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I know this has been suggested before, but with the new "Following" user format, I figure it's a good time to suggest this again. When selecting "Followed Blogs" to show the blogs of people we follow, instead of showing the blog posts themselves in their entirety, I think the option to show them as a list format (much like the list of users we follow) would be great. It would help to find which blogs interest us right off the bat by their title (and maybe a sentence or two from the beginning of the post underneath the title?), plus it will show more blog posts on one page without the need to click through multiple pages.
 
Anyway, keep up the good work guys!

Make a all the non trailer videos/gameplay into a Video Podcast with an RSS feed and everything.

Not sure if it's already been suggested, but I'd love to be able to add Achievements to Lists. I'm requesting this because I noticed there's an Add to List button on every Achievement's page, but it doesn't add the Achievement itself to the list, only the game. I was going to make a list of all the Achievements I've earned that I'm proud to have, but that's not currently possible. I'm not sure how difficult this would be for the duders upstairs to code, but if you don't ask, you don't get, and I figured it'd be worth asking. 
 
So yeah, adding individual Achievements to Lists. Bam!

I miss BoG and his awesome thread titles.  :(

Genre exclusive threads like RPG FPS and  Fighting game only threads.

Hello Giant Bomb I hope you are reading this, this is just an idea that hit me.  I was reading an article in a magazine recently and noticed how my eye was drawn to certain quotes that stood out on the page and drew me into the article (this is their purpose, of course, and we have all been here at some point or another); the connections were made.  After a little searching on the web I found out the proper name of this device is called a " pull-quote," Giant Bomb could benefit from pull-quotes.  This simple device is eye catching and would help with generating increased interest in user reviews, blogs, and staff news articles.
 
If done to fit the formatting of GBs layout I am positive this could be used effectively.  Perhaps a character limit would need to be enforced or something to prevent overuse...  
 
A lot of longer reviews or blog posts are most certainly overlooked as most users do not want to read a novel if they have no interest, but with pull-quotes sticking out front-and-center it would draw their eye and if the quote interests the reader, they will likely read more of the article than they would have otherwise due to the interest the quote has created.
 
This form of quoting is different than regular quotes we are used to on the forums.  A pull-quote would work much like images do in that they would be off to the left or right of the article and be eye catching, as well as help with the "flow" of the article and its "readability," by breaking up a wall of text.
 
tl;dr - Pull-quotes would be used to catch a reader's eye and pull them into an article.  They work differently than the normal quote box we are used to seeing in the forums in terms of both form and function.

Find a way to get that damn PS3 Trophy system working again on Giantbomb. Facebook is about to get there's from what I heard or it's still a rumor.

@Alphiehyr said:

" Find a way to get that damn PS3 Trophy system working again on Giantbomb. Facebook is about to get there's from what I heard or it's still a rumor. "

The problem wasn't on Giant Bomb's end, Sony dropped support for the Trophy data. Details explained within this thread. :)

Might as well "bump" this for a suggestion: a special image insert feature for reviews that allows you to go to the gallery of the game you're reviewing. It just seems unnecessarily indirect to search for the game I'm reviewing just to get some pictures for that review.

I really like the new home page but I have a small suggestion. It would be nice to have navigation arrows beside the reviews pane (just like the articles pane right above it). There are a lot of recent games so it would be useful to see more than six.