This:

It’s called Wappy.

Here’s the press release that I stole from somewhere. It’s either been written by someone who’s primary language isn’t English, or Google translate’s been employed.

“Sega has made a new Toys which is shaped like a puppy. They named the toys ‘Nintendo Wappy Dog’. This robotic puppy will be released along with Nintendo DS game console. This toy able to interact with the video game and move by itself. It can response your voice and gesture moving and glowing their body into different lights color which are placed on the Wappy Dog’s cheeks and eyes. Sega Wappy Dog has equipped with Wappy-technology which can response sound like the beeps and other noises that produced when you are playing your video game. The Wappy Dog is not only can be played with Nintendo video games but also with other games like Wappy! Wack. This robotic puppy can be personalized setting such as: chose a name and equipped them with some accessory just like a real pet, watching them grow and other. We have no idea, how much will Sega priced the Wappy Dog but they are expecting to release this robotic toy this Fall season”

My uncle had a wappy dog. He had it put down.

It’s probably my turn to do one one of these types of updates so here goes….

Game developers. Here’s a handy colour picker for you to use when you’re creating your games. I’ve even included the hexadecimal codes because I know you have tight deadlines.

The rules are simple. For every dark colour used, you must use 3 lovely light/pastel colours.

Try to keep the browns and greys to a minimum please.

Can someone with a working knowledge of WordPress create some sort of autoexec file to put one of these up every day, along with a random image taken from the Google Image Search results page for “SEGA cosplay”.

Don’t take the image from the first 20 results. Take it from the bit you have to scroll down to see. We are edgy like that.

That was alarmingly easy to make :(

No!

Number 1: Making a road crossing for hedgehogs:

Sega have teamed up with the People’s trust for endangered species to spunk away a (probably) MASSIVE amount of money on making a crossing to help hedgehogs navigate the roads more safely.

Now, I like hedgehogs as much as the next man, unless the next man’s a gypsy, however, I can’t help but feel that Sega’s money could be better spent elsewhere.

The money they’re wasting on this would pay Shenmue’s Tom’s voice actor a year’s wage!

Other things this money would be better suited to:

Re-making Streets of Rage

Re-making Shinobi

Making more of a fucking effort with Sonic games

This is the sort of miserable thing you stumble over when having to write about Nintendo products as part of a job. Products like this exist so THE MAN can tell his shareholders the dividend will be 0.5p per share higher this years thank to innovative launches in the lifestyle space.

It’s the Hori Remote Stand. It’s a box with a logo on, yours for approximately 500% what it cost to get 10,000 of them made and shipped over.

Wonder if it comes with instructions?

Reader “Matt” has provided our first look at the hardware design of the upcoming Dreamcast 2.0, also confirming initial launch software plans and the console’s connectivity options.

Yes, we are now the UK’s #1 online care resource for the mental. When no one else listens to you or looks at your photographs and videos or clicks on the like button when you say something… “You could always try UKR.”

Shouldn’t really be contacting you like this but it feels as though some people are abandoning all hope of DC 2.0.

I can’t reveal everything, but I have attached a couple of shots of the current prototype including some of the AWESOME new controller types.

I can confirm the following:

- DC2 will be available as hardware or as an iPhone App.
- DC2 will feature a fully V.90 compliant 56k modem.
- DC2 is compatible with both the CDTV and the CD32.
- DC2 will employ an improved version of the original VMU featuring a full colour 14″ CRT display.

Unconfirmed speculation:

- Terrier Games may be approached to supply launch title.
- Final case design could be sought from Pininfarina.
- Sony have voiced concerns over their inevitable crushing defeat.

That’s all I can risk saying right now.

Thanks Matt! We’ll be along with your mashed banana and the feeding tube shortly. This picture is a surprisingly realistic vision of what we imagine most people’s gaming set-ups actually look like today.

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

“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.

Things have been getting way too interesting around here, what with all the aspirational lifestyle images and youth-oriented product news.

So…

“From my holiday in Cinque Terre, Italy.” – Chris.

Thanks, Chris. This will shut everyone up for at least 72 hours.

And now for the key change and some exclamation marks – there’s a new thing being made in the SEGA Toys factory of dreams!

It’s called the Uchiagehanabi. That name’s going to hurt export sales. It projects fireworks on the ceiling. It would appear that SEGA Toys development team has got stuck in a bit of a rut of only making things that project lights onto ceilings. Don’t let us be misunderstood here – we like lying on carpets looking at pretty lights, but it’s probably about time SEGA Toys got a new idea. We are ready for change.

And this looks RUBBISH.

Stolen from here, with additional pictures and videos available here – but there’s not much happening on the official product page.

That was a lot of tabs we had open at once, there. Nearly got confused and gave up on the whole thing.