[Giveit2u43]

As John doesn`t have vbindex, I decided to see if I could get the news on the vbindex frontpage.. firstly I, found:

	// latest threads
	'vbindex_latestthreads',
	'vbindex_latestthreadbit',

and replaced it with:

	// latest threads
	'vbindex_latestthreads',
	'vbindex_latestthreadbit',
	// arcade latest
	'vbindex_arcadenews',
	'vbindex_arcadenews_bit',

then, find:

// ####################### PROCESS vBindex WOL ##########################

and above it placed:

	$newsresult = $DB_site->query("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "gamenews ORDER BY datestamp DESC LIMIT 4");
	while ($news = $DB_site->fetch_array($newsresult)) {
		$news['time'] = vbdate($vboptions['dateformat'],$news['datestamp'],true);
		exec_switch_bg();
		eval('$vbinewsbits .= "' . fetch_template('vbindex_arcadenews_bit') . '";');
	}
	$DB_site->free_result($newsresult);
	eval('$vbiarcadenews = "' . fetch_template('vbindex_arcadenews') . '";');

next add a custom block, and replace the default code with (edit the next three templates to suit your own sites, this is just the way I have it laid out you might want something else, feel free to play around, that`s the beauty of vBulletin)

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="tborder" width="100%">
	<tr>
		<td>
			<table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
				<tr>
					<td class="tcat" style="text-align: center" colspan="2">
						<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('vbindex_customblock$box')"><img id="collapseimg_vbindex_customblock$box" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat$collapseimg_vbindex_customblock.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
		<span class="smallfont"><b>Latest Arcade News</b></span></td>
			</tr>
<tbody id="collapseobj_vbindex_customblock$box" style="$collapseobj_vbindex_customblock">
<tr><td class="thead" style="text-align: center"><span class="smallfont"><a href="forums/arcade.php?">Enter the Arcade</a></span></td></tr>
				<tr>
					<td class="alt1">
						<div class="smallfont">$vbiarcadenews</div>
					</td>
				</tr>
				</tbody>
			</table>
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>
<br />

create a new template called vbindex_arcadenews and populate it with:

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%"> 

$vbinewsbits

</table>

next create a template called vbindex_arcadenews_bit and populate it with:

<tr> 
<td class="$bgclass" align="left" valign="middle" width="80%">
<li><span class="smallfont"><b>$news[time]</b>: $news[newstext]</span></li>
</td>
</tr>

and voila.. your latest arcade news on your frontpage.. Screenshot is attached to show you how this looks, but like I said eariler play around with the templates to get it to look the way you want..