It won't replace the forum, which will still be the main focus of the site, but the latest release section will be moved to the front page which will be better for everyone, I believe.
You will have a graphic representation of your release, the banner will return and it will look much better visually.
I am working on the code now to make it happen. It will be a single sign on solution and the blog front page will also allow anonymous comments (with approval) for those that don't want to bother signing up as a member of the forum. (But why wouldn't they?

In addition, we will have a format that will basically be the standard blog format
MAIN IMAGE
TRAILER (optional)
INTRO TEXT
IMAGES
TEXT
PURCHASE LINK(S)
Now the images and the text can be intertwined to tell the story if you choose. And I say this because I am going to give you the access to do it yourself. I will also have someone on hand to post it for you if you need help.
The blog format allows you to get a little more creative with your posts.
There will also be code in place to cross post between the comments and the forum, or we could just keep the comments on the blog page and not worry about cross posting on the forum at all for Latest Releases. Which I think is probably the better way to go since I'd rather not repeat content.
Anyway, thoughts and comments?
So that's it for now, I expect to roll this out by the end of the year.