Hello IGN readers, it's your friendly neighborhood Community Lead once again. We are about halfway through the year, and I'm excited to share a few updates about our recent community initiatives and the updates we've seen so far in 2022.
Article Formats
We launched several new community engagement formats, like Let's Talk About…, Comments of the Week, Photo Mode, and now IGN Pix. These are just the beginning of our commitment to engaging with and helping IGN readers make their voices heard. We have more in the works that we will reveal in the coming months, so stay tuned for updates on those soon.
Photo Mode
In case you missed the launch of Photo Mode, it's your monthly chance to be featured on IGN by submitting your best screenshots from your favorite games. Users submitted photos are voted on by staff and highlighted in future articles. Check out the slideshow below of Photo Mode's first theme heroes submitted by IGN readers.
Our newest theme is live so head over and check it out for the theme and send us your best photos to get featured in next month's Photo Mode.
IGN Pix
IGN Pix, helmed by our streaming editor Amelia Emberwing, is a monthly article written by various staff members about the TV and movies we're enjoying. Whether it's our first time watching something amazing and new like Spy x Family, or watching the newest season of our favorite ongoing show like Barry, our IGN Pix's article is a great way to see what we on staff are watching.
New Tools
Topic Tracker
Do you only want news about Star Trek or Star Wars and not the other? Do you have a favorite TV show and want to receive notifications whenever there is an update? Maybe you have a favorite IGN staff member (like me), and you'd like to get notified when the newest comments of the week article go live to see if you got featured.
Topic Tracker is here to help you personalize all the content on IGN to ensure you see the things you care about the most first. At the bottom of every article, you'll see an assortment of buttons that will help you follow what you care about most. All topics that you select will send a notification to your profile that will take you to the matching article when clicked.
IGN Playlist
Last but not least for this update is our newest tool, IGN Playlist. Create digital lists of your favorite games (or least favorite games, even!) and then share them with others. IGN Playlist has a wide variety of games for nearly every console.
Need some Playlist ideas? You could make a list of games you've finished this year that you want to recommend to others, make your list ranking your favorite Zelda games, or maybe build a playlist of the hundreds of games collecting dust in your backlog. One of your Playlists might get featured in an upcoming new type of community article.
Jada Griffin is IGN's Community Lead. If she's not engaging with users here, chances are she's developing her own games, maxing the Luck stat in her favorite games, or challenging her D&D players with Intense combat or masterful puzzles. You can follow her on Twitter @Jada_Rina.