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Shoryuken 2.0
Over the past year Shoryuken.ie has racked up thousands upon thousands of hits, comments and just about 1,000 posts. We were nominated for a blog award last year, and shortlisted this year. We’ve had contact from Irish radio outlets and broke news stories no one else did. On top of that we’ve brought you countless reviews, previews and news tidd-bits… Continue »
Blog Awards 2010
Just a quick post to thank everyone involved in the site and anyone who went out of their way to put us forward for nomination. Some bloke from Cork and his team of merry men and wimminz put together the nominations list for this years Irish Blog Awards, and shoryuken hit the polls in three categories: “Best Group Blog”, “Best… Continue »
Shoryuken.ie Game Of The Year 2009
Getting GOTY is a big deal. Receiving the first one ever given by shoryuken? Even bigger. Forever, this game will be known as “the first”. The game has to be special. Not only for receiving our first goty award, but also because 2009 was an epic year for gaming. Consoles dropped prices, multi-platform games were prominent and exclusives became more… Continue »
shoryuken 2009 awards
Don your waist coats gentlemen, it’s award giving time. In May this year, our little site began life as a humble experiment to write freely about games. A few crazy folk who shared the dream joined me in this writing-about-games lark, and as the year went on we got better at it, and took a lot of viewers into our… Continue »
Happy Christmas
From everyone here on shoryuken, we just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone reading a happy Christmas. Stay tuned over the next few days as we’ve a lot going on as we look back at 2009 and the decade that it closes. Hope Santa brought you all the gaming goodness you asked for. Have fun! Continue »
State of the Union – the stats of...
Every now and then I send off a mass-mail to all the boys and girls who do a bit of writing for this here web shizzle. It’s usually rapturous, long and filled with self-complimenting rubbish that even the Oscars couldn’t touch. So today, I’ve decided to share some stats with you – the (very, in a lot of cases it… Continue »
Hadoken Shoryuken love Song,because it...
”Balrogs a black dude, hes the only one I never use” – that’s Dylan shit right there. I have no idea who this guy is but hes a boring guitarist and amazing lyricist, singing about his addiction to video games in particular the sublime Street Fighter 4. So lighten up this shitty Tuesday morning by throwing you arms in the… Continue »
Irish Web Awards
Somehow, for some reason, someone or some people have nominated our little corner of the Irish web for an Irish Web Award under the category of “Best Online Publication”. I only found out today by seeing some people clicking through to the site from theirs, so without notification this post could be a little late out of the blocks. Very… Continue »
