Raptr

It is time to discuss one of my favourite haunts... raptr! That banner tells no lies, it is a community for gamers that transcends platforms and lets you rack up ranks, rep AND rewards simply for playing the games you most enjoy and a few you might have been considering trying.

Sign-up and download the client. You get a nifty toolbar to one side of your computer screen and you're off and running. Connect your accounts, invite your friends, join then visit the forums for your game, meet other people and get those much needed tips and tricks if need be.

+ Game publishers and developers, you can incentive new players to pick up your game and have a go through this community.
+ Game players, you can get FREE in game rewards for picking up the weekly challenges detailed at the raptr community.

As a game farmer, I'm very much pro FREE STUFF. Here you can get FREE STUFF if your game is on the list. We're not talking free t-shirts and other 7004 that's splashed out so you can promote someones product while hanging out with your friends or loitering outside the local strip joint, this loot is better, much much better. This loot is IN GAME.

We're talking equipment, guns, buffs, consumables and what-have-you. Buffs and consumables are usually one offs, but the equipment and guns are normally yours to keep. Grab yourself an in game item few other people are guaranteed to be waving in your face or shooting you in the back with.

I've included a couple of the current rewards below. Free avatar stuff for XBL? Get on it!

 With the best bits out of the way, let's take a look at the technical side of things.

raptr lets you:

• Connect your PSN account
• Connect your Xbox account
• Track your browser game usage as well

raptr does for you:

• Tracks your game time and ranks you in accordance to the time you spent in the game
• Ranks you against other players in the community that play that game
• Informs you when you meet prerequisites for rewards and what you're missing (sometimes regional)
• Gives you weekly, monthly and yearly stat read outs
• Publishers: These also sometimes mention the most active gameplay day and months. Players get free loot, you get free stats.
• Players: You will marvel at where your life has gone and where you found the time.
• Let's you register games that aren't in the system that might be new so you can start racking up rank
• Let's you manually enter game time for handheld devices
• I don't doubt one day they will have ALL accounts linked if possible

What can I say? I love raptr. Some people have reported difficulties linking their accounts, but if at first you don't succeed, try again the next day when your account has been formally established and put into the register. It's very much worth looking into and it is definitely well worth FREE STUFF! 

Players organise games and gatherings, post all the latest news for their favourite games and help you get the jump on the updates.

It's about time we broke down the barriers and unite as gamers. raptr is here to help and help it will. www.raptr.com to get on board. Sign yourself up, get a feel for the community and you're off and running. Check out the rewards, see if any of your fav games are on it and find a good reason to delve deeper or revisit games you might have strayed from or completed a couple of months ago.

Rekindle your love affair of free rewards and enjoy doing the thing you would have done with or without free rewards, play games!