Some weeks ago you introduced "Sort by: Member Score". That was really helpful. But now the same option has a different functionality. Only games with a lot of votes show up. I don't know exactly how many votes, but it's too restrictive.
I want to use that sorting option, but I also want to search much deeper in the game pool (games with as low as 3-5 votes should not be missed). Please change this back or provide additional options. Also, like makstitoff suggested, Sort by: Number of Votes can be quite useful.

A few things about the new "game searching" functionality of the site are really bugging me....

• First of all, please make the genre filter a drop-down choice.

If someone wants to search all games in a time period, genre by genre, they can't do it. You can type a common genre (like platformer) then move on to the next that comes in mind... but in that case you're bound to miss games belonging to obscure genres. If there was a drop-down menu of all existing genres this wouldn't be a problem.
Also, games no longer have a primary genre... instead they have genre tags, which makes things almost impossible since one game will usually come up at least twice in the search sequence I described. (this was not a problem before, games were placed into one genre group only and there was even additional information describing the sub-genre)

• Please improve the search page's speed and ease of use.

Someone thought putting fancy pictures for each title is an improvement. Let's be realistic, people using an advanced search probably aren't casual gamers that will be impressed with cool visuals and the site's art direction. Instead they favor utility. The old searches were much faster and could wield up to 50 results. Now it's slower with 24 results per page... Good job GameSpot! One step forward and two steps back. ....but okay, we have fancy pictures to look at while the page struggles to load.
At least give us an option to disable the covers, so everyone will be happy.

When you check the New Games section, there is a filter panel on the right. It wasn't hard to find, but in my opinion it's a step down from before...