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...

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Blog Awards Nominated!

Just a few short weeks ago I wrote a unnecessarily lengthy post detailing the fact that shoryuken.ie had been nominated in three categories for the Irish Blog Awards. Well, as I outlined previously, these awards require whittling down to create a shortlist of nominees who go up for an actual gong. As I said originally, our...

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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”,...

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Help Haiti with Halo

Murder your friends over XBox Live in a game of Halo on Wednesday and Thursday and Bungie will donate $100 for every 1000 gamers online who use the new Heart emblem in the game. According to the Bungie Blog, the company have set a cap at $77,000 for donating to the cause. Yes, it is a bit cheeky to set a cap and try and garnish...

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Want to write?

For the longest time now we’ve been working on making this site as community-driven as possible, building up a nice number of talented writers along the way. These writers have often been exceptional in terms of the content submitted as well as their ability to jump onto the site and respond in comment threads etc. Well, these...

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