UPDATE: ONE OF KEELEY HOLDING THE BOX

She must’ve earned £20k for this and got to keep the shoes. Plus she got it the right way up AND the right way around for a £5k performance bonus. Imagine how easy life must be when being able to stand up and hold something while not blinking very often counts as your job.

NEXT WEEK’S MOTORSTORM PR STUNT: Sony exhumes the corpse of Colin McRae and arranges to have it dragged around his home town behind a tractor.

LITERALLY UNBELIEVABLE SONY PR ERROR

Just when you think video games are becoming an acceptable, adult, mainstream entertainment form free from the sexist, teenage boy cliches of years past…

Sony and Keeley Hazell bomb video game PR back to 1986

…Sony goes and SPUNKS TEN YEARS OF WORK AWAY over the stomach of some low-grade model dressed like she’s in a 1986 Zzap! magazine ad for Strip Poker.

Sony and Keeley Hazell bomb video game PR back to 1986

Amazing. Presumably Keeley is here to ensure Motorstorm gets a 20-word review in Nuts or Zoo and maybe catches the eye of Jonathan Weinberg.

Sony and Keeley Hazell bomb video game PR back to 1986

VIDEO GAMES: Once again considered the preserve of virgins who are as familiar with the feel of ladies as they are with the atmospheric conditions of Neptune. Well done, Sony.

ELSEWHERE ON “THE NETWORK” #00044

The dream of having a job about where you’re encouraged and allowed to be rude and dismissive on the internet continues.

  • This thing which mentions SEGA in the vaguest, slightest and almost certainly un-true-est fashion possible.
  • This thing in which we celebrate not having to pretend to be excited about Gears of Cocking War 2 any more.
  • This thing which is topical and about newspapers.
  • This thing about how poor people are buying iPhones.
  • This thing about how FOOTBALL is meant to make men buy mobile phones, because you can’t not use pictures like this when they come along
  • 'I'll just impulse-buy this expensive item'

    About as interesting as listening to people you don’t know talking about how their bank is failing to pass on the reduction in interest rates. 3/10.

    LARA CROFT MODEL BEING INTERVIEWED BY A DANE AND GETTING A BIT “MOUTHY”

    Here’s Pretend Lara Croft 08 Alison Carroll being interviewed by a Danish man. He wants to ask questions about archaeology, which is brave as he can’t really say “archaeology” very well.

    She gets “her people” to interrupt and tell him to stop. It is the sort of awesome uncomfortable voyeurism we have come to expect from Lara Croft model interviews.

    Pretend Lara Croft 08 Alison Carroll

    The video doesn’t seem to be embeddable. You’ll have to watch it old school by clicking on a link. She’s wearing a bikini, if that’s any additional motivation. The sighting was sent in by “Per” who says “Ekstra Bladet is a big daily newspaper in Denmark. Like a light version of The Sun.”

    EUROPEAN HARDWARE SALES FOR 2008

    Courtesy of a graph in Japanese, courtesy of Nintendo, courtesy of an amazingly impenetrable thread about Nintendo’s performance over at NeoGAF.

    It is nice to have clarity.

    INTERNAL SEGA MERCHANDISE: AWKWARD TRIANGULAR DREAMCAST BAG

    Oh yes. You won’t catch us wearing regulation, common SEGA product produced under license and made available to the general public. Only the finest INTERNAL USE ONLY products are endorsed by UKR.

    “A rather interesting, although awkwardly triangular, SEGA Dreamcast bag given to all workers in the European Contact Centre shortly before they pulled the plug on the Dreamcast and the staff’s employment” – Gary.

    We like to think such a mint example would fetch upwards of £2000 on eBay. The harsh reality would be more like £1.99.

    A MAN’S TOMB RAIDER CROTCH SHOTS

    We’d imagine you spend a significant amount of time wondering just how much control you will be given over the camera in the new Tomb Raider game. You know, so you can sit near the screen and be near a woman that’s actually life sized, while she goes through her inactivity animations making it seem like you’re also near a living woman instead of your usual recently-excavated rotting corpse girlfriend.

    The last Tomb Raider game, which was surprisingly brilliant, let you do things like this. Here’s what you can do this time around, courtesy of one of our non-globe-trotting readers who stays at home rotating cameras around pretend ladies.

    Tomb Raider: Underside

    “With every incarnation of Ms Lara Croft, the first thing to always be tried and tested is just how close can you get the camera to her for a more ‘intimate’ inspection. And luckily Crystal Dynamics hasn’t let us down!”

    Tomb Raider: Almost Inside

    “Possibly the best thing about the demo recently posted on Xbox Live is the inclusion of ‘crotch cam’. I’ve attached a couple of pics showing just why such a cam is essential in every Tomb Raider game. God bless the unscrupulous game developer” – Chris.

    DREAMCAST LOGO SMEARED ALL OVER HOLLY WILLOUGHBY’S TITS

    Well, more “placed across a magazine photo of Holly Willoughby” than smeared over her actual tits, but only one of those options will lead to a 10000% increase in Google traffic when placed in a headline.

    “I had a cream doughnut today at work, it was all right, the cream was a bit too watery for me, but imagine my ASTONISHMENT when I gazed down at the bit of paper it had been placed in. Is SEGA making really watery cream filled doughnuts now? I put the paper on the cover of an old FHM so you can see Holly Willoughby’s tits. Would. If you mention this you can call me Heywood Jablow” – Heywood Jablow.

    Here’s another DC logo/real life picture we got sent by a man called “RedEric”. This is from a coffee shop in Cardiff. It was not deemed good enough to get a whole update to itself, in a rare display of in-house UKR quality control. It’s nice to know that Welsh people are experiencing the joys of posh coffee shops nowadays.

    This is more interesting. It also came from “RedEric” but he didn’t say anything about it. The file name is “Singapore 333” so we assume it was taken in Singapore and RedEric is therefore yet another one of our international playboy readers who doesn’t just stay at home screen-capping GMTV presenters’ knees then going out to ASDA to buy custard doughnuts for dinner.

    And there was this. We could go on. We have literally thousands of pictures like these in the inbox of misery.

    KING’S ISLAND SONIC TOY HEAVEN

    It would appear that the world’s last remaining stocks of Sonic toys have been dumped in a place called King’s Island. There now follows way more information that you actually need regarding King’s Island.

    “Away and across the pond, there’s a place called Kings Island that people used to like to go to. Kids liked the Hanna-Barbera themed kiddie rides, and adults could enjoy a multitude of rides based on hit Paramount movies.”

    “But this past season, a larger amusement park company bought the park, but none of the rights. Top Gun became ‘Flight Deck’, Tomb Raider was genericized to ‘The Crypt‘ and the Italian Job was demoted to the unfortunate title of ‘Backlot Stunt Coaster‘.”

    “Of course, the ride names weren’t the only thing to go. The Happy Land of Hanna-Barbera was perverted into the ‘Nickelodeon Universe’, and familiar carnival game prizes like Hong Kong Phooey and Huckleberry Hound toys were replaced by crunchy, stiff Pokemon plushes and Sonic dolls with wonky eyes, though I guess we’re pretty used to wonky-eyed Sonics by now.”

    “Anyway, I’ve attached some pictures showing the sheer magnitude of how many of these dolls there are all over the place. This email’s long enough, so I’ll just leave some additional commentary if you decide to post this. Cheerios” – Sam.

    Thanks, Sam. They would appear to be relatively poor plushes featuring disappointingly low production values, but it’s still pleasant to see a place where Sonic triumphs over Disney shite.

    Bad eyes. And how come Big The Cat is still being manufactured?

    Knuckles is warning the fat man to steer clear of his bitch.

    DANCE AROUND THE HOUSE/OFFICE WITH PANTS AROUND KNEES/ANKLES – PS3 BOTTOM AGAIN

    PS3 managed to sell even fewer units in Japan last week than the week before. AGAIN. The god of statistics has smiled on us once more.

    JAPANESE HARDWARE SALES, WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 26

    PSP: 60,467
    Wii: 24,292
    DS: 22,965
    360: 7,844
    PS2: 6,962
    PS3: 3,931

    ANALYSIS
    To put this into context, 3,931 PlayStation3s is enough PlayStation3s to fit inside the boot of a Peugeot 306 estate, or enough PlayStation3s to completely fill an average household chest freezer. Today’s global news agenda set, as always, by NeoGAF.