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NEW UKR LOGO-MAKING UPDATE

Oh yes. We’re supposed to be having a new logo – perhaps even as soon as this year! Here are a few more ideas we’ve had sent in. This was the first batch.

If you have any ideas, send them in. We are still open and ready. The email address for sending them in is ukresistance@hotmail.com as you well know. Don’t go acting all cool like you can’t remember our email address.

Probably a joke entry.

Probably a joke entry.

Hopefully a joke entry.

This one’s nice. We would particularly like to receive more logo ideas from people that ARE ANY GOOD and are TAKING IT SERIOUSLY.

Serious entry.

Probably serious. Very artistic.

That’s not going to fit, is it? Look at the shape of hole it’s got to go in. Use some COMMON SENSE, MAN.

We’ll have to contact Richard (yay!) and ask him how much we can buy the official rights to his likeness for.

So yes, very nice. None leap out as something we’ll be able to bear looking at 50 times a day for the next five years, though.

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DAVID JAFFE IS NOT AWARE OF THE BLUE SKIES IN GAMES CAMPAIGN

We haven’t played Twisted Metal or God of War. So we’re level.

Taken from Jaffe’s Twitter thing. If you’re wondering, UKR does sort of have a Twitter thing – a reader who knows about all the things the young people are into signed it up ages ago before it was cool and turned it into a posts feed.

ABOUT THE UKR “TWITTER THING”
It’s not us. It’s not done by us and we’re not in charge of it. So if it turns into a gay porn highlights reel tomorrow don’t come crying back here with your tales of ripped arseholes.

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THE UK’S “HOTTEST” “HALO FAN”

It is quite a coincidence that T3 and Microsoft have tracked down the UK’s “hottest Halo fan” a mere week before the release of Halo Wars.

Halo Wars publicity LIE SHAME

It’s also quite a coincidence that she’s got her own promotional Halo Wars vest top, plus the MAIN FOCUS of her Halo love seems to be Halo Wars which isn’t even out yet.

Halo Wars publicity LIE SHAME

“Those have to be the hottest promo shots I’ve ever seen. A sexy brunette, cute little hot pants and a Halo Wars top – sexy as fuck. I pretty much creamed when I saw the pictures of her ironing and making tea. It’s where the woman belongs” – Mike.

Halo Wars publicity LIE SHAME

Her “bedroom” also seems lacking in the usual accoutrements we’ve come to associate with the bedrooms of girls (from seeing them on television home makeover shows).

Halo Wars publicity LIE SHAME

It helps if you look at the screen. The screen tells you what’s happening. It’s not enough to just hold the controller and have the console turned on. That’s not playing.

Halo Wars publicity LIE SHAME

But still. It’s vaguely relevant and is of a girl. Here are some facts about Amanda which you can use to convince your mum & dad you have a girlfriend.

About Amanda:

Amanda Johnstone is 25 years old, lives in South London and runs her own event management company. She spends a lot of time away from home however when at home she likes nothing more than being snuggled up in bed with her Xbox controller, playing Halo to help take her away from her daily stresses.

Her good friend Sam introduced Amanda to the world of Halo 7 years ago when he launched his ‘Halo club’ nights at The Cross (Kings Cross, London) which all began as part of his passion for the game. She worked the door for three years and was also used as the ‘face’ to advertise the night. As she spent more time with Sam some of his infatuation with the game started rubbing off on her.

Amanda became more and more into Halo and was spending more of her evenings with the covenant as Master Chief, trying to save the world. This became an obsession, to a point where not only was she playing until the early hours of the morning on most nights over Xbox LIVE but started collecting Halo merchandise – from themed mugs and posters through to bags and figurines. She even sleeps with Master Chief every night under her Halo duvet cover and pillow case set.

Amanda’s obsession doesn’t stop here as she recently got herself a little pet Chihuahua and named him ‘Chiefy’.

In 2007 she was also lucky enough to win tickets to attend the launch of Halo 3 where she walked the red carpet with Master Chief, Pharrell Williams, Christian Slater amongst other celebs.

“I have so much fun playing Halo and absolutely love getting on Xbox LIVE and getting better scores than a lot of the boys I regularly play the game with. I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of the new game Halo Wars.”

When Amanda is not trying to save the world on Halo she is blasting out karaoke hits on Lips. Her favourite songs include Leona Lewis’s Bleeding Love and Rihanna’s Umbrella.

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SEGA ENTERS BRAZILLIAN HOME-BUILDING BUSINESS

Having SEGA as your company name is a coincidence. That could be explained away quite easily over an informal business breakfast. But stealing the logo? Just going on Google and getting a logo? That’s DOWNRIGHT THIEVERY.

“This is better than any of the SEGA/Dreamcast-spotting-in-the-wild posts you’ve had submitted this century – SEGA has entered the construction business in Brazil! It’s not a rip off, it’s a homage!” – Subbie.

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DREAMCAST LAUNCH PROMOTIONAL POPCORN

Nine years past its best before date. Stale. Very apt for the SEGA of today.

“Here is a high resolution photo of some exclusive Dreamcast popcorn from the ‘Dreamcast Premiere’ event at the Empire Leicester Square, which my colleague has had in his cupboard since November 2000! SEGA’s popcorn is manufactured by Hollywood Express Ltd, of Preston. It contains hybrid popcorn, vegetable oil, salt, and colour – beta carotene. It has a best before date of 13/10/00. You may make your own joke about the best before date of the Dreamcast. We daren’t open the packets now in case it releases some kind of biotoxin” – John.

IT CONTINUES…
“Also in the shot is a somewhat shoddy Dreamcast bottle collar, which was given to us wrapped around a bottle of Coke. The bottle in the photo is not the original. He didn’t do a great job of keeping the ticket in mint condition, but at least it’s readable and shows the date of that memorable trip to Dirty London to meet Sonic and Ulala.

“We put a copy of today’s paper in the shot, so you know we’re not just recycling an old photo. There seems to be some purple fringing on the newspaper text, for which I can only apologise on Canon’s behalf.

“I think the collection is worth keeping for another two years before putting it on eBay during the tenth anniversary celebrations.”

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THERE AIN’T NO PARTY LIKE A SONIC-THEMED DISCOUNTED GOODS PARTY

Found by a “Leo” who said it was in some sort of $1 shop. Even though they’re clearly marked $2.90. We are not interested enough to seek clarification regarding the actual price.

Brace yourselves. We’ve got FIVE photos of these to get through. You might want to go and make yourself an EXTREMELY STRONG cup of instant coffee.

Leo tells a story with these pictures.

The story is… “I SAW THEM AND GRADUALLY GOT NEARER TO THEM.”

The end of the story is that he got very close to them, but didn’t bother buying them.

But he did get very near them. Getting near them is fine. It’s like getting near enough to a woman to smell their moisturiser. The memory can sustain you for months.

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PLAYSTATION3 IMPLICATED IN YET ANOTHER PIKEY SCANDAL

That 13-year-old boy who knocked up the 15-year old? You’ll never guess what he’s into.

Spotted by a man called “Yankee.” He’s the one that reads The Sun, not us. We sit outside Starbucks reading the media section of the Guardian, trying to convince the waitress we’re intellectual.

UPDATE:

Enjoy it while it lasts.

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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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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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