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The beast that is Google News picked up at least one new category “e3_2005″ at /games_toaster/e3_2005/, this looks to be causing the most redirects.

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apologies for any inconvenience caused to the Inquirer, and their
readers.

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Clarification: XboxIreland.com article - we used facts, we did not infer or imply

Games Toaster takes complaints seriously, so seriously
we are publishing this clarification in the same way we publish all of
our content. This post is a clarification, not a correction. At this
point, we see no reason to edit the article in question in any way.

On November 28, 2005, we published an article titled
‘XboxIreland.com launches, backed by publishers’, we have received
anonymous complaints, apparently but not certainly, from the one person
vie our comments system.

The article deals with the facts as we have established. In this
case, all such facts are available in the public domain (ie on websites, including

Xbox Ireland). 

In the article, we do not give our feelings of support or otherwise
for the site, there is one exception to this, after the use of the word
‘Irish’ was wrongly used as ‘irish’ we inserted ‘(sic)’, this is
commonly used with in print media to display a grievance distasteful
use of the written English language. Besides this we do not infer or
imply any thoughts on how ‘good’ or ‘bad’ the site in question may be.

One comment stated, “By linking their staff member to Microsoft’s
marketing company as if it means that they are biased”, we did not link
their ’staff member’ to a marketing company which works for Microsoft,
we merely publicised the fact that such a link is a realty, we said
nothing of bias. We did not infer or imply any ethically complicity of
somebody working on an ‘Irish Xbox community site’ and working directly
or indirectly for the Xbox maker. To infer (to form an opinion or guess
that something is true because of the information that you have — Cambridge),
is something the complaint did, not us, we just provided what we know
as the complete information, which we could not find on Xbox Ireland.

Another comment stated, “This quote: “Games Toaster has identified
least one person listed as a ’staff writer’ [of XboxIreland.com] 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! ” To the best of our knowledge, to the term
“identified” is not solely generally associated with a “criminal
line-up”, or any other “criminal” activity. We do not believe many of
our readers will confuse our use of English in this way. 

In this case, the complaints were published publicly in our comments
system, if you have a complaint and want to issue it confidential you
can email or write to us (see the contact page),
if you wish we will only publicly deal with the nature or the complaint
without quoting the whole complaint. As always you can also post using
our comments system with or without entering a name or email address.

Again, this post is a clarification, not a correction; as such, we
see no reason to edit the article in question about XboxIreland.com in
any way.

Corrections

Our article ‘Mobile games news roundup‘
on February 22 2005 contained screenshots of BitRabbit’s ‘Yukiko’
that we resized, while resizing the screenshots we inadvertently
adversely affected the quality of the images.

We apologies for this, as we understand that it could possible do
harm to the reputation of the company as it may have reflected badly on
their work. We accept that this was an error on our part. The 
images in question are now corrected, and we will take steps to avoid
any recurrences.

Corrections clarifications

Welcome to Games Toaster’s corrections and clarifications page. Listed below are corrections and/or clarifications made to our articles.

PLEASE NOTE: To correct errors,
please use the comments section on this page, and not the comments on
individual articles — list the article in question, and what you
think needs correction or clarification. This move is aimed at keeping the comments
sections open to possible discussion about the games or topics covered in
articles.

Any possible factual errors take precedence, but we are also interested
in spelling and grammatical errors - although minor errors may not be listed here. Entrees marked as clarifications
are not admittances of errors, and should not be confused with
corrections. All text below the word ‘COMMENTS’ may or may not be users’ opinions.

While this groupings of our errors may make it look like we make a
high number of errors, it is worth noting the few sites similar to Games Toaster make their errors so transparent.

REVIEW: Zelda: Twilight Princess (corrections)
February, 2007
A reader pointed out two minor errors on our review of ‘Zelda: Twilight Princess’ for the Nintendo Wii.

The sentence “That it does so with the most generic of plots,
rescue princess and return peach to the kingdom, is some achievement”
has now been changed to “That it does so with the most generic of
plots — rescue the princess and return her to the kingdom — is some
achievement”. The word ‘peach’ referred to a character in the
game and should have started with a capital letter, although in the
reedit her name was totally removed to improve the flow of the line.

While the line “The most noticeable aspect the gameplay is how
rewarding it fells to play”, should have included ‘feels to
play’, not “fells to play”. This was most probably a simple typo
and has also been corrected.

In one of the comments the reader says “dude, spellchecker?”,
unfortunately both ‘fells’ and ‘peach’ are words listed in the
dictionary, so a spellchecker would not have found fault with both
errors, nor would most grammar checking systems.

The mistakes were due to human error — it was the reviewer’s
fault for making such errors and the editor’s for not spotting them.

REVIEW: Darkwatch (corrections and clarfications)
February, 2006
Our review of Darkwatch
published on February 03, 2006, had a number of errors corrected.
Capcom was originally listed as Darkwatch’s developer; High Moon
Studios actually developed the game. Capcom was also listed as
publisher, while Capcom publish this title in North America, the game
was provided by Ubisoft, the publisher in PAL areas, including Ireland.
Minor spelling and grammatical errors were also made and corrected.
Some of these minor errors occurred after quick fixes to factual
errors.

We
have apologised to the developer for not giving them credit; we’d
also like to apologise to the publisher as they provide a review copy
of the game and we had wrongfully not credited them for being the
publisher in PAL areas.

Xbox Ireland now under new ownership (clarfication)
February, 2006
Our article
about new ownership (and the old editor leaving) at Xbox Ireland caused
a number of anonymous complaints. No complaints have been officially
received from management at the site. We issued clarifications, not a
correction, within the comments section attached to the article. We
directly replied to anonymous comments, we addressed all detailed
complaints, and at the time of writing this we have received no
outstanding response to such. 

XboxIreland.com launches, backed by publishers (clarfication)
December, 2005
Our article
on November 28, 2005, about the launch of the website
‘XboxIreland.com’, caused a number of anonymous complaints. The
then editor, Cian O’Mahony, also complained, but latter retracted his
complaint. We issued a clarification, not a correction, on the article
– to this date, we see no reason to edit the article in question. The
clarification about this issue, published December 10, 2005, can be found here.