London, United Kingdom - iVirtua is pleased to announce the latest update to its online community designed for media, gaming and creative businesses. New features include a dedicated articles and reviews section, an easy to use gallery, drag and drop file storage, customisable calendar and over thirty ways to subscribe to iVirtua, including del.icio.us, Windows Mobile and RSS2PDF.
iVirtua was
founded in March of 2006; primarily by Sam England (16) at the time,
and William Tildesley (17); based in the UK, with high aspirations.
New Features
iVirtua
has made vast improvements to its community focusing on what customer
really wanted. The community team spent a lot of time discussing what
could be improved and what customers wanted to see in iVirtua.
Community Manager Jakob Rauschenbach said, “A lot of our customers not
only wanted to come to iVirtua to read and discus the latest business
news but also a place to relax and have fun; this is why we’ve
introduced our Games Arcade as well as the ability to play online games
such as Battlefield and Counter Strike on our own dedicated server with
customers from the community. Customers also wanted a place were they
could read articles and reviews and this is another feature iVirtua has
announced. We hope all these features new and updated will keep our
customers coming back as well as introducing new customers.”
These
new features include an articles and reviews section, over thirty ways
to subscribe to iVirtua, instant syndication from large sites including
gamespot and Microsoft giving the customer all the information they
want in one place, file storage, gallery, loyalty points (giving
customers access to more features!), Live Chat, A games arcade (over
200+ games), the ability to play computer games online, better online
security, bugs fixed, inclusion of AJAX features and Search Engine
Optimization (for better search engine rankings).
The
community is now run from its own dedicated server from the London
Meridian Gate Redbus Interhouse located in the Docklands area of
London, this dedicated server allows our customers to access the
community from around the world without any problems.
iVirtua
is a powered by integrated collection of web applications and scripts
that are developed in-house which together create the iVirtua WOS. They
hope this creates an easy to use, rich and immersive community
experience. More information about the iVirtua WOS (Web Operating
System) can be found at:
www.ivirtuaforums.com/wos.php
Looking Ahead
Jay
Taylor (iVirtua Public and Customer Relations) said, “The new features
which iVirtua offers will allow us to increase our overall percentage
of customers as well as allowing customers to aggregate, share and read
the latest articles, reviews and discussions without having to turn on
their computer. We hope that this will encourage customers to use
iVirtua as their main source of information concerning media, gaming
and creative business news.”
This update will allow iVirtua to
stay ahead of competition in what is becoming a competitive market to
provide customers with the content they want. Features such as the in
built Plusmo aggregator will allow users to quickly access content from
their mobile phone which is all part of iVirtua’s plan to make the
community accessible not just from a computer. Sam England (Development
and Community) said, “With the advent on mobile browsing iVirtua needs
to set itself apart as a contender, we also have plans to make the
community accessible on both the Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3, which
will both have opera browsers built in.”
iVirtua employs some
of the finest writers from inside the gaming, media and creative
industry world this means that their members get exclusive articles and
reviews as well as world exclusive news relating to the creative
business sector. This is another reason why their customers use them
over other communities.
iVirtua will soon be releasing a
Podcast on the topics covered by the iVirtua Community, and also they
are going to release a learning environment with HTML, Computing and
Media courses all costing 99p.