Kotaku links to a new Slashdot-style gaming news site that recently launched in beta called Pikuru. In Pikuru, the community are the editors; all stories are submitted by the users, and readers choose which submissions make it to the top of the front page by voting for or against them, similar to StumbleUpon's thumbs-up system.It shares a similarity with del.icio.us in that the names of people who've "pik'd" a story appear below them, though there's no free tagging of stories, with only a set amount of topics users can add their stories to.
The site is a spin-off of a feature from Gametab.com, a news aggregator for gamers, and like that site it's pretty cool, though it will need a large userbase to be effective:
Pikuru is an extension of what was the "News Nexus" at GameTab. It's been moved off, turned it into its own site and expanded upon with new categories and features. And overall, given more room to grow. In order for the system to work as it's meant to, it requires a lot of people participating - sending in stories and +piking the cream of the crop. If you like the site, please help spread the word! The more people using the site, the better it'll work.
Pikuru.com
