They’re already being half-hearted about it and can’t be bothered to think up names of their own for things. Very promising!

This odd message means it’s either a joke or is going to be an even more amusing disaster than the last time.

How is it possible to rise “again” when, initially, it didn’t rise above the level of industry joke? Roll on the Gizmondo comeback! Can we be highly-paid consultants with company cars, please?

This update is one of those where the main reason for doing it is to get rid of a photo we’ve had sitting on our desktop for a few weeks or months. It was either put it on the internet now, or bin it. The desktop must be kept tidy at all times.

Two from the top, four from the bottom, please, Carol.

FROM THIS MAN: “The event is some sort of promotional championship event for NBA 2K8 on the Xbox 360 and it took place late last year in Taipei. It really can’t get any more uninteresting than that, a boring yearly update from a company that wishes it were EA games, on the most boring platform available. Which is why it needs Booth Babes, they’re very cheap during outside of the exhibition season.”

“A girl, ruined by stupid clothes, ridiculous earrings, and a garish Xbox 360 symbol branded upon her neck. Like cattle.”

“Can you spot which two in this image own an Xbox?”

“The winner is presented a prize! Given HD-DVD’s death, Microsoft has resorted to giving these things away. Look how happy the recipient is. Look how the screen in the background gives an air of Elvis to the presenter’s hair.”

“Here’s the winner’s other prize – it’s a return ticket to Korea, where he’ll probably have to compete with more worthy regional winners and have to go through the same pointless motions yet again with the same ugly people who play basketball games on their Xbox 360s. He is on the verge of tears.”

“If you do use these images, please don’t mention my name, or my email handle, I do try to as inconspicuous as possible on the internet, because it’s full of losers – SOME MAN WHO IS ASHAMED.”

And with that, he is gone. Leaving us to write our own captions about hot foreign women with Xbox 360 stickers crudely glued to various parts of their bodies. There’s an Xbox sticker just about visible on her arm, for example.

Behold! The tallest ladies of the East!

This is the registration area. Are we really expected to say something funny about this? Maybe we could’ve managed it in 1998, but not now.

Always good to see what genuine enthusiasm and happiness looks like.

That was too many in a row of men. Sorry about that formatting error. These photos were taken by a man called Rico Shen. Rico also took this one of a man from Intel.

The literal, physical embodiment of the phrase “over the moon.”

Need to go and have a lie down.

Best SEGA intro movie since Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, too. Not that that’s a particularly good omen.

It’s either going to be the world’s best game ever by at least a 50% margin, or like mixing your dinner and pudding together and expecting it to taste twice as nice.

It’s January. It’s cold. It’s raining. It’s hard to be enthusiastic about anything. 4/10 and an apology.

This was at Video Games Live ages ago. Richard played the piano. We took photos, but were sitting/hiding right at the back and they came out very poorly. Hence the lack of an update at the time.

The photos were supplied at 3488 x 2616 resolution. But they were not particularly flattering to either man at that size, so good old 500 wide it is.

This is nearly the same picture, only less blurry. History demands that even the blurry photos of Richard and the ones with his eyes closed are used and saved for future generations, he is that important to modern culture. You wouldn’t go binning a photo of you and Neil Tennant just because it came out a bit blurry or he had his eyes closed, would you?

And she wore a headset. We didn’t know they fitted the heads of girls. It must’ve been specially made.

“Bruises on knees, always keen to please.”

Here’s one where you can see her shoes. We understand the importance many place upon this aspect of female celebrities.

If you’re really bored today, you could do worse than read this ace old article written by Stewart Lee about the German sense of humour. It will make you understand and like Germans. Seriously.

Her name is Twee Nguyen. This doesn’t count as us stalking her because this image has been released by the PR company and her name tag is clearly visible. No way is this threatening behaviour. And besides, she almost certainly lives in America so is too far away to worry about finding, or for her to worry about getting found.

Here’s one of her in an alternate costume (bottom-left). This photo was probably taken on a different day. Perhaps those are here “normal” clothes she usually wears? A brief four-hour session of Googling her brought up this, a video of her dancing and several “false positives” on social networking sites. See what you can find!