Welcome To The New ROG (Beta) Website

Hello World!

Welcome to the new ROG website. In beta. Yes, I know, 'beta', but we promise not to do a Gmail on you and run with it until 2016. There's a very good reason for it which we'll get to in a minute, but first we'll detail what this new website is about, who it's aimed at and what we've got coming in the future!

What's the new ROG site about?

The new ROG site is here to keep you updated with everything happening with ROG, globally. However, this site isn't your usual company portal, so let us be clear from the outset: the content here is NOT about marketing, we are about keeping you informed.

Even though our boxes and adverts have cool slogans and oodles of goodies, we realize you predominantly visit tech websites for information. You demand honest, real-world info about the products you buy; what we do, what we offer and how you can really use our stuff, and we're going to give you it.

90% of our content will be directly aimed at PC gaming and overclocking for PC enthusiasts and professionals, as you'd expect. The other 10% will occasionally feature our Sabertooth motherboards and DirectCU graphics hardware, since we believe our readers might still be interested in these closely related, highly-engineered products. What you won't find is 'mainstream' tech on here though: ROG has never been about being fast, or even faster, it's about being the fastest.

In our articles we'll cover the products we make and how to use them (ROG guides), the events we do and we'll also link you to media reviews, so you get their independent opinion and testing. As we said we're not about marketing so you wont see a review article published on ROG by us. As ever, we'll let independent media do the talking.

Our aim is to have regular content to keep our fans up-to-date with what ROG, its partners and our extensive community do globally and locally where you are. We probably do more than you realize, but it's just never been accessible in one place before!

The Front Page Layout

The top spot is our front page is the only 'advertising' space, which links to our latest product news and co-operatives, like our limited edition Battlefield 3 Edition Rampage hardware currently on sale.

Underneath this is our featured content - important guides, news and events we don't want our non-regular readers to miss. It also makes them easy to find if you come back for a look later!

On the left is our main content stream - you can see which country posted the news, when it was posted and which tags are applied to it. In addition to the title, this gives you an immediate idea of what the story is about and who it's aimed at. These include:

• Extreme = Extreme overclocking
• Product = Product reviews and news
• Events = Local events to come or event news roundup
• Hands-on = Unboxing, product demos and guides
• PC Mods = PC Case modding
• ROG Exclusive =Exclusive content produced by the ROG team, such as in-house guides, videos etc.
• ROG Pro = See below in 'So, why Beta?'
• Site News = Articles like this!
• Video/Gallery = An article which contains a YouTube video/photo gallery

On the right-hand side you can see our widgets, which include our game giveaway, forum member of the week, hot threads, top articles, top downloads, latest BIOS updates and our Facebook page updates.

A Guide to the Menu Bar

This sits underneath the logo at the top of the site:

• Home - Brings you back to the main page
• Forum - Takes you to the ROG Forum (explained further below)
• Articles - This is our main categorization of articles we publish on ROG, which includes News, Gaming, Overclocking and Guides. You'll find every article we do gets filed under one of these directories
• Products - This links to the official ASUS pages of all our current ROG products
• Why ROG? - This lists the innovations and co-operative technologies the ROG team integrates into its products
• About ROG - This links to our privacy and legal policies, media relations page and the background to the ROG brand.
• Downloads - Our downloads page lists the latest wallpapers, (UEFI) BIOS' and software drivers. See below:

ROG Forum

We know our community is the heart of ROG, so our articles will be closely tied in with the forum for discussion. In addition to the ROG guys frequenting the forums, we'll be regularly scouring them to promote excellent and informative content from our members to the site's front page (and of course giving credit where credit's due!)

For those who frequented the ASUS ROG North America forum - you'll see all your posts and membership has been ported over to the new website and you'll be able to login again with the same credentials as before.

The forums are just the start though, as during 2012 our aim is to expand your forum login to become much, more. We'll update you on that front as things happen in 2012.

Your Local ROG

We realize most of our ROG fans don't natively speak English, and ROG teams worldwide have been active for many years already in their local languages, so we're rolling out localized sub-domains with translated and unique content available. These will be accessible via rog.asus.com/xx - where xx is the country code. These local sub-domains will have the look, feel and functionality of the global site here, and we will announce local domains as they successively go live in the coming months!

Some predominantly English speaking countries will also be joining us here on the global page however, which currently includes Australia, North America, United Kingdom and Nordic Countries.

Even then, if you don't drop by/can't remember to visit your local page, we're going to re-publish the significant activities here on the global page to keep everyone updated about what ROG is doing globally.

So, Why Beta?

Despite the fact we're launching today - the site as you see it is merely the foundation for our future aspirations; our development chart over the next year rivals a 6 year olds Christmas list! We aim to bring a whole new set of features that wraps the site around you. This new experience links your forum profile, ROG Pro activities, to the events you attend, to our future developments in overclocking and PC gaming. All the while we'll be keenly listening to your feedback to tweak and update things, and we will always try to roll things out as smoothly as possible, but please bear with us as code takes time to write, test (and usually debug!).

To start with we'll be adding new a section called ROG Pro. This includes direct software tie-ins to our ROG products. In a few weeks (fingers crossed!) we'll be launching the updated ROG Exchange, where you can share your motherboard BIOS profiles with the ROG community, and going beyond this we'll be rolling out brand new features semi-regularly. We'll update you more precisely about ROG Pro and ROG Exchange once it launches.

For those who don't yet own ROG hardware though - don't worry - ROG Pro is only one area we're working on as our aim is getting as many fans involved as possible.

A Penny For Your Thoughts?

So have a look around, please add our RSS feed to your bookmarks, then drop by our forums or the ROG Facebook page to let us know your thoughts? We hope you enjoy your stay!