@musicalman, thanks for the kind words.
I can't speak of any of the other news posters, but I'll admit that yes, life has been pretty crappy lately.
I don't want to make a big deal of things, but lets just say really seriously, needing to go and get professional help levels of crappy!
I've been struggling with motivation and gaming, even on a level of my actual game playing getting significantly cruddier, that and the fact that editing the db is producing errors and extra pages (see this in the entries for little boss's lemonade stand and 2095 beyond the human), so I'm not really sure about adding a hole bunch of others until the error is fixed.
I have dropped sander an email as of this week but not heard anything back so far.
That being said, you're correct that things do need updating news wise because yes, it is the first page people see on the front of the site.
If people will make some suggestions of significant achievements for this year, EG the vale, Hearthstone, maybe grim quest, bcb4000 or hades, I can see about putting something together as a sort of looking back at milestones type of thing (I was going to do this but as I've not been around I'm not sure what is most significant, and even poking through new releases, it's likely I'll miss things.
then hopefully it'll be easier to keep up with incoming news as and when it happens.
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)