Game Nights and Activities
- Giant Bomb Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Community 16 Person Server Goes LIVE August 21st - Get the Details Here!
- Giant Bomb Guild Roster/Registry - Release Edition- Get Ready for the Launch of Guild Wars 2 by Joining the Community Guild Register Here!
Wonderful Wikis
as Summer of Arcade 2012 comes to a close check out the wiki page for what many are considering to be the highlight of the entire showcase, Dust: An Elysian Tail. Also with some big release this week there are some wiki pages for new games worth checking out. The Sleeping Dogs wiki details the odd and trouble path the the game took to get released. The Darksiders II wiki gives you a brief story update as well as an item break down. With The Last Story finally coming out in the United States check out what all the excitement is about on our wiki page for teh game. Finally the Labrys and Armored Core wiki pages take the cake for most detailed and massive contributions the last week.- Dust: An Elysian Tail
- Sleeping Dogs
- Darksiders II
- The Last Story
- Labrys
- Armored Core
- Guilty Crown: Lost Christmas
- Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Best of Blogs
As big releases start to trickle out the Giant Bomb users have been blogging away. Sackmanjones discuss his first ten hours with Sleeping Dogs and why he thinks is an enjoyable game so far. User yeah_write talks about how users that are making a big deal over "furies" when it comes to Dust: An Elysian Tail should just chill out and play the game. Video_Game_King is turning Japanese with his blog about Nazo no Murasamejo and Elebits while takashichea has created a blog showcasing the most prominent members of Giant Bomb's Fire Emblem sub-community. DuskVamp gives you an update with her romantic adventures with Wrighteous86 at Chicago. MMMman on the other descends into the dark world of playing video game after drinking heavily and details his misadventures on his latest blog. Metal_Gear_Sunny has started Persona 3 FES and details his progress with the game as well as his thoughts. Seppli makes a point about how gamertags make multiplayer in video games hard to take serious. With PAX Prime coming up Marino has re-constructed his PAX survival guide for all of those who plan on going to the event. ArbitraryWater is back to his old tricks in playing old games and blogged about Conker's Bad Fur Day this time while user Grand pontificates upon the evolution of MMos and what impact that has had on single player experiences in MMOs. Hamst3r has started a new Let's Play series, this time for ZOMBIES by indie developer Bignic. hsvlad showcases his photography in non-photo specific games while eccentrix continues to tackle his Steam backlog with a blog about both 18 Wheels of Steel games. Yummylee compares and contrasts the multiplayer in Gears of War 3 to Uncharted 3 and list the positives and negatives of both. Mento shows off three games that surprised him while Fobwashed surprises with his wonderful Mega Man x Giant Bomb fan art.- Tales from Norrath: You Are Currently Bound in The Plane of Fear (By: Marino)
- Wei Shen is a Dangerous Man. The First 10 Hours of Sleeping Dogs (By: Sackmanjones)
- The Dust Dissonance (By: yeah_write)
- The Most Japanese Blog I've Posted in a While (By: Video_Game_King)
- Fire Emblem Wiki Project: Meet the Fire Emblem Community (By: takashichea)
- Really Bad Roulette: August 15, 2012 (By: RecSpec)
- An American Duder and British Duderette in Chicago! Part 1 (By: DuskVamp)
- The Agony of Victory: Drinking Heavily and Playing Games (By: MMMman)
- Blog: My Journey Into Persona 3 Thus Far (By: Metal_Gear_Sunny)
- Obstructive HUD Elements Like Omnipresent Nametags in Multiplayer (By: Seppli)
- Marino's PAX Guide v2.5 (By: Marino)
- I Play Old Games and Perhaps Even Write About Them (Conker's BFD) (By: ArbitraryWater)
- The Solo Player: The Current State of MMO's - Pt.1 (By: Grand)
- The Darkness, Cheshire Cats and Two Pre Orders. (By: TaliciaDragonsong)
- Hamst3r Playes ZOMBIES. A Game by Bignic (By: Hamst3r)
- In-Game Photography (By: hsvlad)
- Dreams, Screams and Sea Breams (By: Mento)
- Confessions of a Steam Addict 4: Keep On Truckin' (By: eccentrix)
- Multiplayer: Gears of War 3 vs Uncharted 3! (By: Yummylee)
- Playstation All-Stars: How Mechanics Define Games Within a Genre (By: StarvingGamer)
- Mega Man Inspired Bombers (By: Fobwashed)
- KILL SWITCH (By: TrashMustache)
Fantastic Forums
A great deal of applause should be given to GB user madreisz for making a custom search engine for the Bombcast. That's right you now search for any Bombcasts you are interested in re-experiencing using his tool. The site keeps up with last week in maintain our Persona levels with Irvandus detailing his efforts to re-create Inaba from Persona 4 in Minecraft and you can check out his progress thus far on his thread. Icemo on the other hand has some Persona 4 Arena wallpaper for you to check out and use. Finally we have two thread for showing of the wacky things you have created and done in Kerbal Space Program.- My Simple Bombcast Navigator (By: madreisz)
- "Inaba" Minecraft Project (By: Irvandus)
- Grab Some Persona 4 Arena Wallpapers I Made (By: Icemo)
- Kerbal Space Pictures (By: clush)
- Share Your Kerbal Space Program Ships (By: Mikemcn)
Lovable Lists
The medley of lists this week range from the personal to the humorous. GB user foxonfire has created a list of all of his significant gaming milestones from 1990 to 2000. Mento has written a hotly sarcastic list of him reconsidering his dislike for various water related game concepts and characters. StorFoxA has created a list of Indie game that you might want to keep on your radar when they come out.- Milestones 1990-2000 (By: foxonfire)
- Life is the Bubbles (By: Mento)
- Indie Game Watch List (By: StarFoxA)
Useful User Review
- JJRage's user review of Sleeping Dogs
- JTB123'suser review of Dust: An Elysian Tail
- TrueEnglishGent's user review of Symphony
- Apathylad's user review of Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir
- Phatmac's user review of Persona 4 Arena
- WJist's user review of Persona 4 Arena
- Count_Zero's user review of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
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