PSN Trophy tracking Temporarily Unavailable
In the past few days we’ve been experiencing some technical problems when trying to retrieve PlayStation Network Trophy data to update member’s profiles. These problems are due to changes from Sony, and we are unable to fix the issue until Sony makes a change on their end.
We are reaching out to Sony in hopes of fixing this issue, so that we can turn on the PSN Trophy tracking that many in our community enjoy. Until then, our Trophy Tracking will not work.
Sorry for the inconvenience, we’re hoping to fix this issue ASAP!
Thanks,
Sam “QforQ” Houston
GamerDNA Community Manager
Contest on GamerDNA for $25 Amazon Gift Card
We’re giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card to the winner of contest we’re running right now on GamerDNA.com.
All you have to do to enter is make a game post or activity that lists the Top 5 games that were most influential to your gamerDNA. Make this post and link it to us on the designated game post (linked below), or send it to us on Twitter, and do all this by 5pm EST Friday October 9th – and you could win!
For the complete rules and information, please check out our contest page on GamerDNA!
Changes to how Nudges Work
On October 6th we will be making some changes to how Nudges work on gamerDNA. Please continue to read on, as we describe what Nudges are, what changes were made and why we did them.
GamerDNA Community Connection – Sept 24th 2009
Today I’m going to start a new gamerDNA blog article series called “Community Connection”. The goal of these posts will be to surface cool stuff from the community by pointing out various games and game pages that are active right now, surfacing some great Game Posts/Screenshots/activities and conversations, or even some gamerDNA member spotlights.
Most recently the new-hotness in terms of game releases have been a handful of games: Batman: Arkham Asylum, The Beatles: Rock Band, Halo 3: ODST, and the newest MMORPG on the block, Aion.
Batman: Arkham Asylum
To start with Batman: Arkham Asylum, I’ve definitely got to point out Vice_Destroyer. He’s been playing the game almost every day since release, and most recently unlocked all achievements in the game, giving him the full 1,000 gamerscore points possible. Hats off to that!
One of our more active PS3 community members has been MartB64, who has unlocked 54% of the trophies for the game. He gave Batman: Arkham Asylum a Five Star rating, saying “Wow, I was totally blown away by the depth of this game. It’s the best game so far this year! I can’t say enough good things about it”.
The Beatles: Rock Band
The Beatles: Rock Band has been getting a lot of attention lately, and for good reason. The game brings together the biggest band of all-time, with one of the biggest video game paradigm changes of all time (Music Gaming). The result is something pretty special, and the community at gamerDNA has responded to it very well.
MrVista360 has been working his way through the achievements on the Xbox 360 version of the game, unlocking 15 in total so far, even playing the guitar on lefty mode specifically to unlock an achievement.
Halo 3: ODST
Halo 3: ODST is the newest addition to the Halo universe…and while we’re only a couple days into the game being available for play, results look promising. The game has shot up to the #2 most play game spot on GamerDNA (2nd only to Halo 3), and the community is buzzing about it!
Tothcjt gave the game 5 stars, saying in his review: “This is a totally different game then Halo3. You can imply stealth to get around with The Rookie and then stealth around building to not fight hunters or other big enemies. Firefight mode is great and addicting, if it had matchmaking it would be a lot better but I guess playing with friends can be more fun.” Check his review out to see the interesting discussion that followed!
Aion
Aion is an MMO that is coming over to the West from Korea, where the game has been out for a year and has already been quite successful. NCSoft has made a very high polished/quality MMO with Aion, and many gamers are playing away this week as they try to level up as fast as possible in this PVP oriented MMO.
One of the more interesting things about the Aion community at gamerDNA is their love of sharing screenshots from the game. This could be a reflection of the high quality graphics in the game, which result in some fantastic looking scenes. To date we have over 400 screenshots of Aion from our Community – a number that is growing daily!
KornCob has been very active in Aion, sharing many screenshots with the GamerDNA community. One of my favorites is KornCob’s screenshot of the Sanctum, a beautiful looking castle that the Elyos race get to see in the game.
One of the top players of Aion on GamerDNA is LotusTheFallen, who has been playing the game while also sharing screenshots and game posts with the GamerDNA community. Check out their profile to see some great shots of the game, as well as to keep up with the ongoing story of LotusTheFallen’s journey in Aion!
That wraps it up for this GamerDNA Community Connection – If you have any feedback or thoughts on this post, or ideas for future Community Connection topics, please post them in the comments below!
See you in game!
Sam “QforQ” Houston
GamerDNA Community Manager
GamerDNA Townhall #2 Video
Last week we asked for your questions for the 2nd Edition of the GamerDNA Townhall, and you guys came through big time! We took all of your questions and answered them in the Townhall that we filmed on Tuesday. We broke up the Townhall into 10 minute sections, with each video having a theme of questions.
PlayStation Network Trophy tracking on GamerDNA – The Details
GamerDNA supports the PlayStation Network in some interesting ways…with some obvious and others not so obvious. This blog article will give you all the details on gamerDNA’s support of PSN and how you can set it up on your profile in a few quick steps!
Of course to enjoy all this nifty PSN tracking you have to have a gamerDNA account. Are you on GamerDNA? Make sure you sign up today, it’s super easy!
Sept 14th Release Notes
Hi Everyone!
Now that we have the big launch under our belts, we will be back to more rapid and periodic updates to the product. Here is a full list of the changes this week:
- Added individual trophy detection and display for PS3 users. Now when you play PS3 games and you get a trophy, it will actually display the name of the trophy and a description of it. You still have to make sure your trophies are synced up to your account by going to the trophy section on your Ps3 dashboard.
- Added a new profile background called Shooter #1
- Added sub navigation to the profile button in the upper-right navigation.
- Increased the loading performance of the member home page by putting the expansion of all gamerCURRENT items behind a loading process. We had issues where really large discussions (300+ comments) were slowing down the intial loading of a member’s home page as well as the NOW page.
- Cleaned up the game data on a variety of titles.
- Fixed an issue in the quiz counts that was reading the incorrect number.
- Made additional performance enhancements to the games gadget on member home.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing you from unsubscribing to various conversations, so that members would still receive alerts.
- Fixed a bug in the content display that was causing long text strings to not break correctly.
- Fixed a bug where If you exclude a specific type of alert (say, nudges) from a specific user you would miss alerts from other people.
- Worked on some issues with trophy counting for PSN.
- Users can now delete their status. There is a delete link on the display page.
- Add some buttons to make posts/gameplay/media when you view your own personal game page.
- Fixed some out-of-date links on the game pages.
- Fixed the layout of all the static pages on the site to use thenew templates.
- Xternal Vids and Xternal Images are now visible in the game activity RSS feeds.
- Added paging to the follower and following modal popups.
Thanks for your support through this site transition. We are excited by all the great usage and participation and are looking forward to our next few releases.
Live GamerDNA Townhall #2 Sept 15th 3pm EST
We will be broadcasting live the 2nd edition of GamerDNA Townhall tomorrow, Tuesday Sept 15th at 3pm EST. Last week we asked for your questions, and in this Townhall we plan to address as many as we can for the video.
We will also be recording the video, so if you can’t watch it live – Don’t worry! We will have video up later in the week for everyone to watch, so if you miss the live broadcast just make sure you stay tuned to our blog for updates on when the video is up for viewing.
To watch the live stream, please click “Continue Reading” below, or go to our uStream page. See you tomorrow at 3pm EST! (To see what time it is at the GamerDNA offices right now, please check out the Boston page at TimeAndDate.com)
