Announcing Games.slashdot.org

For years Slashdot has had an abundance of game related content. Unfortunately, we've also had limited space to post those stories. We strive to cover a wide range of tech news, and this often means passing on a good game story because something else is more important. But today I get to announce the creation of games.slashdot.org, where we'll finally have a home for all the gaming related content that might otherwise have been rejected. Keep reading to learn more.

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 ;)

Comments

Re:Poll

[larry bagina]

what do you think was the inspiration for the piss-yellow/shit-brown apache section?

My thoughts on Linux games

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been a certification analyst (tester) for Loki Games for a couple of years now.

In my experience, gaming on Linux lags behind and probably always will. The reason? OpenGL v. DirectX.

Unfortunately (I LOVE Linux), OpenGL implementations are very much inferior to DirectX. I have to give the guys at MS credit where credit is due - DirectX is the superior technology.

Until Linux and the OSS community comes up with something as good as DirectX, Linux games are going to be inferior to their Windows counterparts.

Re:Original content?

[jherekc]

CmdrTaco actually *reads* Slashdot?

I'm obviously losing my Mod points by posting logged in, but fuck it, it had to be said.

CowboyNeal

[BigJimSlade]

I assume CowboyNeal was brought on board to meet the daily dupe quota?

Re:Wh don't you hire a *real* web designer?

[Guppy06]

"Slashdot has about the ugliest layout of any major site out there."

Which explains why this is your 2556th post here.