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Mario Kart was the game to play at parties and get togethers well before the word Wii or Wii Play were ever uttered. It was the go-kart racing game that every child in my generation loved to play when there was nothing else to play. Nintendo has a knack for returning to things that work. They rebuilt the GameCube to have a motion censor and they regularly recycle old and retired games. Mario Kart Wii gives you another opportunity to once again challenge your friends in a Go-Kart death match...Mario Kart was the game to play at parties and get togethers well before the word Wii... more
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A special treat for The Bender this week. We spend time with the gamer who loves to sue (currently Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Activision-Blizzard), Erik Estavillo. Special guest Raychul Moore (girl gamer, Dan Hsu's better half) joins us with this interview discussing his cases and the guy himself. Listen in at the end of the show for some random thoughts about the interview with Mike and James along with some news blips.
Cliff notes for the Interview (we jump all over the place):
*Erik, meet Binge Gamer
*Subpoenas the celebrities (Bill Gates, Winona Ryder, etc)
*Is a lawyer pulling the strings of Erik?
*Why sue instead of just putting the controller down?
*Erik’s mental illnesses
*The World of Warcraft Activision/Blizzard debacle
*The Sony/Playstation 3 case
*Erik, serious about these cases or not? What motivates him?
*”gaming world” versus the “real world”
*License agreements and clicking “I Agree” without reading
*The Microsoft/Xbox 360 case
*The Nintendo/Wii Homebrew Channel debacle
*Medications
*Gaming blog possibly hiring Erik?
*Counter suing the disabled
*Jack Thompson
*Morals and ethics
*Back to the celeb subpoenas
*Credibility
Random News Blips:
Coming soon: Star Trek Online
Also coming soon: Green Day Rock Band
Thoughts on the interview with Erik
Sonic/Sega’s All Star Racing including Banjo Kazooie
New Transformers game not related to the movie
Video Games Live will be on PBS! WATCH IT!
Greatest gaming eBay auction everA special treat for The Bender this week. We spend time with the gamer who loves to... more
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Vail Christian High School is taking this texting-while-driving thing seriously. So seriously, in fact, that they've brought in one of the most realistic driving simulators ever conceived to teach kids the dangers of this practice.
The simulation is simple. Students grasp the motion sensitive wheel in one hand, and a cell phone in the other. Then, just like in a real live driving situation, they fire off a blue shell before bounding over spongy mushroom jumps while a mustachioed plumber hurls bananas and high-pitched Italian-esque insults in their general direction.
See? Totally serious.
Now, silly as it sounds, this program apparently did educate the students about the dangers of driving in the Mushroom Kingdom while texting. "I ran into a lot of things and it was very stressful," said 13-year-old "it's-a me!" Alli O'Brian.
Good on her, and good on Eagle County, seriously, for educating these kids early on.
Check out the video...Vail Christian High School is taking this texting-while-driving thing seriously. So... more
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