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Added by snide on Nov. 14, 2008 36 comments

Another big week for games as we saw the boards aflutter over a review week that saw the PS3 trying to take down the 360's Gears 2 swagger. Apparently there's some gaming to be done and despite a nasty trivia habit, you had some time to add some reviews of your own. On the news front we had a good chuckle at the ESRB's expense, learned some hard facts about load times on the upcoming New Xbox Experience, and learned the tricks of the trade behind sounding like Daft Punk whilst lounging in World of War lobbies. Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments.

The Community is STILL a Threat to our Job Security

Electrixx witnesses the death of Jeff.
A bunch of people convince us to change our rating system to include stars within stars.
BigManForHire exchanged his lower jaw for a collector's edition of Wrath of the Lich King.
Joseppie blogs about that other Horde with some impressions on Gears 2.
Lies blogged about the Giant Bomb store a full 24 hours before it was official. The punk.
PapaLazarou is tired of Call of Duty's latest offering. Peep his 3-star review.
Classic review of the week goes to WiFi Pirate for his Super Metroid comments.
TeamHOLT put up a skills guide for Fallout 3. Steve Holt reference?
Hamz wins the epic blog of the week award for his perspective on being a mod on Giant Bomb since launch.
Everyone's favorite sheriff, MB, shows up on this week's Bomb Should Have a Face.
Alpha1 wants to see the Shaggin' Waggin' included in the next Burnout DLC.
Developer Coonce steals away a link to point out an actual user of the site by forcing me to link to Hampster on a Piano as the Off-Topic post of the week. He launched trivia this week. So it's OK... this time.

Reviews

game	platform	reviewed by
Mirror's Edge Review	X360	Ryan Davis Nov. 12, 2008
Call of Duty: World at War Review	PS3, X360	Jeff Gerstmann Nov. 11, 2008
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift Review	PS3	Ryan Davis Nov. 10, 2008
Resistance 2 Review	PS3	Vinny Caravella Nov. 10, 2008

News

	Games for Windows - Live Gets Reformatted, Rebooted Like so many other Windows products, Games for Windows - Live wasn't perfect in its first incarnation. Added by Ryan on Nov. 13, 2008.
	Behind the Call of Duty Talk Box Video Whether you're into Daft Punk or you have a stack of old Zapp tapes, surely you can appreciate this. Added by Jeff on Nov. 13, 2008.
	ESRB Makes Games Sound Awesome New rating summaries help parents keep messed-up games away from kids, help me find messed-up games to play. Added by Jeff on Nov. 12, 2008.
	X360 Game Installs: The Hard Numbers Want specifics on how installing your games to the 360 hard drive will affect load times? Eurogamer is dropping that particular knowledge. Added by Brad on Nov. 11, 2008.
	Hands-On With BioShock PS3's Challenge Rooms Find out more about what sort of gameplay your $10 will get you in this three-level pack coming on November 20th. Added by Brad on Nov. 10, 2008.

Filed under : Mirror's Edge, Resistance 2, Call of Duty: World at War, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift

36 Comments

albedos_shadow is online
on Nov. 14, 2008

STEVE HOLT!

elko84
on Nov. 14, 2008

Cool summary I like it.

MasterSplinter
on Nov. 14, 2008

Coonce won this week's Bomb Drop with Hamster on a Piano.

daniel_beck_90
on Nov. 14, 2008

what a wonderful week !!!
Snide , you are a fine one

Kohe321
on Nov. 14, 2008

Good summary. An awesome week, no doubt!

LordAndrew
on Nov. 14, 2008

Stars should have a face.

RHCPfan24
on Nov. 14, 2008

I love this community feature. Maybe I should post something and get featured. And, yeah, the first thing I thought when i saw TeamHOLT was STEVE HOLT!

How do you expect me to type a comment in this $300 Banana suit?! COME ON!

albedos_shadow is online
on Nov. 14, 2008

STEVE HOLT!

Stevokenevo
on Nov. 14, 2008

thanks for adding this, i would never have seen the 'stars within stars' forum and would not have spent the last 5 minutes laughing at the crudity of uncensored and partially censored star nakedness!! glorious.

OmegaPirate
on Nov. 14, 2008

this is a nice feature snide :D

Would be nice to get this regularly as a 'best of the bomb' feature :) nice roundup !!!

MattyFTM
on Nov. 14, 2008

This is why I love giant bomb, on most other sites that stars within stars post would have been completely dismissed as spam, but you guys see the humour and entertainment and embrace it and add it to the friday bomb drop.

tokyochicken
on Nov. 14, 2008

This blog contains hamsters on pianos, awesome so awesome.

Media_Master
on Nov. 14, 2008

Me like

LiquidPrince is online
on Nov. 14, 2008

Busy week.

AlexMarra
on Nov. 14, 2008

Great new feature Snide - very informative.

John
on Nov. 14, 2008

Please don't change the review way. I like it. It's simple, and easy to understand.

jakob187
on Nov. 14, 2008

Sad to see that Blinck's X-mas Big Daddy picture didn't make it into the Bomb Drop this week. = (

Alpha1
on Nov. 14, 2008

Never thought my little blog would be mentioned on the Friday Bomb Drop thanks Snide

lordofultima
on Nov. 14, 2008

Peter Sellers strikes again!

Snail
on Nov. 14, 2008

Awesome sum up.

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