Spotlights
gamerDNA Spotlight – Recruitment Reels
Everyone knows that the backbone of any good group, clan, or guild is the recruitment process. Without a steady flow of new applicants, your group may be missing out!
One of the most inventive ways to invite recruitment is to create a video! Like the great propoganda videos of yester-year today’s modern artists use moving pictures to motivate, inspire, and recruit.
Up first we have a video from gamerDNA clan Blackwater ArmA, a clan that plays the highly realistic military shooter, ArmA (Armed Assault):
Sometimes, people want to use a show of their skills a simple, but effective recruitment strategy – just as the Call of Duty 4 clan, TCAA, has done with this video (it really is just 9 minutes of gameplay):
Got something that you think should spotlighted? Let us know!
Experience Roundup – Female Gamers Edition
Female gaming isn’t some kind of nebulous concept somewhere out there in the ether of Barbie Horse Adventures and The Sims, it’s everywhere, and this time we’re highlighting some of the coolest experiences on gamerDNA for this edition of the gamerDNA Experience Roundup.
Warhammer Online Signature Generator
Today we are excited to launch our Warhammer Online signature generator. Warhammer Online players now have the ability to create dynamic signatures that display live up to date character data based on the North American Warhammer Online RealmWAR character page.
Here are examples of our two signatures, one for Order and one for Destruction.
How you can get your own free Warhammer Online Signature:
- Sign up for gamerDNA.com (if you do not already have an account)
- Sign in to gamerDNA and go to the following link Warhammer Online Signature Generator
- Put in your character name and server name for that character and click submit.
- Now you have your signature with the provided HTML and BB Code so that you can instantly use it as a signature anywhere!
*Note* We currently do not support European Warhammer Online servers due to the fact that a European RealmWAR website has not be created by Electronic Arts/GOA. If/When a website is created by the publisher that publishes this data we will support European players ASAP *Note*
Edit: We now support European Servers!
All our Warhammer Online signatures display your character name, your class, rank, reknown rank, server name and guild name (if applicable). This is all done for free for all members of gamerDNA without the need to download any client that watches your gaming. Just plug in your character name and server name and you’re ready to go!
Finally, don’t forget that you can win one of five 60-day free game time cards for Warhammer Online if you take part in our Warhammer Online contest that ends this Sunday. All you have to do to win is add Warhammer Online to your profile or play WAR via Xfire, add a screenshot or experience to your profile. For all the details check out our Warhammer Online contest announcement.
Check back in the near future for some more very exciting announcements for Warhammer Online players as well as more contests. Make sure you subscribe to our RSS feed or our email notifcation so you can know as soon as anyone else does!
gamerDNA Spotlight – Elite Assassin’s Legion
Finally! We’ve got another gamerDNA group spotlight. Last time we had an interview with Elilane, leader of the Fyredraek guild in World of Warcraft. This week, we’ve got a spotlight on a Call of Duty 4 clan on the Xbox 360 – Elite Assassin’s Legion. We’ve got the leader, Danpipster, here to talk about his clan.
gamerDNA: So why don’t you introduce yourself and your group – who are you, what is your group, what game does your group play?
Danpipster: Right, well, my gaming name is Danpipster, co leader of the EAL, which stands for Elite Assassin’s Legion. We are a CoD4 Clan on the Xbox 360.
gamerDNA: What motivated you to create your clan?
Danpipster: Well, having played on my own in ordinary ranked matches (online), it frustrated me to see how unorganised teams were. I thought, if only teamwork was used and everyone worked together we could really win games! Especially if we had a talented squad of players,which is something I am trying to build up, as the name suggests (Elite).
Communication is another factor. I noticed how in games I found that if I found a useful piece of information, such as enemy locations or something similar, if we were a team, we could share this information and really gain the edge over the enemy.
More after the jump….
Experience Roundup – Strategy Edition
First there was the FPS Experience Roundup, then there was the MMO Experience Roundup, this week’s roundup ditches the acronyms and puts us in the “thinking man’s (or woman’s)” genre – Strategy games! We’re talking about the games that you take a step back from the menial rigors of the battlefield and embrace a higher sense of control. So click through, because a bevy of strategy experiences await after the jump!
Experience Roundup – MMO Edition
It’s that time again for another gamerDNA Experience Roundup. This week we’re going to take a look at a genre that I personally know nothing about, but I’m sure a lot of gamerDNA’s members do! We’re talking about MMOGs, Massively Multiplayer Online Games. I’m diving head first into your experiences and I’ll be sure to embarrass myself when I try to comment on them. So without further ado, let’s dig in!
Experience Roundup – FPS Edition
This week we’re starting a regular feature on the blog where we take a look at what our members are saying about the games they play and the experiences they had. This week, I decided to go right to the well to look at the genre that I love most – the First Person Shooter.
August 25th Release Notes
Here it is… your moment of Zen… and build notes.
This week we focused a lot on getting ready for OpenID, so most of the work that is hitting the product is bug fix related.
Member Profile Enhancements/Changes
- Kongregate added as an AKA to your profile.
- The member challenge performance issues have been fixed and the gadget put back on the member home page.
- RSS Import experiences will now run regularly. You can put in any RSS feed and it will automatically pull it into your Profile page. This allows you to pipe in content from other places where you contribute and aggregate it all together.
- When auto-generated blog entries use member names, we are no longer assuming the case of the username. They go in as-is, and if that means that a sentence starts with a lowercase letter, that is how it is. This is based on user feedback to see their name correct.
- New games added to your DNA will now respect the watchlist flag correctly.
- Cleaned up the formatting of long game names in the panel so they wrap without breaking the layout.
- AKAs are now set to Public by default instead of friend’s only to encourage sharing.
Guild Hosting Enhancements/Changes
- New Warhammer guild theme, Spoils of War – Destruction!
- An image transition switcher has been added to the guild hosting creation page.
- Fixed the More smiley button on the guild WYSIWYG pages.
- For guild sites, the nav will now highlight properly when you are on an active section.
- Disabled the bartle pie chart/flash component until the new one is ready running off the new data.
General Site Enhancements/Changes
- The homepage now displays information about the Bartle quiz with an action button to get started.
- All PlayerVox articles have been republished to the company blog for their new home. PlayerVox was an old GuildCafe online publication. You can find most of them in the category: Gaming Industry
- Added an icon for Braid. If you aren’t playing it, you should be!
- Proper paging added to the Message of the Day in the header so that it helps with site performance.
- The footer for the site has been rebuild to properly display in all cases.
- Repaired a small bug in the nav that prevented game lists from loading in the DNA panel.
- Fixed an issue where the footer was covering up the comment section for images.
- Removed Tags from the blog feed on the homepage so the display is cleaner.
- Turned some headers into links on the alliance homepage.
- Cleaned up some formatting of the quiz results page.
- Fixed some grammar in the XFire auto-blog entries.
- Fixed some formatting issues on the image pages.
- Fixed a missing icon in the activity feed.
- Repaired the icon for Lila Dreams.
- Corrected the CSS to repair spacing issues in the forum thread view.
- Fixed a typo in the FPS quiz (Question 16)
That’s it for now! We will be doing a separate post later with more information on the changes surrounding OpenID.
