Was gone for 3 months...Did I miss anything worthwhile?

So my summer "vacation" is almost at an end so soon I'll be back to sanity. Just wanted to know if there was anything worth while that I might have missed. Just to give you an indication, the last thing I checked here was the E3 podcasts.  
 
Thanks for your input. 

You missed me so much!

Mordecai & Rigby! Well, I guess you missed that Playstation Network came back online,  few trailers for Uncharted 3, E3, Gamescom, all that...

You missed pretty much nothing. Gaming is fucking dead right now. Nothing is coming out.

Not too many games, that's for sure. The Xbox Live Summer of Arcade happened but you can see that for yourself, it's all been pretty well received.

Around here, the Farmville series of videos have been pretty entertaining (although probably not if you choose to watch them all at once) and the interns have been making some cool video content which you can check out in the side bar.

I have no idea who you are, but you didn't miss anything.

You missed this

the world ended and everyone died

@Mordukai: What's up? Hope you've been well. Check this page out for some cool stuff.

http://www.giantbomb.com/community/

Other than that, not much has been going on.

@Mordukai: Did you march drum corps too?

Nah man its been a slow burn but SHIT IS ABOUT TO GO DOWN so buckle up.

You mean gamingwise or just Giantbomb stuff?

The former:

EA bought Popcap

EA is fighting it out with Steam

TF2 went free to play

Battlefield 3 is still pretty

Probably some other stuff I missed

The latter:

Another Big Live Live Show is happening

Bastion came out

Happy Hour will now be monthly

Some subscription benefit reworkings

The prolonged absence of Jeff Gerstmann

Once again probably some other stuff

@Blackout62 said:

The prolonged absence of Jeff Gerstmann

Your talking about the few weeks he was gone already right? I had to stop 4 hours into the stream and missed the good part of the member discussion and if Jeff is leaving I will weep myself to sleep tonight.

yes, jeff went back to gamespot....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
i'm kidding
 
nothing really worthwhile to talk about. a few trailers but that's about it.

You missed Bastion, now go play it.

You missed pretty much nothing. Gaming is fucking dead right now. Nothing is coming out.

still w8ing for ambassador games  
 
lol

We are now a site dedicated to farmville.

Brad is leaving.

Not too many games, that's for sure. The Xbox Live Summer of Arcade happened but you can see that for yourself, it's all been pretty well received.

Cool Baby got drunk and told a bunch of racist jokes. Everyone is more or less shunning him now, except for Vinny.

Jerry Rice and Nitus' Dog Football

@PeasantAbuse said:

Brad is leaving.

We really gonna do this again?

@PeasantAbuse said:

Brad is leaving.

We really gonna do this again?

@PeasantAbuse said:

@Swoxx said:

@PeasantAbuse said:

Brad is leaving.

We really gonna do this again?

Always

All right.

Anyway yeah, it really sucks to see brad go :/

Hitman was banned.

That's pretty much it.

Hitman was banned.

That's pretty much it.

Is there a newsletter I'm missing? How do people find out about bans and stuff?

@RockmanBionics: Hitman was going apeshit in the giantbomb steam group at least

An all day SNES marathon with the GB crew just happened.

Jesus got banned for being reptheweeddawg420 or something.

Intern Steve turned Heel.

Hitman is gone.

Bastion came out.
London stuff happened.
HuK joined EG.  
Your girlfriend is pregnant.

Jesus got banned for being reptheweeddawg420 or something.

Shadows of the Damned is pretty cool!

@EVO said:

@Brendan said:

Not too many games, that's for sure. The Xbox Live Summer of Arcade happened but you can see that for yourself, it's all been pretty well received.

Really? Excluding the Summer of Arcade, there was Child of Eden, Dirt 3, Duke Nukem, Infamous 2 and Shadows of the Damned. I was gone for only 2 months and I got a shit load of games to catch up on.

Child of Eden is very subject to taste, and personally I would call you crazy if you thought that not playing DNF was "missing something". Infamous 2 and Shadows of the Damned are both pretty good though so I'll give you that.

@CookieMonster said:

Jesus got banned for being reptheweeddawg420 or something.

That's both hilarious and depressing.

@Mordukai: /shrug- I started playing WoW again to save cash, and haven't really been around much myself.

You missed 3 months of drooling over Battlefield 3. That's about all there is for gaming news.