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Shoryuken 2.0

Kevin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:14:38 +0000

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 from around the internets. It’s tough to run a games site, but I like to think we make it look easy, and sexy, too.

Ohhh, header. Kinda like the old one...

Ireland has a very strange, crowded market with games sites but I think the calibre of writing skill and technical gaming know-how of the various writers here sets us above the rest, and I know plenty of you come here for a daily dose of news and critical commentary on the industry and the software it gives us.

So, moving forward as we get ready to celebrate a year in existence, what’s in the pipeline? Well, first and foremost, more of the same. We’ve built a good solid readership over the year, and a few of you regularly comment on our articles (the more who comment the better, though… if you keep emailing me for a forum it’s useless until we have plentiful threads!). We were promising a podcast, and we hope to do extra media stuff this year for you all. How that turns out we’ll have to see, though.

Working as well as the current one. Yes, that is todays posts. Yes, it is LIVE, but in a secret location

Biggest of all is a planned revamp of the site design. What we have is lovely, but it could be better. Maybe not more functional, but it’s time to move away from somewhat plain and into sexy. But classy. Too many sites look gaudy and awful, no more so then on Irish blogs (not just gaming ones, mind you). The images attached to this post are a sneak preview. So, what do we think?

Cheers for the first year of reading our drivel, here’s to another!

Slim PS3 update

Kevin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:51:23 +0000

K-Mart advert!

A rather revealing banner on the K-Mart retail site has a new banner header for today, promising that the “rumours are true”, relating to a PS3 price drop.

Clicking through to learn more brings you to a page showing four new SKU’s. Two bundles, one basic 40GB on its own ($399) and a blank box, presumably ready to house the new PS3 Slim once it’s announced.

A handy site has been put up with a countdown to the conference. We’ll update when a video feed becomes live. Or just pop whatever you know in the comments here!

It’s all very exciting, isn’t it?

Shoryuken is here!

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:28:54 +0000

So, after much cajoling and messing around with various scripts, themes and functions, Shoryuken can finally settle down as this is how the site will look.

Over the coming days we’ll be adding content and building the site before beginning our full on assault on videogame culture, particularly in Ireland!

If anyone else is still interested in becoming a writer for the site please get in touch and we’ll take it from there. I’m looking for staff writers for news, reviews, previews, the lot! Even a bit of journalistic blog-style ranting would be great. Once off, or regularly!