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GamerDNA Launches New System to Simplify Your Gaming Universe
Today gamerDNA has officially announced the launch of the new gamerDNA.com. We’re very excited about this launch, and it has been great to see everyone’s response. We’ve got plans for more features to come this fall, so stay tuned to the blog and we’ll keep you up to date!
Here is our YouTube video, demoing the new gamerDNA.com:
Click Read More or Scroll down to read the Press Release for this launch:
Seattle PAX 2009 – Come get some gamerDNA Swag!
The biggest consumer game show in North America known as Penny Arcade Expo is this weekend, and we’re very excited about it! Seattle PAX this year looks like it will be a lot of fun, and we’ll be there at the show!
GamerDNA’s Community Manager, Sam Houston (that’s me!) will be at PAX all weekend and he will even have some gamerDNA swag to give away. Sam will be at the show wearing a gamerDNA shirt, so he should be fairly easy to spot. Here’s a picture to help you out:
Sam is on a panel on Saturday at 1:30pm at the Unicorn Theatre, and we would love to see you there. A special bonus for attending will be receiving a gamerDNA Sticker, which Sam is handing out after the panel. Here is the description of the panel:
Saturday, 1:30pm – 2:30pm, Unicorn TheatreTwitter and Beyond – New Game Communities Online
Online game communities are changing rapidly as social media is being used more and more by gamers. No longer are people primarily congregating on official game forums. They’re talking with each other on Twitter, Facebook, and in other types of online communities about games. For this reason, Community Managers are actively leveraging social media tools to keep online communities informed and engaged with their games. This panel will discuss the exciting transition of game companies using social media to build, communicate with, and engage with players as well as highlight the macro-trends that impact all online communities. Panelists include executives from both the game development and social media side of the fence.Panelists Include: Michelle Broderick [Moderator] – (Marketing Director and Community Manager, Yelp.com), Morgan Romine (Fragdoll Team Captain, Ubisoft), Jaap Tuinman (Director of Social, Community, & Online Marketing, EA), Sam Houston (Online Marketing Manager, GamerDNA), Meghan Rodberg (Senior Manager of Online Community Relations, Turbine)
If you see Sam outside of the panel make sure you “hey” when you see him. He will be giving out gamerDNA stickers all weekend to community members, and it would be great to meet members of the community! Here are the new gamerDNA stickers:
I hope to see you at the show, it should be a lot of fun!
gamerDNA Community Manager
GamerDNA Update Notes – 8/26/09
It’s finally here! The update that we’ve been working on for a long time, been talking about here and there, and something that we’re very excited about, is finally here. We want to thank our entire community for all of the support over the past couple months, and we’re especially thankful for all the great feedback we’ve received in the past few days. Thank you!
We’re still tackling the various bugs that have bee introduced with this update, so rest assured that we will be fixing them over this week. You can also expect more blog articles about the various features and new pages, videos, a GamerDNA Townhall, and more updates to the site in the month of September. There is no rest for the wicked!
It’s alive! GamerDNA.com is back up!
Welcome back to gamerDNA.com!
We first want to thank everyone for their patience over the last few days that the site has been down, we really appreciate it! This was a big update for us, so we needed the time to make sure everything worked, fix various bugs that came up, etc.
That all said, you can check out the brand new gamerDNA.com right now! There is a TON of stuff in this update, with the most obvious being the new color scheme and design, new Member Homepages, and new Profiles. There are many new features within these pages, other changes and updates that are big and small…so expect a flow of blog posts explaining it all in the coming days and weeks.
In the mean time, we encourage you to check out the new gamerDNA.com and let us know what you think! Use our Feedback page to let us know about any bugs, your thoughts, your praise, etc – We want to hear from you!
Thanks!
Sam Houston and the rest of the GamerDNA Team
GamerDNA.com downtime August 24th-26th
Hello!
Next week we will be taking GamerDNA.com down for an extended period of time while we update the site. This downtime will start at 8pm EST on Monday August 24th, last through all of Tuesday, and will come back up in the morning on Wednesday August 26th.
To see what time it is at the GamerDNA offices right now, please check out the Boston page at TimeAndDate.com.
GamerDNA Desktop Backgrounds
For some time now, our Creative Director Sean Duhame (Alphadoque) has been rocking a GamerDNA Desktop background on his work computer. Ever since I saw it I wanted one for myself…and that day has finally come for the GamerDNA Community (and me!)!
Sean has made several sizes, so you can pick your favorite flavor (or rather, resolution):
Click through to the Image Page, then right-click save-as on the image to save it to your computer and set it as a desktop background.
We’re excited to see these finally out there! If you set it as your background, please take a picture of it on your computer and give us the heads up! We’d love to see gamerDNA on your rig!
-Sam Houston
GamerDNA Community Manager
What would you like to ask GamerDNA?
What would you like to ask GamerDNA staff about GamerDNA?
It has been no secret that we’re working hard on some stuff behind the scenes, and we haven’t had a lot of updates because of it…so we’d like to get our community more involved. ChangeAgent and QforQ will be doing a 30 minute "GamerDNA Townhall" video in about a week and a half (July 22nd target date), where we answer YOUR questions!
These can be questions or feedback on GamerDNA, features that you would like to see, asking us how we do things at GamerDNA, or some of the features that will come down the road. Basically anything you want to ask the gamerDNA staff, please ask it!
We will be taking the common and popular questions and answering them in the video. If you have something you’d like to ask, please post them in the comments below before July 20th.
Thank you GamerDNA Community! We look forward to answering your questions!
Thanks,
Sam Houston
GamerDNA Community Manager
Bloons Tower Defense 3 – GamerDNA featured Play Now game
This week’s featured GamerDNA Play Now game is Bloons Tower Defense 3, a fantastic tower defense game on Kongregate.
The game is similar to many other tower defense games, in that you have to defend your base against the onslaught of enemies…except in this game you have to defend yourself from a barrage of deadly balloons, using Monkeys that have been trained to throw darts at fast speeds. As you build up more cash, you can hold off the onslaught of balloons by creating Missile Launchers, Saw Blade Shooters, Catapults, and a Super Monkey which can throw darts at insane speeds.
Bloons Tower Defense 3 starts out by giving you 75 lives, which you need to hold out with at least one life left for all 50 rounds to beat each track. The game has a variety of different tracks, with different strategies that can be used on each one. After you beat each track you can receive a medal, which is saved to your account and shows up when you view the track listing.
The game is one of our favorite Kongregate games on GamerDNA, and we encourage everyone to check it out! All you have to do is go to the Bloons Tower Defense 3 game page on GamerDNA, the press the Play Now button!
Have fun!
