Gaming News & Reviews - NF

The application most likely deserves a "5" but where my interests lie in gaming it falls slightly short. The application provides a front that is really a list of gaming occurrences that might interest the user. When the user selects a subject they end up at a website independent of this application. Consequently the information is not standardized and information provided is at the whim of the game advertiser or subject author. If this application would offer a synopsis with the basic information prior to sending the user to a website the application would be more useful. For instance listing whether the game referenced is an RPG, is a single player game, multi-player online, etc. Massive multiplayer on line gaming isn't for everyone. I, for one would like to know more about a subject before visiting the website. Otherwise I can't fault its purpose and by all means recognize it as an excellent gaming information source.

Update: I’m surprised there are so many glowing reviews for this app. It never works the way it’s supposed to. Completely unrelated articles will be grouped together as one but there’s no way of knowing that unless you view the entire group manually. Even when there’s only one article, ungrouped, I frequently see comments that have nothing to do with the article. What are they seeing that I’m not? Sometimes I’ll load the app and only about ten articles will show up even though I’m viewing “All News”. Even rebooting the app doesn’t fix it. Recently they started including Reddit posts in the article list and it’s very clear there’s nothing of value in them. Other site, when trying to load them through the app, won’t load or crash. There’s no point to this app unless you feel like IGN just isn’t reporting on enough. Now whenever it's open, at the bottom this black box says "Welcome back" and won't go away, so I can't touch any of the buttons under it. Even though I get this welcome message, it doesn't seem to be signing me on because whenever I try to comment, I get an error message. There doesn't seem to be a way to sign in or out anywhere in the app. So if you don't want any personalization or social interaction, sure this app is great. I just want it to work like it did before I updated.

Have to click through an ad at startup, and see “sponsored stories” in amongst the real stories, but this app gets the job done better than any of the other free ones I’ve used (Appy Gamer, looking at you...). It would be nice if you didn’t have to open so many of the news stories in a browser, and if you could better categorize the content displayed, but it’s good overall. Would definitely recommend.

When I first installed the app I was able to get to any tile and see what I wanted to see with was. Since the update, seconds after opening the app it lags then freezes. On many occasions it crashes and starts back up and then freezes. This is both on the main page and notifications for stories I would like to read and then within the stories. This all since the last update. I was a daily user but now it is not worth the hassle until it is fixed.

Any time I start it up works fine for about 3 seconds and then freezes up. I also miss the option to have the app start up with “my topics” being the default page, because that’s all I care about; a bit of a personal gripe but I can see this upsetting other people. Ive also noticed some comments floating around to articles they aren’t originally for. I love this app but I just want to see it become better. Also getting notifications for articles I have no interest in is pretty annoying too.