@elessarGObonzo: On the game's main page, most of the relevant data is there in the header. You can click on the review score to read the review, or "Images" to see screenshots. More detailed information can be found lower in the right column.

As for the search, are you referring to our main search results page? it does show release date, although admittedly not the release platforms, but we could add that.

@RenMc: Just letting you know we haven't forgotten about this - we're working with a vendor to try to resolve it, and I'll keep you updated.

@elheber: When we test things like this, we usually run them as an A/B test, so we can see behavior for people in the new design vs the old design and have it be "apples-to-apples." We did this, looking at quantitative metrics like bounce rate, time-on-site, pages/visit, visits/visitor, etc, and we also gathered qualitative feedback through surveys and usability tests. We then launched it for signed-out users first to gather more feedback and data. Only after that did we decide to move forward. That said, there are certainly some things that need to be improved still, and we are focused on addressing those areas now.

As @LarkAnderson mentioned, we will be removing the bottom bar soon.

@aigis: We did do extensive testing with the new layout and had a lot of good feedback on it. I agree it needs additional usability tweaks, and we're focusing on those now. I know some of you haven't used it much and feel it's jarring, but it's been in use for a large chunk of our visitors for a couple of months now and performed quite well.

As for your concern about it loading "all the articles" when you just want to read one, it doesn't actually do that - it loads the first two and then loads more only if you continue to scroll down.

@straightcur: We are taking the complaints seriously and are currently working on fixing many of the issues you guys have brought up. I brought up ESPN because there seemed to be some question about why we were doing something so crazy and new, so I was making the point that many sites besides us have moved this way because it actually makes it easier for people to browse news (once they're used to it, perhaps.)

That said, we're also working on some tweaks you guys hadn't mentioned to make the experience more usable as well, so please stay tuned and keep letting us know how we can improve it.

As for the "I want to click to open articles into a new tab" request someone else had above, you are still perfectly free to do that - each article will still open in a new tab just as it always did. Scrolling down through the articles is not the only way to browse.

@RenMc: I'll have the team look into this. Please double-check that you don't have an ad-blocker running - there's normally a banner in that big white space below the video player. Also, I understand you're trying to use HTML5 - what exactly are you doing to force that? It seems like there may be something specific to your browser config causing this.

@RenMc: Could you try clearing all cookies from GameSpot, or try it in incognito?

@grinninbear: This should be fixed now. If not, please provide a link to the page you're looking at, and we'll take a look.

@RenMc: We're looking into it. Have you seen that anywhere else, or just this video?

We are very much focused on fixing the issues you mention about notification links and upvotes, and expect to have most resolved very soon. The new news experience you mention is something that's been in the works for some time and is actually increasingly common on many sites because it provides an easier way to read news (ESPN being the latest high-profile example.) We are committed to user experience, and you may notice that these new article pages also have less clutter and even fewer ads per page - we these are things we've been listening to you guys on, and the scrolling news page allows us to make some of these improvements. We realize that not everyone is used to that format yet, but it is becoming increasingly common on both mobile and desktop environments, and we will continue to hone those pages to make sure they perform well and in an intuitive manner.