The global downturn, spending slowdown and your editor's choice to spend time sorting out some damn festival or other means that your SG team have found themselves contemplating getting a real job over the last week.
However there may be another solution! We've decided not to put advertising on the site - yet!
Though we may approach carefully selected partners such as Tunnocks, Grant's, Agent Provocateur and CERN at some point in the near future - and our hand-picked team of Dave has been working behind the scenes, looking into a midnight flit to Word Press, where fleecing you all would be far simpler - and in some cases, automatic.
However we've decided to give something back to you - our loyal community. Hence our efforts over the last few weeks to create the ultimate line-up of games and Scotland related t-shirts and gifts. These will allow YOU, our readers to be the most stylish, funkiest and most up-to-date games and Scotland related fashion icons in the world today.
Some are clear. Some are unashamedly old school and very much aimed at the insider. All are stunning and without doubt style classics. Forget your Penny Arcades, your Joystick Junkies and your 'pwned' nonsense. This is geek McChic x 10 (that's 2 in binary, fact fans)
On your left, you'll see a link to the brand new Scottishgames Shoppie. Your entry point into a regularly updated wonderland of shopping delight. There's development-related items, games-related items, Scotland-related items and stuff that probably only makes sense to the editorial team...
Buy one each for your entire team (RTW & Rockstar - we're looking at you) and then think of all of your friends and family, who have yet to understand the deep joy you feel about being not only a gamer, but a developer too.
Then buy some spare ones, just in case. You simply cannot have too many of these high quality items.
After careful consideration and examining many of the sites and services out there in Internetland, it's all done using Spreadshirt.net. This means they're printed and shipped from Europe. This means shipping is much cheaper and faster than it would be from the US.
Everything is printed to order, not scrabbled from a large box of product 'out the back', next to the disel generator, the rusting bicycles and the shipping container which makes those distressing noises after darkness falls...
Plus we can make new designs and throw them up online using only the Internet and the power of our imagination! It's true.
Everything is based around the basic comfort-t right now. This is the cheapest shirt and means that it's available in a huge range of sizes and colours. Even pink! Check it out...
However, there's a huge range of fitted t-shirts, female shirts, hooded tops, 'distressed' shirts, polo tops, mugs, belts, mouse mats, button badges and even underwear (both the popular 'hotpant' style AND g-string style female cut, plus a generous boxer-style gentleman's garment - though we remain confused about who the hell needs branded underwear. Maybe we need to get out more).
We're happy to add any and all of those to the line-up, if anyone fancies a hoodie, mug, badge, or other item with any of the above designs...?
We'll be adding new designs and once we actually get around to buying a wacom tablet and/or installing Inkscape. New products will be added each and every week. That's how much we care, readers, about you staying bang up to date. We will also be trying to mix up the order of the shop, to keep things 'fresh'. Apparently this is a good thing, at least according to the small number of women we've spoken to
Plus, we've added a tips jar, where you can show your appreciation without having to buy a stitch. It's like begging, but it's online, so is actually classed as entrepreneurial.
In the interests of full disclosure - and because we'd hate you to think we're raking it in, here - SG makes between £2 - £4 maxmimum, on each t-shirt, depending on the complexity of each design, number of colours, etc. Of course we *can* put the prices up if you think we're being ridiculously generous.
As an example - here's our first ever LIMITED EDITION design. It's delightfully geeky, will only be understood by Xbox Live Arcade playing, RPG gamers, with a knowledge of Dundee geography - and will only be available until Gabe & Tycho find out. Then it's gone!
Who could resist that?
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