@Stankalot: I'm seriously considering filing a formal complaint with BBB, then. Maybe if every one of us did that, CBSi would start taking this issue more seriously. Failing to fix known daily spam messages to its users in three months is not acceptable.

Seriously, are there any more updates on this? It's been two months since we've heard from mods. I'm still receiving the unwanted "daily updates" and "latest updates for the games you follow" spam messages. I get enough junk in my e-mail without this.

See here:

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/email-notification-updates-issues-keep-them-here-31283094/#20

FWIW, I got another (unwanted) e-mail at 6:05am PDT this morning with the subject line "Look inside to discover the latest in video gaming news, reviews and more!" I'm also still getting the "Latest News for Games You Follow," e-mails in the evening; I got one tonight at 7:31pm PDT.

Is it possible that this bug has something to do with the changes that were made to the site on May 16th? Lark said that there were changes made to the notification settings. He said it was a bug fix, but maybe whatever the change was just messed things up more?

I am getting the update e-mails, and should not be getting them. I've unsubscribed half a dozen times already.

Subject line has mostly been "Latest News for Games You Follow." I've also got one that was "Latest News for Watch Dogs." There may have been other game-specific ones, I don't remember as it's been going on for a few weeks now and I've been deleting the messages as soon as I get them.

I seem to get at least one e-mail a day, seems to happen evening/night.

Yes, I have entered into one of the Gamespot sweepstakes.

This didn't used to be a problem, but lately when I first load the Gamespot front page, the site defaults to the "light" theme, even though the slider is on "dark." To get it back on the dark theme again, I need to click once to put the slider over the light theme, and then a second time to get the dark theme for real. I much prefer the dark theme, and it's quite annoying to have to switch it back every time I visit the site.

I can't say exactly when this started happening, I think it's been about a week. I'm running Google Chrome on Windows 8.1.

Guys, thanks. This is really a big improvement. It addresses some of my major complaints about the original redesign. I'm particularly pleased that more news items can now be loaded on the same page ("+ Show Me More"). That's the best change from where I'm sitting. More content at the top is likewise nice, there was a lot of wasted space up there. And yes, two columns is better than three. It's less tablet-y and more functional for home PC users. Why go for a tablet redesign of the site when everyone and their mother hates Windows 8?

If I could make a few suggestions:

1. Notifications. Currently if you click on "Notifications," it brings you to a page with only the updates that you had not yet viewed (for me right now there are only three)... they also only have the little game icon and a title. However, "Feed" seems to give the same information, but going further back, and in a larger format with more info per item. So isn't the "Notifications" page superfluous? Why not just take people right to the "Feed" page when they click on "Notifications"? It has the same information, but more of it.

2. Tracked games/Stacks. You guys have gone a long way toward rehabilitating the useless "stacks" to be more like the old tracked games system (which was the best on the net). But there are at least three lingering issues: 1) Stacks can be larger than 100 (my "Games I Own" is at 675), but when you click on a stack larger than 100, it will only display the first hundred, and there is no way to load the other games or even page over to them. Obviously that needs to change. 2) You've added sortable categories, which is awesome, but you've missed one important one: platform/system. We should really be able to sort those stacks by the hardware they're played on (we should also be able to sort by release date and then platform, etc.). 3) Sorting by Gamespot Score doesn't actually work (it may not work for "My Score" either, but I haven't rated any of my games yet, so I'm not sure).

But really, good progress here. The big redesign made the site more pretty but less functional. With updates like this one, you've added a lot of that functionality back. And if you can address the issues I listed above, then pretty much all the old features I cared about will be back.

Yay, they fixed it. Too bad the hard page breaks are still there.

In the "Newswire" section on the left side of the front page, there are two links that you can click to get more news. The one at the top -- "See all news" -- works just fine. But the link at the bottom -- "See All Latest News" -- leads to an old URL that no longer works. You guys might want to fix that.

While I'm here, can I register one other complaint? Why the heck does the news section now use hard page breaks? Can't it be changed back to where we can just keeping "loading more" news items on the same page? Much more convenient that way. I can't imagine it would be that hard to code.

I hope it returns soon. I have hardly been on Gamespot at all since the redesign, partly because the podcast seemed to have stopped. Also, tracked games are gone (dear God, why?), and from a utility point of view the news interface sucks now -- no more click to load more items on the same page, instead there are separate page breaks (again, not sure why, this seems a clear downgrade).

All in all, I've felt quite put out by the redesign. Gamespot had been my homepage, but not anymore...