is this whats become of rupture?

Xeros606

xfire?

pine22

Sounds neat but i would rather it not be so personal. Well lucky for me i don`t do face book, now i don`t have to worry about that. Were would i have to go to check this out???

RaidenMGS2

At this point I think I can name somewhere between 50 and 100 different social networks off the top of my head. And they're all for such specific purposes... I want to see how this evolves over the next few years. There's too many.

Surfaced

...it would suck if it showed that I was playing leisure suit larry. It's a guilty pleasure.

akumaserge

Via 1up? I totally tipped you guys off to this last night.

thegreatpablo

@MrMister:

*Maybe

MrMister

I believe this has been done before, but eh meybe it'll catch.

MrMister

Is it bad that I read this as "Rapture?" before Raptor? I thought it's name was making a point.

vid3oman64

I deleted my myspace, never got facebook.

I might want this. It's really interesting but I don't know if the two ideas mesh (gaming and social w/out the gaming part...why do I care about some stranger's 'now playing' or achievements?)

::goes to peek around::

jonathan.

You don't need to add myspace/facebook/twitter to your account, it's just an option

uLTraCarL

Uhhh...other than the facebook features and a few other things, why wouldn't I just use Steam?

It's got the ingame messaging, lets you know who's playing what, there's groups and profiles and all that jazz...

I guess between XBL, PSN, and Steam this would be useful...

BenKenobi88

Have we never heard of pwned.com?
Or the other hundred websites like this one?
Meh, I don't see why this one gets to grace Kotaku. =/

AssassinTRIP

Personally, I like playfire.com

jdgiotta

ACHIEVEMENTS?! SIGN ME UP!

Chanthas

Don't we already have this? It is called Xfire...

Smash88

Gimmicky fad-ish name.

Anyway, there are lots of these out already: Steam, Xfire, Pwned.com, GreatGamesExperiment. I'd recommend Xfire for it's Steam-like qualities (in-game chat, voice chat, stat tracking, server favourites), though with a much larger support base for games.

The only thing going for this "Raptr" is Mac support, from which there aren't many games anyway.

So many social networks dilutes the concept of social networks in the first place.

Bravepower

@Bravepower: After a little nosing around, I found out that Raptr was created by the founder of Xfire. (Which has since been bought by Viacom. Hmm.) This has piqued my interest.

Bravepower

I tried this out, and I really like it. Think of it as the Pidgin IM of all Game Social Networks.

Its like all of em combined, its actually really cool.

freakoflink

Oh boy...another one.

Jest

@Smash88: Yeah, but Xfire doesn't really have the slick interface this does. I'm trying it out, it's worth at least looking at, it's free and whatnot.

Plus the standalone client is nice. For me...A mac user...

CitizenInsane27

I think I'll stay with Xfire, and I'll also wait till PlayXpert works on Vista and 64-bit systems..

Floreum

smells like xfire... I wonder how long this one will last for me

sayoko

So it is Xfire meets MySpace, Think ill hold off, my clan already was featured on Xfire, and got more than enough attention. Although gathering info from XBL, PSN and Steam is a good idea.

Hand_O_Death

Seems nice, i'll give it a try

Cess007

Its a neat concept, but much like my xfire/steam i have few friends that make use them unfortunately.

Guess I need more friends.

belo

How do you pronounce it? Is is raptor or rapture?

Kankel

Pass. 8 years on the internet and I've been a part of 7 social sites. I'm gonna stick to Facebook until the next 'social jump'. So unless 99% of my friends from high school/college make that jump too, then I'm not interested. I couldn't see why this couldn't have been a Facebook extension.

Cpryd001

Fuck that, I've always been pleased with Sochl for this stuff.

Fortyseven

Dennis "Thresh" Phong? Of... Was that Quake 1 or 2 fame? I haven't heard that name in a few years now. Not since F4tal1ty hit the scene. Wasn't there another name that was side by side with Thresh? Hmm. Stupid hippie memory. Oh wells.

WildWon

I played around for this trash for about 30 minutes before deleting it. Just my opinion, but it really doesn't have much to offer at this point. See for yourself.

chaos242

Don't most games websites (Giant Bomb, GameSpot, 1Up, etc) have most the feautres presented here, except in a website you might be interested in instead of a myspace clone?

Agnates

Xfire is a veteran in this category, and i like it enough to have no reason to change, not to mention is already has all my hours! =[]

K-Squad! (Badass Edition)

It's apparently from a co-founder of Xfire so I guess it might do okay in the long run. Though you wouldn't know that from reading this piece.

Agnates