A HUMBLING GLIMPSE INSIDE THE TOY FACTORY

What must these people think of our stupid Western ways?

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Glad to have easy work where you get to be sitting down all day tinged with jealousy about people with such huge disposable incomes, we’d imagine.

SONIC-MANIA TAKES OVER YAHOO ‘PORTAL’

It’s the glory days of the 1993 European Grand Prix all over again.

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“Here is the update of the year you’ve been longing for. I’ll link to it, but I fear it won’t be there for long. The article itself doesn’t feature the photo – http://m.uk.yahoo.com/ [YES, IT HAS SINCE DISAPPEARED]. Therefore, I took a picture of it using the ‘PrtSc’ key, which doesn’t seem to print the screen at all, rather uses an advanced internal camera to, in effect, ‘capture the screen’. See the attached png [WE CONVERTED IT TO A JPEG AS WE ARE ‘AGAINST’ MOST FORMS OF PNG] for your lossless yet nicely compressed looking at pleasure.

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“I also ‘blew it up’ and did some filtering and sharpening to make it larger, giving you two pictures of increasing size for the price of one rubbish update. I have nothing further to say as I should have been asleep half an hour ago. Yours sincerely, Police Constable London (not a real police officer)” – Police Constable London.

INDUSTRY NEWS: DAVE PERRY EXPERIMENTING WITH STUBBLE

And judging by that look on his face’s he’s getting in the mood to do a bit of Wii development or perhaps something casual for the internet.

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What’s happened to the other Dave Perry?

WHEN GOOD THINGS CLASH WITH BAD THINGS

Ulala 2.0 – a zip for a mouth to allow her to more easily accomodate penises, plus a zip on her tummy to enable easier extraction of built up reserves of semen without the need for invasive stomach pumping procedures.

Shame about the eyes.

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Found while idly browsing Flickr. Ulala also seems to be the name of a quite popular internet rabbit.

ENEMY BUSINESS DOWN 18% YEAR-ON-YEAR

That’s overall. PS3 has seen an even bigger collapse.

PS3 SALES Q2 2008:  1.6m

PS3 SALES Q2 2009:  1.1m

We will leave the stark, bleak numbers to stand alone without accompanying imagery. Facts taken from this serious place, if you don’t believe anything that doesn’t come on a plain white background.

“SONIC’S POPPIN’ GROOVE”

If enough people simultaneously thought about things to do with Sonic The Hedgehog, someone would eventually think “I wonder what a collection of tunes inspired by Sonic The Hedgehog’s music – but not legally borrowing any specific elements – and recorded in an electro style would sound like?”

This.

Submitted by “Kristian” just yesterday, who suggested we save it for a slow news day. Kristian is obviously a bit new around here.

BAYONETTA WOMAN AT 2000×3008

Stakes dramatically upped by “Sebastian” and his Nikon D50!

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Taken at E3. That costume’s going to be stinking by the time the game eventually arrives. No offence, sweetheart.

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There’s still something not right about it. It’s like bumping into the dowdy receptionist in some sort of goth sex club.

TILE STICKERS FROM WILKINSONS

And as if that headline wasn’t enough to suck the life out of the entire internet today, here are some photographs. Three photographs. Three photographs of the tile stickers. Let’s go TILE STICKER WILD.

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“DC swirls in the form of tile stickers, found fresh in the DIY department of my local Wilkinsons. Exhibit A was taken in the standard ‘creeping closer’ style, where as I couldn’t be arsed for Exhibit B.”

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“Create something amusing out of that and it should last the UK:R readership a few weeks work of man-tugs.”

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“Pics sadly taken on a Sony Ericsson C510. Which explains the quality of the pictures, but doesn’t explain my shaky hand” – CyberRazorMike.

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This is Exhibit B. Door knobs?

WE LOVE CHRISTIAN WHITEHEAD

Christian has created a ‘proof of concept’ video about making Sonic CD run on Apple’s iPhone via his fancy emulator. It’s a bit of a shame you have to cover the screen with your thumbs – ISN’T IT, APPLE? – but apart from that, SHIT YES PLEASE.

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There’s a video of it here. It’s not embeddable, hence the tardy use of a screen capture.

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That’s it. Being made by Christian.

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Don’t remember this level.

WHERE WAS THAT THING WE DID?
Oh yes. There it is.

THE BAYONETTA WOMAN IN HIGH DEFINITION

Can anyone beat 1271 x 2285 @240dpi, taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II?

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“I’m aware that she has been posted about quite a bit already, but most of the photos are generally rubbish so here is a decent one I took at E3. In all fairness she’s probably one of the most exciting things that has appeared with regards SEGA in some time :<" - Chris.