gamerDNA
 Emerging out of what was formerly GuildCafe, gamerDNA ( ) is both a gamer and a data lover’s paradise, offering all manner of personal gameplay tracking and associated recommendations along with statistics to surface the most popular games and even what type of personalities tend to play them. Xbox 360 players can link their accounts up to have their game libraries and gameplay sessions tracked automatically, with the ability to add titles manually for the PS3, Wii and the PC. Your user profile displays your gameplay calendar, library, and an activity feed of what your friends are playing as well as their activities on the site. Featuring a high level of social media integration, gamerDNA also allows you to add your other digital identities from other social networking sites. You can use a fine-grained set of permission tools to broadcast various daily game-related activities of your choice as well as activities you perform on the site out to your networks on Twitter ( ), Facebook (), Tumblr () or FriendFeed (). On top of all that, gamerDNA features a sort of metagame wherein you earn points and achieve rankings based on how much you interact with the site over time. If you’re looking for a social interface to help catalogue your gaming experiences, an easy way to broadcast your gameplay out to your other social services, or simply a good game recommender engine, we recommend giving gamerDNA a try.
Raptr
 Similar to gamerDNA, Raptr collates statistics on your game library and gameplay activities and incorporates them into your gamer profile as well as providing game recommendations based on what you already like. Also similarly to gamerDNA, Raptr lets you hook your activity stream into your other social networks in order to broadcast your game-related activities. Where the two sites differ is in the underlying technology — Raptr works primarily via a downloadable client application installed on your PC or Mac — and in Raptr’s stronger focus on connecting you with live, in progress games with your friends in real-time via presence indicators built in to the client app. We actually like and use both of these sites liberally, but if you’re primarily a PC gamer who wants help finding a quick Team Fortress 2 match with your available friends online you might find yourself gravitating towards Raptr for the matchmaking functionality. And though otherwise similar in certain functionalities, both sites offer unique takes on recommendation systems and gameplay activity tracking, so feel free to give both a spin and let us know what you think in the comments.
WeGame
 WeGame is a social network with a unique focus on sharing in-game video footage and screenshots. Instead of requiring the use of third-party video capture applications such as Fraps, WeGame provides its own proprietary video capture tool that integrates your video uploads directly with the site. Users can rate individual videos, with the most popular vids bubbling to the top on the main page, and share videos they like on popular social sharing sites such as digg (), reddit (), StumbleUpon (), Facebook and Twitter. A unique “Challenges” section of the site offers users the ability to post requests for videos or screenshots on a specific theme, such as “biggest boss” or “coolest vehicle in a game.” Other users compete to win the challenge by posting the best video or screencap on that theme, providing a cool metagame on top of the larger media sharing activity on the site.
UGAME
 UGAME.net is a space for gamers that offers a number of traditional social networking features including personal blogs, galleries, forums, and user profiles along with sections for creating teams (or guilds) as well as groups of like-minded fans of particular genres, franchises, or niche topics to hold discussions in a cohesive format. With a number of ways to search and browse the site for things to see and do, UGAME is another worthy contender in the growing pantheon of active social networks for gamers.
Rupture
 As with some of the other members of this list, Rupture integrates with your gaming identities and adds gameplay activity to your profile’s activity feed. What sets Rupture apart is its Challenges section, which is user-generated as with WeGame but focuses on creating actual gameplay challenges and inviting other users to meet them. It’s essentially a user-generated Achievements feature, a unique and interesting spin on the concept of adding new goals and heights to reach within your game collection that the designers themselves did not include. By meeting challenges you can then earn points and gain levels on the metagame within the site itself. There are many more social sites specifically for gamers out there as well as new ones cropping up all the time; if we’ve omitted your favorite, or you know of another site we should check out, let us know in the comments. |
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