The nature of Chinese manufacturing can sometimes be an awful thing, but at times, it can be wonderful as well. Like this…thing, which looks like it used to be a Go-Bot, before it emerged from a cocoon into something amazing.
Watch this from across the room, or squinting, and you’ll think it’s Mario Kart. From the effects to the course design, it is literally Mario Kart Wii.
Chinese tablet company JXD has released a new unit called the S7100, which in an effort to sell to its local market, flaunts not just its specs, but who and exactly where it’s ripping off properties that are owned and controlled by someone else.
What’s this, a new, more angular version of Microsoft’s Kinect? Not quite. It’s just a wireless receiver for a PC that looks like a Kinect, down to the Microsoft-inspired packaging.
Joyland, a theme park in China built with massive (if unlicensed) tributes to the video games of Blizzard Entertainment, has actually opened its doors. People are going on the rides. And taking photos.
There is of course no such thing as a Harry Potter game on the Sega Genesis. The series came about far too late for Sega’s old console. If you thought that would stop Chinese pirates, though, you don’t know Chinese pirates too well.