In the world of video games that is…. Screw Attack / GameTrailers.com is at it again. Oh, and in case you missed it the first time around, here are the top ten ways to die in a video game, the top ten video game weapons, and the ten best 8-bit video games of all time.

On with the douchebags!

I had a lot of fun with the first Rayman Raving Rabbids for the Nintendo Wii, so I fully expect that the recently announced sequel — appropriately named Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 — will be just as fun with all of its crazy mini games.

Naturally, graphics aren’t the big selling point here. Instead, it’s the hilarious antics of the seemingly crack-addicted “rabbids” and the unique use of the motion-sensitive Wii Remote. I remember in the first Rabbids, I had the chance to whirl the Wii Remote above my head before launching a cow into a field. I also used the Wii-mote to pull worms out of a rabbid’s rotting teeth.

Here’s the official trailer, clearly having a little fun with the upcoming Transformers live-action movie.

Ubisoft says that there will be about sixty minigames in all. Below are videos to four of them. And yes, along the way, you get to play as rabbids who mimic superstars like Naruto and Spider-Man.

Burger Bunny Godfather: Tilt the Wii Remote to balance an increasingly huge hamburger, walking your rabbid over to a Don Corleone-esque rabbid mob boss.

Rodeo: Match the motions depicted at the bottom of the screen in order to maximize your bronco-bucking points.

Carrot Spit / Beer: Munch on some carrots and spit the carrot juice into the beer steins waiting below.

Baseball: Franticallly run around the bases before sending a rabbid flying with a kick ass home run.

It seems like the days where television was filled with mindless sitcoms with cheesy Full House moments are gone. In their place, we have found an endless onslaught of reality TV shows, encouraging us to survive on tropical islands, marry millionaires, and become pop singing idols. Well, fewer people are actually watching television today and more people are finding their entertainment fix online, so what have the producers done? They took the whole reality TV craze onto the world wide web, of course. Go viral or go home.

I stumbled across this interesting endeavor and thought that their project was actually kind of funny. There are already free videos at GoFish.com, but now they’ve added an online reality show to the mix wherein contestants — which include pretty much anyone with a webcam and an internet connection — attempt to seduce a celebrity. Well, a pseudo-celebrity who didn’t have enough marketing pull to get a “real” reality show off the ground. She’s no Paris Hilton.

You, yes you, are encouraged to submit a video wherein you try to seduce actress Mirelly Taylor. They say that she “has appeared on movies such as Kiss Me Again and Serving Sara and television shows including Las Vegas, Punk’d, and Numb3rs.” Other people involved in the web production include Scott Sternberg (an Emmy Award winning producer) and The Bachelor’s Andrew Firestone. The contest runs for 14 weeks, during which time the online audience can submit their own revealing videos.

To get a sense of the kinds of people who actually enter these crazy contests (undoubtedly to get their 15 seconds of fame), here’s one of the user submissions. What a douche.

Just a friendly reminder that the free t-shirt contest ends tomorrow. Since posting up the first reminder a few days ago, I’ve received three new entries and they are…

1. Michael McKinlay
2. Jason (Foximus)
3. Oubipaws

If no one else enters, each of those guys has a 33.3% chance! Gotta love those odds, considering that it takes 30 seconds of effort to enter. You want in? Then read the contest details here.

Credit to Leo Chiang for this find.

Here’s something I came across on Leftlane News that I thought was pretty remarkable. My perspective might be a little skewed, given that I write about the automotive and portable electronics industries on a daily basis, but this level of ignorance seems astounding.

58.4 percent of U.S. college students surveyed by Anderson Analytics believe Land Rover is an American brand. Only 18.5 percent of respondents correctly identified the marque as British.

About a third of those surveyed thought Lexus was an American company. Roughly the same number knew the luxury automaker was in fact Japanese. One can only wonder what small percentage of Americans actually realize Lexus is a Toyota-owned Japanese company.

Swedish automakers were also a source of much confusion. 49 percent of respondents said Volvo was German, and 40 percent thought Saab was, too. Roughly 15 percent of those queried correctly identified the two companies as originating from Sweden.

55.7 percent of students thought South Korean automaker Hyundai was Japanese. A nearly identical number of respondents also thought Korean electronics maker Samsung was also Japanese. Most students thought LG — also from Korea — was American.

Other non-automotive companies in the study include Nokia, which only 4.4 percent of respondents could identify as Finnish, and Lego, which most students think is American.

The survey sampled 1,000 U.S. College students at 375 universities during the fall-winter 2006 semester.

I guess with everyone owning everyone else (Ford having a big piece of Mazda and Volvo, for example), the concept of being a Japanese brand or an American brand is a little blurred. For example, Lexus vehicles, while owned by Toyota, were not offered in Japan under the Lexus moniker until recently. The same can be said about the Honda-owned Acura namesake (to be launched in Japan next year).

Oh, and for the record, Lego is based out of Denmark.