homeToday, along with our new Tickets system, we launched a brand-new homepage, making it easier for you to get to the games you want to play and earn prizes for doing so. Head over to the site to check it out in action!

The biggest change you’ll notice is that all player profile-related stuff will be relocated to a black bar on the very top of the page. This is where you’ll log in, see how many tickets you can redeem, and gives you easy access to your profile page, your favorite games and your trophies. This bar will appear on every page of the site so you won’t have to quit your game or open a new window to access your important profile information.

If your Candystand account is connected to Facebook, you’ll also see updates about what your friends are doing in the profile bar, too (which means you’ll see right away which friends have beaten your scores — you won’t let them get away with that, will you?).

The right sidebar of the homepage got an update too — now there’s an interactive widget that lets you redeem tickets for prize entries without leaving the page. This is accompanied by a new Prize Wheel on the prizes page, which makes it easier to browse and enter drawings.

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There are a few things we took away from the homepage. Since the Game Search bar is moving to the top right corner, we’re getting rid of the ‘Find a Game’ drop-down menu, as well as the short category listing underneath. If you ever want to find those genres again, hit the ‘More’ button in the navigation to see them.

We’re also replacing Game of the Day with Download of the Day, which highlights the best of our newly-launched downloadable games store.

In a nutshell, the sweetest games online are now the best-looking games online. :) Tell us what you think in the comments!