As of today, there is a new category at GamersGlobal.com called User-Reviews. This feature has evolved from what I dubbed "Co-op" articles (a term originally coined by Jan, who has also coded the User-Reviews) in this feedback post. To be honest, we think it is not yet the time for co-op articles, because we would need a much bigger user base to make it really work. For now, only users of the rank "Staff" can write User-Reviews, but it is also possible to promote long, informative, review-like news (like the mini-reviews which we now used to fill the empty new department) to the user-review category, so on practical terms, the User-Reviews are open for everyone. Also, we might change the user roles in the future to make the User-Reviews accessible for other user ranks. Apart from the more prominent place a User-Review gets, its main difference is that it can have more than one screenshot.

Speaking of Staff users: Kyle Ackerman, who has contributed an awful lot of news and input and insight to us in the first half-year since the beta launch, is no longer writing for us (he's a professional journalist who needs to earn money for what he does). Thank you very much indeed, Kyle, and hopefully we will work together at some time in the future, again!

This night, four "Reporter" rank users will be promoted to the special "Staff" role Kyle had, thereby taking on much more responsibility for making gamersglobal.com work. They will not only write news, but promote good ones to Top-News-Status. They can add photos to existing news. They can write User-Reviews, and do some things more. The four reporters are:

1. Knurrunkulus (864 EXP) -- profile
2. Bolle (781 EXP) -- profile
3. Starkiller (676 EXP) -- profile
4. Leonard McCoy (386 EXP) -- profile

Congratulations, and welcome to the team!