Archive for August, 2009:

EMERGENCY WEEKEND UPDATE – POOR SPACE CHANNEL 5 COSTUMERY

This photo set has reached CRITICAL MASS. We’ve had more emails about this than we’ve got baked bean tins in the recycling bin. None of the emails were overly complimentary.

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Spotted by pretty much everyone on SEGA’s Toronto Fan Expo 2009 page. We’re going to have to launch an internal policy review regarding updates based on SEGA’s Flickr output. It’s putting out more content than we can handle.

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THE SUM-TOTAL OF A MAN’S LIFE

A few tatty books and some toys. When the cleaner from the council turns up to emotionlessly throw it all in a skip after the owner’s passing, he will not understand their true meaning or worth.

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“Last week I was ordered to go through a few boxes of crap I’d left around my parent’s house and decide what I wanted to keep since they’re moving. There wasn’t much I was bothered about but I picked these up because I thought you might be interested in them.”

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“If not in the actual items, at least in not having to find an update for a day. Hell, since there’s two different things, this could mean a couple of days off!”

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“First, I found some books. They’re the novels written by Martin Adams. I think my favourite thing about these is the little flip-book animation in the top right of the pages. Well, that and Sonic’s eyes on the cover of ‘Silicon Warriors’.”

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“There’s a 4th book too, ‘in Robotnik’s Castle’, which I’m sure I’ve read but can’t find anywhere. I’m thinking I might have borrowed it off a friend. I’ve included the back covers so you can read the synopsis”.

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“Next we have a box of Sonic and Metal Sonic minitures; origin unknown (I think they might have been a ticket collection item at Sega World).”

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“They came painted poorly and the Sonic on the far right can’t stand up on his own. I quite like the Metal Sonic though, it looks like someone at least tried to make an effort with him” – Ian.

“They came painted poorly and the Sonic on the far right can’t stand up on his own. I quite like the Metal Sonic though, it looks like someone at least tried to make an effort with him” – Ian.

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Thanks, Ian. Sorry for suggesting you’ll die alone and the council will have to come and clear away your possessions because they need to rent the house to someone else. We’ve just run out of ways to introduce sets of photos of SEGA items.

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And that Mecha Sonic IS nice. No man who owns a Mecha Sonic that cool will die alone.

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You’ll die surrounded by 27 cats.

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THE BAYONETTA WOMAN’S BOTTOM

The in-game character’s bottom. The bottoms of in-game characters aren’t rude, seeing as they’re pretend, so it’s OK to imagine yourself emotionlessly pounding away at it until she says can you stop now as it’s starting to hurt.

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Sent in by SEGA EUROPE Flickr account monitor “Anne” who was doing a bit of moonlighting for extra cash over on the SEGA AMERICA Flickr page.

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We prefer the deep-throating monster that can suck its own cock. Anne didn’t spot this one.

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Here’s the bottom again to leave you on a high note.

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ALL ABOARD THE MOLESTATION WAGON

A gang of kids have been seen driving this around, luring in lonely old men. Once inside, the men are made to humiliate themselves playing with modern gaming peripherals.

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“Hi, I’m French and during my vacation in Vichy I saw this” – David.

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TONY HAWK RIDE “LIFESTYLE” PHOTOGRAPHY!

Cash-rich mega-publisher Activision has decided that youths and grown-ups being near its equipment is a good idea. In the case of Tony Hawk Ride, it is certainly a better idea than the actual product.

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Let’s all just agree that the Tony Hawk series – and video games in general – peaked at around the period Tony Hawk 3 came out.

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“I paid HOW MUCH for this SHIT?”

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Since then, it’s been downhill all the way.

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Having a bit of plastic does not make the game more fun.

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It may make the game a better Christmas present for a friend or relative due to coming in a bigger and therefore more exciting box, but it does nothing for the experience.

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This must be the other corner of the room that family is in. You’d think the family would be a bit too old to be living in a flatshare with some teenagers.

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Hopefully Activision is preparing some LIFESTYLE photography to go with DJ Hero.

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“I MAKE SONIC MASKS TO HELP GET MONEY SO I CAN GO TO COLLEGE”

It’s better than prostitution.

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“This was posted on a forum I occasionally visit – I thought you might be able to use it on a slow news day when Sony doesn’t embarrass itself or something. The picture with all the masks also includes a Knuckles mask that doesn’t appear to be on sale. I assume they sold out of those since Knuckles is rougher than the rest of them, the best of them and tougher than leather and the cool kids seem to dig that nowawdays” – Gene Groom.

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Sonic.

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Shadow.

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Amy.

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Tails.

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“PLAY WITH SOME SEXY JAPANESE GAME GIRLS”

Well, OK then, but first someone’s going to have to send us an iPhone and make it so that it works and that this “app” appears on it. We may need a printout with some instructions on how to get it to load, too, along with something saying what you have to press.

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It’s… a something for iPhone. Something about looking at pictures of women. Noticed here by a kindly gentleman contributor. And no, today is not going to see much more ‘effort’ than this.

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SONIC & SEGA ALL-STARS RACING *STILL* DOESN’T LOOK BAD

Keep watching movies of this, expecting it to eventually look terrible. But it keeps on looking more than OK. Bordering on the good, in fact.

Definite month-long mega update potential.

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INDUSTRY NEWS: PETER MOORE IN SHORTS

When did Peter Moore become a self-mocking comedy figure? If only he’d worked up such a sweat for Dreamcast.

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Photo taken by Games Press, using a Nikon D40. Thankfully we don’t have the images taken by those poor men sitting at the front.

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PS3 SLIM’S SECRET FUNCTION

It also functions as a Dreamcast stand. This will remind extremely regular readers of an actual JOKE from a very, very long time ago. It’s good to see we haven’t lost our ‘touch’ when it comes to Photoshop.

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“Here is a picture I found on Gumtree last night in the ‘casual relationships’ category. I can’t recall the advert but it was along the lines of ‘black submissive looking for white top'” – Mariano.

WHICH MEGA-BLOG DID THE PICTURE REALLY COME FROM?
Joystiq.

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