Good lord, in the year 2010 we are looking at screenshots of Ulala and it isn’t a cameo in some shite novelty motion controlled fitness game. It is a remake, but that’s OK. It’s not 4v4 online war and for that we are grateful.

This might throw us back into the HELL of ironic plush toy purchasing. Amazing. Here’s the press release:

SEGA Announces the Return of Space Channel 5: Part 2 and SEGA Bass Fishing

DreamcastTM Favourites making their HD Debut on Consoles in early 2011

LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO (20th October 2010) – SEGA® Europe Ltd. andSEGA® of America, Inc. today announced the return of Dreamcast™ titles Space Channel 5 Part 2™ and SEGA Bass Fishing™. Following in the footsteps of Sonic Adventure™ and Crazy Taxi™, these digitally re-mastered classics will be making their way to the PlayStation® Network and Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft in early 2011.

“The release of these games marks SEGA’s ongoing effort to bring its best-sellers from the Dreamcast era to the latest consoles,” said Haruki Satomi, Vice President of Digital Business at SEGA. “We want to enable a new generation of players to experience some of the most celebrated titles our video game history has to offer, while at the same time appealing to our enthusiastic and much appreciated community of fans.”

Space Channel 5 Part 2 follows famed reporter and dancer Ulala as she battles the Rhythm Rogues—a group of villains led by the mysterious Purge and his right-hand man Shadowin. Players will need to help Ulala move and “chu chu chu” her way to victory before they succeed in taking over the universe with their ultimate dance-control weapon.

Meanwhile gamers will be hooked on SEGA Bass Fishing, reeling in sporting enthusiasts and hardcore gamers alike! This realistic 3-D bass fishing simulation shines with eight fishing environments and fourteen different lures.

Scrabble. For Kindle. Anyone want a review doing? We promise to use the phrase “a moment to learn and a lifetime to master” in the overall summary box.

We’ll turn that EGAL into REGAL with TRAY landing on the double word score for 20 points. Your turn.

It is our sad duty to inform you of this. Be vigilant – the next time someone suggests a bit of “PlayStation link up” they may be referring to linking their genitals to the genitals of your child. Using an improvised adhesive made of saliva and flakes of skin.

If you know of any PlayStation owners, best get out and burn their houses down to force them out of your local community. Just in case. Think of the kids.

Celebrate the minor 2D Sonic revival by looking at this. A Mega Drive painted up in Sonic colours, by a man who’s got the right kind of paint brush and more paint in his collection than a ten-year-old pot of magnolia Dulux emulsion.

“I have a few spares in my collection and it got me thinking about painting up one of my Mega Drives. When I was staring at the Mega Drive shape [*SAD SMILEY FACE*] I noticed the ring around the cartridge slot and thought that I could use that to make the iconic Sonic 1 intro screen. I had loads of fun painting it up and thought you guys might like to see it? I put photos up on my Flickr page here” – Porl.

…we shall be moving HEAVEN AND EARTH (trying to find a VGA cable) and maybe actually playing Sonic The Hedgehog 4 today.

But only maybe. It’s been a long time since we last held a video game controller, and it may trigger unsettling flashbacks.

You used to have to IMAGINE you were in a boat, or holding a gun, or were the owner of a nice tennis racquet.

Now you buy the plastic. From here, and lots of other places.

We can tell. We’d actually like to play it.

“There’s a comment summing it up nicely – ‘Sonic Team has to have the only fan base that thinks they’re so incompetent, as to make their games for them'” – Omar.

We might have to declare some sort of ceasefire on enemy #2, as it looks like we have something in common with our favourite bunch of aggressive shareware salesmen after all.

“Today was an exciting day. Today was the start of the three-day Eurogamer Expo 2010 and Captain Whoops was there to bring you all the action”

“To be honest there wasn’t much action other than lots of Emo kids walking around”

“For your visual pleasure we have not one but three photos of a crashed PS3 at the LittleBigPlanet 2 booth”

“The SEGA recruitment booth in all its dull glory was hidden in a corner behind the dreaded Train2Game booth, of which we have 3 photos”

“To finish us off we have the Train2Game Booth ‘Babes’ walking around with their see-through pants on…”

“…well they were see-through after I switched the flash to full power” – Captain Whoops.

A man who used to be affiliated with SEGA mentioned Dreamcast 2 by name. This confirms its existence, although Mr Naka is obviously rather cagey about the whole subject. And is using it to help SHIFT UNITS of his new thing for the Nintendos.

But still.

From here. Thanks to everyone who sent this is. It gained as much “traction” as the Obama Sonic bag.

As in, one of the seven games we’ve actually played this year. Another three and we’ll be good to write an end-of-year top ten list feature!

It’s about rescuing Kylie Minogue. Play it here. We can’t help wondering (a) how much it cost to make and (b) how many extra copies of the album it will actually sell.