Mario Kart In Real Life Is Less Cute, More Brutal

Posted by James Hawkins
From: http://www.joystickdivision.com/

 
Mario Kart is an oft-lampooned franchise nowadays. Expertly, I might add. But never has anyone broken down the game to its core and looked at how fun it would be if it only included the bare essentials: racing and power-ups. Well, not until Freddie W and his team did in the video you are about to see here.

With some excellent editing, special effects, and design, we get to see the real, gritty side of the typically friendly racer. It is a place where red shells will literally blow you away, and a creepy Asian dude lifts you from the abyss. Oh, and there aren't any hot princesses, which is a bummer. But there aren't any annoying toadstools there, either. So it isn't all bad.

I would love if my local Family Fun Center had a power-up kart course that I could enjoy. But alas, it doesn't. So I'll continue to do what I always do at Family Fun Centers: drink beer, beat up kids, and give dorks wedgies.

I do wish we got to see: A. bananas, B. blue spiked shell, and C. the lighting power-up. But for a video that clocks in at a minute-thirty, I suppose we can't bee too choosy.

Full-length Gran Turismo 5 E3 2010 trailer in HD

From: http://www.gameranx.com/

Sony has released the E3 2010 trailer for Gran Turismo 5. Unfortunately, there is no release date at the end of the trailer, but it should be announced in a few days time at Sony's E3 Press Conference. The trailer features some brand new footage of the game's gorgeous cars and detailed, realistic tracks.

Check out the Gran Turismo 5 E3 2010 trailer in HD below:

Another trailer was released on Playstation's official blog which is the full-length trailer, also offering some retrospective of the previous titles in the series.

Top Gear Returns to BBC AMERICA on January 25th

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From: http://www.nitrobahn.com/

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GREAT NEWS for the Top Gear fanatics all around America – the Emmy award-winning car show makes a comeback to BBC AMERICA after a rather long break. The hosts Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May are back with more automotive hi-jinx in the two back-to-back U.S. premiere seasons of Top Gear. Season 13 premiers on January 25th, Monday at 8pm. Season 14 will be airing immediately after Season 13, premiering on Monday, March 15.

Season 12 of Top Gear was number 6 on the 2009 best-selling TV (Seasons) listing for iTunes. Full episodes of Season 13 will be posted on iTunes 24 hours after its U.S. premiere on BBC AMERICA, every Tuesday throughout this season. Now you can watch the terrific trio anytime, anywhere. Also BBCAmerica.com has released a new TopGear Soundboard online, featuring some of the best TopGear sound bites. Part factual and part entertainment, the award winning car show has become a global phenomenon reaching 150 million homes worldwide.
What to expect from the 13th installment of the world’s most popular auto entertainment show?

The terrific trio undoubtedly has a brand new arsenal of automotive mayhem waiting for us in the new series. In the premiere episode, Jeremy Clarkson takes the Lotus Evora for a spin around the track, and then the hosts go on the Top Gear Race to the North, a three way race from London to Edinburgh with James riding in a Jaguar XK120 and Hammond on a Vincent Black Shadow motorbike and Jeremy riding in the cab of the steam locomotive No. 60163 Tornado. Later James and Richard race a stamped letter sent by the Royal Mail across the British Isles and Abu Dhabi in a Porsche Panamera.
The trio then buys three £1,500 rear-wheel-drive sports cars and enter in a terrifying French ice race. Richard tests the new Lamborghini Murcielago LP640-4 SV in Abu Dhabi and stages the world’s first race between the 1001hp Bugatti Veyron, McLaren F1 and the Lambo Murcielago SV.


The show continues to put the rich and famous through the Top Gear test track in the continuing hit original segment “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car”. Getting behind the wheel in this season are car enthusiast and talk show host Jay Leno, film actress Sienna Miller, King of Twitter Stephen Fry, Olympic Gold sprinter Usain Bolt and AC/DC singer Brian Johnson.
Well here’s the kicker…. This is the season where Top Gear’s quiet and mysterious racing driver Stig takes off his helmet to reveal who he truly is – a television first!! In short Season 13 is going to be nothing short of an innovative and enjoyable experience for all.


Is life without Top Gear too depressing to bear? Can’t exactly wait for the 25th? Catch up with Seasons 11 and Season 12 on DVD arriving in stores on Tuesday, January 12. These two seasons include 14 full episodes with the Season 12 DVD featuring over 2 hours of bonus features including all-new commentary on the Vietnam special, Botswana Special – Directors Cut, never before seen footage, photo galleries and more. Also to kickstart the party, BBC will be conducting a week long DVD giveaway at BBCAMERICA.com starting on January 12th! Pre-order your copies today itself at the BBC AMERICA Shop.

Tags: James May, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, Top Gear, Top gear Season 11, Top gear Season 12, Top gear Season 13, Top gear Season 14

Virgin Racing Formula 1 team launches

From: http://www.virgin.com/

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The Virgin Racing Formula 1 team was officially launched in London today, where it was confirmed that one of the sport’s four new entrants has teamed up with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin brand to embark on an exciting F1 (ad)venture.

300 guests assembled at the Louise Blouin Foundation in Notting Hill, the London district where it all began for the Virgin brand. The Rick Parfitt Jr band provided the icebreaker before the venue rocked to the electrifying sound of a Formula 1 car courtesy of a collection of up and coming musicians playing electric guitars.

Richard Branson and the Virgin Racing management team of Nick Wirth, John Booth and Alex Tai outlined the vision for their lean, mean racing machine and revealed the team’s dynamic young driver line-up. Alongside Timo Glock were two new additions to the Virgin Racing stable - Brazilian hot shot Lucas di Grassi and GP2’s Portuguese revelation Alvaro Parente.

Virgin Racing also welcomed no fewer than nine new partners to the team.

Virgin Racing had better get used to the lights, cameras and action. A star is now born and the countdown to the 2010 curtain-raiser has begun.

For more information head to Virgin Racing.

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