Or you can stop worrying about whether to use one topic or two, and just use an announcement on the home page itself like was initially suggested. A lot of people aren't going to pay attention to if there is a new post in the news section (especially when this thread is almost definitely going to hide the actual update thread as latest post). They [i]will[/i] pay attention to a big announcement box in their face (such as when it said "guild is having difficulties etc" before the rewrite).