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 ;)
Perhaps dupes.slashdot.org? For all those other dupes there hasn't been room for on the home page!
Please change it? Ouch.....
In about 45 more seconds, yes. :)
For years Slashdot has had an abundance of game related content. Unfortunately, we've also had limited space to post those stories
You'd have more room if you'd read your own web site and stop posting so many duplicate stories.
The gaming section colour scheme: 1) Hurts my eyes 2) Gives me a nice tan when I view it on my CRT 3) Features a new colour, infra-purple 4) Is even more garish than Barney the dinosaur 5) Clashes with CowboyNeal's underpants
"We intend to provide occasional original coverage, but mostly, we want to provide more exposure to the existing gaming sites [...]"
Could this be a hint to a slashdot game reviews feature similiar to the current book reviews?
...I hope so
Bored with karma, be a fan/freak
A section which I can waste more time on and go blind. No wait should this be pr0n.slashdot.org then :P
Rus
Cheap UK and US VPS
Why not make a Microsoft.slashdot.org for all the M$ bashing?
Because it spills over into all other sections anyway.
The coolest voice ever.
OK, we need to establish some ground rules early on. We bash XBox, PS2, Gamecube in that order. And I think we all agree the SNES was the best console ever :)
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 !
Siggy Say, Siggy Do
Nah... Because then people would be trying to disguise links to legitimate sites as a goatse link
I may be wrong, but I'm never uncertain.
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