If you look at the top of IGN.com, you'll see something a little different today.

Instead of the usual row of text links to all our platform and content pages, you'll see a more interactive, more visual index of our channel pages. To help you find the content you're most likely to be interested in, the channels are ranked according to popularity and will display a small thumbnail of each top story. Want more information? Simply mouse-over one of the icons and a window opens up showing you all the top stories from each channel. It's a great way for you to discover what's important across the whole site and to get to those stories quickly and efficiently. You'll even notice that certain article pages will change the pins at the top, giving you a chance to read more content related to the stories we know you're already reading. Love Titanfall? Or RPGs? You can navigate to the pages for those topics as well.

The new system also allows you to "pin" index pages to the nav, meaning that they'll take the first spots in your nav on subsequent visits. If, for instance, you come here for our comics and PS4 coverage, just opt to pin those elements and they'll always be right there at the top every time you come back to IGN.com. To access all our indices for pinning, just use the small arrows at the far right of the nav. You can also get to all the indices by clicking "browse" in the upper left corner of the screen. Links to all of our reviews and a list of the most popular upcoming games are right there in the upper left as well.

The new nav is currently in beta in the United States where it'll run for two weeks. After that, we'll take it down, evaluate how it performed, and decide how it might impact our overall navigation moving forward. For our readers in Europe, Australia and other non-US locales, the plan is to roll it out to you guys further down the line if the beta goes well.

Be sure to give the new navigation a try and let us know how you like it in the comments below!

Thanks,



Steve