What is TheSixthAxis? A gaming website? A community? An outlet for our often sadly vapid, rumbling trains of thought? We don’t really know – we never really have. Nobody put us here to change the world, nobody ever told us what was right and what was wrong, and nobody helped steer our path. We just did what we thought was right, talked about what we wanted to and got excited every time somebody dropped us a comment.
That notion, that sometimes misplaced will, has spurred us on now for over six years. For me personally, getting feedback of all kinds was a pointer that we were doing something right, and that, as a diversion, a hobby, a part-time evening job you couldn’t ever get out of, the website offered a channel for creativity and a way of communicating – or at least trying to communicate – what I (and we) thought about games.
And so, 2013 brings change to the site. There’s a new design, there’s a renewed focus on PlayStation, there’re shifts and switches in terms of those that bring you the content. Blair will be taking over editorial duties on the site, for example, and later this week Alex is disappearing to paint pretty pixels for Just Add Water. There’ll be new faces too, whom we’ll introduce gradually so as not to scare the ducks.
TheSixthAxis might be a gaming website. It might be a community. It might be an outlet for its writers. But it’s also a collection of like-minded friends, and that will continue to be the case going forward. Exciting times are ahead, and with the next generation of consoles around the corner we wanted to ensure we’re placed to continue to cover them in the way we’ve always done, but with more emphasis on videos and that all-important opinion.
So, what’s new? The video above hopefully explains what we’ve been doing for the last few weeks. We hope you enjoy it, and here’s to the next six years.
tsa.
SpikeyMikey23
Not tried it on mobile yet, but love the redesign. Also the cheesy intro to the video. Brilliant
hazelam
ooh, shiny. ^_^
i like the new look, still easy to find content, and having the sections dedicated to certain topics or games is neat, and i like the video section.
and the mobile site works well, even on my old touch.
the new logo is cool, but it means the TSA badge i won will be out of date now. :(
anyway, just keep bringing the same mix of news, reviews, previews and opinion pieces and i’ll keep coming no matter what it looks like.
theberzerka
Awesome. Absolutely love it. Well done tsa on being that annoying kid at school that was good at everything.
XisTG
Nice redesign, I’m sticking with the vertical layout :)
That translucent bar on the top is kind of bothering me though, I just don’t know why. I do recognise that it is useful to go to the next article though.
The mobile layout is also better than ever; the previous one already allowed for Safari’s reader function, which helped, but with this new one I do not feel the need to use it. Oh, and I can now finally delete my bookmark for the mobile version, since it now knows that I’m on mobile.
All in all, great changes guys.
Long live TSA.
hol
Very nice, looks great on an iPhone screen which is good as that’s almost exclusively how I read TSA. Great job guys :)
Jumping Monks
Well this is all a bit fancy! I like it, as ever you guys are doing an excellent job, keep it up guys.
sick__puppy
Although I’m not too keen on big images and flashy elements I can still use the Latest news column down the left for my preferred style of browsing on your site.
However I notice this does not by default show all the stories on the site which i like to peruse, but you have to click the show all button to do so, could this by default show all stories on the site, or provide a URL so I can directly go to this format?
Sorry for being picky as your such an excellent site, but having some easy method to directly browse all the stories on the site in date order is very useful.
Blair Inglis
http://www.thesixthaxis.com/vertical/
:)
sick__puppy
Almost, but the vertical feed still cuts out some stories, i.e. the very one we’re reading :-) I think it’s all community articles it loses. Any fix for this?
Blair Inglis
Vertical doesn’t cut any, should show them all in a list in date order as you asked?
sick__puppy
Ah yeah You’re right it just moves the lead story out of it’s slot by date order and places at the top.
Got ya.
Normal Sick Puppy experience restored!
Thank you :-)
blarty
Very nice…. Although I’ve always wondered why there’s only two levels to replies
Unterred
Looks excellent on Android browser. Top Job everyone.
Spotter5
Looks really nice!