The Community Spotlight - 01/03/2014 (Inaugural 2014 Edition)

Hello and welcome to the first edition of the Community Spotlight for the year 2014! With the end of the Game of the Year content you can expect the staff to be back in action on Monday. Until then read site engineer Danny Chi's (aka @mrpibb) end of the year review of the site redesigns for Giant bomb, Comic Vine, and GameSpot. Speaking of end of the year stuff let's give @thatfrood a round of applause for hosting the 2013 Giant Bomb Community Game of the Year List project! Beyond that I have a ton of user created art work. @fobwashed created a Giant Bomb themed version of the Papers, Please startup screen. Someone else on Tumblr took the anime K-On! and replaced the characters with the Giant Bomb staff. Finally we have WiFi_Pirate's AMAZING "correction" of Life Magazine's Farewell issue:

Clip of the Week

For the first clip we have the Giant Bomb Warfarme guild, Heavy Industries, showing off the recent community event they had. For the second video someone on YouTube decided to take the intro of Giant Bomb's Day Two 2013 GotY video and put in a twenty minute loop, because hey why not?

Late to the Party Community GOTY Stuff

You are all a bunch of procrastinators! Jesus I think I actually have more blogs this week than last week! Anyways I have so many blogs this week I'm not going to take the time to create headers for every single blog on here. So just like last week here's the GotY blogs and lists and the non-GotY stuff is below.

Blogs

• Results! Giantbomb Community 2013 GotY (By: @thatfrood)
• Best and Worst of 2013 (By: @cathryn)
• The Royal Goat-like Celebrations: Part the Next Part (By: @video_game_king)
• 2013 GOTY List (By: @sleeprockss)
• My Top 10 Games of 2013 (By: @wumbo3000)
• Mattallica's Top 10 Games of 2013 (By: @_mattallica)
• Goitees 2013 (By: @shivoa)
• The Ten Best Games I Played This Year Are... (By: @believer258)
• My Ten Seemingly Random Games of the Year (Plus 1 Other) (By: @pyromagnestir)
• VirtuosoZ's Top Ten Games of 2013 (By: @virtuosoz)
• My 2 Cents GOTY 2013 and Other Useless Nonsense (By: @me3639)
• My End Of 2013 Awards (By: @dankempster)
• Dalai's 2013 VGXTs: (Video Game X Thing): GOTY Episode (By: @dalai)
• Awesomeusername's Top 8 2013 GOTY List Featuring Other Awards! (By: @awesomeusername)
• ArbitraryWater's Best Games of 2013 That Didn't Actually Come Out in 2013 (By: @arbitrarywater)
• Some Guy Whose Opinion you Don't Care about's GOTY Awards 2013 PT3! (By: @jclane)
• My Best and Worst of 2013 (By: @hailinel)
• BEST GAMES OF 2013: CAPS EDITION 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO REDUX (By: @n7)
• My Top Ten Games of 2013 (By: @gamer_152)

Lists

• Dixavd's GOTY List for 2013 (of Games I Actually Played in 2013) (By: @dixavd)
• Best of 2013 (By: @jedted)
• The Greatest Games of The Year 2013 As Decided By Myself (By: @shadowvirus)
• GOTY 2013 (By: @hunter5024)
• GOTY 2013 (By: @pistolpackinpoet)
• Best of 2013 (By: @themasterds)
• Ken's Obligatory List of Favorite Games From 2013! (By: @ssj4raditz)
• Papercut's Krazy™ GOTY 2013 List (By: @papercut)
• 2013 Top Ten (By: @dimsey)
• 2013 GOTY (By: @epicsteve)
• Favorite Games of 2013 (By: @wrathofconn)
• GOTY 2013 (By: @slag)
• Best of 2013 (By: @mikefightnight)
• GOTY 2013 (By: @preheatedbibby)
• 2013 Games of the Year (By: @littleemille)
• Best of 2013 (By: @csl316)
• GOTY 2013 (By: @superfluousmoniker)
• LiquidPrince's Top 10 Best Games of 2013 (By: @liquidprince)
• Top Ten Games I Played in 2013 (By: @metalgearsunny)
• The Sparkiest Buzzsaw Awards of 2013 (By: @sparky_buzzsaw)

Community Activities

• Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 January 5th -11th! - Help Raise Money for Charity By Heading Over Here!
• New (Active) Giant Bomb Guild for Marvel Heroes - Learn How to Join the Guild Over Here!
• Unofficial Giantbomb DayZ (Standalone) Steam Group - Learn How to Join the Group Over Here!

Wonderful Wikis

Other than World of Warcraft being weird someone recently submitted a +600 point submission to the Tetris: The Grandmaster ACE wiki page that should be seen.

• Gnomoria
• Tetris: The Grand Master ACE
• Mean, Smelly, Angry, Stabby, Very Bad Townlong Yak

Best of Blogs

There were a lot of blogs this week. My brain is so fried right now. There were so many blogs this week....

• The Battle Within Begins: A Look Back At The Lightning Saga (Part One) (By: @donchipotle)
• Starting 2014 with Yakuza 4 (By: @sarumarine)
• Why You Should Not Let Broken Sword 5 Pass You By and How it Restores Faith in Kickstarter (By: @flstyle)
• Point and Autobot - A(nother) Gabriel Knight Mystery? (By: @siroptimusprime)
• Top 25 Most Anticipated Games of 2014: Prologue - The Waiting Continues (By: @devoureroftime)
• U and Me vs. the World (By: @mento)
• Holiday PS Vita Gaming Roundup (By: @grantheaslip)
• Top 10 Animes of 2013 (By: @ilikepopcans)
• Final Fantasy X HD Impressions (By: @lordgodalming)
• Gender, Equality and the Search for Common Ground (By: @yukoasho)
• My Descent into Amorous Madness. With Accompanying Screenshots (By: @video_game_king)
• January Vita Lineup and Upcoming Titles (By: @blacklagoon)
• Make Me Mad's Games of the Generation (In No Particular Order) (By: @make_me_mad)
• Good Games That Cheat, Vol. 1 (By: @lordgodalming)
• Focus Your Energy, Young Padawan (Damn You Steam Sales) (By: @benspyda)
• The Making Of My GOTG List vol. 3-2 (By: @winternet)
• I Finally Completed a Goal I Set at the Start of 2013. Lists! (By: @crusader8463)
• 60 Days of Rocksmith: Conclusion (By: @jasonr86)

Fantastic Forums

As seen on the banner above metalliccookies has soem very notable progress related to his Giant Bomb themed Windjammers game, "Bombjammers." ZanzibarBreeze has a nine hour audio clip of the best moments of the Giant Bombcast. Finally Cincaid has his updated stats for Giant Bomb's Quick Looks.

• 'Bombjammers' the GB crew in Windjammers *Update* (By: @metalliccookies)
• This Year's Best-of for the Giant Bombcast in 2013 (9 hours) (By: @zanzibarbreeze)
• 5 Years, 4 Months, and 1,558 Quick Looks Later (By: @cincaid)
• What 2014 Games are you Looking Forward to Most? (By: @beachthunder)
• Bravely Default Demo Impressions (By: @fluxwavez)
• Kicking off 2014 Whats on your Desktop? (By: @demoskinos)
• Should Boss Fights be a Challenge or a Reward? (By: @fallen189)

Lovable Lists

• List of Games Beaten in 2013 (By: @mento)
• My Top 14 Most Anticipated Games of 2014 (By: @darthorange)
• Games I Should Have Played in 2013 (By: @pseg)
• Games I Have Beaten in 2013 (By: @sgtsphynx)

Useful User Reviews

• @believer258's review of The Last of Us
• @davvyk's review of Need for Speed Rivals

Potent Podcasts

• The Mighty Electronic Box (GOTY 2013!)

As much as I love Jonathan Winters and as much as it bummed me out when I learned he passed last year, he doesn't hold a candle to Ryan Davis as far as people who hold a special place in my heart.

Just an FYI, my Games I Have Beaten in 2013 list wasn't a GotY list, it's just a list of games I beat similar to @mento's list.

Just an FYI, my Games I Have Beaten in 2013 list wasn't a GotY list, it's just a list of games I beat similar to @mento's list.

@themanwithnoplan: Yeah I almost went with that as the banner, but ended up siding with Windjammers.

I went ahead and fixed it.

My GOTY list didn't appear on this one even after I sent you that nice message. Why must you make me so sad.

In other news, it's going to take me a while to go through everyone else's lists.

When I "joke" about bribing officials I wasn't joking. Anyways, you should be fine.

@zombiepie: Yay, thank you. <3

I'm going to send out a batch of much belated notifications to users that are guaranteed a spot on the next Community Spotlight. Those users are:

@moonlightmoth@davvyk@chemystery@believer258@jayeh@mooseymcman@villhaver@majormitch@poisonjam7@hailinel@dankempster@knifeyspoony and let's not forget @demoskinos for hosting the Awesome Games Done Quick Stuff!

Great work everyone, and keep up the good work!

@zombiepie: Well, thank you very much!

Happy 2014!

@zombiepie: That's very kind of you. Thank you.

And then....demons.

Just went back and watched the Halo 2 run. It was amazing. Triple Johnsons at the end just laser blasting Tartarus. All those sword flying skills.

@zombiepie: Awesome, thanks a lot!

Here's a review for you.

Oops, almost forgot. Sorry for the delay. Here's a thing.

The latest edition of the Community Spotlight is available for your viewing pleasure over here.