Hi Everybody,
It’s my great pleasure to announce to you today that James Gallagher is now officially our new Blog Manager.
I’m sure you’ll all agree with me that James, over the last month, has been doing a fantastic job of updating you with the latest news from E3 and creating some original and interesting features. I particularly liked the build up to E3 with the reviews of the previous years. If you’ve missed these posts you can read them here
James comes from a journalistic background and has a high interest in games. He has been creating content for eu.playstation.com for the last two and half years.
When James applied for the job, I asked him what he would like do differently on the blog and he had some really good ideas; you can definitely expect more interactive content such as live chats and competitions. But above all, James will do his best to be at the start of conversations between you and PlayStation whether you read the Blog, follow us on Twitter or get involved on our Facebook fanpage .
Please join me in congratulating James for his new position and don’t hesitate to let him know what kind of content you’d like to see more of on the Blog.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:33 am by Guillaume Couturier
Congratulations again, James !
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:41 am by James Gallagher
Merci beaucoup, Guillaume.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:33 am by Slarth
Congrats James, looking forward to your posts
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:33 am by V_Ben
Congrats James
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:35 am by GreenMekon
Congrats James.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:37 am by almighty-slayer
Congratulations James, my friend. Couldn’t think of a better man for the job.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:37 am by seany1
Big congrats James . You have already proven you do an excellent job responding back to the community so the right person got the job .
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:44 am by James Gallagher
Many thanks, there will be a lot more responses to comments from now on, from all authors. SCEE people that disobey will be destroyed.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:39 am by James Gallagher
Thanks everyone, perhaps you can help me with something? I feel like a new job warrants a new avatar but I can’t think of what to choose. Maybe you could post some links to images on the web to kick-start my imagination? It can be anything… within reason, of course!
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:40 am by damo02
Congrats James!
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:43 am by Falcon1991
Congratulations James.
I enjoyed the nostalgic look back you gave us with previous E3 shows.
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:56 am by James Gallagher
Glad to hear it. I’m a sucker for nostalgia and intend to do more retro stuff on here.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:43 am by cc_star
Good stuff, especially like the sound of:
“James will do his best to be at the start of conversations between you and PlayStation”
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:47 am by Raider197
Yes, I looked at the headline and thought ‘aww, but I liked James’ then read the article and I’m really happy
Congratulation James, you’re doing great!
As for an avatar for your new position, perhaps something a la http://coop.deadsquid.com/images/SheriffBadge.jpg
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:00 am by James Gallagher
That’s pretty funny! I was thinking about a crown but perhaps that seems a bit arrogant.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:49 am by vicheous
Congratz James can’t wait to see more of your work on here
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:49 am by mattsimmo
congrats
how about this for an avatar?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_z5hT1P0X79c/RnuM7Qmd-wI/AAAAAAAAA oo/66u52aewL2A/s320/alan-sugar.jpg
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:50 am by Mike Kebby
Congrats James, looking forward to working with you more closely sir
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:02 am by James Gallagher
Be careful what you wish for!
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:52 am by Raider197
@13 I like that one
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 10:54 am by TalllPaul
Congrats James, nice little pat rise for you eh
lol JK
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:02 am by James Gallagher
Come on… you know I only do it for the love!
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:00 am by kingofscotland
Congratulations James, just watch out for Mike making a move now you’ve moved up in the world ‘working more closely’ yeah right Mike! lol
And I think you should go for a Kevin Butler Avatar cos he is genious and represents what you are doing with the blog ‘connecting with the people in a non corporate fashion’
Here is an idea http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j145/Jvchequer/1687wh5.gif
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:03 am by seany1
A Kevin butler avatar would be epic lol . Definetly need an avatar that reflects your new higher position .
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:05 am by James Gallagher
I don’t want to show off about it though… maybe this http://bit.ly/bJkXhn ?
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:04 am by Sp4reNL
“SCEE people that disobey will be destroyed”
It’s about time
Congratulations James
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:04 am by DarkDeux
Congrats James!
You are also responsible of the localized blogs? There are a lot of work on spanish’s blog to get at same level of this blog. I always question me where can I make my suggestions
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:07 am by James Gallagher
Yes, I will be working with the local blog managers and I’d be really interested to hear how you think we can improve. You can post your suggestions in here.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:10 am by Sp4reNL
Well, it would be nice if the movies that are embedded in this blog worked with the PS3 browser.
Now it shows ‘application not supported’ boxes instead of movies.
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:14 am by James Gallagher
That’s the first thing on my list of things to fix and I was actually hoping it would have been sorted by now, so I’ll look into it.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:14 am by DKShadow
Congratulations James, very well deserved for sure!
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:15 am by Apnomis
Congrats James, you already seem to be quite active on the Blog so let’s hope that continues – I wouldn’t expect you to compete with Mike ‘Comment King’ Kebby, but the odd reply here and there to show you are listening is always nice!
I look forward to the new ideas you’re planning to bring to the blog – the recent ‘Spot the Game’ competition Mike ran for example was a lot of fun (if a little ill-thought out in it’s execution!)
If I had a couple of suggestions to start with they would be:
1) Make the blog compatible with the PS3 browser, why continue to use Viddler if Viddler doesn’t work with the PS3? Either update the PS3 browser or change your provider, there are several others that work on the PS3.
2)Use Twitter a bit more other than simply posting links to blog articles, I find Twitter a much better way for organisations like SCEE to communicate with their customers rather than Facebook (but that’s mainly because I don’t use Facebook!). Also do you have a personal Twitter account or are you using the official one only? Oh and update the avatar, it’s currently the same to the SCEA twitter account and as I follow both it’s a bit confusing (it used to be white on black vs SCEA’s black on white)!
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:23 am by James Gallagher
Mike is very good in the comments and I’m hoping that many more people in the company will follow his example. The competition we did was a lot of fun.
Your suggestions are actually two of the things at the forefront of my mind and a fix for the videos on the PS3 browser is very close indeed. I don’t use Twitter personally but I am going to keep on top of the @PlayStationEU account and be more proactive with that. It’s good to reach out and respond to direct questions from people, and retweet anything that catches my eye.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:16 am by Sp4reNL
Cool. Hope to see it fixed soon.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:18 am by Nathanical
Hey James, grats on the new job!
As for a new avatar, heres my suggestion:
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r164/darth_natus/jaf facakecopy.jpg
its a jaffacake with a face on it
GL with the blog
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:20 am by Nathanical
ack broken link.
attempt 2:
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r164/darth_natus/jaffacakecopy. jpg
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:27 am by johnleonhart
Wow, thats really awesome. Congratulations James and I’m looking forward to seeing the buzz you’ll create on the blog. All the best mate
Oh, can I add you on psn? Or you add me if you dont wanna give out your psn
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:29 am by James Gallagher
Sure, my PSN is Lovewhale (don’t snigger!)
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:30 am by SlipperyFella
Lovewhale bwahahahaha… I like!
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:30 am by DiscoMcDisco
FYI – JWplayer works on the ps3 brilliantly, and i’ve seen people doing video tests on Flickr (which might be handy to keep all the images and vids together) … i’ll check out Flickr in the browser and see what happens…
Worst come to worst, tell them the browser sucks and try and get Firefox on it
haha
Congrats Fella
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:30 am by Wiwo
Congratulations, James.
Are you going to manage all language blogs or each one has its own Manager and you are only in charge of the English one? It’s just curiosity, not that I want a change in the Spanish language (the other one that interest me) or anything.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:30 am by OttoT
I hope the blog will be more EU not not UK and a bit of EU.
I HATE THAT!
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:45 am by James Gallagher
Good feedback – I want to be as inclusive as we can be.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:32 am by LordVonPastor
Congratulations James!
How about SCEE staff use the old SCE orange diamond?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RBE1_labUc
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:56 am by James Gallagher
This is my favourite so far.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:32 am by johnleonhart
Thanks James, will add you when I get home
Well I better get back to work. You and Mike have fun and behave 
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:33 am by Bullucks
No way James. You better keep that Ratchet Avatar.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:34 am by SlipperyFella
oh and congratulations
avoid using this as your avatar:
http://columnacritica.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/david-camer on.jpg
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:36 am by SlipperyFella
http://columnacritica.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/david-cameron.jpg
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:44 am by James Gallagher
I could try inviting him to write a guest column… bet he’s amazing at Sim City.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:37 am by s_wrenn
Congrats James
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:39 am by AcidCrashX
Grats James
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:43 am by seany1
lol quality james but i would steer clear of him after failing at world cup lol jk
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:47 am by tiago-kun
He has been doing a terrific job. Congratulations James.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:48 am by gr0undp0und
Congratulations!
what would be good if this blog was comparible to the states. They have the share site. Also a response on twitter would be great. The states have protection plan, we have nothing and no one will answer me. I have more response from the guys in America than EU
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:48 am by seany1
i only see good things now james and mike are the main men on blog as both are extremely active on blog and take our feedback (moaning) lol so im very happy about this , sorry had to say it again as we need more people like yourself james and mike . HAPPY DAYS
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:52 am by GekooktEi
I guess I should be ashame, but who was the Blog Manager before James, if any?
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:55 am by Raider197
@32 By far the best system boot-up ever, really gave you a sense of awe back in the day. I hate that the PS1 emulation on PS3 doesn’t show it
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:56 am by Raider197
@43 It was Jem Alexander… (James is better though!)
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 11:58 am by DarkDeux
Thanks for the response James!
Content & feedback. This is the question. Content because a lot of post get not translated and store updates always get errors. Feedback because usually no one respond. Now, in the last 2 weeks these seems is changing, but we need more and more.
Also another suggestion, indicate text and voice language in PSN games in store updates. A lot of new games is not in our native language. We need know this. All retail games indicate this info in the box. Is a lot of work for Mike in this blog, but perhaps in the locale blog can be possible.
Ah, and a free theme of the world cup champion will be a good detail
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 12:04 pm by MusterBuster
James this is full of win. It’s always awesome working with you and I know the community thinks yer brilliant.
As for an avatar – our Fan Art regulars are amazing. They make all my stuff: http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/Fan-Art/bd-p/74
But you cant have a pumpkin. Sorry.
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 12:30 pm by James Gallagher
That’s some excellent feedback, thanks. Translations take a bit of time and sometimes info comes in right at the last minute, which is why some content doesn’t cross over. However, we’re getting more organised now and this should improve. I also want to work with the local managers so that each blog has its own, original content that is tailored to its audience. Watch this (and that) space.
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 12:00 pm by SpeckyGeek
James please congratulate James with a big smooch on the lips from Speckygeek Muhaha well done on yer job .
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 12:04 pm by Guillemots
Congrats James
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 12:05 pm by SpeckyGeek
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/462/180421-sony_computer_entertai nment_large.jpg
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Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 12:06 pm by mcwildcard
Welcome to the job James, in regards to suggestions, it’d be handy to be able to filter out comments that have replies, which could hopefully reduce repetition of questions on long comments threads. Maybe periodically update popular posts at the bottom to show the answers to the commonest questions?
Oh, and it’d be nice to see the PS+ icon included in the avatars of those of us who’ve forked out for the service
Posted on 15 July, 2010 at 12:15 pm by Emmanuel Orssaud
Hi mcwildcard,
Actually I’ll be back on the Blog next week to give you guys an update on new features that will soon be available on this Blog. Keep an eye on the posts next week and you’ll be pleased to know that some of your wishes will be addressed very soon
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