A TEAM SONIC TOP WE DO NOT HAVE

These photos arrived. The entire purpose of them seems to be making us sad and angry that we don’t have one of the items in question, possibly even triggering a jealous rage. AND IT WORKED :(

Inside the den of shame

FROM AFAR: “Hi UKR. I acquired this item of clothing just to send in photographs of it to you.”

100% robot-made fibres

“I would wear it on the street, but it’s a little small. In fact, this one is probably perfect for your frail boy-body, but I’m going to keep it (I might send it to you once the novelty wears off).”

Almost the the same photo. Doesn't deserve a caption of its own

“Also, there’s another whole SEGA tag on the side I forgot to photograph.”

Aspirational urban outerwear

“The snaps were taken in average res using a 2MP camera phone W10 something i? Anyway, no one needs a camera with more meganess than that.”

Need the matching pants

“Back in 2001, I stole a camera off of Adam Doree he bought in Japan for £900 and it was only 1.3 mega pixels. I still have it too. Have a great day! – Stefan.”

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH "GAMECOCK"?

Is it a joke company? We’ve never quite worked out if it actually exists, is a hoax, viral marketing designed to make something else look better in comparison, or just a Gizmondo-style scam.

Cock off

The fact that it’s using the same old monkey jokes the entire games scene already got bored of in the late-90s makes us think Gamecock‘s definitely just one big industry lie.

*YOU* CAN QUESTION RICHARD JACQUES!

The official SEGA Europe blog – which we don’t officially endorse due to them always deleting our comments, even the innocent ones – is asking for YOUR QUESTIONS to put to the Master of Music (in games) Richard Jacques.

They have used a very old promotional photo of Richard looking sad to illustrate the request:

'WHERE DO YOU LIVE? *MUFFLED THUMP* ANSWER ME'

You have until February 10 to get your questions in for Richard to actually read, think about and respond to! You can take up a small amount of his time – time he’ll never get back.

SOMEONE’S ANECDOTE ABOUT RICHARD BEING IN A GAME AND AN IDEA FOR SOMETHING WE COULD DO AN UPDATE ABOUT
“Hello UK:R, I have an interesting fact I thought you’d like to know: Richard Jacques is in Smash Bros Brawl. No, not as a playable character, but the song Super Sonic Racing, from Sonic R, features, as composed by none other than Richard Jacques. I thought you might want to know this, as it could make a good update when you’re dry. You could do it in this way: make a joke about how Brawl is over-rated and is probably going to be crap. Then you mention how Richard Jacques will probably make you have to buy it, but you will send a letter to Nintendo explaining that Richard is the only reason you bought it, and that he should be given the money from your purchase. You could play with the whole “should I buy it” dilemma thing for a few lines, and probably make a good few sarcastic jokes about various Nintendo characters. You know, your usual. Go ahead and use it, but I won’t cry if you don’t – Sandy.”

We've got a photo of the toilets, somewhere...

And here’s a bonus photo from SEGA’s awesome Flickr account. This is one of SEGA Europe’s meeting rooms! Those youths are taking photos of a PowerPoint slide. That’s displaying way too much enthusiasm.

VIDEO: BBC's WATCHDOG MOANING ABOUT BRAIN TRAINING NOT RECOGNISING NORTHERN ACCENTS

Staggering sensationalism from the BBC, here, as it criticises Nintendo’s Brain Training for not recognising the odd squawks and weirdly-shaped vowels of people from parts of the UK the trains don’t go to more than once a day.

WARNING: Contains Rory Bremner.

You can’t blame Nintendo. Have you ever tried talking to a taxi driver in one of the regions? Full, hilarious transcript on the BBC’s site.

RICO SHEN HAS BEEN MAKING A NUISANCE OF HIMSELF AGAIN

Rico Shen, the amateur photographer who bought us the Microsoft-branded ladies a few weeks back, has been harassing girls at game shows again. This time at the Taipei Games Show 2008. Taipei, we have subsequently been informed, is in Taiwan. Not Korea. Although it could be argued [CONTENT DELETED]…

Rico Shen: BRAVE

SPOTTED BY: “UK:R’s intrepid correspondent in the East, Rico Shen, attended the Taipei Games show earlier in the year. Not much happened other than the unveiling of a coloured PS2 and the goods are nowhere near as spectacular as Rico’s earlier offerings.”

'So, how do you make a game?'

“But given that you must be really scraping the barrel in terms of updates by just posting a raw Wikipedia dump, you might want to take a look at his latest set.

Burning logos on with prods was outlawed in 1998

“This is one of the few usable pics, featuring the most in your face branding of a woman possible.”

Red, then blue

“That might be worth something. It is live, unscripted holding, quite brave from a developing nation like Taiwan. Lee Jie-Shing on the right must really show a bit more teeth if she’s to last in this cut throat industry.”

'So, er, where are you from? Oh...'

“Please keep my name and email handle out of it if you see any of those images fit for update – Mr XXX X. XXXXXXXX.”

Please spare me, Mr Photographer man

Look into her eyes. She’s clearly terrified. If you’re not used to seeing barely masked terror in the eyes of a lady, trust us. That’s what it looks like.

The Sugababes circa 2012

Korean girl band Siren was there. They are clearly struggling a bit if they have been reduced to attending games shows in Taiwan.

Mum? Lover? Sister? Twin?

Would like to know/read the backstory behind that couple, particularly regarding how they came up with the ideas for their hair.

Taiwanese Hellgate cosplay

Taiwanese Hellgate cosplay. Remember this image, you will almost certainly never see Taiwanese Hellgate cosplay ever again.

Glossy coats, bright eyes

Yes, I will have a leaflet, please. Thank you. What a lovely leaflet. Very glossy. Nice full colour repro. Are any of you also prostitutes?

AN EXAMPLE OF THE SORT OF EMAILS WE GET

What is this? A joke? Some sort of bet about who can “get on” UKR first? The deluded idea of a madman who has burned all his bridges and has literally nowhere else left to turn?

B. The deluded idea of a madman who has burned all his bridges and has literally nowhere else left to turn

“Some days ago, I was walking around a forest in Madrid, when I saw… THIS. I am sure you know how to us this material. Best regards! – Bor.”

Never checking email again

No, Bor, we don’t. We have literally NO IDEA what to do with a photograph of a Dreamcast controller box someone claims to have found in a forest under a tree. There’s no training course for dealing with stuff like this.

ELSEWHERE ON "THE NETWORK" #00013

Five out of what seems like the 27,000 updates we have lovingly cobbled together for some other bits of the internet over the last week.

  • This thing which is a textbook piece of rabble-rousing. They fall for it every single time! Wasting the energy of PS3 fans like this is one of the many ways we fight. If one man doesn’t go out to the shops to buy a PS3 game because he’s busy slagging people off on the internet today, it will have been worth it.
  • This thing where we did more purposeful rabble-rousing again two days later, to see if they’d fall for it twice in one week. They did!
  • This thing about experimental teenage dress-up activity.
  • This thing about adding vibration to Sony’s rubbish SIXAXIS controller, because we are contractually obliged to occasionally write something about Sony products. There is nothing in our contract about having to be NICE about them, mind.
  • This thing about Dr. Kawashima being mental, because we are also obliged to occasionally be nice about Nintendo’s “magic wand” machine.
  • This thing about a serious piece of tech and gaming news, because you can’t not use pictures like this when they come along:
  • BREAKING IMPORTANT TECH NEWS, with me, Gemma Atkinson

    Sony slagging. Mild porn. Anger generation. Confusion. Complaints. We can’t give any more than this. “Must click through – 11/10.”

    UPDATE: THE SONIC FURNISHINGS SET ALSO HAD AN OPTIONAL BEAN BAG!

    So you all had the duvet and some of you had the curtains. But how many had the accompanying bean bag? Or, should we say, SEGA THRONE OF POWER? It’s like real life Animal Crossing. Imagine combining it all with the carpet as well.

    It is a bean bag

    “The Sonic duvet set also had a bean bag to make your Sonic shrine of a room complete. I would only sit on it when I played the Mega Drive so I could sit on something SEGA while playing SEGA. One time, my brother was playing the Nintendo while sitting on it but I told him that was wrong.”

    It has SONIC on it

    “I’ve taken the liberty of placing it on top of a ladder to demonstrate how the years have taken their toll on a once proud piece of SEGA merchandise. See how it flops?”

    What more do you want?

    “I honestly don’t know where the beans went. Maybe my sister ate them, maybe I ate them in a fit of rage and self-harm when my brother told me Knuckles was a girl and wouldn’t listen to reason. I keep it in my wardrobe with the clothes Mummy bought from Asda and a copy of Sonic 3D – Sonicsaiyan.”

    THE AMAZING SONIC DUVET AND PILLOW CASE!

    Definitely remember lusting over this in the Argos catalogue, and begging mum and dad to buy it for Christmas. Even though, being 23-years-old and in full-time employment at the time, we could’ve just gone down to the shops and bought one for ourselves.

    TOG rating 9.5. Tear absorption rating 8.0

    TOUCHING HUMAN INTEREST STORY: “My grandma bought me this duvet set back in the 90s and I’d use it whenever I went to stay over.”

    SEGA Humping Wank Pillow

    “Somehow it ended up fully in my possession and I still use it to this day. I’m pretty sure I had a notepad and pencil tin back then with the same design on as well.”

    'Ah! A Sonic duvet! Please tell me story behind it...'

    “It’s definitely my favourite duvet cover set and always a good conversation piece. I used to think that the golden outlines on the text on the pillow case glowed in the dark, but they don’t – Joe, Sheffield.”

    Pull tightly over head and pretend

    A remarkably clean an un-stained example.

    ULALA "ALMOST UPSKIRT"

    A reader has discovered a new niche area of pornography – the “almost upskirt”. It’s where you can almost see beneath the skirtage of a lady, but can’t quite. No doubt this just makes it extra arousing as even more is left to the imagination than usual.

    Ulala's pants nearly

    Hopefully the camera has a manual override on it, at least in the post-point replays. If not, PUT ONE IN NOW, please, Sumo-Digital. It could be the difference between 9/10 and 10/10.