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"NEW SITE FEATURES COMP - WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT"

HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THIS COMPETITION. I have read ALL the entries!

A lot of entries mentioned things which have generally been discussed before or are in the pipeline. They include:
User Profiles
Polls
Walkthroughs and Game Guides
Highest Scores
Who is currently posting
Splash Plastic (which is too expensive for us to do)
Online Reddies
Logos and Ringtones (see UKphonetones.com)
Genre search for games
Tell a Friend.

It just goes to show how busy we are that we are unable to get many of the above into place. But hey, expenditure is controlled by income (hint).

I liked Darkness' idea about tutorials, and Mantis made the suggestion to have a "Gamesmaster" of the forums based on competitions for high scores.

Cookie Monster wants people to be able to promote their website (we already offer this for Freeola customers) and he also suggests that we have an office pet which is monitored with a web cam (brilliant).

Monkey_with_Attitude suggests a "most played games of the week" counter on UKgames.com.

Freak of the Dark says our logo should "move or something".

Turbonutter reckons we should run Flash games and this is supported by Shaneo who says we should run SR Arena and give prizes to the best players. Turbonutter also tells us that we are lacking on PC game specification of the type you find on the back of the box and Swish extends this to a link under each title.

CDouch is a "man of a thousand ideas", mostly on the button too. He lists: Information on gaming from around the world, more mini sites like UKgt3, kids corner, celebrity visits and better organised release info including more information on unreleased games (to name but a few of his suggestions).

The rules (written by Kendozod) state "exciting and would attract a lot of visitors".

THE WINNERS ARE:
CDouch for MORE INFORMATION ON UNRELEASED GAMES.
Turbonutter for FLASH GAMES.


Many thanks for all of your participation and, for the time being, I promise not to confuse the issue by holding any other similar competition.

All the obove written by Tony (The Judge)

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Below are the original rules written by Kendozod

New Site Features.

Tony has let me loose to post a new and exciting competition!
So here goes:

This competition is for all of you to think up new features for our websites. We already have cheats, clips, demos, discussions etc but are there other features you would like us to add?

The aim here is for the feature to be low admin maintenance and low in cost (obviously!) but be exciting and would attract lots of visitors.

They can be fun, educational, business, reference, silly, cool - anything as long as they NOT sexual or violent in nature.

This competition is open for 1 month and the best ideas that we USE will win a game as part of GAMEADAY. If no ideas are used then I will pick 1 winner that I deem the best.

CLOSING DATE: 8th July 2001

So get thinking and posting. Remember, your suggestions could make a difference!

in the review sections it should say something like if you like this then youl like and suggest another game.
eg.

your looking at nba street.
it will say

if you like this then youl like:
nba live 2001
ssx snowbording
nba hoopz

cdouch wrote:
> sell computer game merchendise.
this is become increasingly
> popular
there something for almost every game now:

metal gear
> solid
mario
tomb raider
pokemon
final fantasy
resident
> evil
etc

and a lot of these things are not available in the
> uk.
so you could import them and then people will come to you to
> get them.

Wot about Zelda **sniff** cant beleive you didnt add Zelda!!

when your looking at info on a game it shouldsay what other things people brought that brought this.
eg.
your looking at tekken tag
people who broght this also brought:
deas or alive 2
ps2 multi tap
ps2 official controller

have a selection of say 6 colours on the page and each visitor can choose which one they want the site to be coloured in during their visit like another.com

a special reserve phone cover

is it closed yet?

A game of the month page with small features on it, this may help to sell the product.

advertise at cinemas.
these days before the movie starts it has adverts on the screen that keep repeating so you cant help but look at it and take in the infomation.
also in them little film mag things they hand out saying about the films out are adverts you could put one in their.

(i dont been movie or tv adverts)

create your own demo disc for each cd console.
then when you send out your mag to members you could send the disc that runs on their console.
this will let people know how good games are and what you have on offer.
you could even put adverts on the loading screens or something.
and you could have a web link on the dreamcast version, and PS2 when internet becomes available.

im not a fan of reading, i only read magazines.
but a lot of people are so i say that you open a book forum.
cause lots of people will want to talk about that harry pooter thing and the movie of it.
and maybe you could have a book section.