Editor’s rant

We’re going to try to talk more to you, and the rest of our readers, about the workings of this site, what’s going on, and what we plan to do… if you want to learn more about our history visit the ‘about’ page…

Not so connected

First off, Games Toaster would like to inform our modest amount of, but ever growing, audience that our current slowdown in publishing articles is because in the past few weeks we have moved location (in the “real world”, that is), we currently have no internet access at nights and weekends, thus we have less time to do news-like research .

For the present time, our contact details, including postal address, remain the same. Once we hopefully get a broadband connect at our new location (sometime in the next decade), we will be exploring other optional methods of staying in contact with our readers and industry contacts, such as but not exclusive to instant messaging.   

“But you lot were always slow”

That’s kind of unfair now, isn’t it? Toaster is still the only Ireland-focused games news and review site which is updated regularly (that we know of). Yes, there’s Gamedevelopers.ie, but we try to look at all aspects of games in Ireland - from cultural to retail to marketing to development. Maybe competition would give us a metaphoric kick up our backsides, to be truthfully we’d welcome direct competition, as it’d give us an affective gauge on how we actual rate – even if we already know we can do better, and we’re going to try.

“What the fuck are you self-important wankers talking about?”

Ok, first of, if you are thinking this, you’d probably type it in ‘txt speak’, or maybe ‘CS speak’. We explained what ‘this’ is about in the opening paragraph. Anyway, we’ll take the titles of ‘slightly odd’ (not everyone sets up a games website), and even obsessive (our intake of a few mediums is unusually high), but not ‘self-important’ or similar, and no, our use of ‘our’ and ‘we’ rather then ‘my’ and ‘I’ is not going to help your case… and just a reminder, this is called ‘Editor’s rant’…

Talking about communications…

There’s now a number of ways you can contact us, or have your views aired on Games Toaster. The simplest are email, and our comments system - which is available at the end of every article and does not require you to enter your name or email address; you can leave either section blank or use a pseudonym.

A more noticeable way of getting your views on this site is to email us an article of reasonable length to be published like any of our articles just under the tag ‘emails’ – as apposed to the traditional ‘letters’ section of printed publications. As long as any article is about computer games, either linked to Ireland or not and reasonably interesting, it’ll probably be published. We’d prefer not to publish such posts with pseudonyms, but exceptions may be made.

Lastly if you have any scandalise government or industry documents (or even ones which are downright boring to anybody but us), or if you’re just the paranoid type, you can use our postal address.  Find more in the ‘make contact’ and 'Have your say?' sections.

That’s it for now,

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Comments

What a good way to lose your readers!

[Cian Ginty]

Is there any way you could post vaguer comments. I see a number of things in the above that could subjectively lose us readers, what are you referring to?

Who the fuck designed this site. Jesus christ it's a fucking mess. You post revieves of six month old games above reviews of games which are'nt even released at the time of their publication.

The content is decant and the reviews are well written but whomever puts the articles online is a twat.

[Cian Ginty]

Articles are published as they are sent in, if an old game three months or even years old is given to me last it will appear on the site above reviews of recently released games.