INSTANT MESSAGING COSTS LIVES

These are internal. Secret. For SEGA employee eyes only. We are NOT SUPPOSED to be seeing these images, images that tell SEGA staff not to post hints about what they’re working on at NeoGAF during lunchtime.

You will RESPECT SEGA.

OBEY

Spotted by a man unfortunately named “Tyson” who pretty much just stole these off another part of the internet. Several months ago. We are not picky. Content is content. One more page on the internet means one less link in the chain we have built for ourselves to wear in the afterlife.

YIELD

We think someone emailed us a photograph taken inside the toilet of SEGA Europe a year or so ago. We’ll try and dig that one out for tomorrow. There’s something to look forward to.

MARKUS & SONIC BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN

High-up SEGA Germany employee immortalised via medium of cake. Photograph of cake immortalised via rushed and half-hearted update on UKR. At least four UKR readers immortalised by leaving comments stating update is not funny. World continues to turn.

German SEGA boss immortalised in cake

“Here is a photo, I shot with my iPhone during GC. It shows a cake, that the folks from SEGA GERMANY made for their boss. It even has his face on it! (He is disguised as Mario). The cake looked awful, though. Like someone printed out the cover of the Mario and Sonic-Olympic-Game and stuck it on top of cold-pressed donkeyshit. Some foreign journalists garnished the cake with boogers and scrapings from the floor, while the booth-personnel were not looking. I also wanted to take a picture of that, but the aggressors threatened me with these huge TNA-Wrestling-Redneck-Merchandise-Foam-Pointy-Finger-things.”

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“Later when the SEGA-guys offered me a piece of that cake, I kindly refused the offer. Then someone offered me a cup of tea and I said ‘No thanks, that’s not my cup of tea!’ (Did you get the Joke? Hahaha! Although I love tea, I acted like I did not, so I got to do that hilarious joke!). Afterwards, I accidentally rubbed my elbow on one booth-babes large knockers, so it was a nice Games Convention after all! Your humble servant, Ahmet.”

THE XBOX 360 "LIFESTYLE" EXPOSED

Here are all those ‘lifestyle’ photographs Microsoft released yesterday, uploaded as part of our public service remit. Presumably these are mainly meant for those Southern European territories who buy consoles based on stuff like this.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

Let’s start with the most realistic. Tired old woman pretending to join in. Podgy man. The child they finally conceived after five painful years of IVF treatment. The console they bought her because she’s so special she can have anything she wants (she actually wanted a Wii).

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

Older man, two young boys. Woman in background pretending not to notice. Nothing says UNDERGROUND DUTCH PAEDOPHILE RING more than this.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

Girls on left is playing with LIPS. Man on right is trying to get better look at girl’s LIPS. Whichever Microsoft employee picked the name LIPS is going to find themselves put in charge of overseeing Excel development in Eastern Europe after this mess.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

Never before have we wanted to be a ginger teenager.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

He’s moving in with the elbow. He’s going for the Accidental Tits Elbow!

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

Accidental Tits Elbow with a twist! Sensational! There’ll be semen everywhere in his bedroom tonight!

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

She noticed. Whoops. Now he won’t be able to look at a girl again until he’s 34.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

Photograph taken from the graphic novel titled WHAT THE FUCK HAS HAPPENED TO MODERN VIDEO GAMING?

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

“Hooray! You both let me win because you want to try and have sex with me later!”

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

Now they have moved onto the casual quiz game.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

Nobody knew the answer. It was in the cinema before they were even born, so it’s not their sweet, young faults.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

How unrealistic. That controller’s not even plugged in. Terrible.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

These photos are definitely meant for Europe. That’s the most European selection of children possible.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

By “European” we mean healthy and happy looking. English children sit there being fat and sad in official football shirts.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

They’re not leaning into each other enough.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

That’s better. That’s ROCK AND ROLL, and, by extension, COOL MODERN VIDEO GAMES FOR ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

Frequency was ten times better, and you could sit down.

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

“…and you turn around, that’s what it’s all about – HEY!”

Xbox 360 LIFESTYLE PHOTOGRAPHY!

Now he’s blown any chance he may have had by getting the steering wheel out and insisting they play Forza 2 for a bit.

HOW BAD ARE THINGS FOR SONY?

So bad it has to give its next “best game” away for free, as a bribe, to shift some more of those useless Blu-ray machines before the receivers are called in.

BigBigFinancialDisaster

So that’s losing money on the hardware AND giving away the only game people might want this Christmas for free? This is Business 3.0!

'We'll skip the next few slides, they're just some minor financial details'

Here’s a nice photo we found of Howard Stringer putting on a very brave face, while in front of some people who presumably know the truth about how badly it’s all going.

Howard Stringer's financial presentation

And here’s an example of the sort of shameful and disrespectful Photoshopping we hope not to see. We also hope not to see such bad use of the skew tool.

Something marginally offensive about the Welsh?

And here’s a blank. Let’s hope it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. We’d hate to see a man of Howard’s pedigree humiliated by some pathetic internet jokers.

DEATH TANK AGAIN

Video. Pictures. Memories of rolling bombs flooding back. Tears welling up. Crying now, but don’t care. Those of you needing a reason to live now summer’s over, here you are.


Death Tank XBLA from Rlan on Vimeo.

From here. More pictures here. Alternative coverage featuring a lot more exclamation marks to help convince the common man of its brilliance here.

THE SEGA TOYS… HEALING LOG

Proof that we won’t automatically buy anything with the SEGA Toys logo on. The SEGA Toys Healing Log. Or, the SEGA Toys Realistic Lady’s Poo (XXL).

“Subtly enhance any room when relaxing ambient sounds begin, and the source is the Iyashi-log. Shaped as a piece of Japanese-style charcoal (a traditional sign of cleanliness), the Iyashi Healing Log blends perfectly into any room and adds beauty not only as a sound source, but in style as well.”

“What SEGA’s making instead of Dreamcast 2. A ‘Healing Log’. What the… :(” – Matt.

JOKE OF THE DAY, SPONSORED BY SONY

Q. Why isn’t Sony selling very many PlayStation3s?

A. Because it can’t keep up with consumer demand!

“Consumers are purchasing our PlayStation 3 video games console faster than we can produce them… We currently have a production bottleneck with the Playstation 3” – Sir Howard Stringer, Sony, August 29 2008.

Howard Stringer - lips moving, telling lie

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Nice one, Howard. You are a card.

IF IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR NATASHA BEDINGFIELD…

It’s good enough for us.

Natasha Bedingfield, grasping firmly

She has accepted the EA pound to promote forthcoming music game for underachieving children “Boogie Superstar.” Hopefully there will be a press event for “bloggers” which we will get invited to.

'Wow! That looks great! Can I come back to your place for a go?'

We could look into her eyes and easily lie about liking this game, were it to lead to anything of a romance nature. We’d even wank off her brother if it meant getting within lunging/grabbing distance.

TOMB RAIDER GIRL IN LATE NIGHT HOTEL CORRIDOR SPYCAM SHOCK

These through-the-spyhole photos of the Lara Croft model were taken by a man in a hotel near the Game Convention show in Leipzig. He heard noises outside his hotel room, noises loud enough to be heard over the hotel pornography channel and his own laboured breathing.

He investigated. He somehow managed to get his camera to work through the spy hole in the door and took photos of Lara going into the room opposite. Sex may have happened inside, possibly with her still wearing the costume and just pulling the relevant parts of it to one side to allow access, but that’s just us speculating.

Sensational field work

“We were demoing our game at Leipzig this week where the new Lara Croft made an appearance, wielding buns and guns and generally trying not to get molested by hordes of sweaty acne-riddled east-German teenagers. She almost succeeded. In the first pic she is still letting people get close to her, and let them smell her hair (it smells of cabbage and cheap fags). It is not me in the pic. The only real-life video game character I would touch would be through a flying tackle. She is definitely do-able, if a little short for a Lara. That night though, things got more interesting.”

Technologically astounding photographic work

“One colleague of mine who shall remain nameless lest he be mauled to death by his girlfriend, was hanging about in his hotel room one evening when he heard women’s voices in the hallway. As any one of us would do, he looked through the peephole. And what does he see? Lara is getting into the hotel room across from him. As you can see by the pics, he used his iPhone camera to snap pics of the poor girl through the looking hole before dropping his trousers and making meowing noises at the door. I think you guys can appreciate the creepiness and down-right terror these pictures will instil in people. Ms Croft may even call the cops on this one.”

Finest submission in years

“We suggested he should knock on the door wearing his bathrobe asking for a spare towel, or directions to the sauna in the vague hope of some German style pornography ensuing, but all he managed was to dreamily stare through the peek-hole for a few hours before falling asleep. Anyway, felt we had to send this one in. Hope you enjoy the perviness of it” – Seb.

SONIC MERCHANDISE IS NOW IRONIC :(

Sonic t-shirts would seem to be the new ironic heavy metal t-shirts. We don’t know if this is good or salty-upper-lip bad.

Sonic t-shirts - as ironic as cowboy shirts and big sunglasses :((((

“Found this in the window of our local Next. It’s selling a new Sonic T-Shirt with the print authentically distressed to show its 1991 vintage. The mannequin was wearing two shirts which made it impossible to tell whether it’s going for £7 or £14. Keep up the great work. Though we die, La Resistance lives on” – Nicholas.

Uniqlo's ill-advised excursion into video game character licensing

We also had lots of emails a while back regarding the awesome SEGA t-shirt range that was for sale via UNIQLO. It even hit the UK, but was discounted pretty quickly. Some things never change.

Blue t-shirts on games web sites campaign

BUSINESS PLAN: Perhaps we ought to buy 1000 of these and make this the new official UKR t-shirt by flogging them on for £12?