Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Community Spotlight! $25,976.44. That's how much money the entire Giant Bomb ExtraLife group raised. Alexis and Drew alone raised $17,439. I'd like to take the time to thank Matt Pascual for organizing the ExtraLife group and encouraging Alexis and Drew for participating in the event. Also great work to everyone else who participated and to everyone who donated to make this possible. No news on the archive for the Halo Marathon yet though. For those that don't know Will Smith and Norman Chan are holding their yearly Octoberkast to raise money for Child's Play this weekend! Expect various guest appearances by Giant Bomb staff and friends for those that plan on watching it. If you were curious to know what Patrick's thought are about G4 ending its game reviews and news direction, as someone who worked at G4, you can read about them over here. With that let's get on with the latest edition of the Community Spotlight!
Community Activities and Game Nights
- The Giant Bomb Forza Horizon Car Club and Race Night - Learn How to Get Invites to Forza Horizon Race Nights Over Here!
- Giant Bomb Persona 4 Arena Tournament #4 (PS3) - All Set for October 27-28 - Sign Up Over Here!
- Giant Bomb Persona 4 PS3 Arena Team Tournament #2 - Set for October 27-28 - Sign Up With a Partner Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Are you ready to spend another $1,000 on Spyro theme figurines? Even if you are not be like Jeff and read about all the new stuff that's in Skylanders Giants. Hotline Miami is getting alot of positive buzz and if you don't know why check out the wiki to see why it's a bunch of unadulterated violent fun. The latest edition of the Medal of Honor franchise is ou and like Call of Duty it has a wiki page filled to the brim with information on guns. If you have never heard of A Game of Dwarves then check out the surprisingly detailed wiki page for the game as a crash course lesson on the game. Finally Skulls of the Shogun is out this week and you can read up on why it's a downaloadable title worth your attention.Best of Blogs
User Phatmac decided to finally play Resident Evil 4 for the first time and discusses what has and has not aged very well, on the flip-side Daneian wrote a blog that described how Resident Evil 4 has a perfect "silent tutorial" that should be borrowed from for other games. JeanLuc shows off his fan-made poster for Gaige from Borderlands 2 that you all can check out and are encourage to provide criticism for. Blogging menace Video_Game_King wrote a blog about his experiences and thoughts on Devil may Cry 4 and Super Mario 64 DS, whereas MooseyMcMan explains his fascination and frustrations with Tokyo Jungle as well as his time with Burnout Paradise. FLStyle gives you a comprehensive update on the Fighting Game Community with a blog about the 2012 Canada Cup. Mento, inspired by his enjoyment of Dishonored, wrote a blog about games with stealth mechanics despite not really liking stealth games, whereas Apathylad wrote about various iOS games that he played and which ones he recommend you play if you have an iOS platform. Pixel art master Fobwashed discusses two different styles of pixel art and want you to talk about which one you prefer, on decision making morecowbell24 details why he prefers Demon's Souls to Dark Souls on his latest blog. Oni decided to go back to Diablo III and beat it on Inferno difficulty and extrapolates on how he did it, wemibelec90 also decided to go back to a game with Persona 4 Arena in his attempt to play a fighting game online competitively. Sparky_Buzzsaw had a very DLC week with Dawngaurd and the Mechromancer in Borderlands 2. MajorMitch gives you a gaming update related to the fourth episode of The Walking Dead and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. dankempster went back to his backlog and fooled around with GTA: Vice City, FIFA 12, and a slew of JRPGs which he talks about on his blog this week. Did you know that Jeff Goldblum was in an FMV game? Well check out BlazeHedgehog's blog to see what it looks like! F1000003 is back to his effort to play all of the video games with his blog about Everything or Nothing and AdzPearson discusses his time with Yakuza 4.- Time Travelin' Flashback Diaries: Resident Evil 4 (By: Phatmac)
- Made a Gaige Poster for Fun. Looking for Input (By: JeanLuc)
- Nothing Can Stop My Ego. NOTHING! (By: Video_Game_King)
- Tokyo Jungle: A Game of Love, Hate, and ANGER! (By: MooseyMcMan)
- Canada Cup 2012 (26-28 Oct) Preview and TONS of FGC News! (By: FLStyle)
- Deriding and Abiding Hiding (By: Mento)
- ApathyLad's App-athy Reviews! (By: Apathylad)
- Regular or Exaggerated Proportions for Pixel Characters? (By: Fobwashed)
- Demon's Souls and Dark Souls (By: morecowbell24)
- Revisiting Diablo 3 (By: Oni)
- My Quest to Finally Play A Fighting Game Online - Chapter 2 (By: wemibelec90)
- Sparky's Update - Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Mechromancy (By: Sparky_Buzzsaw)
- A Little, More Often #3 (By: dankempster)
- Weekly Roundup 10/21/2012 (By: MajorMitch)
- The Vampire Jeff Goldblum PC Adventure Game (By: BlazeHedgehog)
- Acing the Test - Resident Evil 4's Silent Tutorial (By: Daneian)
- Playing All the Video Games - Part 000006 (By: F1000003)
- Adz Plays...Yakuza 4 (By: AdzPearson)
Fantastic Forums
If you are playing Forza Horizon post picture of your cars and vinyls to impress the rest of the community on the official screenshot thread for the game. If you are playing Zero Escape instead, discuss the story and branching decisions in the game as well as provide tips and trick for the puzzles on the Zero Escape story/puzzle discussion thread. Has your "China Don't Care" or "Fuck Ryan Davis" shirt ship yet? If so post pictures of you wearing your shirts, one of the few times when you can wear them without fear of being attacked, to show off how they look. Microsoft is releasing a lot of stuff this week so talk about your impressions of Windows 8 or the latest edition of the Xbox Dashboard if you have any strong opinions about either. With Halloween coming soon are any of you dressing up? If so talk about your plans and remember to post pictures on the Halloween costume thread. Finally participate on the discussion of the year...does Brad look better with or without a beard?- Show Off Your Forza: Horizon Whip! Forza Horizon Screenshot Thread (By: Demoskinos)
- Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward Story/Puzzle Discussion Thread (By: FluxWaveZ)
- "Yay My (China Don't Care/Fuck Ryan Davis) Shirts Finally Came" The Thread (By: Linkster7)
- Windows 8 First Impressions (By: Metric_Outlaw)
- Impressions of the New New New Xbox Experience? (By: JasonR86)
- Halloween Costumes, What Are Your Plans? (By: Inkerman)
- Do You Prefer Brad Shoemaker Bearded or Beardless? (By: JSwan13)
Lovable Lists
Mento is getting into the spooky mood with a list of games you could play for a horror game marathon. RetroHelix85 has created a list of every Quick Look for a game show game with links to the Quick Looks included.User Review
- EpicSteve's user review of Medal of Honor: Warfighter
- bcbowes's user review of Cook, Serve, Delicious!
- Haruko's user review of Code Princess
- Mento'suser review of Dishonored
- Apocralyptic's user review of XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Vincenzo's user review of World of Warcraft: Mists of Panderia
- Herzalot's user review of Dark Souls
- Domstercool's user review of Rainbow Moon
- TheSilentGod's user review of Asura's Wrath
- Gamer_152's user review of Bulletstorm
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