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Toyota wants you to buy a video game car

Remember when the United States army offered a first-person shooter to boost recruitment? If Toyota's new foray into video games in any indication, it was a move that worked. Toyota wants to recruit you to buy their Yaris, a car designed by, of all people, a video game company. Incidentally, the projectile-shooting revver depicted in the game doesn't shoot in real life; nor does it have that interesting tentacle as standard equipment.
Starting today, XBox Live users can download the game for free and play it on their Microsoft consoles. Time will tell whether the advertising scheme is effective, but we suspect most gamers will be more interested in discovering whether or not this game is actually fun.
Sushi Cat is one of the cutest Flash games I've ever run across. You play a blue cat with a major talent for eating and, fortunately for you, every level is filled with delicious sushi! The controls are simple: you aim and drop from the top of the screen using the mouse, trying to hit as much sushi as you can on the way down. Eat enough sushi, and you can go on to the next level.
Your score depends on how much sushi you eat, and which bucket the cat lands in when it finally reaches the bottom of the screen. The more ...