Active, is exclusive to Nintendo’s Wii console, and will hit store shelves in March 2009. Targeted toward women as a low-cost alternative to joining sports club or gym, the game features an interactive computer trainer, and crafts running, boxing and other heart-pumping exercises to the user’s desires.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing was grinding back to its congested normal on Saturday after two months of traffic restrictions and factory closures which kept the city’s notorious pollution at bay for the Olympic and Paralympic games.
The Chinese capital is one of the world’s most polluted cities and there has been widespread debate about whether the traffic control measures should be retained.
Although the Olympic regulations do not officially expire until midnight on Saturday, cars with both odd and even number plates were already on the streets of central Beijing by mid-morning.
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