XboxIreland.com launches, backed by publishers

XboxIreland.com has launched, it is “backed” by games publishers Microsoft, UbiSoft, Activision, Sega, Eletronic Arts, and Codemaster. Games Toaster has identified least one person listed as a ‘staff writer’ as being an employ of an Irish marketing company who works for Xbox manufacture Microsoft. The site is billed as an ‘Irish Xbox community site’.

A post on Boards.ie says because of their publisher backing, they will “have great competitions and tournaments, as well as insider news and reviews”. The poster ‘XboxIreland’ states, “Also, news updates throughout the day from a uniquely irish (sic) perspective”. A banner ad for the Irish GameStop outlets is featured on the site.

The domain name was registered in September to ‘Xbox Ireland’, under the name Mark Scully, registered with an address of Dungannon, Northern Ireland.

Listed on the site’s staff page is Mark Scully, Armagh, Ireland, and Jonathan Bucktrout, Leeds, England as ‘management’; Cian O'Mahony, Cork, Ireland – Editor; Mike Cass, England - staff writer; and Gamecon organisers Jermain Williams and Travis Mack, both in Dublin and staff writers. Jermain Williams is ‘Interactive Creative Director’ at the Dublin based marketing company Dialogue.

Comments

Should you lads not support other Irish sites rather than try to slagg them off?

[Cian Ginty]

Could you please point out where we “try to slagg them off”?

By linking their staff member to Microsoft's marketing company as if it means that they are biased.

This quote: "Games Toaster has identified least one person listed as a ‘staff writer’ as being an employ of an Irish marketing company who works for Xbox manufacture Microsoft. The site is billed as an ‘Irish Xbox community site’."

Yas make it sound as if yas have identified him from a criminal line-up!

[Cian O'Mahony]

Hey, this is Cian O'Mahony, the Editor of XboxIreland.com.

Thanks for the slightly uninformative post about our site. The staff has changed since you post it. The site is run by people from different aspects of gaming in ireland and offers gamers an irish edge to the Xbox scene.

We have

- News, reviews and editorials.
- Games nights over Xbox Live.
- Competitions supported by games companies.
- The support of Microsoft, EA Games, Codemasters, Rockstar, Ubisoft, Gamestop and more to come.
- Forums.

Thanks. cian@xboxireland.com