Hopefully this is just the stylish Japanese PlayStation Move photography, and Sony Europe is, at this very moment, renting a recently modernised converted riverside loft-style apartment and thumbing through brochures of models for the EMEA LIFESTYLE shoot.

Nice disclaimer. Big, readable text. Wouldn’t want to go issuing press shots that turn out to be COMPLETE LIES again, eh?

Of course, you can also play it while sitting down, occasionally flicking your wrist with disinterest.

That looks like fun. It’s like waving your arms about. Whenever we start to feel a bit bored, there’s nothing we like more than standing up and flailing our arms about for 20 minutes.

PLAN: Knuckle down and ignore all games for the next five years.

We’re starting to live vicariously through Karl. He’s got a blog, can make games, and gets lucky when outside with seeing Dreamcast logos (below). Here’s his latest game. We wouldn’t really advise downloading it, but you can if you want to. It’s 1.5MB and here.

“Having had little to do this weekend, I rustled up a little game in my spare time, and I figured its subject matter might make you laugh. I have attached it so you can see it. Yes, I was bored…”

“I have also attached an EXCLUSIVE RED SPIRAL. This shows that SEGA has obviously funneled some of its money into carpet-laying companies in the South West of Britain. It also suggests the future colour of the Dreamcast 2 spiral may be RED. I hope I can trust you with this INDUSTRY EXCLUSIVE” – Karl.

Karl, who made that odd gangster-based Sonic game, has already bashed out another entirely separate release in a whole new genre. The likes of Bungie and Epic would do well to learn from Karl’s superb work ethic.

Here’s his latest work, entitled Zero Quest. You can download it here, if you think this sort of this is appealing:

“I would like to thank you for putting up my first proper attempt at a game (that cheese-dream Sonic The Hedgehog game). That has inspired me to go and actually take up making games as a hobby. I actually got my next proper one featured in Retro Gamer, which made me quite proud.”

“I have just finished a game that parodies Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda. I have attached it for you. You can upload it if you want, if you have a slow day.”

“I have hidden Dreamcast spirals in the game, as a thankyou to you. I also attach an image to prove this. They appear in a hidden area, where old video game characters drink themselves into oblivion to blot out the fact that they are now forgotten. I thought it was touchingly fitting” – Karl.

AN APOLOGY:

We are sorry to RetroCoders for not mentioning his/their Xbox Live Indie game Adventures of Sid. We were going to, then took too long about it, then it was mentioned again, then it seemed a bit awkward AND THEN we started to feel bad about it. Sorry. It won’t happen again.

Someone has broken the UNSPOKEN RULE about not taking screenshots of certain things obtained by using certain procedures and putting them on the internet, but that’s their problem not ours.

That looks very pretty. We’d be tempted to bust out an exclamation mark, were it not the same old boss battle from Sonic 1 in high-res.

Dazzling. We are happy today.

Keep seeing this mentioned on the internet, but assumed it was just a joke about the depths Ubisoft might foreseeably plumb in one possible future. But Play.com wouldn’t feature a product listing page for a joke thing, would it?

In our case, we’re holding out for post-recession sequel “Remember When You Used To Be A Journalist?”

THE FEATURES:

– Make yourself a great career as a journalist

– Start as a columnist for a local newspaper and end up as an international reporter, heading your own TV show

– Get your own press pass

– Have fun with the full range of journalists’ accessories: notepad, handheld recorder, mic, camera

– Catch your first scoops by bike and end up travelling in style by helicopter!

– Discover the exciting parts of a magazine journalist’s job

– Go out in the field to interview the locals, but also stars, politicians and athletes

– Attend press conferences and stand out amongst other journalists

– Take the best pictures to illustrate your articles

– Organise magazine covers

– Report great news on TV

– As a TV news presenter deliver the right information at the right time

– Record celebrity interviews

– Release radio programmes on air

– Develop your investigative skills

– Become the one who reveals the top news stories!

– Challenge yourself to deliver exclusive scoops

– Explore places for interview and picture opportunities

– Play with your environment as a background for the photoshoot minigame

JOKE ADDITIONAL FEATURES:

– Go “freelance” and enjoy the benefits of beard-growing and not having to ever see other people

– Be owed thousands of pounds you probably won’t ever see

– Drink so much free alcohol your insides still hurt even after three years of not touching a drop

– Get insulted every time someone gets sent something and you don’t

– Start as a columnist for a local newspaper and end up as a depressed blogger

– Talk to women, but only because they have to because it’s their job

– Watch your carefully-cultured internet persona disintegrate the first time you meet other industry employees

– Wonder how people so obviously useless get paid three times as much to do less work

– Lie to yourself about products being better than they are on a daily basis

– Develop your plagiarism skills

– Meet people so horrible you fantasise about fighting them and actually killing them

– Never quite be important enough to have the final say on anything

When they stop we’ll be sad, but while they carry on we are indifferent. They can’t win. It’s like Top of the Pops – we gave up watching it in 1996, but were still quite upset when it was axed.

It’s Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, coming soon to an internet petition site near you.

Sent in by an “Alex” who must be a bit young and therefore still able to “get into” things like this. He probably even remembers what the buttons are and what those two new characters are called.

This video seems to have “blown up” today, as we’ve had less than three and more than one email(s) about it so far. Look at the poor dear, wobbling the controller sticks and wildly stabbing at the buttons, as if Final Fantasy is the sort of game you physically PLAY.

Final Fantasy is the sort of game you look at, occasionally, to see if it’s finished yet. A bit like this video of poor Leona.

Save your energy for a go on Just Dance when you get home, love.

Reader “Christian” from Denmark sent us a link to this. It’s a competition we can’t enter, and a competition that the mere existence of makes us sad.

It’s a Shenmue action figure we will never be allowed to have.

Click here to see the error message with your own pained and incredulous eyes.

No doubt these are already winging their way via courier to PEOPLE WHO DO NOT DESERVE THEM and who won’t do blog updates where they take 1000 photos of them driving along real roads. We’ve got to get back into this “loop” everyone else seems to be in.

Found this on the “news wires” while looking for photos of men in suits. Some of you might like it. You can see her toes, and she’s been reduced to the level of compliant product.

She’s little more than a bit of meat thrown on a sofa to help shift units.

We have nothing to say about fashion.

Or Beyonce. Find her odd mixture of “I like Jesus” and “Look at my sexy bottom and buy my recordings” very difficult to compute. She’s unsettling, like a nine-year-old girl wearing mummy’s heels and makeup.

So we did have something to say about Beyonce after all. Preferred her in Destiny’s Child, though.

Nintendo News: Beyoncé and Nintendo Expand Partnership to Promote Fashion and Fun in 2010

REDMOND, Wash. — Fans of Nintendo’s fashion-themed Style Savvy game for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi™ systems will have access to some hot new designs this year, thanks to an expanded partnership between Nintendo and renowned entertainment icon Beyoncé. Style Savvy players with broadband Internet access will soon be able to download five designs from the real-life Deréon clothing line co-created by Beyoncé and her mother, designer Tina Knowles. As managers of their own virtual boutiques, players can incorporate these chic Deréon fashions as they create one-of-a-kind looks for their in-game clientele.

“I love that I get to become a stylist and take over my own boutique, and it’s so much fun to see some of my Deréon designs added to the mix.”

“Style Savvy is all about creativity and fashion, both of which are really important to me,” says Beyoncé. “I love that I get to become a stylist and take over my own boutique, and it’s so much fun to see some of my Deréon designs added to the mix.”

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The novelty of this one wore off halfway through typing that headline, but we’ll push on with it anyway. Basically a man says this woman from Diablo III looks like Violet Berlin from very old games TV, which is a coincidence, as his dad used to teach geography to Andy Crane when he was in college.

Yes, that’s all there is to it. This woman is a bit like Violet Berlin, and the man who sent it in’s dad taught Andy Crane about oxbow lakes.

This woman is a bit like Violet Berlin, and the man who sent it in’s dad taught Andy Crane about oxbow lakes:

“You’re probably the only games news site to know Violet Berlin’s name (and her previous games role in Micro Machines 2 on the Mega Drive) without Googling or Wikipediaing or some other internet bullshit nonsense, so I thought you might be interested in this. Incidentally, my dad taught geography to Andy Crane when he was in college” – PenguinJim.