Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight, and I am honored too be your host as always!
State of the Site and Housekeeping News
Firstly, for everyone that may be a non-American it is important to note that this week is a three day weekend, and as a result you should not expect to see the standard supply of content on the site. Also, halfway into next week Jeff and Dan are both leaving to head on over to San Antonio to attend PAX South so this may further truncate staff content this week. For those of you that rely on the Giant Bomb YouTube account to watch Quick Looks, understand that the engineers are aware that videos are not posting to the account and people are working on the case.
Clip(s) of the Week
@turboman is back with another great edition of his "Best of Giant Bomb" video series, and this episode is all about the best moments of Metal Gear Scanlon 2. Twin Peaks is coming back, so fans of the show should check out the second video...trust me, it may be a slow burn but it is worth it.
Awesome Artwork
@papercut is the one to thank for the awesome Giant Bomb X Bullet Club T-Shirt design seen below. @pakattak on the other hand created the two Metal Gear Scanlon 2 Codec portraits below.
Community Activities
- Giant Bomb Warframe PC Clan - Check out the NEW AND IMPROVED Giant BomB Alliance for Warframe Over HERE!
- Puyo Puyo Tetris Online Matchmaking Thread - Enjoy Your Puzzle Import Game With Fellow Users Over HERE!
- Giant Bomb MH4U Hunters Guild - Hunt With Other User By Heading Over HERE!
Wonderful Wikis
Thus far Puyo Puyo Tetris, which has proven to be the right kind of crazy for the Giant Bomb staff and community, and Ironclad Tactics are the recent releases with well done wiki pages. CAPCOM'S MAKING A NEW VIDEO GAME Y'ALL! It's Resident Evil!
Best of Blogs
A special award goes to duncankeller who did the impossible and made Jeff's "Bike 2" game pitch a reality that you can actually play, though he makes no guarantees of quality. Papercutt made a great Giant Bomb X Bullet Club t-shirt cross-over, and pakattack made a couple of great Metal Gear Scanlon 2 codec portraits. jaqen_hghar pontificates on his first foray into Elite: Dangerous, whereas MooseyMcMan tried his hands on two games that pushed his comfort zone, those games being Battlefield 4 and Mirror's Edge. thatpinguino is back with dueling blogs, with the first providing a "Deep Look" into the world of Brutal Legend, and the second providing an introspective look into DDoS attacks. Speaking of going outside of ones comfort zone ArbitraryWater recently played and completed Final Fantasy XIII-2, and shares his conflicted thoughts on the game. Meanwhile bonbolapti also found himself enjoying a game that he had issues with, though his game was Sunset Overdrive. JBG4 is back to wishing you to have a good Monday while you read about his thoughts on the games he played this week. Finally Shivoa, knifeyspoony, granderojo, and zevvion all finally got around to sharing their favorite games of 2014. Better late than never!
- Your Worst Nightmares Come True - Bike 2 is a Game Now (By: @duncankeller)
- Giant Bomb X Bullet Club T-Shirt (By: @papercut)
- I Drew Some Metal Gear Scanlon Codec Portraits! (By: @pakattak)
- Exploring Space - Planning Phase (By: @jaqen_hghar)
- Rolling the DICE with Battlefield 4 and Mirror's Edge (By: @mooseymcman)
- Deep Look: Brutal Legend- The Ludicrously Metal World (By: @thatpinguino)
- Security in the Modern Web Part 2: DDoS Attacks (By: @thatpinguino)
- Games of the Year 2014 (By: @shivoa)
- A Strange "Favorite Games of 2014" List (By: @knifeyspoony)
- Arbitrary Versus XIII-2 (By: @arbitrarywater)
- Granderojo's (late) Games of the Year List for 2014 (By: @granderojo)
- Sunset Overderivative (By: @bonbolapti)
- Happy Monday Duders – Warframe Edition 01/12/15 (By: @jbg4)
- Top Games of 2014 (By: @zevvion)
Fantastic Forums
With PAX South just around the corner feel free to join our "roll call" for the event to hook up with other users going to the event, and also check out the PAX East version if you were one of the lucky few that got a ticket to that event before they sold out. Beyond that we have plenty of community discussion threads ranging from the new PlayStation Now service to the recent game releases of the week, like the Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate demo, worth checking out and participating in.
- PAX South 2015 Roll Call (By: @meatsofevil)
- PAX East 2015 Roll Call (By: @dalai)
- Beyond the Point of No Return at PAX South Discussion Thread (By: @shinboy630)
- Diablo III: Reaper of Souls 2.1.2 Update Discussion Thread (By: @pweidman)
- Playstation Now Subscription Service Discussion Thread (By: @darwinning)
- Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Demo Impressions Thread (By: @rempresent)
Lovable Lists
spraynardtatum plans on using 2015 to knock off all of the games on his gaming backlog list, and brodehouse took the time to list out all of his favorite gaming experiences during the last generation of consoles.
- A Year to Play Catch Up - 2015 (By: @spraynardtatum)
- Games of Video in Generation the Seventh (By: @brodehouse)
Useful User Reviews
- @wemibelec90's review of Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed
- @mento's review of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
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