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BREAKING: SEGA BAG SPOTTED AT MUSIC FESTIVAL LAST SUMMER

SEGA fan spotted staring vacantly into the distance while “living the dream” of attending a music festival. It looks cold and muddy. That bag’s going to get RUINED.

“About two or three months ago now I was at a Scottish music festival when my girlfriend spotted this guy and said ‘Take a photo and send it to UK:R but make sure you tell them I spotted it’.”

“I’d kind of forgotten about these photos as I was in ‘a state’ but I did go and shake the gent by the hand problably drunkenly saying ‘cool bag’ or similar. Anyway, goes to show that SEGA fans like the outdoor music scene as much as the next man and my girlfriend thinks about UK:R a wee bit too much – Robbie.”

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WAR ROOM UPDATE: PLAYSTATION3 IN “YEAR-ON-YEAR DECLINE” SHAME

In January of 2008 Sony sold 269,000 PS3s in America. In January of 2009 it sold 203,000. That’s less. 203,000 is DEFINITELY less than 269,000. We are POSITIVE. Hang on, we’ll just check that. Where’s the link to the adding thing?

Vista Home Premium. It came with the PC

Yes. There you go. It’s less. PS3 sold 66,000 less/fewer units this January than last January. So, the ten year plan for PS3 was to have sales peak in year two, then have the business gradually run down to zero over the remaining eight?

'We have officially decided to make it 'best of five' regarding console generations'

Sounds like a good plan to us. Figures, as ever, from GAF.

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COPYRIGHT-INFRINGING AUDIO UPDATE – HEDGEHOGS WITH ATTITUDE ‘SUPERSONIC’

Here, after an EPIC and PAINFUL search for a way to embed audio clips onto the internet, and then a subsequent battle to make it BLOODY WORK, is the 1990s gem ‘Supersonic’ by Hedgehogs With Attitude. You may well think games are popular now, but we don’t recall Call of Duty 4 having a fucking SONG in the charts or being on Top of the Pops.

This is the 12″ mix. If “the floor” responds to this we’ll “drop” (upload) the 7″ and the instrumental. The video is not on YouTube. We remember a woman in a catsuit running down the Sonic 2 bonus level, but that may have been a fevered hallucination brought on by the excitement of it all at the time.

“I was clearing out my under-stairs cupboard last Sunday, (with a view to attaching some arris rail to stop the treads from creaking) and whilst doing so I came across this CD single from the early ’90s. It’s by a band called “Hedgehogs With Attitude” and although the track is mostly complete and utter bobbins, they have thankfully kept the melody from Green Hill Zone in the chorus” – Hampton.

OR JUST STEAL IT: If you want to just steal it, like in the good old days, the file’s here. We are not particularly concerned about being made to take this down. We doubt any record company would want to publicly claim ownership of this material.

“Hampton” also said he remembered seeing HWA on Top of the Pops.

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MASSIVE AND THRILLING DREAMCAST-LIKE LOGO UPDATE

We are not stopping with the spiral updates. We are, however, taking your comments on board. Rather than individual spiral updates, we shall try to only do one MEGA-COMBI spiral update per month. This is fair. This is a compromise. This means everyone is happy and no one has to call anyone else a cunt in the comments.

This was sent in by “Will”. It’s from Zelda. It means something like Dreamcast 2 is coming and SEGA’s going to buy Nintendo with all the money it’s made from doing Sonic & Mario.

This is from one of our 2.7 million readers called “Chris”. It’s of a Dreamcast logo on a man’s URBAN VEST JUMPER COAT HYBRID, as featured on a web site for Sony’s ultra-poor Rolly MP3-playing robot twat. It means that SEGA is buying Sony with all the money it’s made from doing Sonic & Mario and basing Dreamcast 2 around the Cell architecture.

This is from “Joe”. It’s of a lamp. This means SEGA will be exclusively marketing and releasing Dreamcast 2 through IKEA.

This is from “Sam”. It’s something he saw in Costa Coffee. This means Sam has yet to be impacted upon by the credit crunch and still thinks spending £2.55 on a cup of coffee and a further £3.75 on a toasted ciabatta is an acceptable way to behave.

This is from “Waqas”. It’s of some bins. Waqas needs to get a new phone with a better camera VERY URGENTLY.

This is from “Tim”. He spotted it during Doctor Who. The golden era of when Billie Piper was in it.

Tim wisely supplied a close-up of Billie’s face. If you want a nice, hi-res promotional photo of Billie Piper, there’s one here – we obtained it under slightly false pretences by pretending it was for illustrating proper news.

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THINGS HAVE REACHED CRITICAL MASS!

A thing is deemed to have reached CRITICAL MASS when three separate individuals email us links to it. Three things have reached CRITICAL MASS so far this week.

CRITICAL MASS #1
Eurogamer’s Ellie Gibson (unshakeable mental image) met and spoke to Yuji Naka. She mentioned UKR. The bad news is Yuji Naka hasn’t heard of UKR. The good news is he seems to be up for a bit of flirtatious MSN action with us in the future!

CRITICAL MASS #2
This literally sensational thing about Sony off of The Onion. It is crushingly painful to forget about The Onion for six years, then go back to it and find it’s STILL very funny. Actually better. What are they ON?

Actually there were only two. Could’ve sworn there were three.

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UPDATE: MARGINALLY NEW ANGLES AND POSES OF ALISON IN CHARACTER!

Such a shame. We had a REALLY big and comprehensive update featuring Dreamcast logo-like spirals planned for today. It will have to wait until tomorrow. Alison Carroll waits for NO MAN (unless she’s made a prior booking to receive at her flat for £250 an hour).

This one’s best. We usually like to save the best one for last, but thought we’d BUST convention and just go for it. You only live once. Fuck it. FUCK IT! Let’s put the best picture up FIRST!

Not that any of them are what you’d call shabby.

Sent in by “Rory” who says he got them off a site called WENN.

We think you’re supposed to pay for photos from WENN, which adds a thrilling element of theft to these already-quite-thrilling photos.

If WENN gets in touch and asks us to take them down we’ll ignore the email. We’re not losing these.

We still saved a pretty good one for last.

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PRETEND LARA CROFT EXTENDS PRETENDING CONTRACT INTO 2009

Mucky little Alison Carroll has proved remarkably resilient for a Lara Croft model – here she is from last week, where she was wheeled out, wiped down, propped up, given something to hold and told to trudge through the same old poses YET AGAIN for the pleasure of men who can only make eye contact with her via the security of the 2.4″ LCD monitor on the digital camera.

Alison Carroll, still looking enthusiastic and drugs-free

Disgustingly smudged screen. This is why women shouldn’t be allowed to have expensive technology. They get Vaseline over EVERYTHING.

Alison Carroll, still looking enthusiastic and drugs-free

Have you ever used a computer after a woman? The mouse always smells of flowers, there are greasy thumb marks on the space bar and what looks like specks of yogurt on the screen.

Alison Carroll, still looking enthusiastic and drugs-free

For the first two years, all new household gadgets must be exclusively used by the male in the house. Only then, when they’re already a bit grimy, can women be allowed to get hand cream and assorted moisturisers all over them.

Alison Carroll, still looking enthusiastic and drugs-free

She’s holding up well, isn’t she? That looks like a proper, genuine smile, not the sort of fake, lifeless dead-eyed grin we’ve come to associate with people who work full-time within the video game industry.

Alison Carroll, still looking enthusiastic and drugs-free

Right. That’s it. You’ve had TWO porn updates in a row, now. So tomorrow it’s spiral time. More spirals that you can possibly imagine. Spiral curtains. Spiral mugs. Spiral lamps. That’s the deal.

PREVIOUS STALKING ACTION

  • Foreign telly OUTRAGE
  • Corridor spycam EXCLUSIVE
  • Her in hi-res
  • “Crotch-gate”
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    “WE CHEER” CHEERLEADER PHOTOS FOR EDITORIAL USE

    We’re allowed to reproduce these images for free. So we might as well. The only cost involved in putting these on the internet is the cost of our time.

    Looking at the ad-revenue figures for January, our time is worth 0.02p per hour.

    The ladies are having promotional fun because of We Cheer, a game for Wii. Wii is the hot new games machine that everyone is buying and playing for about 35 minutes before packing it away until next Christmas.

    Finally, Wii developers have stopped targeting women and children and started targeting pathetic lonely men unable to effectively communicate with real women.

    There were six photographs. Sadly, photograph #5 was just of a Wii and the game box, so we have not reproduced it.

    They sent out photo #4 as a montage. They can’t have got much usable material from the event.

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    This is where photo #5 would’ve gone, had it not been of the box and a Wii. Such a waste. It could’ve been an additional close-up of the brown-haired one’s thighs :(

    Congratulations, 505 Games. If this was your aim, it worked. And thanks. Thanks for this, and thanks for releasing Raiden III in PAL territories. We should’ve thanked you for releasing Raiden III in PAL territories at the time, it was very kind of you to make such an effort to please so few people. Here’s a press release in which you can read the thoughts of some cheerleaders.

    WE CHEER GOES DOWN A STORM WITH CHEERLEADERS

    505 GAMES RECRUITS SHEFFIELD STORM ALL-STAR TEAM FOR WE CHEER

    Milton Keynes, 6th February – 505 Games has called in the pros to run an expert eye over the upcoming Namco Bandai cheerleading title, We Cheer available exclusively for Nintendo Wii. Three of the Sheffield Storm All-star Team’s finest launched promotional activity for the game last week by wowing press at Nintendo’s Wii Flat in anticipation of the 6th February release date. The Storm girls took a break from their recent recruitment drive to take some time getting familiar with the game as well as showing off the title, and their skills, to members of the press and retail.

    “We’re more than happy to be involved with a game which will hopefully give more publicity to our sport, which is always growing in popularity in this country,” commented Coral Head, Storm All-stars founder. “I’m a bit of a gamer myself but this was the first time I’d played a Wii. Now I have no excuses!”

    We Cheer allows all future all-star recruits to brush up on their techniques using two Wii remotes as virtual pom-poms to reach the top of their game. Following on-screen commands, players spin, shimmy and shake their way through a choice of 30 high-energy songs spanning over four decades of music. Taking cheering to the next level, the special Workout Mode helps to burn calories as you cheer and dance. Fitness buffs can choose the exercise program they want to take part in before hitting the gym with a specially chosen trainer who encourages them throughout the workout.

    “I personally like the fact that the developers have taken the time to choreograph real cheerleader moves,” added Coral. “It’s a cool way for kids to get a bit of a work out too. We certainly had to throw ourselves about a bit on the harder songs, the lads here didn’t seem to mind too much though.”

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    ANTI-CHARITY UPDATE: HELP YOURSELF ONLY BY GETTING THAT SEGA LP FROM A SHOP

    An Australian shop is giving away the SEGA Ultimate Collection LP when you buy the game, should you want to buy the game from an alternate PAL region and get it for free.

    You have to live in Australia though. This update is useless.

    'Dad, have you still got that record player?'

    “Hey, readers may note that the limited edition bit of plastic is only $59 here in Aus. Which probably equates to 13 pence at the moment with the exchange rate” – John.

    This one’s for the 10 Australian readers we’ve had as of 10.09am today.

    JOHN’S SUPERB STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS “PS”
    “Also can you refrain from using the word ‘journalist’ in association with games. Hunter S. Thompson was a journalist, fear and loathing on the campaign trail was journalism – writing a fucking review of a slightly tweaked version of FIFA year-on-year in your shared shit-hole apartment full of retro games and Simpsons figures whilst wanking yourself into oblivion over episodes of Heroes is not ‘journalism’. Sticking feathers up your arse does not make you a chicken.”

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    SEGA OF AUSTRALIA DOING ITS BIT FOR CHARITY

    By selling off promotional items to help people what have found lumps on their genitalia.

    This one is at $370, but be warned – numerous journalists will be supplementing their meagre incomes by flogging copies they got off SEGA for free in the coming weeks if you want one cheaper.

    Sent in by “Retroid” who then also said “Paul” after in brackets, so we’re not sure if he’d rather be known as Retroid or Paul. We’ll just call him Rupaul. Rupaul said he found in on Eurogamer.

    ADDITIONAL SEGA-FAN ACTION FOR TODAY
    Lucky still-young Adam Doree got to interview Yuji Naka. Mr Naka said he wished SEGA had risked it all by not giving up on the hardware, and wore an extremely ‘fruity’ colour-coordinated outfit.

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