To help, we have released a new Raptr client with an Arcade tab that contains the top 10 free-to-play flash games that we feel our users might want to check out.  In addition, we also track your presence whenever you are playing these games so that your friends will see it in our feed.  Although these are all single-player games, our hope is that we can make it more social by showing you which of your friends are also playing these games.

Check it out by downloading our latest client, and be sure to let us know what you think!

Nov. 8 - Euphnet in Sunnyvale, CA (Near San Jose)
Nov. 8 - Gigabits LAN Center in Orlando, FL
Nov. 8 - Netlans in Phoenix, AZ
Nov. 8 - Vertigo Game Center in Wausau, WI (Between St. Paul and Green Bay)
Nov. 9 - Strike Zone Gaming in Fenton, MI (Northwest of Detroit)
Nov. 14 - Crazy Penguins Gaming in Rockford, IL (Northwest of Chicago)
Nov. 14 - CyGamZ in Ypsilanti, MI (Between Ann Arbor and Detroit)
Nov. 15 - Citadel Games in Brainerd, MN (North of Minneapolis)
Nov. 15 - 8wire LAN Gaming Center in Las Vegas, NV
Nov. 15 - Xtreme Gaming Cybercafe in San Antonio, TX

On November 22, up to 35 iGames LAN centers will participate in an event called “All Out WAR”, where players from across the country will work together to capture end-game enemy territory in Warhammer Online.

For more details, including specific times and LAN center addresses, go to http://www.igames.org/war or contact the iGames events team at events@igames.org.

Of course, no matter where you play from, Raptr will  post updates regarding your Warhammer Online characters right to your profile in Raptr.

Good Hunting!

If you’ve been reading our blog, you may have a little bit of insight into our culture of work and play. We’re a well-funded start-up with an experienced and fun team. In addition to working on a cool product and service, we also have our Starcraft, arcade machines, birthday pranks, ping pong ladder, and many other perks.

Currently, our job openings are:

• Senior Manager / Director, Marketing
• Senior Front-end UI Engineer
• Lead Tools / Automation Software Engineer

We’re located in the Bay Area and looking for qualified candidates. You can find out more about the company on our About Us page. Maybe we’ll see you soon!

Happy Hallowe’en, everybody! In the spirit of the holiday, various Raptr members got into the spirit. Orange is our color so it only made sense that we would do something related to pumpkins. Rico carved a fantastic Raptr Lantern that you can see above and Dave, Renee, Norm and Pat all came in costumes (or in Pat’s case, he came as his previous incarnation).

October 31st is also Charles’ birthday so in true Raptr tradition, we had something planned for him. A lunchtime match of Starcraft was scheduled but it wasn’t our usual Raptr map. We had a customized version prepared where everyone was given 100,000 minerals and gas except of course, for Charles.

If only we had gotten a photo of his expression when he saw a dozen Reavers drop in on his base.

We’ll then magically pick out some images for you to choose from to help describe your link and you can add a comment or update your description. Once you post the link, it will appear in Raptr in your feed for your friends and everyone else to see.  If it’s a YouTube or GameTrailers video, we’ll even make the video playable in the feeds.

Check it out, and let us know what you think!

When we launched, we started with Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed updates. Then we added the ability to syndicate your Spore and Warhammer specific achievements. As part of our effort to support Raptr players on their platforms of choice, we’ve added syndication options for Ping.fm and Plurk. What’s particularly cool with Ping.fm is that it can be used to update dozens of networks including MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, hi5, and Multiply. Like everything else on Raptr, once you set it up, it’s completely automatic.

All of these messages are customizable. Some of us at Raptr only send updates to Facebook while others choose to syndicate their play activity but not other information. We believe everyone should be able to specify how much or how little they choose to utilize the social network integrations.

While we’re mentioning Twitter, you might want to follow us there. We’re always adding more support on Raptr so if your favorite network isn’t supported yet, let us know!

– Themes –

If you find the Raptr orange hard on your eyes, you now have the ability to pick your own theme for your profile page.  Select from themes like World of Warcraft, Spore, Mario Kart, Call of Duty, etc., and watch our UI transform to your whims.  Select and change your theme from the bottom of the Account Settings page.  In addition to adding many more themes in the future, themes are just the first of many upcoming customization features we’re working on – stay tuned for more.

– Game Submission –
With thousands of games on dozens of platforms, we pride ourselves in having one of the most comprehensive game catalogs out there. Although we add new games everyday, we recognize that we may be missing some of your favorite games.  If you search for a game and don’t find what you’re looking for, we’ve added the ability to for you to submit game requests to Raptr. Now you can submit that obscure Commodore 64 game you want to mark as “loved”.

– Filter by Platform and Add Games Easier –
Tired of wading through pages of games to find one you own?  Want to search for XBox games only?  Our latest search enhancement helps you find your games more easily by allowing you to show only games on specific platforms. We have also made it much simpler to add games to your wishlist or library. Like themes, these changes are just the first of many others planned to help everyone find and add their games as easily as possible.

As always, we’re very interested in your feedback, via the Feedback slider on Raptr pages or our Forums.

You spoke and we listened. As of today, you’ll be able to track your Warhammer Online characters in your Raptr profile. Once you enter your character(s), we automatically track your characters’ items, levels, and Renown in your feeds for all you friends to see. So if you hit Level 40 before any of your friends, they’ll know about it. Of course, we created a custom module for your characters, so visitors to your profile page can check them out and see how you’re doing.

Timezone Support

For those of you not in the Pacific time zone, we’ve also added a timezone option that will update all charts to reflect your time zone. Simply go to your Account Settings page and select the proper time zone. Now you’ll know for sure when your friends around the world are playing Rock Band 2 at midnight in your own time zone.

Search Improvements

We’ve also made some big behind the scenes improvements to our search engine. First, we made the button prettier and easier to understand that you can change what you’re searching directly from the header. We made the search engine much faster, so if your friends joined only a little while ago, they should show up in search results in just a few minutes. Last but not least, we added way more information to the index, so you can now search for things like gamertags and character names and you’ll be able to find them in Raptr. So if you had a great time playing Halo 3 with “osunick” on Xbox Live, simply search for “osunick” in player search and you’ll be able to see if they’re on Raptr.

The FAQ has also been updated with answers to the most frequently asked questions from our community, so please check it out if you have questions. If we haven’t answered one of your burning questions, shoot us a feedback message via the “Beta Feedback” widget on Raptr, or post a message in our forums. We read every bit of feedback we get and it helps us decide what to do next, so please let us know what you think!

Of course, we here at Raptr want to help you share these legendary lifeforms with your friends and have been diligently integrating Spore related features. You may have seen some of them pop up already.

Here are some of the things we’ve added since Spore launched yesterday:

• we automatically track Spore gameplay on Mac or PC when you have the Raptr client running
• we will update your activity feed with Spore gameplay
• when you add your Spore screen name we can automatically update your feed when you create new creatures or even when you make a revision to a creature
• your creatures can be viewed in a Spore module on your profile page
• any achievements you unlock in Spore can be shared with your friends automatically
• as with anything else we sync with, you can optionally send updates on your social networks when any Spore event occurs

We can’t wait to see what you all create with this incredible game and creation engine! As usual, if you have any feedback, please let us know in our forums.