Phoenix's Blogs

As awesome regular visitors to NZGamer.com, you may notice our many updates we're continually rolling out to improve your experience on the site!

More than likely however, most of these fly under the radar until they've become things that "have always been there".

Just over a month ago we rolled out one of the larger updates to the site in a long while - we made the website, and forums, wider, to give content a bit more breathing room, we added comments on reader reviews, gave you the ability to vote comments up and down (more on that later), added our 'Events' functionality - allowing us to easily roll out things like our E3 2010 Hub. Plus we also did a huge re-write to a lot of our code to cache pages to speed them up and allow more people at once viewing our content.

That was NZGamer.com "5.2". On Monday we rolled out "5.2.1" and I'd love to detail a couple of the tweaks we've put in place - for the unabashed adoration and for your feedback on how we can continue to make NZGamer.com a better place.

Monday's update, most notably put the iPad hub in place. It's the place for all our (upcoming) iPad reviews, including features on iPhone games and a few other things we have up our sleeves.

We also updated our search results page. We've grouped content into tabs so instead of a sometimes massive list of 'stuff' to scroll-through, hopefully you'll be able to find what you're looking for a lot quicker. Reviews/Previews and Features now look a bit spiffier, as well as the other content, which should hopefully be a lot more readable.

One minor tweak we also made was our thresholds for comment ratings. Get 5 down-votes? Your comment will now reflect the apparent dullness of your comment. For every five up-votes you get, you'll get a star. These show how cool you are.

If this sort of insight is interesting to you at all - let us know, we're more than happy to continue and provide some details on what's going on at NZGamer.com HQ where we can.