Why not have only news on the front page and everything else in the forums section where they won't be able to pop up with actual news?  There's gotta be a way to separate the forum and news section from popping with each other.  It would make the site look more professional and less like 4chan while keeping things more tidy and organized.  It would also attract more visitors to help expand the community.         

wait, why would hiding the forums expand the website participation?

Also, I don't understand what you mean by "popping with each other"

carmina2008 for Sales section leader.

I personally like the way the layout is, news is first so you can see the news. Followed by the forum, which is usually buzzing with the latest news. So you can read people's responses to news. Seems professional enough to me, any changes would be hard to adapt.

I also like how it is set out - I read forum posts from all of the sections, so it is much easier to read the main page than it is to go in to each of the different forum sections

Personally, I'd like the Recent Reviews to collapse, along with the Recent Headlines, because I hardly look at them. Then double the number of Hot Topics viewed, they fly out of the Hot Topics pretty quick. Also double the number of Forum Posts on the left bar. My Posts section needs to have a last viewed message button, like the way the Forum Posts section works on the left bar.

o please don't! the last few weeks it was dominated by Killzone 2 threads... every single digital fart was made into a thread...

I claim the pink Leader of DOOM name

I should be the Nintendo fan leader.