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N4G Design Contest - Help redesign N4G.com (re-post)

When we launch the next site update this fall, we hope to also make some visual improvements to the the site. Since N4G is a user driven site we thought it would be a good idea to give all of you a chance to help decide how the new N4G will look. We want to keep this contest as open as possible as at this stage we are only looking for design ideas. You can do something which captures the look and feel of the current N4G design, or you can try and go for a new look, it is up to you. To participate you will need to open an account with 99Designs.com.

You will find the contest here http://99designs.com/contests/23010
For design brief got to http://99designs.com/contests/23010/brief 

(It is important that all who plans to submit a design have seen the wireframe available in the design brief)

The winner will get $1000 and the chance to do further design work on N4G. Good luck!

WhittO5458d ago

TBH i like the current design of N4G..

TheColbertinator5458d ago

I would like some more color if I had a choice.

Muggles5458d ago (Edited 5458d ago )

...but this contest will give someone the incentive to try!

chaosatom5458d ago

They can always try it out and if people don't like, then go back to the old one.

vickers5005458d ago

Yeah, don't change it too much. The design is the only reason I keep coming back to this fanboy infested rat's nets of a web site.

Shadow Flare5458d ago

I personally really don't feel like it needs a redesign. Its simple and clear, which is great. And its better with a white background. Its like the google of gaming

BrunoM5458d ago

Darker colors .. theme for every system and so on ..

Tony999Montana5458d ago

Here's one very small feature that I would like to see. When you reply to a comment the box should flick down under the original comment so you can view when replying without scrolling up and down.

Shadow Flare5458d ago

Actually there is one thing. Make the minus bubble symbol actually a minus symbol. Because at the moment, its a division symbol. Why on earth is it a division symbol?

Shadow Flare5458d ago

Oh yeah, and make it so i can log onto n4g from my ps3 please. Although i realise thats not an aesthetics change....

BrunoM5458d ago

Shadow Flare i agree log on the ps3 would be kool..

and on another note .. kinda weird how some one just went by every comment and give a disagree lol.

Bubble Buddy5458d ago

I hope it's not a major change. IMO all they need is slight graphical updates and maybe bigger avatar pictures? :P

xwabbit5457d ago

whats with all the freaking disagrees ? even people who said n4g should stay the same (which is shouldnt.. theres always room for improvement) got disagrees lol ? wth rlly

KRUSSIDULL5457d ago

N4PS3G logo dark colors with red and compatible with PS3 controller and the 3% of Xbox 360 fans at this website should be banned.

It was a Joke... I think.

Hellsvacancy5457d ago (Edited 5457d ago )

ADD MORE BLACK (my fav color)

Edit. Oh and y does nearly ever1 under me hav 16+ disagrees?

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UnblessedSoul5458d ago

Nothing beats the current design imo

chaosatom5458d ago (Edited 5458d ago )

It then beats the current design.

Edit: ah-ha! I have proven my point.

Sarcasm5458d ago

They need to add a vote bann for IP addresses.

ChampIDC5458d ago

Get rid of the disagree button, and people won't have anything to click on every comment as they scroll down the page!

THC CELL5458d ago

all they need to add is facebook chat feature and better profiles

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7 Deserving Games That Never Got Backward Compatibility

Backward compatibility works for many games on newer consoles, but titles such as The Simpsons: Hit and Run have been left out.

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20 Best Survival Games of All Time

From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.

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Vader821d 9h ago

No 7 days to die is criminal

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel4d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow3d ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo1822d ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie2d ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere2d ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin2d ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere2d ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

ApocalypseShadow1d 13h ago

Lying to yourself is unbecoming.

Article link tells you all you need to know in Sarah Bond's own words.

Hereandthere2d ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

ApocalypseShadow1d 13h ago

At least you and others get it. Note drank the Kool aid and asked for seconds thinking it was refreshing.

Most don't even know how it all played out but it's there in black and white for all to see. Microsoft brought it up for years until the MLB forced Sony's hand. It was a win win for Microsoft. Kill one reason to buy a PlayStation or kill the game by dropping it in a cheap service to kill Sony's sales numbers on PlayStation.

OtterX3d ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

Cockney1d 8h ago

They chose well, Sony gave them the backing to pursue their dreams with no restrictions even tho their games especially dreams have very niche appeal. Media molecule and Sony deserve respect for this in an age of risk averse publishing.

RNTody3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno3d ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Inverno2d ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii2d ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno2d ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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