Now we’ve all settled down after the whirlwind that was the GTA IV launch, we thought it would be time to stir it back up somewhat. There are now a load of new features on the forums that will make your experience here ten times better. Let me run you through a few of the things that you will notice as you travel around the forums:

• Thread Tagging – Threads can now be tagged around the forums to help make the search so much easier. They can be author initiated or those who have appropriate permissions can add them.

• Thread Prefixes – Allow people to see what they want before reading the title, whether it be Spoilers, Questions, Important, whatever. We can set these and users can see them as we see fit.

• Reciprocal Friendships Between Users – See your buddy list and the friends of others.

• Public Messages – Chat amongst yourself and your friends on your profile page and the profiles of others rather than clog up the threads.

• User Picture Albums – Create albums, upload pictures. Want to show off your setup? Your gaming collection? Whatever, your call so long as it’s clean!

• User Created Social Groups – GTA Addicts? Want to game with people in your city? Want to setup a boosting party? Well these are great for that.

• New Member Profile Page– All these changes are implemented in to your user profile. So now you want to find out who you are chatting with in a thread. Use these and get in to the Community spirit.

• Member Customisation of User Page – Not only is the layout and content improved on the profile page, but you can even choose your own colours, fonts, border colours, background, etc to make your User Profile page unique.

• Inline Editing of User Attributes – Change your “About Me” section of your profile without leaving the page by clicking the small pencil icons.

• Attachment Viewing Lightbox – Instead of attachments opening up in the current browser, this new feature will create a pop up that gets scaled to your screen so you never have to click that Back button again!

Hope you all love these changes like we do. Enjoy playing with them and setting up your personal space.