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.

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.

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.

GET YOUR SEGA NEWS HERE!

Need some SEGA news? Simply pop up to Shoreditch and visit the SEGA NEWS FOOD AND WINE SHOP. What more does a man need than SEGA NEWS, FOOD and some WINE?

SEGA NEWS!

THE FUNCTIONAL EMAIL: “Hi. Don’t know if you’ve had this before, but here’s a picture of a newsagent near Shoreditch that has the word SEGA in its name. Cheers, Andy”

Thanks, Andy. Thanks for saving us the LIVING HELL of going to Shoreditch and walking among the 1000s of art students with asymmetric hair and huge, ironic, white sunglasses and taking the photo ourselves.

MORE LARA CROFT MODEL PORN

Deeply unsettling or just a bit of harmless fun? It’s time for another exciting walk along the UKR tightrope of taste and decency!

Secondary sexual organs - check!

If closely analysing a child’s toy for signs of primary and secondary sexual organs is wrong, we don’t want to be right.

Plastic toy armpit fetish

These photos were submitted by a reader. It is not us that has the plastic toy armpit fetish.

Nipples?

And one with the flash, just in case using the flash shows up any additional detail, like, say, nipples.

NIPPLEGATE

And a close-up with the flash, just in case this shows up any nipples. It would appear Eidos has vetoed nipples :(

Not even the outline of a bra :(

Still no nipples. Not even the outline of a bra. This is rubbish.

Toes

Nice toe definition.

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.

WEIRD SONIC ACTIVITY UPDATE

These are the weird things Sonic has been spotted doing recently. We’ve been saving some of these for nearly a year, although, looking at them now, it wasn’t particularly worthwhile.

Do do do do-do-do (Starlight Zone)

Sonic was spotted fronting a back street karaoke bar in Japan.

Copyright theft

“Hey, this is from a health food store window in London, Ontario, in Canada. You guys rejected my request on Xbox Live but you must get a lot anyways. But I’ll let you know once I get my Live account up and running again. Hope you like the pic.”

This is Sonic, spotted breakdancing at the French ‘Micromania Game Show’. It will be taken off YouTube by the time you read this, as that’s what always happens.

These are of Sonic, spotted endorsing a Meccano rip-off building contest in Stockholm! Thanks for the photos, man from Stockholm.

Some nice Sonic graffiti, upon which a heartless vandal has drawn on a very small penis.

Sonic/Shadow/bitches

This final photo of Sonic and his bitches concludes today’s list of weird things Sonic has been spotted doing recently. Chicks are hot for animals that are into Meccano and breakdancing, apparently.

TODAY'S UPDATE IS JUST A COUPLE OF PHOTOGRAPHS

Sometimes the simple ones are the best.

Tomb Raider beachy playtime

Tomb Raider beachy playtime

We’ve already managed two over the top one and are saving the second one for the evening session.

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.

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.