Cubed3 Relaunch. Now with more Mushrooms!

A big welcome to the new C3 with a brand-new look! Months in the running, we've finally taken the shackles off the beast and released it into the wild world of the Mushroom Kingdom... or something along those lines! Alongside our slightly darker skin, the site has undertaken an overhaul in various areas: in particular with how you guys can interact with the website and likeminded members.

The main focus behind the design is to try and simplify the experience, and bring out features that were perhaps hidden away in Bowser's castle. Console pages, which previously acted as a directory search, have been glossed over with recent forum discussions, top games, content and genre searches to try and bring much more meat to your Nintendo-exploring. Much of the site's backend has been rewritten to solve existing problems, and improve the site's efficiency and stability in the long run. C3's main sections can be explored through the top-level navigation, with featured and recent content permanently housed on the right-hand side of the page. However, as people visit for different reasons you can now select what menu items are shown on your navigation by clicking on the ickle title-bars on each.

The forum experience has seen revisions, with no-refresh posting, star-giving and editing aiming to speed up discussion and make posting more comfortable and easier to use. Be sure to look through the various parts of the site for more enhancements/revisions!

In terms of content, the launch of the latest C3 brings back some older features with the podcast set to ignite your listening buds in the near future, gaming factory turning the cogs of creative "if-only" gaming design and the possibility for the much loved Hound to reawaken from his slumber. In the coming months we'll be bringing you much more features and personal content through staff blogs and more industry ramblings/analysis.

A thanks to: JQuery for providing the core Javascript effects/functions, FamFamFam for the brilliant icon-set and LastRSS for feed parsing. Thanks to the Cubed3 staff for putting up with the numerous delays for the launch and for whipping up some launch goodies for the upcoming week and beyond.

With any new version there's likely to be multiple bugs and overlooked problems Apologies in advance! Please mail jb[at]cubed3.com with any issues you've encountered so we can whip out the old Fudd for a clean up!

Many thanks for supporting Cubed3 over the years, we hope that we're up there somewhere in your bookmarks ready for Nintendo news, analysis and most importantly: fun!