The Community Spotlight - 05/24/2013

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I am your host as always, ZombiePie. Some Xbox stuff happened this week. Unless you have been living under a rock you probably know that the Xbox One has been revealed and announced. Well that and the community and staff have been in a perpetual buzz about the console. Prior to the Xbox One reveal Patrick announced that before he moves to Chicago he plans on doing one more Jar Time video, send him any questions you may have to his Comic Vine or Tumblr account. Other madness this week includes Jonny Moseley responding (postively might I add) to Ryan's joshing around about Jonny Moseley's Mad Trix. If you enjoyed the old Behind the Screened Door podcast Alex and Matt Rorie have started a new movie podcast for subscribers! If you were wondering why this is subscriber content or have any other questions about this new project head on over here. With that check out these two Bombcast based videos! One about alcohol based enemas and the other being another great Bombcast animated clip:

Oh, and check out giantbomb.net.

Community Activities

• Giant Bomb Arts and Craft Competition - Compete and Win Some Awesome Stuff in EVE Online Over Here!
• Giant Bomb Star Trek Online Space Neon Lobsters Guild - Learn About How you Can Be a Romulan and Join the Guild Here!

Wonderful Wikis

One more thing about the Xbox One. XONE is the official abbreviation of the Xbox One, and not XBONE while that is considered an alias for the platform. Please keep this in mind when editing the wiki. Oh hey the Shin Megami Tensei IV has an amazingly detailed wiki page! It's almost as if there's a significant Shin Megami Tensei sub-community on Giant Bomb...I wonder how and when that happened. What the heck is Word Realms?! Well read all about the game on its surprisingly detailed wiki page.

• Xbox One
• Shin Megami Tensei IV
• Word Realms

Best of Blogs

Send your comments and thanks to Edderf for providing the "Call Zobeck" banner for this week. ArbitraryWater went old school and contemporary this week with his blog about Baldur's Gate and Resident Evil: Revelations. Video_Game_King learnd how 2 spel with 2 edumacation gamz, and starts a brand spanking new picturelogue blog about Beauty and the Beast. Mento has officially gone mad as he has now gone four weeks of daily game blogs! granderojo had a smashing time with the Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings II and discusses why, whereas humanity implores you to play Dragon's Dogma. Oh and people talked about the Xbox One...lots of people. Jensonb, Blazehedgehog, and Gamer_152 (and likely others that I didn't catch!) hold the distinction of being able to share their thoughts and opinions about the Xbox One in a rational and calm manner. Check out what they had to say about the reveal. LawGamer provides the second episode to his video game copyright blog series, simultaneously dankempster shares the fourth episode of his Metal Gear May Madness blog series. Fobwashed has a handful of detailed reviews for soundcards and headsets, and FLStyle keeps you updated on the Fighting Game Community with an event list for UFGT9.

• Call Zobek (Drawing) (By: @eidderf)
• ArbitraryWater vs Sea Zombies (By: @arbitrarywater)
• The King's Attempt to Understand English & The Screenshot Chronicles of a Lonely Bookworm and Her Psychic Rose (By: @video_game_king)
• Mento's May Madness More: #24 - Anodyne [Links to Other Entries] (By: @mento)
• I Am but Mad North/North-West. When the Wind is Southerly, I Know a Hawk from a Handsaw (By: @granderojo)
• Generation Xerox (By: @jensonb)
• A Rebuttal to Ben Kuchera, Re: Xbox One, Used Games, and More (By: @blazehedgehog)
• The Media Men (By: @gamer_152)
• Dragons Dogma and Why you Really Should Play It (By: @humanity)
• It's a-me [Copyrighted Character]! - Part II (By: @lawgamer)
• Metal Gear May Madness - Episode .04 (By: @dankempster)
• My PC Soundcards and Headset Mini-Reviews (By: @fobwashed)
• UFGT9 Preview (May 23-26) DIVEKICK comes home! Injustice goes to EVO ahead of Skullgirls and FGC News! (By: @flstyle)

Fantastic Forums

LackingSaint is the one who provided the latest Bombcast animated clip as seen above send him your thanks and comments about the clip. BeachThunder points out that Vinny is getting incredibly close to finishing BioForge, and asks which DOS game you'd like to see him play next. Rorie wants you to talk about your favorite E3 demo. The Lincolncast wants YOUR questions for their next Giant Bomb Guild Wars 2 community podcast, The Lincolncast, with a special guest from ArenaNet. Finally, if you have been playing the latest Call of Juarez game discuss your impressions and thoughts about, any news about laddergoat?

• GiantBomb Animated: Enjoy Your Massage (By: @lackingsaint)
• Which DOS Game Would you Want to See Played Through Next? (By: @beachthunder)
• What's Your Favorite E3 Demo of All Time? (By: @rorie)
• Possible Lincolncast Interview -> Looking for SPvP Questions (By: @thurbleton)
• Call of Juarez: Gunslinger - Thoughts? (By: @rye256)

Lovable Lists

Here's a PSA/PIF (freaking British people) about the list feature, the engineers estimate that in the next 2-3 weeks they plan on fixing the bug issues with large lists (i.e. not being able to edit some of your lists at all). With that aside jbrite shares his 10 favorite PS1 era RPGs and Emerald85 has started a list chronicling every single female ninja in video games.

• My Top 10 PS1 RPGs (By: @jbrite)
• Female Ninjas of Gaming (By: @emerald85)

Useful User Reviews

• @rabalais42's user review of Donkey Kong Country Returns

User Created Podcasts

• GBCP: Xbox One Edition - Xbox, Go Home
• GBCP - Ep. 8: Naturally Weaker

Congrats everyone! Oh sweet, now we have a Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem sub communities that are doing a fabulous job on the wiki pages. I should start up a Legend of Zelda wiki coalition!

Those videos are great! I laughed so hard I might need a massage now.

I regret that massage. Deeply.

Thanks for using my image, in these troubled times it's good to know that Zobek is only a Y button away. Some great highlights this week it seems (some pretty easy to miss with all the Xbox chatter going on)

I've got to say that animation is pretty amazing, the style just makes it that much funnier (and creepier) must have taken quite some time.

I regret nothing.

Well thanks for the work of art in the first place.

Too bad there isn't a like button to let you know I read these. =-\ Hard to really comment on any of them.

Hot new remix of a tune from the underwater depths of Duke Nukem 3Dizzle:

http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic-31/the-duke-nukem-3d-soundtrack-in-chill-o-ramavision-1438419/

Got a new review up here.

It's been an especiallyJapanese week for me.

I mean honestly...when is it not?

Keep fighting the good fight, someone has to write reviews on the site with the new review tools.

That week my computer's fan burned out and I wrote out a blog by hand?

Forever.

Oh cripes, almost forgot.

Well, there's this old, mad thing. It's finally done now, so I'll probably be back to a blog and a list next time. I also got my two monthly features done this week as well: May's TurboMento-12 and Comic Commish. Apologies in advance for monopolizing the blog list.

I'm sure you spotted it, but buzz_clik did a terrifork doodle for kicks. I'll link to it in case you forkot. In not horrible pun news, there's a sweet series of hideous Pokémon sketches here too. Arbitrary wrote a thing about wet dead people and dankempster's still hiding in boxes.

If you need a wiki, I broke down what consists of the Eggerland/Adventures of Lolo series some time ago. That page could use some work though, probably.

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