It looks like Phil Harrison gave himself an award when he left Sony, a little something to remind him that things used to be good once.

Sam sent this in. He found it on the maker’s site, where they say it was “commissioned by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) for the president of SCE worldwide.”

Technically, for sales purposes, this contains copyrighted imagery of PS3, so can be counted as a PS3 that Sony shipped during 2008.

Well done, Phil. It’s a shame everything half-decent you did during the first eight years was obliterated by the shitstorm of the final two, though.

It’s the return of the weekly update that always seems to slip down between the sofa cushions of UKR and pass without comment. It’s what we have done on other sites. Sites that don’t mind being called blogs. Sites that don’t mind us doing things like this.

This thing about tits and legs monsters.

This thing about the Duran Duran back catalogue.

This thing about that Braid game, which subsequently got linked to by Kotaku so is classified as GARY IS A GOOD BOY.

This thing about Kirk/Uhura sexy cosplay opportunities.

This thing in which we continue “hating on” Sony product placement in James Bond films.

This thing about midlands women who work in the meat retail trade, because you can’t not use pictures like this when they come along:

We hope you enjoyed reading it as much as we enjoyed painfully and slowly slogging through it while hunched up inside on sunny days. 7/10.

We usually have as much interest in buying a Wii as we do buying a swab of herpes virus off the internet and applying it liberally to the underside of our foreskins, then boiling up the swab to make a nice meaty soup.

However, things can change quite rapidly in the world of video game criticism.

We reserve the right to change viewpoints and opinions by 100% on any given day, when SEGA games are involved.

Today, for example, we may just decide to declare Wii the best thing ever.

Because of this.

Because of HER!

There is a full tracklisting for Wii Samba here. It is enough to have us popping down to Toys R Us at lunchtime to place a pre-order. At least we held out for nearly two full years before caving in to Nintendo’s scheme.

After millions of pounds of wasted development cash to find a game that makes the PS3 worth owning along come the amazing SUMO Digital with the sole reason for possibly, maybe getting one, a GTI Club remake! Setting aside this betrayal by SUMO when they could be remaking Daytona USA we still want to play the amazing GTI Club, even if it means we’ll have to lock the doors, draw the curtains and wear a disguise.

Forget Nintendo’s cock-drawing-transmitting Pictochat device, SEGA was facilitating experimental adolescent sex chat FIRST with its IR7000 Communicator. Quite an achievement, considering the technological limitations of the time period.

It has 14 amazing features, several of which are explained on the box. We’re betting one of the remaining ten is “Durable plastic casing.”

From here. Even comes with “Original battery bundle.” Imagine that!

WHO SENT THIS IN?
Someone did, but we’ve lost your email. Sorry about that. Thanks, anyway. If you had anything particularly funny to say about it send it in and we’ll stick it on.

A smiling face. That’s the key. If this artwork was drawn today, Sonic would be snarling. Or looking down at you in some way. Or pointing a gun at your bitch. Or just coming across as aggressive while he TXT MSGs his crew about when/where the heroin shipment is arriving.

But back THEN, in the happy times, everyone smiled. Even when they were doing something Xtreme.

Apparently found lying about in Hyde Park.

Word reaches us that the Sony chief Kaz Hirai has committed harikiri after learning that the PS3 was outsold by the Xbox 360 in japan last week. The Gaijin console sold 28,116 compared to the derisory 10,705 of the PS3 heaping SHAME and HUMILIATION on the beleagured Hirai San, who is believed to have carried out the “Happy Despatch” shortly after learning the news.
Either that or he couldn’t take another 90 minute cutscene in MGS4.

Kaz Hirai – Yesterday (probably)

Congratulations, Alan! We are looking forward to seeing what the latest evolution of Kikizo looks like.

Alan Doree. It is OK if we call you Alan, Alan? Thanks, Alan.

The zooming-in visual joke. Never funny when we try it.

The winter of 1995. Such great Saturn games, such promise. Surely PlayStation wouldn’t stand a chance against SEGA’s amazing three-way attack?! Who could resist Virtua Cop, SEGA Rally and Virtua Fighter 2? It’s like the Mega Drive all over again!

That’s how we should all remember it. Let’s also remember those games coming out in time for Saturn’s launch, or at least in time for Christmas. Here’s a woman with big arms playing Virtua Cop.

Yes, we really do care about the whole battery thing. The cool, smooth sides. The design – so compact a space, yet so much to say. The poorly-translated text on import models. The chemicals. The danger! The art of draining them thoroughly.

We lie often, but not about battery love.

“I don’t know if you really care about the whole battery thing any more, but on the off-chance you do; I found this in a laser pointer that was given to me as a ‘gift’ for fixing someone’s computer. The photo shows the 0% free from Mercury, ‘Sonic Z’ battery.”

“I have attached a scaled down version of the photo for use on the internet and also a larger file for printing should you wish to do so – Michael.”