FREE GERMANY!

Apparently, according to an email we got from an actual German (he yielded to our superiority by speaking the Queen’s English) German politicians want to ban video gaming.

This is probably a wild, sweeping exaggeration, but we can’t be bothered researching things at the best of times and especially not when they’re in German.

And also because it has resulted in photos like this appearing on the anti-ban site GAMING IS NOT A CRIME:

He is a typical German video gamer, apparently.

The campaign wants to highlight the “real gamers” of Germany and show that not everyone who plays games is a sick, anti-social weirdo. We have obviously focussed on the ones that do look like sick, anti-social weirdos for comic effect.

It’s nice to know that German hardcore gamers sometimes look exactly how you’d imagine them to

SAYS THE GERMAN: “We are doing an online-petition, because they want to ban videogames in Germany! The government thinks that every gamer is a potential psychopathkiller. So we ask people to register and upload their picture. Even if the Tommys don’t care about Germans being f*cked by the government, you still have to do a little newsflash about the site. Why? Because it is sponsored by segaON and consists of totally embarrassing pix like these. It is a comedy goldmine!”

This is what happens to a country when David Hasselhoff is considered a positive role model.

There are also women on it. German women, but they still have all the right bits for doing stuff with/to and some are quite passable.

It’s a shame Germany hasn’t got a Frag Dolls.

THE SITE’S INTRO, PUT THROUGH BABEL FISH, AS ANYTHING PUT THROUGH BABEL FISH IS INSTANTLY AMAZINGLY FUNNY:
“Gaming has many faces – and one of it is yours. Show it: Your picture loads high and shows operational readiness level! Support our on-line initiative, in order to show the public that players are completely normal humans from all social classes and not part of a dark fringe group. We reject the overall condemnation of PC and video games in the connection of acts of violence, which ignores social and personal bad states of the authors unjustified. Players stand together – for their hobby, for appropriate protection of children and young people and against material force.”

THAT WASN’T FUNNY ENOUGH, SO WE TRANSLATED THAT INTO FRENCH, THEN BACK INTO ENGLISH:
“The play has many faces – and one of him is with you. Show it: Your image charges the high one and shows the operational level of promptitude! Support our initiative on line, in order to prove to the public which the players are human the completion normal of all the social classes and not part of a dark group of fringe. Us kids the total judgment of the PC and the video games in the connection of the acts of violence, which is unaware of bad the social and personal states unjustified authors. The players are held together – for their pastime, for suitable protection of the children and the young people and against the material force.”

THAT WAS A BIT BETTER. GOOD LUCK, GERMANY.

PLAYSTATION3 IS ABLE TO POWER ITSELF

We got sent this. Pay attention. It’s a grower and one of those things that’s so ace we can’t stop looking at it:

PS3 - self-powered

Tells a story. Has a punchline. Slags off Sony. All boxes ticked.

IN OTHER NEWS…
Cunts Corner has been allowed back on the internet again, and this time it has photographs. If we’re not on there by 3.30pm with some sort of accompanying explicit gay Photoshop illustration involving at least three penises we shall be very disappointed.

A BLACK T-SHIRT, FOR PEOPLE WHO ONLY LIKE AND WEAR BLACK T-SHIRTS

We have made another t-shirt. It’s black and about Sony being fucked. It’s a celebration in 100-percent cotton. We’ve only got 50 of them done, so once they’re gone, they’re gone. Buy them here.

If we sell just twelve of these t-shirts we’ll have made more profit out of PlayStation3 than Sony and all third-party PS3 software publishers.

To make room for this future unsold stock, we’ve made all our unwanted, wrong-colour stock of old shirts 12 quid each. There is only limited room in our t-shirt/bike/porn/hostage storage cupboard. Our apologies to the two people who bought one in the last month.

These new ones are 14 Mighty English Pounds each, and that includes postage, even if you live somewhere far away that costs three quid to send it to. You also get a free envelope customised with your address written on it, plus a label in the back of the neck of each shirt that conveniently tells you what size it is.

Here, we put two oranges inside the shirt to simulate what it might look like if a girl was wearing it. It wasn’t very arousing, and just made ‘things’ seem worse.

If you work for Sony Computer Entertainment or Chart Track you can have one for free. Just email in from your work address, asking nicely, and saying that UKR is the best site on the whole internet, even including Pornotube and Torrentspy, and that it “brightens up your day” with its “accurate reporting of sales figures and public opinion”.

This is pretty much just a vanity project so we have one to wear around the house. We’re not expecting anyone to actually buy one.

AN EXPLANATION OF THE DESIGN
“RIP” is in an approximation of the PlayStation3 font, which means PS3/Sony is dead. “2007-2007” is the year PS3 was born and subsequently died in Europe. You know, like a gravestone. “United in Resistance” is just a thing we put on as it sounded nice and sort of linked back to the site.

The only downside we can think of this design is people might think you’re viral-marketing Spider-Man 3, a film so bad it managed to travel back in time and rewrite history to make the first film rubbish as well.

LAST WEEK'S JAPANESE HARDWARE SALES FIGURES

You’d better get used to playing games by waving things about, basically, as that’s all there’s going to be in about 18 months time.

  • NDS: 285,192
  • WII: 101,320
  • PSP: 35,172
  • PS2: 14,815
  • PS3: 12,974
  • 360: 3,205
  • And that’s for ‘Golden Week’, which is like a Japanese Christmas and Bank Holiday rolled into one, and a time people tend to buy games consoles for something to do while at home in their tiny little paper houses.

    Once everyone’s finished wasting vast piles of money developing their current PS3 projects there’ll be 50 collections of mini games released for Wii every week. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a remote control being waved near a human face… for ever.

    Blockbusters' message to Sony

    We can’t wait to see what Sony’s embarrassing climbdown will be. Emergency 50 percent price cut? Cheaper new PS3 version without Blu-ray drive? Free t-shirts? Something has to be done before September, or it’s exit hardware industry time.

    MISCELLANEOUS

    Here’s some of the crap we’ve got in recently. If you sent it, by “crap” we mean “little works of genius we’re very grateful to receive”.

    This is a flyer being circulated by someone called Alan who’s trying to sell a PS3 in a university. That’s his phone number. We’re not entirely sure about the legality of putting someone’s phone number on a web site read by lunatics, but are prepared to risk being implicated in Alan’s death for a minor laugh.

    A sign saying “Wii ROX” made out of unsold PS3s. Hopefully this photo was arranged specifically for us, and hasn’t just been stolen off an internet forum.

    Self explanatory.

    What Ken Kutaragi did next. Again, hopefully this was made just for us and wasn’t stuck on Gaming-Age and featured on Kotaku three weeks ago. We’ve not been keeping up on gaming news recently, thanks to post-traumatic stress brought about by the WAR.

    This image was definitley made for us. No one else would have it.

    This is awesome and deserves its own update, rather than being hidden away down here. Sorry about that, person what done it.

    This is probably a war reference we don’t get, as all we really know about WWII is that the Japanese did very bad things, which is why Granddad never drives Hondas or buys Sony products to this very day.

    A PS3 “not sold out in the slightest” sign from Russia! Even out there no one cares for the evil capitalist machine. Interesting to note that in Russia PS3 costs 2-1.990p. Right. That’s your lot. We have cleaned up our desktop quite significantly.

    INSIDE SEGA'S AMAZING 'HI-TECH LAND'

    See what SEGA thought the future would look like in 1993, thanks to a Japan-living-in reader called Rudie. He’s embarrassed us quite severely by putting in the sort of effort we haven’t put in since 1999.

    Hi-Tech, low maintenance

    “Here are more pictures of things that say SEGA. Near my place in southern Tokyo there are two arcades both called SEGA HI-TECH LAND.”

    Rare SEGA font!

    “This is the entrance to one. You can taste the future. And you know it will be great because it says SEGA!”

    Where's Daytona?

    “There was one person on the arcade portion, which means it was more active than American arcades. Everyone else was by the UFO Catchers and Pachinko machines on the other side. The clerk didn’t mind when I got pictures of the empty VF5 machines.”

    Every day is SEGA day on UKR!

    “This mat states that the 23rd of every month is SEGA day. That makes Japan automatically better than every other country on Earth.”

    Probably looks better at night

    “The back entrance to the other arcade. I don’t know what else to say.”

    We'd clean it for free :(

    “This is the front entrance.”

    Arcades: Thriving

    “Look at all those empty machines! That just means there’s no waiting to have fun at SEGA Hi-Tech Land.”

    Ideal for mopping spunk off Dreamcasts

    “The best part is at the arcade they have free wetnaps that remind you about SEGA day! See two SEGA Arcades within walking distance of each other. They are still open which means someone out there still cares about fun.”

    SEGA HI-TECH LAND

    This should be our new logo.

    ANOTHER ONE OF THESE

    This one’s great. Probably a bit too obscure a reference if you’ve just come here from MySpace, though:

    Ken seeks advice from Father of Disaster

    Also, our congratulations go out to the creator for not mentioning the Nuremberg Trials or dead farm animals and therefore producing something we can use without getting letters from solicitors about ceasing and then desisting.

    TOMB RAIDER MODEL PORN

    And by ‘model’ we mean plastic thing. And by plastic thing we mean ‘toy’. And by porn we mean… ‘porn’ albeit in a strangely unsettling fashion.

    We didn’t take these photos.

    There is a story behind them, a story NOT involving us.

    A man who works at a game shop got the toys, opened one, took some photos and sent them in. His initial email pointed out that he thought the toy looked like Emily Booth, which was the ‘angle’ he suggested we use.

    We didn’t say it was a funny story.

    Then he took some with the flash on.

    We’re not sure if he did that as a joke or seriously to give us a better look.

    It was a good idea though.

    The end (of society).

    PLAYSTATION LOSES IT HEAD

    Isn’t that a clever headline? You can use that if you want, for free, to illustrate the “Father of PlayStation retires” story you’re no doubt currently writing for your blog/site/forum/magazine/podcast/videoblog:

    And here’s a picture we just made to illustrate the enemy leader’s unconditional surrender:

    Field Marshall Fils-Amie raises the flag over Sony Europe's HQ

    Sony’s plans for a ten-year reich – obliterated!

    Ken accidentally reveals PS3 profit margins

    This is one someone else just made. Hopefully this won’t turn into some sort of celebratory Photoshop competition. That would be very sad indeed, were it to happen. Especially if this archive of wartime imagery and this archive of Sony executive staff photos were used to portray Sony as broken and defeated Nazis facing certain execution.

    HOPEFULLY THIS WON’T TURN INTO SOME SORT OF CELEBRATORY PHOTOSHOP COMPETITION, BUT IN CASE IT DOES, HERE ARE SOME RAW MATERIALS:

  • A photo of Ken Kutaragi
  • A photo of Adolf Hilter
  • A photo of some unsold PS3s
  • A photo of the French PS3 launch event
  • Please don’t let this turn into some degrading internet Photoshop competition in which Sony is portrayed in an unfavourable light. It would be deeply unprofessional considering the sadness of this news.

    GIRL GAMERS STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND

    She’s American, therefore she is not being ironic in this photograph. That expression is her ‘being sexy’ expression.

    Try chewing on the power lead next time

    We’d rather take a course of gay drugs and put Master Chief’s balls in our mouths than spend a second in the company of any of these controller-kissing cliches.