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Dear and dearest,

We've brought a pack of new stuff for you to enjoy or hate on SI. Do hope it's the first one. ;)

What's new:
1. New header graphic and logo
2. New FEATURING feature that shows the latest hot content across the site that is always filtered by platform and genre. So it means if you're on PC : Shooter game, you will see FEATURING items that are related to that platform and genre.
3. New LATEST RELEASES PAGE:
http://www.strategyinformer.com/all/latest-releases.html
This page shows games that have release date older then current date, to explain it mathematically. Or in more simpler words, it shows released games! With each game, we now got a score, that will be a mix of our score, press scores and your public scores. So we get to know what is released and how well it scored.
4. PRESS SCORES / REVIEWS have been brought up. So rather then ignoring other well deserved sites, we're now going to post their scores and links to their reviews. At the same time we'll have better picture of how well some games are, since we don't often manage to review all the released games, yet.
5. LATEST COMMENTS
http://www.strategyinformer.com/latest-comments.php
It obviously shows latest member comments around the site.
6. NEW MAIN PAGE LAYOUT that does what it did, but in slightly different smell now. We've shrunk news since before it was stretching the whole page as much that it was an overkill. So it is shorter now and gives more hotter stuff.
7. STAFF EDITORIALS will be articles that we will publish occasionally when we get creative. Gives a bit of extra reading material on potentially interesting topics that should push away a bit of boring cuts of a day.

I'd like to apologize for problems that involved this publication. Main page looked bad for a part of the day today. All of that is fixed now.

The problem remaining is the new TOP 10 RELEASED chart on the main page which now shows the most of games, if not all, in 9.9 score. Why is this? Because those are user scores, and mostly made out of just 1-2-3 user votes. We're working on patching that problem and it should be done tomorrow. At which point it will only show games in those charts that either have our review or any press review posted under it. Since let's face it, user scores are far from usable in such lower number since some minority of people lacks discipline!! :)

So we seriously hope that most of you will enjoy what we've brought up and that we'll give you a bit more of enjoyable moments around SI.

Best,
Posted on 06/17/2008 15:16

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Looking good Kres. As Zerk pointed out, a lot of work obviously gone into this and a lot yet to do as you say. The User scores are a bit of a problem, unless you base the score on SI rating, with the user rating as a second score in brackets perhaps. User ratings are going to be far and wide from 1 to 10 and all involves personal taste and bias, whereas Staff Reviews tend to be more objective and based on the fundamentals of what the game offers. Look forward to the final evolution, and congrats so far. The hard work is much appreciated.
Posted on 06/17/2008 16:20
The new look is sweet man! And you brought back the space station (or is that a space ship??)!! Oh well, who cares?! The new look is still better that what I've seen of other game sites. Now I'll be spending even more time here. It's an awesome new look, and you guys did an awesome in overhauling it! Good job!! ;)
Posted on 06/17/2008 16:50
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Demigod
Thanks guys!

One thing I forgot to mention. We also got FILE SEARCH now. So you can search by file name and download name there. It has it's share of problems when searching for exact file name. We will be adjusting this in the coming days.
Posted on 06/17/2008 18:09
Real good to Know nice job guys & girls still the best site out there :)THANKS
Posted on 06/17/2008 22:16
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Demigod
Sweet I like it! its Great and Awesome all in one! Woooo! this is like my 2nd Home!
Posted on 06/17/2008 22:37
Man you should have introduced a button to delete cap memberships....I got too many on my page
Posted on 06/18/2008 02:29
A good thing you've done here Kres! We all needed a bit of a change. I just hope that the camp page prototype is gonna be finished soon...xD
Posted on 06/18/2008 02:43
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Major General
Kudos to the Team Work. Pretty slick SI with this even more futuristic design ^^
Posted on 06/18/2008 05:23
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Frigate Captain
e da ti ja nisam reka da ovo napravis , ti sto posto nebi
ovo uradio , i super je ispalo , svaka cast , skidam kapu ,
kad bi jos ima , i vidim da su postirali neke komentare
koje su uglavnom pohvale.

Good Job all!!!

Peace And Respect XD XD XD
Posted on 07/10/2008 13:54
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Frigate Captain
TOP 10 could be displayed in "most interesting games" system - ranking based on sum of points (in other way: average * votes_number), i.e game 9.7x14=388 will higher than 9.9x2=19.8

And there should be a linguistic value (good, bad, so-so, etc.) under crisp value when giving new score, because one gives i.e 6 points and writes that game is "rather bad" but under score in his review is "good"
Posted on 09/27/2008 03:51