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UK HARDWARE SALES FIGURES HAVE BEEN RELEASED FOR 2007 SO FAR

Officially this time, so there’s no need for anyone to go crying and emailing anyone else’s boss and trying to get them sacked, okay?

Sadly, the figures for home consoles are broken down by manufacturer – so Sony’s PS3 blushes are spared by having PS2 sales added to them.

UK SALES FIGURES FOR JAN-JUN 2006, AND JAN-JUNE 2007

UK console sales for 2007

It’s all a bit hard to understand, but it at least shows that PS3 sold 930,000 units of software this year, compared to Wii’s 1.5 million and Xbox 360’s 3.14 million. That would appear to support any sort of argument you care to put forward.

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THE WORLD'S FINEST SEGA ARCADE

We have simply stolen these arcade photos from a site called Sega Nerds. They include such delights as the Segasonic Cosmofighter, Desert Tank and Hard Dunk. They say the arcade is in Guam but that might be a joke or lie. It’s hard to tell with the internet. Here are the photos.

Segasonic Cosmofighter

Even a broken Segasonic Cosmofighter should be in a list of the world’s top ten greatest arcade machines.

Desert Tank!

Desert Tank was part of SEGA’s career gaming series, which also included games like office sim “Desk Desk Admin”, catering game “Fries With Everything!” and mobile phone salesman simulator “Get Minutes”.

Hard Dunk!

We’d like to Hard Dunk all over that!

We will take care of you

There is also a photo of a slightly confused and frightened little girl, no doubt wondering why being in an arcade is not as much fun as it is supposed to be.

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SEGA JAPAN HIRES A WOMAN!

Apparently her name is Satomi Ishihara. If you’re the sort of person who enjoys really unsatisfying Japanese soft pornography where all the women do is smile at you like they like you and are your friend and don’t even get their tits out, you’ll know her as some sort of “idol”.

Satomi Ishihara - a SEGA WOMAN

Imagine getting off with a girl wearing a red SEGA shirt! You could reach over, pretending you’re feeling her chest, then sneakily feel the quality embroidery of that logo.

Satomi Ishihara - a SEGA WOMAN

You might even be able to distract her enough to steal that SEGA “staff” badge.

SEGA is always with smile, apart from when playing Xbox 360 Sonic The Hedgehog

That SEGA logo is AMAZING. We have said a lot of SEGA things are AMAZING over the years, sometimes unnecessarily, but that logo… that logo is… AMAZING. It really does sum up SEGA.

Satomi Ishihara, demonstrating how a button works

Here she is, performing a press. It looks like a good press. A well extended finger, clean body shape, clever use of the left hand to draw the eye into the object – plus she’s looking away from the target button which always makes it harder. This is a good choice for SEGA.

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SONIC PASTA SHAPES – UK VERSION REVEALED!

A man has kept this. The tin says it is best eaten before 1995, although if you’re after any sort of nutrition it’s probably best not eaten at all.

Sonic HP pasta shapes!

THE SLIGHTLY CONFUSING EMAIL: “First of, this was once british HP sauce and not that crap you find in tesco budget sauce so it tasted awesome, it was just tomato sauce and pasta, thats it!! it says it got no E ingredientes so happly give it to your kids. The shapes of the pasta where: Sonic, chopper, batbrain, orbinaut, ball hog, sally acorn – no tails even though he’s on the front cover of the damn tin. Muzzymon.”

Sonic HP pasta shapes!

Beautiful artwork, so much better than the US version. Really captures the essence of Sonic 1 and makes you proud to live in a country that feeds its children on licensed pasta snacks.

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SONY'S AMAZINGLY SEXIST INDIAN PS2 ADVERTS

A bunch of boring old feminists have been getting all angry about these Indian PlayStation2 adverts, what with their disrespectful attitude toward women.

PS2 ads from India

If there’s one thing we really hate it’s sexism, particularly when combined with a family activity such as, say, video games.

PS2 ads from India

This MUST be a joke, though? Even the currently LUNATIC Sony surely wouldn’t stoop this low? Although the site hosting the ads seems legitimate and serious and not like the sort of site fooled by fakes.

PS2 ads from India

Some proper web site ought to send these PS2 adverts to Sony and ask for a comment on their authenticity. If they are real, that’s the massive Sony scandal taken care of for this week.

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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG DADDIES SAUCE

Thankfully, one of our readers has such low standards of food hygiene he’s had this grimy gem in a cupboard since 1991.

Sadly, Daddies Sauce is DISGUSTING

WHERE IT CAME FROM: “Here is a picture of a Sonic the Hedgehog Daddies Tomato Sauce bottle I’ve had at the back of my cupboard since 1991. I’ve been meaning to send you guys this picture for ages. Best wishes, Mr Jakeway.”

Some sort of joke about 'Daddy's Sauce'

The product was withdrawn from sale in 1992, following complaints that several children were traumatised by seeing Sonic leaking ‘blood’ from a sizable head wound.

OTHER SONIC-RELATED PRODUCT UPDATES:

  • The Tails bathtime wanking lube
  • The Sonic single man food
  • Please send more. It’s important that this kind of utter rubbish is saved as a warning to future generations about overly whoring out and devaluing their brands.

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    A MAN SAW EMILY BOOTH ON XLEAGUE.TV

    …and took some photos of the TV screen. There’s no better sign of being an insane lunatic stalker than taking a photo of something on the TV.

    It would also appear he has “Sky plussed it” for repeated viewing. We would all do well to learn from this example.

    Emily Booth's last-known TV appearance before she mysteriously disappeared

    THE EMAIL: “I was flicking round a few TV channels the other day and spotted Emily Booth on xleague.tv. I took a few photos, thinking that you might appreciate them seeing as you’ve not done an update on her in AGES.

    THIS IS WHERE IT GETS FRIGHTENING: “Then, while looking through them, I noticed that if you took the two that I’ve sent to you and had them alternating in some sort of animated GIF, that it could be used by the entire nation as an aid to all the celebratory wanking going on these days, what with the downfall of Sony etc. Sorry I didn’t do the aforementioned GIF myself but I’m crap at computers. Cheers, Gary”.

    She's holding up well

    We have emailed XLEAGUE.TV with a request for an interview with Emily. Hopefully she is not aware of who we are and what we have done about her in the past, and will agree.

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    FORZA 2 CAR COMPO – THE WINNERS!

    Er… this one’s by Captain Jax. This might seem like an in-house UKR stitch up, but it’s not. Check out Mini II. It’s amazing.

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    Skills. The official UKR Mini. If you want this design, leave a comment on this post and, if you’re lucky, Mr Jax will sort you out. Or sell you one for a million credits.

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    We have copped out and chosen two winners, as this car’s frankly awesome too. Totally custom Spiel Macht Frei font work, nice colours, just all-round amazing. Again, feel free to use the Comments bit to arrange deals. As we don’t have a forum.

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    FORZA 2 UKR CAR COMPO – THE MADLY-SKILLED SECOND AND THIRD BEST CARS

    Well done, these men. Your talents at warping squares and circles have assured you a place in history. Your patience and dilligence shall be remembered, and recorded within the Google archive for future generations to stumble across while looking for pornography.

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    Nice deep red. Goes well with the black. We’re not art critics, but that’s one shit-hot-looking car.

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    Another one by Captain Jax, refining his design skills – and still not his highest placing. We’re not sure how to handle distribution of these cars, by the way, so it’s probably best to negotiate deals yourselves in the Comments bit.

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    FORZA 2 CAR COMPO – HIGHLY COMMENDED

    These are the ones that are very, very good, but still aren’t the best or the winners. More to come. Probably tomorrow now, as it’s getting late and if we spend any more time on the internet today we will BECOME THE INTERNET.

    And if we become the internet that means we’ll have to spend all day looking at ourselves instead of Asian teens.

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    Captain Jax’s first Mini. It’s nice, but Mini II blows it away.

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    Another cool car, but you’re not winning anything, Mr Default Font User.

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    Nice. Hard to hate.

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    Jon M’s Blue Sky car. Nice cloud work.

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    Very nice, and particularly well posed photos. But you just wait until whenever it is we bother uploading the rest.

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