good points ioi, i personally think it looks a bit much when i see the avatars but when i think of other gaming websites they are so much worse, it does help the community aspect though, so i can happily put up with it.

Not keen on the "recent forum posts" being below the advert though, unless for some reason you get more money with the ad there in which case it's fine.

I'm liking the avatars appearance, but I have to agree that the game boxart doesn't look to great, it's too small and hard to make out.

Also the 'Recent Forum post Section' should be moved back up, now I have to scroll down everytime I come back to the main page to check what threads I was posting in.

excess scrolling=sore index finger=death.

I personally think it's made things a lot worse.

From top to bottom:

The game chart pics are WAY too small.

The news is now harder to skim read, since there's a flood of information and more stupid pics.

The "hot forum topics" containing picture is stupid, since they have no relation to the actual topic: it only has the user's icon.