The Community Spotlight - 06/23/2011 (Featuring a New Starlet)

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! As we get nearer and nearer to the Summer Game Drought you can rest asssured that the Giant Bomb Community will keep each of you entertained! Check out intern Babylonian's blog about the start of his internship in the headquarters of Whiskey Media. The other interns talk about...comics whatever those are. There's a new Trenched based Community Quest Set with a limited number of slots for bonus points. Giant Bomb got obsessed with photo editing Robin William's beard on things. Something that I purposefully ignored until it was on the front page....Finally are there any Giant Bomb photo edits you think would look good as posters? Post you would be photobombs or faux movie posters here! With this all in mind let's check out this edition of the Community Starlet brought to you by mracoon:

Community Starlet: Video_Game_King

Welcome back to the Community Spotlight where we highlight the best and brightest of the Giant Bomb community. This week, by royal decree, the title is bestowed on our very own wannabe monarch Video_Game_King. If you've ever taken a gander at the forums then you'll have undoubtedly noitced VGK and one of his over 13,000 posts. While there's no way to verify his claims that he's the King of the Moon or over 300 years old, there's no denying that the dude likes to blog. And write reviews. And make lists. And edit the wiki. It's hard to find another all-round contributor on his level.

That's a lot of content so let's start with his blogs. Again, you've probably seen his 'Renegade Ego' blogs on the forums as, unlike me, he's able to stick to a weekly schedule. Asking him for his personal favourites he pointed to some... well, I'll let the titles speak for themselves: 'A very special diabetes edition of Renegade Ego', 'Possibly the darkest and most hate-fueled blog I've ever written', 'Portal and Mortal Kombat, all in one blog', 'More titles that are just plain cryptic' and 'Wait, I'm doing Neo Geo games now? Since when?'. If you've got a penchant for older or little-known games then VGK's blogs are designed for you. While he mostly dabbling in the obscure, from time to time he ventures out of his domain and talks about more modern titles, so there's something for everyone.

The King's work also spreads to the Giant Bomb wiki. His top contributions are for Samurai Shodown II and the lesser-known Mystic Ark for the SNES. My personal pick has to go to Cocoron, a game that could easily have gotten no attention but VGK still took the time to flesh it out. If you want to see all the pages that VGK has created then he's made a handy list and while there also check out the list for all the games he's completed which is closing in on 1000.

Upcoming Fun Stuff

• The New and Improved Bad Company 2 Bombing Runs! Play Bad Company 2 with Fellow Users HERE!

• Vito's Game Giveaway #23! One New Game Added! See if You Can Win Some FREE GAMES HERE!

• Gemini Rue Discount for ALL Giant Bomb Users! Due June 26th - Get Your Discount on HERE!

• Giant Bomb Community SC2 EU Tournament #9, June 25th - Sign Up to Play StarCraft with Fellow Users HERE!

• Giant Bomb Community Trenched Project! Help Spread the Game of Love to Your Fellow Giant Bomb Users HERE!

Wonderful Wikis

• Planescape: Torment
• Thermonuclear Weapon
• Shadows of the Damned
• Myth: The Fallen Lords
• Trenched
• Medic

Lovable Lists

• Game Boy Originals Still Worth Playing (By: Mento)
• Retail Games. Bought in Stores. On Shiny CD's and Floppy Floppies (By: fisk0)
• Mindless Minutia (My Created Pages) (By: DOOM2exe)
• People I Want in My Group of Zombie Survivors (By: Neon941)

Fantastic Forums/Best of Blog

• The Giant Bomb on Turntable.fm (By: Fattony12000)
• Brad Muir (Photoshop Thread) Ripped (By: thoseposers)
• Waves of Charity, 24 Hour Gears of War 2 Horde Mode Marathon (By: texaseanacre)
• Quest: Leavin' Me In The Trenches (By: Sparklykiss)
• Alien Bastards, Wii-U and the Halo Kinection (By: YukoAsho)
• Epic Anime Time (Cosplay Action) (By: gakattack)
• Breaking It All Down - E3 2011 - Unsold! (+ Shame of the Show) (By: Count_Zero)
• The First (Almost) 6 Months of 2011 (By: SMTDante89)
• Give Origin a Chance (By: insanejedi)
• The Official Game of Game of Thrones: The Game (By: Mento)
• Past Expiration: Okami (By: Sarumarine)
• E3 2011 Community Quest Postmortem (By: PsEG)
• I Play Old Games (Planescape Torment) (By: ArbitraryWater)
• The Old Republic: Fairest Take You Will Read Anywhere on the Net (By: SamStrife)
• Re-Endure the Persona 4 Endurance Run: Finale! (By: Make_Me_Mad)
• Mii and U and Everyone We Know [SSC17] (By: bonbolapti)
• L.A. Noire is Not for Me (By: Alphazero)

User Reviews

• CraigAA's review of Trenched
• MasterVerhoffin's review of F.E.A.R. 3
• maskedarcstrike's review of Shadows of the Damned
• Tenmuerti's review of Dungeon Siege III
• wemibelec90's review of Alice: Madness Returns
• Ursus_Veritas's review of Magic The Gathering: Duels Of The Planeswalkers 2012
• EpicSteve's review of Duke Nukem: Forever
• Nodachie's review of Basic Math

User Created Podcasts

• Pass The Whiskey - Episode 1: That's Our Title
• We Are Race Night Episode 7: Dry, Fake, and Slow

Author's Note: Did you find or create any showcase worthy content on Giant Bomb be it related to the wiki or forums? Well then drop a comment on this here feature with a link to anything you have created or found and I promise to showcase it next week. Also to stay up on the best of the best of the Giant Bomb Community follow me on Twitter@GiantBombSquad.

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! As we get nearer and nearer to the Summer Game Drought you can rest asssured that the Giant Bomb Community will keep each of you entertained! Check out intern Babylonian's blog about the start of his internship in the headquarters of Whiskey Media. The other interns talk about...comics whatever those are. There's a new Trenched based Community Quest Set with a limited number of slots for bonus points. Giant Bomb got obsessed with photo editing Robin William's beard on things. Something that I purposefully ignored until it was on the front page....Finally are there any Giant Bomb photo edits you think would look good as posters? Post you would be photobombs or faux movie posters here! With this all in mind let's check out this edition of the Community Starlet brought to you by mracoon:

Community Starlet: Video_Game_King

Welcome back to the Community Spotlight where we highlight the best and brightest of the Giant Bomb community. This week, by royal decree, the title is bestowed on our very own wannabe monarch Video_Game_King. If you've ever taken a gander at the forums then you'll have undoubtedly noitced VGK and one of his over 13,000 posts. While there's no way to verify his claims that he's the King of the Moon or over 300 years old, there's no denying that the dude likes to blog. And write reviews. And make lists. And edit the wiki. It's hard to find another all-round contributor on his level.

That's a lot of content so let's start with his blogs. Again, you've probably seen his 'Renegade Ego' blogs on the forums as, unlike me, he's able to stick to a weekly schedule. Asking him for his personal favourites he pointed to some... well, I'll let the titles speak for themselves: 'A very special diabetes edition of Renegade Ego', 'Possibly the darkest and most hate-fueled blog I've ever written', 'Portal and Mortal Kombat, all in one blog', 'More titles that are just plain cryptic' and 'Wait, I'm doing Neo Geo games now? Since when?'. If you've got a penchant for older or little-known games then VGK's blogs are designed for you. While he mostly dabbling in the obscure, from time to time he ventures out of his domain and talks about more modern titles, so there's something for everyone.

The King's work also spreads to the Giant Bomb wiki. His top contributions are for Samurai Shodown II and the lesser-known Mystic Ark for the SNES. My personal pick has to go to Cocoron, a game that could easily have gotten no attention but VGK still took the time to flesh it out. If you want to see all the pages that VGK has created then he's made a handy list and while there also check out the list for all the games he's completed which is closing in on 1000.

Upcoming Fun Stuff

• The New and Improved Bad Company 2 Bombing Runs! Play Bad Company 2 with Fellow Users HERE!

• Vito's Game Giveaway #23! One New Game Added! See if You Can Win Some FREE GAMES HERE!

• Gemini Rue Discount for ALL Giant Bomb Users! Due June 26th - Get Your Discount on HERE!

• Giant Bomb Community SC2 EU Tournament #9, June 25th - Sign Up to Play StarCraft with Fellow Users HERE!

• Giant Bomb Community Trenched Project! Help Spread the Game of Love to Your Fellow Giant Bomb Users HERE!

Wonderful Wikis

• Planescape: Torment
• Thermonuclear Weapon
• Shadows of the Damned
• Myth: The Fallen Lords
• Trenched
• Medic

Lovable Lists

• Game Boy Originals Still Worth Playing (By: Mento)
• Retail Games. Bought in Stores. On Shiny CD's and Floppy Floppies (By: fisk0)
• Mindless Minutia (My Created Pages) (By: DOOM2exe)
• People I Want in My Group of Zombie Survivors (By: Neon941)

Fantastic Forums/Best of Blog

• The Giant Bomb on Turntable.fm (By: Fattony12000)
• Brad Muir (Photoshop Thread) Ripped (By: thoseposers)
• Waves of Charity, 24 Hour Gears of War 2 Horde Mode Marathon (By: texaseanacre)
• Quest: Leavin' Me In The Trenches (By: Sparklykiss)
• Alien Bastards, Wii-U and the Halo Kinection (By: YukoAsho)
• Epic Anime Time (Cosplay Action) (By: gakattack)
• Breaking It All Down - E3 2011 - Unsold! (+ Shame of the Show) (By: Count_Zero)
• The First (Almost) 6 Months of 2011 (By: SMTDante89)
• Give Origin a Chance (By: insanejedi)
• The Official Game of Game of Thrones: The Game (By: Mento)
• Past Expiration: Okami (By: Sarumarine)
• E3 2011 Community Quest Postmortem (By: PsEG)
• I Play Old Games (Planescape Torment) (By: ArbitraryWater)
• The Old Republic: Fairest Take You Will Read Anywhere on the Net (By: SamStrife)
• Re-Endure the Persona 4 Endurance Run: Finale! (By: Make_Me_Mad)
• Mii and U and Everyone We Know [SSC17] (By: bonbolapti)
• L.A. Noire is Not for Me (By: Alphazero)

User Reviews

• CraigAA's review of Trenched
• MasterVerhoffin's review of F.E.A.R. 3
• maskedarcstrike's review of Shadows of the Damned
• Tenmuerti's review of Dungeon Siege III
• wemibelec90's review of Alice: Madness Returns
• Ursus_Veritas's review of Magic The Gathering: Duels Of The Planeswalkers 2012
• EpicSteve's review of Duke Nukem: Forever
• Nodachie's review of Basic Math

User Created Podcasts

• Pass The Whiskey - Episode 1: That's Our Title
• We Are Race Night Episode 7: Dry, Fake, and Slow

Author's Note: Did you find or create any showcase worthy content on Giant Bomb be it related to the wiki or forums? Well then drop a comment on this here feature with a link to anything you have created or found and I promise to showcase it next week. Also to stay up on the best of the best of the Giant Bomb Community follow me on Twitter@GiantBombSquad.

Video_Game_King stands out because of his blogs. I've never seen someone write so much on a regular basis.

Really surprised VGK wasn't the first responder to this thread, that's how much of an institution he is around here. Or a constitution. al monarch. *cough* ...Well deserved starlet spot, anyway.
 
Thanks for the mentions and a new Mentos commercial. I'll pry all of them out of you eventually. Do they all have condescending yuppies in them?

but that only makes it look like he's a starlet due to constant Nagging, M I RITE? *rimshot*
 
*cough*
 
...oh look, blogs to read :D

Glad to see the starlet isn't dead.....you stopped slacking ZombiePie. ;P
 
First he took over Gamestop, but the mods put a stop to his reign there......now he's taking over Giantbomb......is he here to stay?.....stay tuned to find out the shocking conclusion.
 
I find blogging to be pointless....I like to edit while in the mood and post but I have no interest in blogging about video games.....if Whiskey Media would start a music site I would be a regular blogger there.

Wannabe? WANNABE!? MY CLAIM TO THIS THRONE IS THE TRUEST THING YOU SHALL EVER ENCOUNTER! DO YOU KNOW WHAT I HAVE DONE FOR THE GLORIOUS MOON KINGDOM OF SENASTIA!? I RID IT OF THE SATAN CLAUS THREAT, BROUGHT FORTH GREAT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES, AND UNITED THE EIGHT LUNAR KINGDOMS INTO ONE! NONE SHALL QUESTION MY POWER AS LONG AS THIS CROWN RESTS UPON MY ROYAL HEAD! ALSO, WHERE IS MY LATEST BLOG!?

TFL has been spotlighted. My work is complete.

The King is a community starlet and still bitches, quite loudly I might add, about his latest blog not being mentioned. Where's a humble King when you need one?

@Claude said:

The King is a community starlet and still bitches, quite loudly I might add, about his latest blog not being mentioned. Where's a humble King when you need one?

I need a King who will bitch, actually. That's why I come to Giant Bomb.

The King is a community starlet and still bitches, quite loudly I might add, about his latest blog not being mentioned. Where's a humble King when you need one?

You didn't mention his uncanny ability to work a YouTube link into over 50% of his posts.

@Video_Game_King said:

Wannabe? WANNABE!? MY CLAIM TO THIS THRONE IS THE TRUEST THING YOU SHALL EVER ENCOUNTER! DO YOU KNOW WHAT I HAVE DONE FOR THE GLORIOUS MOON KINGDOM OF SENASTIA!? I RID IT OF THE SATAN CLAUS THREAT, BROUGHT FORTH GREAT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES, AND UNITED THE EIGHT LUNAR KINGDOMS INTO ONE! NONE SHALL QUESTION MY POWER AS LONG AS THIS CROWN RESTS UPON MY ROYAL HEAD! ALSO, WHERE IS MY LATEST BLOG!?

All that power, and his only weakness is a single DS game that shall remain nameless (*cough*) lest its mention cause this thread to derail horribly. :P

That being said, an excellent entry as usual, ZombiePie!

Thank you ever so much for including my blog on there :D

Congratulations to Video_Game_King, he writes a crazy amount of blog material on a regular basis, it's impressive stuff.

It occurred to me after reading this Spotlight that I could mention a list that I made a little while ago and hasn't been covered here before:  My top 9 colossi  (i.e. from SotC).  Then again you could sit on that until the Ico/SotC remastered collection comes out.

@Claude said:

The King is a community starlet and still bitches, quite loudly I might add, about his latest blog not being mentioned. Where's a humble King when you need one?

I predict the dawn of a new era? a Casual_Games_King one might say?

VGK is a baller. He can also have all that power, i dont give a damn what Kanye says

Official VGK thread?

Official VGK thread.

Is this the place where we bug him into finally getting a Formspring account once and for all? I really, really, really hope so, for reasons that I'm sure other Formspring users on here don't need to elaborate on.

Also, the complete lack of Spongebob videos so far bemuses me.

And now I bet I've up and jinxed things. Blimey.

Is this the place where we bug him into finally getting a Formspring account once and for all? I really, really, really hope so, for reasons that I'm sure other Formspring users on here don't need to elaborate on.

Thank you for including my video blog post onto the list. That's probably the one I've been most proud of, though I think my first take was better.

Wow!  I've been spotlighted twice in as many Spotlights! 
 
I am SO honored!

@DOOM2exe said:

TFL has been spotlighted. My work is complete.

Not before you beat my 4 wiki spotlights ;)

@DOOM2exe said:

TFL has been spotlighted. My work is complete.

Not before you beat my 4 wiki spotlights ;)

Pffft... Video_Game_King's measly 1000 completed games will soon be surpassed by my own list, and he knows it.

Glad to see Video_Game_King as the starlet!

All hail the King! ^^

I kind of wish I still had Sneak King.

@Video_Game_King: Would you really want a free copy of Sneak King? Because that's all that contest would have. Ten copies of Sneak King.

This is cool. Might check some stuff out then.

@Video_Game_King: Who would accept such a deal?!

I have this to contribute, also this if you think it's up to scratch.

Congrats everyone!

Thanks for putting my Trenched review on there. I'm all tingly.

Nothing for you this week, but next week might be a doozy.

Might as well make sure that it gets through this time: my blog :P.

A public service announcement for the next spotlight's inclusion.

My Mirror's Edge review, and my features on games that have been in development for a really long time.

The latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight is up now.