Creating More Community
One of the things I love most about the WSGF is our community (i.e., our members). People are welcoming, helpful and friendly, and we are known as an inviting community. Behind the scenes there is a core group of people (our Insiders and Editors) that stay in contact and game together from time-to-time. However, one of the things I would like to see more of is a more active gaming community within our membership at large. To that end, we're launching a number of activities to help bring WSGF members together.
GamerTags
A while back we added GamerTags for Steam, XBox Live, GFW Live and Playstation Network to the user profile. Delphium has now created pages in the site to list out member GamerTags for each platform. He's also gone in and use the Steam API to create a custom infobox on that listing. That page may take a bit to load initially, as it's auto-magically generating the information.
http://widescreengamingforum.com/user/tags_steam
Free-To-Play MMO Guild
A long time ago we created a Guild Wars guild, though it hasn't been active in ages. At that time GW was the only major FTP MMO out there, and it offered a single "international" server. Since then a number of major MMO's have gone FTP, which means the barrier to entry for a community guild is much lower. We've got a poll going to see what guild most people would like to join. Check it out here:
http://widescreengamingforum.com/poll/id-join-wsgf-free-play-mmo-guild
Need For Speed: Shift 2 Challenge
WSGF Editor "Skid" wants to put together a 4k resolution video for YouTube featuring NFS:S2 in Eyefinity. To do that, he's put together a racing challenge for the community. The WSGF is sponsoring the event, and will award a copy of Driver: San Francisco to the winner. If you don't yet have the game, it's on sale through the weekend at Steam for 50% off. Get all the details on the race here:
http://widescreengamingforum.com/news/skid-challenges-you-need-speed-shi...
Minecraft
We have a WSGF Minecraft server, that we are relaunching and regenerating with the release of Minecraft 1.8. Hit up this thread for more details on the server rules, and to get Whitelisted:
http://widescreengamingforum.com/forum/forums/general/site-news-suggesti...
Looking forward to seeing more community members more often - in game.