with the site traffic increasing daily towards the end of 2007, more writers were required, leading to the recruitment of alex "supaslick" shaw and anthony "yousty" youst in september, along with eric "pacmanpolarbear" ross, who joined the staff in october 2007. writer matthew "animathias" schramm and cartoonist tim "mightymutt" hibbs joined sarcastic gamer in early 2008. jon "yamster" brady and alex "raisehavok" saunders were recruited as writers and in june 2008 and ben "eoco" simmons joined the staff a month later.