Slashdot Mirror
Announcing Games.slashdot.org
The Slashdot Game Section will function similiarly to the other major sections on Slashdot, like apple.slashdot.org and Ask Slashdot. Visitors to the direct URL will be presented with additional, more focused, topical content. The best stories in the section will be posted to the main page and shared with a more general audience as they always have been. Logged in users can choose to consolidate Games content to the main page.
You'll notice a few things in the game section that are new. Most important is the addition of our newest editor, Simon "Simoniker" Carless. Simon is a sharp guy who has written for a variety of publications, but also is uniquely qualified since he has a history as a game designer for Eidos & Atari. Backing up Simon is the man of many polls himself, Jon "CowboyNeal" Pater. CowboyNeal is an obsessive gamer, having sacrificed his body for years to become a better gamer. We'll all benefit from his efforts in the field of sitting, pressing buttons and eating snacks.
The Slashdot Game Section will cover a variety of game related material. We will not be limited by platform- we intend to cover the major consoles, new and old releases, as well as computing games. We want to cover classic gaming as well as emulation. We intend to provide occasional original coverage, but mostly, we want to provide more exposure to the existing gaming sites, while providing our users with a place to discuss the major gaming news of the day.
Initially content will be found in the overflow from the Slashdot submissions bin. But as the section grows, we expect that readers will use the Games Submissions Bin to submit stories directly to Simoniker and CowboyNeal. You can also contact them directly by emailing games at slashdot dot org.
We've been looking forward to creating this section for a long time, and I hope you will all enjoy reading it as much as we'll enjoy researching stories for it ;)
Ive been following this for the last couple of days, first i was looking through the Icons list and notice lots of ones with the (games) tag but nothing in - thats odd??. :-)
Then i notice some things being posted under a games.slashdot.org. Odd never seen that before, and its not in the sections, must have missed it...
Now it all makes sense
Anything that means you can waste more time on slashdot when you need to do work cant be bad.
What prompted the move to ads in a slashbox at the side then??
Slashdot - The one stop shop for procrastination
Please change it? Ouch.....
The blue on black theme is messing with my head.
Otherwise, good idea.
Oww! My retinas! I'll never play Conterstrike again!!! You bastards!
'He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.' - Douglas Adams
Great... my proxy at work will probally block this
Ok, I love slashdot and all, but seriously...
worst. colors. ever.
I've had /. as my home page for some time now, but have constantly needed to resort to other game sites for my gaming information. This is great news, I was hoping for it.
Though, if it's videogames that make you guys believe purple on white is a good colour scheme, then maybe videogames truly *are* bad.
As a compulsive gamer, my eyes are already in a pretty bad shape. Please, please change the color. Dark green perhaps?
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Great news about the new section, but what good is it if we can't read it? The colours are blinding and SUPER saturated -- you guys should know that one of the first rules of good layout is to AVOID using garish, high-intensity, saturated colours on the periphery that might distract readers. Come on, guys! Your developers section has great colours -- medium intensity, not too saturated. You really kind of dropped the ball on this one ...
-A.
student of animation and the fine arts
There is no way on earth I'll be back to this games site until the color scheme is less painful. It physically hurts to read this page.
I didn't want to post 'yet another color complaint' message, but since there's no poll on it (yet), I see no alternative.
a cheap giveaway like a subscription for slashdot for someone to design a cool logo and come up with a color scheme ? Am sure there are many talented ones out there who would like to get their work displayed !
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Nope, I wont be. The purple-white gradient with white text is rather painful on the eyes. After all the flak this site cops for the fugly, motherboard green layout of the main page this is not an improvement.
Nice concept, but badly executed in my opinion. Let's hope it gets touched up a fraction.
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I hope to see other than comp-based games on this page. I've discovered the fun with MechWarrior and am a long-standing Magic player. I'd love to see these kinds of games covered in this forum.
This color will keep me and probably others from the page. Could it be changed?
I have to post this anonymously cause its a shocking admission. I am a life-long nerd but I don't care
for computer games. After 12 hours debugging a program I don't want to stare at a screen any more.
And I definitely don't want to play an adventure-type game where you have to guess what's
happening and peer into rooms, etc. That's too much like real debugging. For me its beer in my spare time. Cheers.
I'd like to see a slashbox for this too.
Slashdot has about the ugliest layout of any major site out there. And this hideous 'games' theme is the worst. Why don't you guys hire a real graphics designer? Other OSDN sites aren't even as bad.
Totally friggn' lame, IMO.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Agreed.
Why not a pixellated version of the logo instead? That purple.. burns..
Suckage is bad! Give the gaming site a redesign. Puuleeze!
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca