Nintendo officially introduced the Wii Mini in Canada. The console will start shipping on December 7 for 99.99 USD/EUR.  After nearly 100 million sold worldwide, Nintendo's Wii console is getting a new look and a new price. On Dec. 7, the new Wii Mini home console launches in Canada at a suggested retail price of just $99.99 and puts the focus squarely on Wii games. The system can play more than 1,400 disc-based Wii games. Wii Mini is smaller than the original Wii system, and comes in matte black with a red border. The system comes with a red Wii Remote Plus, a red Nunchuk controller and works with most Wii accessories.

Is white is the new black?, BitFenix intros a white edition of its Survivor case. The Survivor White has an all-white design and has a blue LED logo up front. It should be available in retail stores for around 99EUR ($109). Today, BitFenix is pleased to introduce Survivor White – a portable mid-tower ATX gaming chassis in a new white color that combines elegant styling with ruggedized features engineered for the mobile digital warrior.

Cooler Master released the CM Storm PowerRX, a new cloth gaming mousepad that is water resistant. The mousepad measures 450mm x 350mm and has a thickness of 2.5mm, it consists of a rubber coated weave with a silicon anti-slip base. One of the special features is the rounded clamped down edge, this should prevent mousecords from rubbing against the PowerRX and giving you drag, and should also decrease how fast it wears out.

Razer surely is updating a lot. They have announced its new Razer Orochi gaming mouse, an evolution of the company's previous version of the highly successful mobile mouse. The new Razer Orochi is outfitted with the most precise laser sensor ever outfitted in a mobile gaming mouse: Its 6400 dpi 4G sensor promises to take out the competition with deadly accuracy.

It says something about a company that its internal marketing materials are just as polished and every bit as aspirational as the ones that it looses upon the rest of the world, like this internal Apple Store promo video, produced by Washington Square Films. Partly that its internal belief structure matches the one that it projects outward, and that it needs every piece of the organization to share those beliefs. And partly that the promotional machine within Apple is one of its most powerful organs (in case you had, uh, doubts about that). 

In this 2010 video, Apple's former retail chief, Ron Johnson, earnestly describes the way in which Apple — a truly global corporation, and the biggest company in the world by market cap — fits into local cityscapes with its "significant stores" and how Apple Stores "can actually improve communities." Local, local, local is the mantra. He talks about Apple Stores the same way that Apple talks about the rest of its products, at one point remarking that "this store can be transformational to [a customer's] life." It's almost hard to believe that he's talking about where you go to buy an iPad mini or get your iPhone fixed. 

According to a media report starting from code-named Broadwell generation of processors, Intel Corp. will only offer mainstream desktop chips in BGA packaging, which will eliminate upgrade options as well as increase risks for PC makers. According to Japanese PC Watch web-site, code-named Haswell microprocessors may be the last desktop chips in LGA packaging, which enabled easy switch of CPUs on mainboards. Starting from Broadwell chips, which are due in 2014, all mainstream desktop processors will be available in BGA packaging, which means that they will have to be soldered to mainboards, something that can be done in relatively sophisticated manufacturing facilities.

Jon Peddie Research published its Q3 2012 graphics chip report. The research firm found that NVIDIA gained 3.7% to 18.5% versus the second quarter, while AMD fell 1.5 percent to 21.2 percent and Intel dropped 2.4 percent to 59.8 percent. Full details after the break.

In this blog unique video, get a map flythrough from the fiercely competitive level Talah Market from the expansion pack Battlefield 3: Aftermath: 

BioWare has released the official launch trailer for the Mass Effect 3 single-player DLC, Omega. 

A brand new Company Of Heroes 2 Gameplay Video has been released. 

Sapphire released a  Radeon HD 7870 Toxic 2 GB graphics card based on the 28 nm "Tahiti LE" silicon. The card features factory-overclocked speeds with PowerTune Boost frequencies that likely breach the 1 GHz mark, letting it retain the "GHz Edition" marker. The card uses a swanky new dual-fan cooler that features a design unlike anything launched by Sapphire so far. 

Doesn't your skip a beat when you accidently sit on your shiny Samsung Galaxy S3? Well the smartphone is actually designed and extensively tested to handle most of the things you throw at it. The below video is in Korean but you will be amazed to see the torture tests Samsung does on the phone. 

Check out this new ATX motherboard from ASUS for the Japanese market, the Crosshair V Formula-Z. Based on AMD 990FX + AMD SB950 chipset, the board supports for AM3+ processors and features four DDR3 DIMM memory slots (up to 32GB RAM), four PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots and two PCI-Express 2.0 x1 slots. Connectivity-wise, it has eight SATA 6.0 Gbps, two eSATA 6.0 Gbps, six USB 3.0, twelve USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. The Crosshair V Formula-Z is available now in Japan for 23,000 Yen (about $279).

Frontier Developments has revealed a new gameplay clip from its upcoming Elite sequel, Elite: Dangerous. This video showcases the multiplayer mode and the some of the ships that will be featured in it: 

Thermaltake, being the industry pioneer brand in PC chassis, power supply and thermal solution, introduces the Mini-ITX Chassis SD101, a case designed exclusively for Mini-ITX motherboards. Unlike any other recent PC chassis Thermaltake has introduced, the Mini Case is reaching new combinations of stylish design with maximum functionality which is ideally for space saving. From petite desktop option to home theatre enjoyment, the minimalistic proportions, yet sleek front panel creates an exquisite lifestyle.

Now a new video, presumably from Winp.cn, shows the current build of Windows Phone 7.8 (8858) in action. Actually, it's less action and more of a nice, soothing stroll on some of the more superficial changes coming in the OS update. The new tiles are shown off and we even see the Bing lockscreen wallpaper working (we're hoping that third-party apps can take advantage of it too like in Windows Phone 8). Overall, it's nothing groundbreaking but it does backup what we revealed yesterday. Here the OS is in Chinese, so it may be hard to discern some of the items in Settings but the features should be obvious. Speaking of, we're guessing that the CPU on board is only a 1GHz or so judging by the OS performance, though some of the exact and final specifications need to be confirmed yet for this device. The Nokia Lumia 510 is expected to be for Asian markets, specifically China. It's a low-cost handset with a 480x800 4” LCD display, 5MP camera (no front facing) and just 256MB of RAM with a 1300mAh battery. Release date is expected before the end of the year.