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From: Tom Bramwell
To: Eurogamer Staff Mailing List
Subject: No news updates on Monday

Ellie, are you going to put a story on GI.biz telling people that there will not be any news updates on Monday? Because I am going to put a story on EG telling people that there will not be any news updates on Monday.

From: Ellie Gibson
To: Eurogamer Staff Mailing List
Re: No news updates on Monday

Tom, thank you for letting me know that you are going to put a story on EG telling people that there will not be any news updates on Monday. I am thinking about whether to put a story on GI telling people that there will not be any news updates on Monday but I need to do some research first. I will let you know what the results of the focus group are re: putting a story on GI telling people there will not be any news updates on Monday.

From: Tom Bramwell
To: Eurogamer Staff Mailing List
Re: No news updates on Monday

Ellie, thank you for this email clarifying your current position on the possibility of doing a story on GI telling people that there will not be any news updates on Monday. I am interested in the results of your research relating to the possibility of doing a story on GI telling people that there will not be any news updates on Monday, so please alert me to your findings. This may then factor in to the format I adopt for my proposed EG story telling people that there will not be any news updates on Monday, which currently mainly focuses on the fact that there will not be any news updates on Monday, but leaves room for periphery information in addition to the previously stated information about there not being news any updates, on EG, on Monday. Look forward to hearing from you about there not being any news updates on Monday soon. (Please be aware however that I will not be doing any work on Monday.)

From: Ellie Gibson
To: Eurogamer Staff Mailing List
Re: No news updates on Monday

Tom, I have completed the focus group session, which involved asking the landlord's mate who has come round to fix the washing machine and has succeeded in breaking the dishwasher whilst failing to fix the washing machine whether he thinks I should put a story on GI telling people that there will not be any news updates on Monday. He said, "It's because the wires have come out the back you see and now I don't know which ones are which." I am going to put a story on GI telling people there will be no news updates on Monday.

From: Tom Bramwell
To: Eurogamer Staff Mailing List
Re: No news updates on Monday

Ellie, thank you for this additional clarification on the situation regarding GI's story about there not being any news updates on Monday. Please can you outline the test conditions adopted for the finding out about whether to do a GI story about there not being any news updates on Monday testing and provide the landlord's mate's hat size so that if there is to be a story about there not being any news updates on Monday, on EG, this afternoon, it will be possible to furnish it with the sort of contextual detail that people have come to expect from Eurogamer's news reporting which will not be happening on Monday. Also, could you let me know if you think it would be worth flagging that last fact up for the readers, possibly in the form of a story revealing that there will not be any news updates on Monday.

About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Tejstar #1 5 years ago

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3-day weekend! \o/

Maybe, now I'll get some time to play the Halo 3 beta!
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JayPee #2 5 years ago

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Who's checking EG on a bank holiday Monday?

Hello..o...o..o..o..

\o/
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mingster #3 5 years ago

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buncha slackers
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GamesConnoisseur #4 5 years ago

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As the article is clearly addressed to Eurogamer Staff Mailing List, I wish to raise a grievance that I have not yet been paid any wages to date for my contributions here. And no fair that I will be here come Monday and everyone else at the Lions Inn on their day off!
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killyourtv #5 5 years ago

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waste of space
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ZuluHero #6 5 years ago

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wow i didn't realise that there was one this weekend! Thats a really pleasent surprise and it means next week is a 4 DAY WORK WEEK!

yay!

/but is confused as work normally reminds people about it :/
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Wrestlevania #7 5 years ago

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Amen - enjoy the extended weekend.
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kangarootoo #8 5 years ago

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I might go to the toilet later. More news as it happens.
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Normski #9 5 years ago

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My C.S.I calender says that June 4th is Bank Holiday too. Neither the D.T.I. nor my own employers have it listed, but I'm going to take the day off anyway as it's hard to argue with forensic scientists
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RoyalBiscuit #10 5 years ago

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So it was you that stole my funny pills...
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Lov3 #11 5 years ago

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Now what am I going to read on monday?
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Agent_Llama #12 5 years ago

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You didn't mention Slitherlink.

Oh shit that's so old now. Sorry. (
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Agent_Llama #13 5 years ago

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And yeah, slackers! yeah, etc etc etc *mumble*
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barnettbeans #14 5 years ago

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I just got off the phone with Skynews they hav comfirmed that on Monday there will "Offically be no news on Monday"
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Obsequious #15 5 years ago

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It's a BANK holiday. Eurogamer isn't a bank.

Reeks of Bolshevism, this does.
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The_Inquisitor #16 5 years ago

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I sure hope they get that hat size soon. I don't want to have to wait until monday to get the news.
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OrgasmicMutton #17 5 years ago

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Lazy beggars!
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Saladin #18 5 years ago

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You pair need to get out more...
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urban #19 5 years ago

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skiving )(%(*"(*%*("$*("%*(*%))""$*"%&^^&"($"$&"$^&'S
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mouse Verified Graphic designer, Eurogamer Network #20 5 years ago

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killyourtv wrote:
waste of space

Aww. Don't be so hard on yourself.

Edited by 1 at 25/05/07 @ 23:55
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Mudo #21 5 years ago

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I like this.
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ph101 #22 5 years ago

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I'm planning on checking EG for news on Monday, can you please clarify your position as to whether there will be any, or not?

edit. oh right..

Edited by 1 at 26/05/07 @ 01:12
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Ares #23 5 years ago

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So, just to clarify, there will not be any news updates on Monday?

Hahahahahahaa... /pokes nearby EG members
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GordonJ@work #24 5 years ago

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"Who's checking EG on a bank holiday Monday?"

�10 bets says that when EG post a news article on Tuesday a few of the comments will be about how it's old news and why it's taken so long to get on the site.
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terminalterror #25 5 years ago

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That article raised a small chuckle from me. Congratulations.
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Mudo #26 5 years ago

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Aiiii.
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Nithron #27 5 years ago

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Wank holiday more like.
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Daikon #28 5 years ago

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The Americans. The Europeans. All the people who don't read Eurogamer are checking on Bank Holidays.

I think the Yanks and most of our European brethren have the Monday off also...

Edit: Yes, the Yanks definitely have the day off. They call it Memorial day, I wonder why. Probably to commemorate that they used to call it "Bank Holiday" before their independence from us.

Edited by 1 at 27/05/07 @ 14:19
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cyber_nicco #29 5 years ago

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but if I have the day off, I'll just have more time to read Eurogamer.

Umm, why don't you take Tuesday off instead...
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wellzy4eva #30 5 years ago

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I'll never understand how people could even consider complaining about a site not updating on a bank holiday when they don't pay a damn penny for it (And complain about the adverts that fund the site as well)

However, they better have double the amount of news on Tuesday though, or they will be hunted down! :-D
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Gouki #31 5 years ago

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Awwwwhhhh....

I thought Monday might give the Eurogamer team time to research some news rather than simple copy and pasting other peoples a day later.
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binky #32 5 years ago

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Whers the news dammit?!?!?
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morriss #33 5 years ago

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Bank Holiday, innit'?' Shirley?
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botherer #34 5 years ago

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Where on earth are the news stories today?

Some sort of warning would have been appreciated.
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LOLLERS #35 5 years ago

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The games industry does not recognise bank holidays, now get back to work and stop making up excuses.
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LukeFX #36 5 years ago

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that news post told me sweet FA!

I cant beleive an internet news website doesn't post news over the weekends. I think its stupid and the reason why other news sites are still ranked above EG.

Couldn't you write some form of script that lets you select a time and date for when you want an article posted. That way you could write a review/preview on Friday and the site wont publish until Sat/Sun or even Monday. That way when the internet is at its most busiest this site still gets updated instead of forgotten about.

EG is like the biggest gaming site in the UK and for it to practically shut down at weekends is daft. Sort something out.
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botherer #37 5 years ago

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Yeah EG! Why don't you write the news in advance, and then set a computer to post it when it happens?

You LAZYBONES.
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rauper Verified Managing Director, Eurogamer Network #38 5 years ago

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The internet isn't actually at it's busiest during weekends/bank holidays... internet usage dips when people aren't at work.

Also, we do publish features every Saturday and Sunday - it's only news that we don't. Partly because our staff work the normal working week, and partly because every games company is off too so if we called them for comment on anything no-one would pick up and we'd end up just running unsubstantiated rumours off blogs and stuff like that.
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davisorle #39 5 years ago

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Is that why they haven't said anything about the MGS 4 coming out to X360? Im curious to see the PS fanboy's reactions at that one.
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