Archive for May, 2009
Chat about E3 Keynotes with GamerDNA and win swag!
Hey guys!
It’s that time of the year again…where every game company in the world and 50,000 fans and business folk swarm Los Angeles for 2009’s E3 EXPO! This year is shaping up to be pretty exciting, with rumored huge announcements from several companies, including the big three: Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.
The place and the time that a lot of those announcements happen is the Keynotes, which each of the big three hold next week. We’d like you to join the GamerDNA development team in our Chat Room, to watch those keynotes live and share your instant reactions to what is being announced and shown off!
If you join us, you could win GamerDNA T-Shirts, we will be giving out several during each keynote!
You can join the GamerDNA Chat Room by clicking here, or by clicking on the Chat link at the bottom of every GamerDNA page.
Here are the Keynote times:
Monday June 1st: Microsoft - 1:30pm EDT (10:30am PDT)
Tuesday June 2nd: Nintendo – 12pm EDT (9am PDT)
Tuesday June 2nd: Sony – 2pm EDT (11am PDT)
To watch the live video streams, you can watch it live on TV on G4TV. You can also watch live streams on G4TV.com (which will have TONS of live video all week), or you can watch it live on GameTrailers.com.
In the mean time, let us know what your E3 Predictions are and what you’re most excited about, by leaving a comment on QforQ’s Game Post!
Update June 3 2009 10:00pm ET
Hey everyone! ChangeAgent here… Thanks for participating in the chats. It was alot of fun watching all of the keynote presentations. We did a few T-shirt drawings for everyone that was there. The winners were:
If you were a T-shirt winner, QforQ will contact you next week for size and mailing information (when he is back from E3)
GamerDNA NOW and Broadcast contest Winners
Last week we ran a contest around our new NOW page and our Facebook/Twitter integration…and now it’s time to announce the winners!
The two winners of a $20 Amazon Gift Card are…. ForteV4 and Celestian!
We’ll be doing more contests and announcements over the coming weeks, so I encourage everyone to stay tuned to our blog to keep up with what is going on at GamerDNA. In the mean while, make sure you check out the GamerDNA NOW page and our new Facebook integration!
ForteV4 won our GamerDNA NOW contest, congrats ForteV4!
And that leaves us with Celestian, who won our Broadcast contest!
Congrats to the both of you!
May 18th Release Notes
Hello everyone!
Sorry for the late patch notes this week, things have been pretty busy on our end as we’re working very hard on some of the next additions to GamerDNA. I’ll also be filling in for Trapper this week and I’m excited to get in on the Release Notes action this time around!
The update that we gave GamerDNA this week was pretty light, with most of the work going on behind the scenes in preperation for larger updates that will come out in the coming weeks. This week we added in a couple community features that have been requested, as well as a change to how we can take in feedback from our community and give you guys the best support possible.
Account Settings page – Helping you change your password and email settings!
This week we took some time to clean up our Account Settings page. Before the process of changing your email and password wasn’t that easy and our community let us know that, so this week we made it much easier to change those settings. You can get access to this page by clicking on the "Manage" button up in the top right corner of your screen, when browsing the site.
Member Search – Now supports User-name and AKA search
In the past few weeks we received a lot of feedback from our community about our Member Search, especially about having the ability to search by a person’s AKA. As of this week, you are now able to search by GamerDNA user-name, or by searching by a Public AKA that they have put in their profile. This means that you can search by their AKA’s on sites like Twitter, or by their names on places like Xbox Live and Steam!
G4TV Videos – GamerDNA now brings in videos from G4TV!
GamerDNA has added G4TV as one of our latest Video Partners, which means we are now automatically bringing in fresh videos from G4TV.com and from your favorite shows like X-Play. These videos are added to a game’s Game Page, and can be shared with your friends or commented on. For example, you can check out the new F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin Armored Front DLC Trailer on GamerDNA right now!
Lastly, we launched our new Feedback and Support website at Get Satisfaction!
Now if you click on our Feedback or our Support links at the bottom of the page at GamerDNA, you will be taken to a page with widgets that will help you find an answer to your question, report a problem, or give us feedback and praise!
This new site makes it a lot easier for us to support our community and easily see what our community wants to have added to GamerDNA. We use and monitor this site every day, and we encourage everyone to get involved and share your feedback with us! Please check out our GamerDNA Get Satisfaction page today!
And that about wraps it up for us this week. Please stay tuned to GamerDNA over the coming weeks, we’ve got some exciting things in store for the coming month(s) and we can’t wait to show you and get your feedback!
Thanks and have a great weekend!
Sam "QforQ" Houston
GamerDNA Community Manager
GamerDNA NOW and Broadcast Contest
Over the past couple weeks we’ve launched two new features: The GamerDNA NOW page and our Facebook integration. What better way to celebrate their launch…than a contest that starts right NOW!
Starting today and through to this Friday, you can be entered to win one of two $20 Amazon Gift Certificates, and all you have to do is use GamerDNA!
To enter, all you have to do is create a Game Post, a Game Activity, or upload an Image to your GamerDNA between today and 12:00am EDT Saturday May 23rd. As a secondary requirement, you also need to comment another community member’s content that they’ve put up on GamerDNA. What’s the best way to find all this interesting stuff to comment on at gamerDNA? The GamerDNA NOW page ofcourse! The GamerDNA NOW page is a live stream of activity on GamerDNA, showing all game posts, manually entered activities, images that are uploaded, and comments made. You can even comment on cool stuff that you find, right from the NOW page!
You can also enter to win by adding your Facebook and/or Twitter account to your GamerDNA and have at least one update sent out to those sites, between today and 12:00am EDT Saturday May 23rd. You can connect your Facebook and Twitter account to your gamerDNA on this page here. All community members that have added their Facebook/Twitter account prior to this contest are automatically entered, as long as they have at least one GamerDNA Twitter/Facebook update sent between Monday-Friday this week!
A winner will be chosen for each contest, so you have two chances to win!
RULES:
NOW Page contest:
-Post a comment on a Game Post, Activity, or Image (Best way to do this is through the NOW page!)
-Create a Game post, or upload an image, or Manually update/create a Game Activity with what you did when you played the game
-You must complete these requirements between 12:00am EST May 18th and 12:00am EST May 23rd.
-Anyone found spamming will be immediately disqualified
-Winner will be chosen at random and announced on May 25th on the GamerDNA Blog
-Must be at least 18+ to be eligible
-Each Community Member that meets these requirements receives one entry in the contestGamerDNA Broadcast Contest:
-Must have a Twitter account or a Facebook account setup for Broadcast on gamerDNA
-At least one Facebook or Twitter update must be sent from GamerDNA
-All members who previously completed this requirement before the contest are eligible
-You must complete these requirements between 12:00am EST May 18th and 12:00am EST May 23rd.
-Must be at least 18+ to be eligible
-Each Community Member that meets these requirements receives one entry in the contest
And that’s it! We wish everyone luck and we’re looking forward to seeing all the community activity this week!
SeaFight – GamerDNA featured Play Now game
SeaFight is a free Online Pirate Game where you can sail the seven seas, build your own pirate ship with a crew, then take your boat out and fight other players online – all within your web browser. This a fun little browser game where you can create guilds with other players, build up your ship with the best armor and weapons, and collect as much gold as you possibly can. Once you feel like you’re good to go, you can set sail and take on other players or NPCs in sea battles for experience and treasure.
Here is FattyChub’s first boat, "The Fatty"
After you feel like you’re ready to take on the big dogs, you can even compete against all the other players to see who can get the most points and rise up on the SeaFight "Hall of Fame". Not only that…you can compete against other players to win up to $10,000 dollars.
Looks like a battle is about to go down!
If you’d like to check out SeaFight, make sure you check out our "Play Now" option on the SeaFight gamerDNA game page. Once you’re in the game, make sure you let us know what you think by posting a game activity post or event screenshots!
Plenty Of Market Opportunity In MMOs
When you compare groups of MMO consumers, grouped by game title, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by World of Warcraft’s market dominance. Indeed, many developers have learned the wrong lessons from Blizzard’s success, and copied/are copying WOW features – without copying WOW’s reasoning, methodology, or execution. The result are products that feel derivative and incomplete, with features that the consumers identify as being less than organically developed. Furthermore, WOW’s market reach is so extensive that the most influential players in a social network sense will identify a borrowed feature as being WOW’s (even if WOW itself borrowed the feature), and cost the new product credibility as innovators.
May 5th Release Notes
Hi Everyone,
We have a new build up. A few cool things to know about… a new NOW page in the top navigation and Facebook support!
The NOW Page – Showing you what games people are talking about.
As was discussed previously, we are shifting gamerDNA to deliver better gaming content and conversations. The NOW page introduces you to this concept with a real-time feed of activity within the site. We are currently working on new versions of your member home and member profile that take this even further in a contextual way… so consider this your appetizer. 
Facebook status updates now supported
You can now connect your gamerDNA profile to facebook and deliver daily gaming updates along with hourly gamerDNA activity updates. Set it up now!
Here is the full list:
General Site Changes/Enhancements
- Built out the NOW page with a real-time feed of game conversation and game trends based on the attention of our users. When you view an item, it pauses the updating of the feed, so be sure to click PLAY again when you are done reading.
- Facebook added as a supported social media system. You can now authenticate with Facebook and stream all of your media updates to your facebook status feed.
- Deployed a new HELIX data service Game:GetInfo. Documentation to follow for all your XML devs out there.
- Deployed a new HELIX data service Member:GetInfo service. Documentation to follow shortly.
- Created a set of helix samples in PHP with heavily commented code to help new users get started.
- Corrected the layout of the error pages in the site.
- The game activity graphs on the homepage now properly reflect the same range used for the stats that are displayed. They were showing a week earlier.
- Fixed an issue in the rails bridge where the MOTD settings and drop downs now work consistently through out the site.
- Corrected an issue where non-escaped HTML was breaking some content.
- Fixed a small grammar issue in the FPS quiz.
- Corrected box art on a few titles.
Profile Changes/Enhancements
- Added an "Edit your profile" link on the public profile page with a message to make it easier to find until we complete the profile redesign.
- Added network icons to the DNA home page to emphasize the various networks we support.
- Corrected an issue where duplicate user accounts was causing email rules to not behave correctly.
Guild Hosting Changes/Enhancements
- Corrected a variety of theme issues in guilds related to new navigation. There are some IE8 issues that we are still working on.
- Fixed a bug that was blocking guilds from upgrading from a GuildWire-GuildAd to a fully hosted Guild.
Have any feedback on this new update? Let us know what you think by posting in the forums!
GamerDNA Community Newsletter #4
Hello gamerDNA!
Another month has gone by, which means it’s time for another gamerDNA Newsletter! This time around we’ll be switching up the name to "gamerDNA Community Newsletter"..as we think Community is a lot better than "Member". After all, this is a newsletter for the community, right?
