News Posters
 

Maybe we need some new ones, or we just need to get rid of them all together, because I haven't seen much news lately.

arent there like 8 or something ? And that Oreo guy after becoming newsposter with 4 posts said he was gonna post release dates, news and what not a couple of times a week, but I've only seen 1 or 2 posts from him...

I post some news, but it's hard to make a habit out of it, since nobody reads it anyways.

The news are mainly for the portal. The thread views don't get included in the views from there.

How do you become such a thing?

Do you have to apply or do you have to show your experiance?

The news section is one of the main contributors to the site traffic, the more/better news the more traffic.

I was doing it for a few weeks, but honestly I just happened to have the time then, and I don't now. I really wish that the news forum would be as full now as it was then, though. Here are the links to new sources that I'd gathered:
Primary sources
Activision:
http://www.activision.com/en_US/news...sreleases.html
AMD:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/V...51_104,00.html
Evil Armadillo:
http://us.atari.com/press/?k=Press%20Release
ATI:
http://ati.com/companyinfo/press/index.html
Blizzard:
http://blizzard.com/
Capcom:
http://www.capcom.com/news/
Eidos:
http://www.eidosinteractive.com/corporate/press.html
EA:
http://www.info.ea.com/
Intel:
http://appzone.intel.com/pressroom/index.asp
Interplay:
http://www.interplay.com/investor/pressrelease.asp
MS Game Studios:
http://www.microsoft.com/games/press/default.aspx
MS:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/default.asp
nVidia:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/press_room.html
Siera:
http://www.sierra.com/sierra/corporate_news.do
SOE:
http://soe.sony.com/corp/press.jsp
Take 2:
http://www.take2games.com/index.php?p=pr
Vivendi Universal:
http://www.vugames.com/corporate_news.do
THQ:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....ol-IRHome#info

Secondary Sources
Blues News:
http://www.bluesnews.com/
ZDNet:
http://www.zdnet.com/
Shack New:
http://www.shacknews.com/
Voodoo Extreme:
http://www.ve3d.com/

Primary sources are prefferable to secondary sources because:
A. We may get the story before someone else
B. No credit is due. "Siera announced" or such is completely sufficient
C. We may include interesting info that other sites don't

Secondary sources are good because:
A. Game devs do exclusives
B. You can find new primary sources this way.
C. Sometimes you skim over something important in a primary source

But it's not your job to post news. I wouldn't complain if you never posted news, it's the job of the news posters, and they just happen to not be doing their job.