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UK HARDWARE SALES FIGURES

Actual numbers. For the UK. PS3 is last. It’s going to stay last. The best Sony can hope for is that it doesn’t finish last by much.

* PS2 10m
* DS 8.8m
* Wii 4.9m
* 360 3.2m
* PSP 3.2m
* PS3 1.9m

Picture clarified by GAME, PDF transcribed by the brave staff of Edge.

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THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF ‘FLAG MAN’

Someone took these photos of Mega Drive Super Monaco Grand Prix. They feature our dear, beloved (NOT IN A GAY WAY) Flag Man. And if you’re waiting for a review of OutRun Online Arcade, stop waiting. It’s the same game as before only without the home mini games and in high-resolution. You don’t need us to tell you that.

BREAKS OUT THE CLICHED BUT SADLY APPLICABLE TEETH JOKE: “Super Monaco for Mega Drive, is it your favourite game? Well it god damn should be because I just found the SEGA Flag Man in it. Maybe you knew he was there all along? Maybe you have some sprite debugger thing that looks through the source code of old games for sprites made of red pixels that flap around like Heath Ledger on prescription meds? I dunno what goes on over there in England, but it’s certainly not brushing your teeth for the majority of your population so I thought I may as well send this to you.”

“I’ve taken pictures with a camera phone of my Cable Ready Teac TV to record the event for future generations. Perhaps in twenty or thrity years people will look back and say: ‘Australia never did get cable, so why did they buy a bucket load of cable ready TVs?'”

“Regardless, this sort of carry on is neither here nor there and certainly not a reflection of the wonderful work you are all doing here on the front line. Poach me a kipper old blighty, because the pics are in the attachment. Your Pal From AustraliaLand” – Brett Bear.

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FOR EVERY POSITIVE…

…there is a corresponding negative. It says “Sonic” on the milk shake. Which is why this is up here.

From a “Simon” who provided no explanation as to how he happened upon the image.

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PICTURE OF A GIRL ON THE INTERNET WEARING A SONIC T-SHIRT

Here. For you. From us. Via someone else. Looks like an original piece. Happy Tuesday.

“I found this picture of a girl on the internet wearing a Sonic t-shirt. Unfortunately you don’t get to see the whole t-shirt, but you do get to see knickers, so that may be some consolation. Not sure where I found it, but I’m sure if you type ’emo slut’ into Google it should be on one of those pages” – [GeekPunk]. A.K.A. Darth Canis.

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A COLLECTION OF SEGA GRAFFITI FROM THE MANCHESTER AREA

Some person on the internet has nothing better to do that go around photographing and archiving obscure SEGA material. What a sad fuck. What a pathetic individual. How could a grown person have so little in their lives that putting photos of SEGA things on the internet gives them pleasure? It’s embarrassing.

It’s not always obvious it says SEGA to the mature, non-urban eye, but there are some superb 1980s SEGA fonts in the collection. Thanks to extremely urban reader “Danny” for the find.

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SEEING AS WE’RE POSTING LITERALLY ANYTHING THESE DAYS

Such a pleasing rectangle of lovely colour. On Monday, we might just upload an orange rectangle to see what it looks like.

“Heard you’re literally posting anything these days, so here’s a picture of a painting called ‘NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY SEGA WITH HARRISON FORD’ by some bloke called Brandon Bird” – Beef.

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GLEN

Glen is still emailing us stuff like this, by the way.

“Fuck it. I can’t stop now, as Ulala becomes smaller and smaller I’m reminded of the Lara peephole shots and find myself getting aroused. Zorg said he would put a stop to this agony so I guess I’m calling his bluff. I know this whole thing is going nowhere, so that alone should be reason enough to post it. I didn’t know how to keep it ‘fresh’, so I haven’t bothered. No gimmicks this time, just pure unadulterated internet misery. Don’t let that stop you enjoying it though, as we pull back further and further into uncharted waters it’s like looking at a whole week’s worth of UK:R updates all in one hit” – Glen.

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SEGA JAPAN HAS A YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Featuring stuff like this. Cross-dressing fat men. It is not only us that can’t be bothered doing anything proper any more.

Reader “Some Random UKR Reader” suggests skipping to the 44 seconds point if you’re pressed for time.

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MAN GETS INCREASINGLY CLOSE TO CHAIR

Although, presumably, he was sitting on the chair, then stood up, walked away and FAKED this entire chain of events. Otherwise we’d have to assume he takes photos of every chair he goes near.

Taken by Dan.

Dan sent in one of these photos based in a pub.

Dan either has an alcohol problem or a wide and varied social life.

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LIE SUPREMO DAVID REEVES LEAVES SONY

BOOF BOOF BOOF… ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST.

“I am going to spend my time now trying to repay society for all I have taken from it. If your children are having physics lessons at the local school or wondering why their ski instructor is very elderly, your car mechanic has a bad back, or the social worker keeps bringing you PSP games, then it could just be me! Good luck to everybody at SCEE and everybody who continues to support us” – Sony Europe Lie Supremo David Reeves.

CVG won the war to upload the press release first, which is miraculous given the complexity of the CMS the poor chaps have to deal with.

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