I wouldn't know what to pick because some times getting news on games that haven't come out yet can be annoying just because you want them so bad but sometimes they can give you something to look forward to play.
:off topic: what ever happened to the ds-scene chat?
The ds-scene chat is still there we just have not made a web interface for it yet. You can get to it using and IRC client like mirc. Do a search for mirc and you will find vaskituhs guide
We're on efnet #ds-scene
I like the previews myself as long as we don't do too many. I wouldn't want previews of everything
I don't feel like it fits in with the feel of the site. There are plenty of other news site that collect news on upcoming DS games. I come to ds-scene for "scene" news, on things like homebrew and dumps. No reason to spread yourselves too thin, you do such a great job already. At the very least i would split it off into another section so sceners could access the "scene" news without sifting though the "previews".
It's like I said really, the odd preview every now and then doesn't hurt but as you say it can be easily overdone and end up overpowering what the main aim of ds-scene is. Sure we like to see snippets every now and then on the shocker announcements but it has to be kept to a minimum and we certainly do not want to be swamped with them.
Maybe you could have a smaller side panel with headlines relating to the previews. A bit like the recently released ROMs panel. That way you could just ignore it if you wanted to.
Previews of the big releases (like all those which have releases on all the bigger consoles or PCs) would be awesome, although it's also cool to just be surprised by a great release. Maybe we could just make one large preview thread and everybody can post them there and comment on them. This would make it very easy for prople that don't want to view them to avoid them, but at the same time provide all the info for the people that want to see them them. It could possibly get a little messy so the first or second post should be used to collect all the post numbers of the officially confimred reviews so people can quickely find them.