News
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 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.
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)
League of Legends Beta Key contest
League of Legends is a Free to Play game on the PC that is getting a lot of buzz, and we would like to give you the chance to win a beta key for the game!
All you have to do is check out this screenshot of the game, and join the conversation. We want to know what you think about the game. Have you played it? What do you know about the game? Are you excited about the game? Let us know what your thoughts are!
Join the conversation by leaving a comment on the image post, by Sept 11th, 2009 at 4pm EST, and you could win One of 25 Beta keys for the game that we’re giving away!
Good luck!
Sam “QforQ” Houston
gamerDNA Community Manager
GamerDNA in the News
This past week we officially announced the launch of the new gamerDNA.com and subsequently we received some press about all the new features. We had some great articles, and we’d like to highlight them here so that you can check them out!
Kotaku – “Gaming Social Network Launches Revamped Site”
Mashable – “GamerDNA is like FriendFeed Meets Pandora for Gamers”
Big Download – “GamerDNA relaunches with new features”
VentureBeat – “GamerDNA launches major upgrade for gamers social network”
Fast Company – “Five Incredibly Entertaining Niche Social Networks”
GamerTag Radio Podcast – “GamerDNA Interview & NHL2k10 Q&A” (skip to the ~25 minute 20 second mark to hear the interview)
SideQuesting – “GamerDNA launches updated website”
We thank everyone for the great write ups and interviews. We’re very excited about this new launch and the gamerDNA community has taken to it well. We can’t wait to launch more features to make things even better!
Thanks,
Sam “QforQ” Houston
gamerDNA Community Manager
