Sure, we all love gadgets, but sometimes you've got to put the phone / GPS / laptop / USB whack-a-mole down and turn your attention to more pressing matters, like video games. That's where our main dudes at
Joystiq come into play. If you don't already know, the site has gotten roughly one million times more killer, as they've recently undergone a major redesign, and have pulled all of those fanboy sites you know and love (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo) into one insane party... but still managed to keep the separate parties going too. Confused? Don't be --
Joystiq is now not only a robust pool of curated sister-site and original content, but it can be switched over into three (aforementioned) separate streams of news, so you can still keep your eyes on the info you're after. Personally, we love the new look and feel, and we're fairly confident when you see it, your brain will go flying out of the front of your head. So... what are you waiting for? Get over there!
posted January 27th 2009 12:02PM
I think Engadget is due to a facelift.... eh, should I say make over? I'd like to know what's on engadget facelift features for the next upgrades..
Why? It's perfectly fine. One of the reasons I go here is 'cause it's so easy to find something. I especially hate those sites with a dark background. Makes it so hard to read :|
Perfectly fine except for the crappy comment system, that is.
they changed it up less than a year ago, but the comment system is definitely a piece.
I dig it. I hate how I have to squint everytime I look at a photo on some other blogs. Big pictures + non-retina-searing background = magically delicious.
It's been looking the nearly the same since it launched 4+ years ago :).
actually i really like the engadget site design.. particularly the comments section. it's just so squeaky clean!
I like the old design better. You whipper-snappers have to keep make things "fresh" and "jiggy" for no reason at all. AT ALL!
GET OFF MY LAWN!
It is true that old people are often concerned that there are children on their lawns.
When you own a Gran Torino, kids on the lawn become a very real concern, especially in old age.
Pretty is nice, but not as important as fixing the broken javascript code, fixing the comments system, and getting rid of site interrupting full page ad overlays once and for all.
Engadget could do with a face lift. More colour. The joystiq group looks far better than they were. A full comment system would be nice. Here hoping.
i like engadget's layout. it's clean and simple (the new joystiq layout is very similar, probably and AOL blog thing).
also, i loled at "usb wack-a-mole." does such a thing exist?
"more colour".
yeah like Kotaku.. and maybe throw-in a Hello Kitty icon somewhere.. oh, gosh golly CuT3N355 oVrL04DD!!
Two words: PC
That actually is an acronym..
why do pc gamers have to act all superior? for one thing, when you have friends come over and you want to play some video games, what are you gonna do? you can't put four people on a pc. or do you not have friends in real life?
Exactly, where is the PC tab ?
@maveric101: uhm, networking? lan parties? keyboard? joystick?
PC Gaming is important, that is where the evolution of Gaming takes place, that is where all the graphic processors get researched, that is where rendering technology happens. Consoles is just a port out of PC, a slimmer model, something that gets older every day, no updates, nothing over a period of 5 years.
I guess I wont add joystik to my favourites.
Those tabs are simply the "fanboy" sections redone as part of Joystiq. There is still PC gaming coverage. Of course, leave it to PC gamers to get offended that their extravagantly expensive, increasingly irrelevant hobby doesn't have a tab on Joystiq!
@m0
having several friends bring over computers and monitors is rather unwieldy, whereas i when i have people over we can watch a movie, then break out rock band, then play some halo 3 on my tv.
i'm not saying pc gaming isn't significant. it's just that many pc gamers seem to have this superiority complex (ps i play 360 and pc). just let the console kids have their fun.
@Patriks7
Actually it's an abbreviation. Acronyms spell out a soundable word.
Of course we still cover PC games! Those tabs aren't indicative of EVERYTHING we cover, but those are the only "niches" we cover with a dedicated site at Joystiq.
Want PC gaming coverage at Joystiq? Go here: http://www.joystiq.com/tag/pc
Or try Joystiq's TOTALLY ALL 100% PC GAMING SITE Big Download: http://news.bigdownload.com/
I say that everyone is wrong. PC gamers don't have a superiority complex, it's just some of us are a bit loopy. Just like 360 fanboys and PS3 fanboys.
Plus, what relevancy is it that you can't have people over to play PC games? I have a PS3, a desktop and a laptop. The first I use for Rock Band and explicitly offline multiplayer stuff, and the other two we can gather round and watch youtube, take turns on peggle or have two people playing an online game like WoW or Gears co-op.
PC gaming is not becoming increasingly irrelevant, it's just (sadly) moving away from masssive, triple-A game releases. It still rakes in more revenue than any other platform, but then of course it's dying (since the early 1980s), and since some guy on a message board who has no statistics or clue about the industry said it, then it must be true.
Love the redesign....clean and simple and the tabs are wonderful. Although they could fix the gamedaily logo in the corner...it looks odd.
lol @ the title... "that's what she said"
Or, you know, Daft Punk?
When the same thing will happen here? unite engadget, HD, mobile, switched, tuaw as a one thing like this would be great, too.
*sings Daft Punk*
Ditto.
I don't really like the new design. It seems way busier. I liked having the content in the center.
Xboxfanboy Fusion Joystiq ?
they only reason they put this up is because the engadget company owns this site
Right, the "Engadget Company," aka AOL.
RIGHT ON, just an example of how Engadget has loss its original "spirit"
now its owned and controlled by AOL..
ohh well I still get my daily doses of Engadget so I guess it doesn't matter to me anyways..
Yeah, John AOL sent Josh a message that he needed to synergize with Joystiq better, and suggested thinking outside the box on it.
Or, a sister-site that was founded by the founding editors of Engadget – and one that works very closely with Engadget and has for the last 4+ years – just relaunched a major new upgrade to the site.
But probably the former.
I rather like the new design. It's sleek slim and easier to read. More space has been devoted to the writers words while still holding important information in the side bar (videos, features, writers, etc.). It would be nice to see an update of the same calliber to Engadget, though it doesn't really need one.
Its been Too Long since we they really needed such changed, but im glad everything looks more Technologic.
Impressive, good to see pspfanboy, etc go to the playstation.joystiq.com url. I think that unifying all of that into one will make it a very strong community. Now add forums and you're golden.
if mytyping is allmessedup its cuase my brainmatter is blocking thescreen anf makin tyuping hardtodo with all the tinyu pieces stuc between my keyys.
YAY!
Maybe a little too fast and strong... I suspect illegal steroid-use
Bring out the Engadget Beijing 2008 peecups! Let the testing begin.
If it turns out their writers are actually 12 years old, I want my money back, and my pride for that matter :-/
@maveric101: ...Where did you get the idea that PC gamers are acting superior? The guy merely stated that there should be a dedicated PC section, which I think is perfectly justifiable. From your wording it sounds more to me like console players have issues instead with PC gamers because PCs are...superior, in order to compensate for the shortcomings of consoles.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.... so Joystiq is becoming a porn site?
Just out of curiousity, how much in terabytes did it download on the main page(video ads, flash content, etc) before the redesign? All the major video game websites are guilty of trying to cram so much content down(ads an all) in just the main page.
dsfanboy/wiifanboy are both gone :(
They're not "gone" - they're moved.
http://nintendo.joystiq.com/
Dedicated Wii and DS feeds here: http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2009/01/28/surprise-introducing-our-ds-and-wii-tabs/