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NINTENDO Wii AND SERIAL KILLERS LINKED

Finally, someone has made the connection between being a mentalist and thinking that Nintendo’s Wii is a valid form of gaming entertainment.

Behold the amazing caption “Yorkshire Ripper … bowling fun”:

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From The Sun. Via Eurogamer. We suspect the Sun’s “source” has been spending a bit too long playing Murderer Happy Families.

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INDUSTRY NEWS: MALE PERSON PUT IN VIDEOGAME

He’s a bit young to be having a combover, the poor kid.

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He’s called Michael Perham and he’s a sailor, hence the clothes.

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INDUSTRY NEWS: MR NAGOSHI IS EXPERIMENTING WITH NEW ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE CHOICES

SEGA’s making a new Monkey Ball for that joke console. That’s why it just sent out this mesmerising photo of series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi. He wears the knowing facial expression of a man with at least one extra hole in his penis.

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Does SEGA Japan employ an in-house professional shaver? If not, keeping everything mown so precisely must impact heavily on his social calendar.

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DO YOU WANT A SECURE FUTURE WITH TRANSFERABLE SKILLS?

Who signed us up for a jobs mailing list? That’s not funny. It hurts. Do you think it’s easy sitting here on the internet for 16 hours a day watching people boasting about what they’re blowing their disposable income on?

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Clicking on the link takes you here, which seems to be a front for getting you to sign up to a training courseĀ here. Unless you’re planning on moving to Canada in the next decade, don’t bother.

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INDUSTRY NEWS: PETER MOORE IN SHORTS

When did Peter Moore become a self-mocking comedy figure? If only he’d worked up such a sweat for Dreamcast.

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Photo taken by Games Press, using a Nikon D40. Thankfully we don’t have the images taken by those poor men sitting at the front.

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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?

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THERE WAS A TERRIBLE MIX-UP AT THE DEVELOP AWARDS

Former PlayStation man erroneously associated with “excellence”.

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Just wrap it up in bubble wrap and post it back.

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GIRL IMPRESSED BY SIMPLISTIC SCENE

A simplistic scene that *may* have been slightly impressive on a home computer in 1988. May have been. We can’t remember longer ago than 1992 any more.

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“I’m doing it! I’m playing a game!”

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“GIRL GAMER” MAGAZINE

Can someone pop a copy of this in the post, please?

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Or just scan the best photographs.

THE PROS AND CONS OF AIMING A MAG AT GIRLS

PROS

- You can reuse all the tired ideas that have been in games magazines for decades.

- Reader interaction.

- Lower expectations.

- No one will suggest doing a track-by-track guide for Gran Turismo 5.

CONS

- Having to explain everything.

- Someone will still have to write a guide for Final Fantasy XIII over a weekend using only the Japanese code.

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SOME PEOPLE ARE STILL MAKING DREAMCAST GAMES

Just like some elderly Japanese soldiers in the jungle still think they’re fighting World War II, and also eerily similar to how Sony won’t just bin PS3 and start again.

This is called Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles. It is, in the global scheme of things, “new” on Dreamcast.

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This might be a bit “2008″ but we have been made to feel guilty about neglecting the modern Dreamcast “scene” by Redspotgames. They have a shop you can buy this and ONE OTHER Dreamcast game from, providing your Dreamcast is still working and you’ve got a TV that can still take the old, weak, low-resolution signal she produces.

WHO IS MAKING THE GAMES?
“We are producing our games at a CD facility in Germany” a nice man told us in an email

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