Here’s another embarrassingly old update fashioned out of things we’ve got lying about the desktop. These photos have been sitting in a zip file since August of 2008.

Here is the visual proof, along with a small glimpse of the current UKR desktop image.

We think you all realise we have neither the inclination or technical know-how to fake such data.

Anyway, this is what it’s all about – that ZIP file is full of SEGA post card pictures. Sent in by someone we’ve forgotten the name of. They probably stopped reading during the “Spiral Period” of early 2009.

And that’s the answer to today’s quiz question.

Sorry, the person who sent these in. You went to a lot of effort with the lovely background.

We have a SEGA Xtreme dream! It involves… you can probably guess. Cream, Ulala, possibly Richard Jacques if we’ve had a lot to drink, and bottoms that don’t stop hurting for at least three days. And sofa cushions that require professional cleaning afterwards. And so much lube it leaked through the floor to the flat below.

That’s the EXIF data. The sender-inner is/was using a Lumix TZ3.

A man sent this in about a year ago. He promised more photos and some explanatory text would also be forthcoming, but nothing has arrived as of yet.

We therefore have no option but to “run with it” now, as it’s about the time of year when a man’s thoughts turn to organising his icons and tidying up his desktop as a reason to not have to go to family engagements.

A man risked losing face with his wife and members of the public by taking photographs of a work-in-progress SEGA installation that’s being set up in the Bluewater shopping centre. SEGA, meanwhile, is risking losing face by copying one of Sony’s most ridiculous claims – FOUR DIMENSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT.

“Imagine my surprise when I actually went out one night to Bluewater with the wife. Sega have a 4D motion ride that was being assembled.”

“Ignore the quality of the photos, the camera on my Sony X1 has the focusing ability of a man with cataracts.”

“Thought you might like to see the stand. I’m still fuming about the Saturn and Dreamcast and don’t need to see this shit” – Rusebke.

The UK Christmas games chart. Very depressing. There’s nothing in here that makes us want to remember where the charger cable for anything is. It’s the same games as last year only in marginally redesigned boxes.

Games are pretty much dead. Sooner or later someone important’s going to realise this and say something in public, and there’s going to be HELL to pay.

1: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2: FIFA 10
3: Wii Fit Plus
4: Wii Sports Resort
5: Assassin’s Creed II
6: Mario & Sonic At The Winter Olympic Games
7: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
8: Forza Motorsport 3
9: Mario Kart Wii
10: Just Dance

The only vaguely different game in there is, ironically, from Ubisoft, in the form of Just Dance.

Ubisoft, champion of originality – THAT’S how far we have fallen.

SEGA’s Flickr Maintenance Man has uploaded a photo of the company’s in-house Christmas tree. We hereby offer to do the job of SEGA Flickr Maintenance Man for HALF the salary being paid to the current incumbent.

Looks like everyone’s getting boxed PAL Dreamcast Arcade Sticks again this year.

An ice shuffle. A nice shuffle. A wank. Have a wank while thinking about SEGA. Warm your ‘mouse hand’ up fist, though, else it’ll shrivel away to nothing.

“SEGA has made a new game that anyone with a PC can play! A ‘Virtual Curling’ game would probably suck but SEGA has taken the ‘idea’ of curling and made Ice Shuffle – a fun puzzle game!” – Scott.

Couldn’t be bothered playing a whole game through to the end, but you might not be so jaded and miserable that it could be of some entertainment to you. The music sounds nice on a loop in the background, we’ll give it that.

OK, so it was only on a modern derivative of Channel Five so hardly counts as proper telly, but still. Two hours of men presenting awards to other men and categories like “Best Voice” hardly make for a riveting evening, or convince us that games are any better at being mainstream entertainment than they were 20 years ago.

But we stuck with it for 40 minutes to enjoy the specialist footwear.

They were paid to be there and done up in costumes…

But there was too much of this…

And not enough of this.

Too much of this…

And not enough of this.

And so on.

The enemy continues to waste its money pushing its “PlayStation3” “entertainment” consoles onto an uncaring and unwanting world, with the foolish hardware maker STILL losing money on every PS3 it TRICKS unaware civilians into buying.

And this despite the enemy boasting of recent engineering efficiencies!

Image taken from a propaganda leaflet air-dropped in by Kotaku, which claims PS3 costs $336.27 to make – and sells for less. And that’s before you take into account the cost of the box, and all the shit games Sony rams into the packaging in order to make it look like some sort of “deal”.

Seeing as we’re back in the spiral phase, here’s another nice sighting. Of more interest in this series of shots is this rare insight it gives us into how some human males exist in the year 2009. This update will hopefully be of some interest to future anthropologists. So it’s OK if it is of no interest to you NOW.

Future observers may ponder why, for example, have those three bottles been taped together?

“I was cleaning up our garage after a particularly messy night, when something previously unseen caught my eye.”

“As has become tradition, I have taken three photos whilst getting closer to the objects of interest. I like the last one as it looks like a frog feeling rather ill after eating a few too many cigarette butts” – Tim.

“(Oh, was using a crappy LG camera phone, hence the shite quality)”