[I'm writing this on Wednesday night and scheduling it to post when the embargo lifts at 9 am tomorrow morning. So I might get some of the launch details wrong!]
I had a chance to get a sneak peak at Raptr’s new website/service. We all know Raptr as a cross-game chat client that also does game tracking, but starting today Raptr also wants to provide you with a kind of personalized gaming news feed.
It’s a little bit like Digg back before Digg sucked, and only for video games. You can share links of the stuff you find interesting, and can up or down vote items other people have shared.
Honestly I’m still figuring out everything the new site can do (I only got in a day ago) and they’re still adding features, but I think it’s got potential. In particular I’m still looking for a feed of things my friends (and only my friends) have shared. If I can’t find it I’ll definitely submit feedback for it.
I’m accessing it at http://beta.raptr.com and I’m assuming that’ll be the URL when it goes into open beta tomorrow, too. If not I’ll try to get back and fix this link! 
Now that it’s live, it’s just plain old http://raptr.com
Sorry for such a vague post; I really want to help get the word out, but I’ll be at work when the embargo lifts so won’t be able to do a proper post at that time!
As I said on Twitter: If only they would put this much effort into their client. I actually stopped using raptr because of a number of issues. Their implementation of libpurple (pidgin) is absolutely wretched, stripped down of nearly all functionality…no plugins, no logging, they even stripped out the ispell libs. The memory footprint is way higher than pidgin.
The new site is nice and all. But, the client is only 25% of what it could be. I would probably go back to raptr if they actually did some real and actual work on the client. But their time is running out. Someone is developing a steam plug-in for pidgin. When it gets perfected, the one thing which drew me to raptr (All the IM services I use in one place) will no longer be exclusive.
I don’t do much chatting with the client, so wasn’t aware of the limitations. I mostly like Raptr for tracking/sharing what I’ve been playing.
Hopefully they’ll focus more attention on the chat features of the client next.
Looks promising. Profile page very much improved.
I’m with Azrael. I just find the client so annoying and unreliable.
Originally I was drawn to Raptr for its integration of disparate clients, in my case mainly xfire and Steam. It however, is quite poor in doing this, especially with Steam. This is likely not necessarily Raptr’s fault but if my goal is to integrate Steam plus other clients in one place and Raptr cannot provide this then why would I want to use Raptr with its otherwise awkward client.