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The Community Spotlight - 07/05/2013

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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I am your host as always. RYAN DAVIS GOT MARRIED! If you haven't done so already wish him and his wife the best over here! Also...uhhh...there's a fan-fiction of Ryan's wedding already. Don't tell anyone that I directed you to it. http://www.klepekpower.com/ is a secret that keeps on giving with the power of Klepek. Finally a patch was recent submitted to the site related to the notification system. As part of the patch you have to go back to your settings and set them to your preference as they have been reset as a result of this patch. If you are still having issues with the notification or PM system report them over here.

Clip of the Week

Many of you are fans of TurboMan's Best of Quick Look video feature on YouTube. If you are check out the YouTube account TheBurlapLemur which has begun a different but similar video series known as the Bitesize Bomb. This series narrows down the best moments of every single Quick Look ever made and published on the site and here's the latest edition of the series:

Community Activities

  • Official Giant Bomb NCAA 14 PS3 Online Dynasty - Sign Up Over Here!

Wonderful Wikis

Good news everyone! We now have a complete library for the Famicom Disk System! That and a great biography of what the Famicom Disk System is in the first place. With Patrick starting his own Encyclopedia Bombasticas with Michael Jordan: Cahos in the Windy City read more about the game than you would ever want to know on its wiki page for the game. Finally learn more about LEGO Marvel Super Heroes.

Best of Blogs

Mento has created a two part blog series examining the development and gaming history of Monolith Studios. Similarly stubbleman continues his blog series examining the voice acting career or Karen Strassman. FLStyle has a preview of EVO 2013 and an itinerary of the games that are going to be there, whereas BlackLagoon has a list of all the big and notable games that are coming out for the Vita. Video_Game_King celebrated the Fourth of July with Amnesia and Splatterhouse 2. EpicSteve has another Amateur Bombastica for Godzilla: Save the Earth; Marino has another blog of his VHS tape recordings, but this time for E3 2003. BaconGames discusses why the HD collection of Pheonix Wright on iOS irked him. JJWeatherman shares what it was like building his own PC recently, and enns talks about how flabbergasted he is with the re-release of Final Fantasy XIV. Sunjammer pontificates on what the future of Naught Dog will be now that The Last of Us has been released. ComradeCrash talks about his early impressions of Project X Zone, and Gamer_152 blogged about his thoughts about what the next generation of consoles holds for Nintendo. PsEG had a set back with iRacing.com and talks about it on his latest blog. CornBREDX went back to The Neverhood and discusses why he still enjoyed playing it after all this time. Finally BillytheKid provides an update about his effort to defeat his gaming backlog and ArbitraryWater chastises you for trying to convince him to play Jade Empire.

Fantastic Forums

TepidShark has created a helpful table of the important gaming panels to keep an eye on for the San Diego Comic-Con. If you have played The Walking Dead: 400 Days talk about your choices and thoughts about the game. What have you purchased as part of the Xbox Games on Demand July Sale, or what does you gaming set up look like right now? Talk about it on the respective discussion threads! Finally, in light of the Motorbike and Ride to hell Quick Looks do you have a favorite Quick Look for a "bad" video game? Explain your pick on the thread!

Lovable Lists

The king of lists, Mento, has two different but highly creative gaming tabulations! One examines the games that feature hostile birds that you have to fight and the other lists the games that he would be willing to do his own Bombastica or Endurance Run for.

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The Community Spotlight - 06/28/2013

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Special Thanks to aurahack for the Banner!
Special Thanks to aurahack for the Banner!

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! This now marks the end of the first week that the site has not had Patrick in the office. On a happier note Rorie has started a "secret stream" of him playing Dark Souls on Twitch.tv, and you can catch a replay over here. Jeff would like for the entire community to be aware that Giant Bomb did not handout E3 2013 awards. If you see any publishers or developers claiming to have received E3 2013 awards from Giant Bomb report them to Jeff on Twitter on via PM. You may have noticed that notifications have been disabled. The system will be reinitialized on the site when certain bugs have been rectified.

Clip of the Week

The clips of the week are both sendoffs to Patrick is is now in Chicago. So thanks to @typographenia and @truthtellah and a very special thanks to Patrick. We love you man, and already miss you!

Community Activities

  • Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run - Help Raise Money for Child's Play Over Here!
  • Giant Bomb Community Animal Crossing: New Leaf Item & Fruit Trading Thread - Trade Stuff Here!

Wonderful Wikis

Other than Company of Heroes I never heard about any of these other wiki pages up until now! Luckily the recent work done on the Project X Zone, Zettai Zetsume Toshi 3/Disaster Report 3, and Varris Tethras all do a great job of explaining what the hell they are all about!

Best of Blogs

EpicSteve and charlie_victor_bravo have both made follow ups to their amateur Encyclopedia Bombasticas. Mento discusses the hell that Rhythm Heaven plummeted him into and also what the heck Gekisha Boy for the TurboGrafx is all about. Hamst3r has a song for you to listen to. ArbitraryWater has gone back to old PC games with a blog about his adventures with Neverwinter Nights 2. Video_Game_King also is up to his old tricks but for this weeks is all about video game adaptations of 90s era animes. Gamer_152 has blogged about why there's a bright side to Microsoft's' flip on their DRM policy. Marino continues to share his old VHS tapes of past E3s with a video showcase of the big games from E3 2002. PsEG played Laguna Seca on iRacing.com and talks about the plight that the racetrack has had on him. rasta_zergling champions Psychonauts' deconstructed level design and Billythekid knocks Arkham City off of his backlog list. FLStyle gives you an event summary of the upcoming FGC event CEO 2013. Finally thatpinguino continues to examine the protagonists of the modern Final Fantasy games and skrutop talks about the depiction of Pittsburgh in The Last of Us.

Fantastic Forums

Aurahack has created, as seen for this week's banner, the new poster for the Daily Dota video feature so check it out. Also Typographenia and Truthtella are the one that created the sendoff videos seen in the clip of the week. TheCheeto has a wonderful desktop wallpaper featuring Big Jeffrey and Roscoe "King of the Everglades." The NDA has lifted for the Final Fantasy XIV beta and you can join other users in discussing what its was like. Finally selfconfessedcynic is compiling every interview and behind the scenes video for The Last of Us and you can check out what he has thus far on his thread.

Lovable Lists

TheMastersDS has split up his games library and starts with all of the games from his childhood with reviews of each game provided. Photography and video games go hand in hand and Mento has a list of games with photographers as protagonists.

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The Community Spotlight - 06/21/2013

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Thanks for Everything Patrick! Best of Luck in Chicago.
Thanks for Everything Patrick! Best of Luck in Chicago.

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I am your host as always and this week everyone is recovering from the deluge of stuff from E3. Unfortunately this means that we say farewell to our good friend and amazing contributor Patrick Klepek. As it has already been mentioned he'll still be around as our official Chicago Correspondent, but he just wont be at the GameSpot offices. Unfortunately Patrick isn't the only person that we say farewell to this week. Engineer Thomas, @idbloc is also leaving us and you can wish him the best over here. On a brighter note there's a couple of site changes that have been launched! Lists have been re-designed, and there's a new notification system for everyone that misses the old Friend's Feed. Finally for those of you that have noticed that the site automatically scrolls you to the bottom of a forum topic understand that the issue has been located, but the engineers do not have a timeline for when the issue will be fixed.

(Anime) Clip of the Week

Yeah, this feature is quickly becoming the Giant Bomb x Anime clip of the week. Anyways, here's a mashup video that crosses Giant Bomb with the Attack on Titan theme song:

Community Activities

  • Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run for Child's Play - Help Raise Money for Charity Over Here!
  • Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn Official Giant Bomb Company - Join the Company as it Prepares for the Official Release Here!
  • Giant Bomb The Last of Us Online Clan - Hook Up with Other GB Users to Play Online Here!

Wonderful Wikis

In honor of Patrick he's going to be the top wiki article on the Spotlight for this week followed by his new home, Chicago. Shantae is coming out for the 3DS eshop and Luigi is getting his very own DLC this week.

Best of Blogs

Humanity has another video game fan poster featuring Jeff with this week's being The Last of Us. Stubbleman talks about the storied career of Karen Strassman. Video_game_King graces us with two blogs this week with one discussing eating sankes whereas the other guides us to our destiny using tarot cards. Mento has his most recent MS Paint webcomic and PsEG continues his dark journey with iRacing.com. Marino takes you on a trip down memory lane with clips of E3 2001. Chaser324 discusses why the Xbox One polcy reversal isn't a total victory for gamers, and Gamer_152 talks about the games from E3 he is most excited about. Bracknews wants you to help him on deciding which games he should knock off his backlog this summerand Ch3burashka gives you an update on his efforts to make a gaming PC. EpicSteve shares his take on the a recent controversy with PAX Australia and two amateur Encyclopedia Bombcasticas. Evercaptor explains why the stigmas related to gaming depress him. Brodehouse examines the science of The Last of Us whereas granderojo gives you his impressions of the game after having beaten it.

Fantastic Forums

The thread of the week goes to Tireyo643 whose Video Game Remix Jukebox gives you all fo the best remixes and remasters of video game music. The Video_Game_King asks you to talk about any video game habits that have become compulsions. If you have played The Last of Us to completion talk about your thoughts about the ending on the discussion thread. If you have bought any goodies from the GOG.com Summer Sale talk about them and other deal on the official discussion thread for the event.

Lovable Lists

Mento is back at editing lists and this week shares the thirty boss themes that you should give a listen to. I seem to recall there being someone else on this site that appears to be and expert video game boss themes, but that may just be me.

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The Community Spotlight - 06/14/2013 [E3 2013 Edition]

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Please Take the Time to Thank Everyone Involved in Making E3 2013 Special!
Please Take the Time to Thank Everyone Involved in Making E3 2013 Special!

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! As this week concludes E3 comes to and end and everyone can go back to living a life filled with mundane surprises instead of groundbreaking industry changing ones. However, let's give a hand to everyone involved in production and direction of all of the videos that entertain us this year! Especially after the theft of all of the staff's video equipment it was a significant undertaking to bring you the video entertainment we all enjoyed for this year. On that note special thanks to Danny O'Dwyer and GameSpot for providing Giant Bomb with their spare video kits, and Drew and Vinny for recording and processing hours of entertainment at the cost of their sanity. If case you have time to kill someone has posted Jeff's 6 hour plus recording of his drive to Los Angeles for E3 on YouTube. For those asking you will most likely have to go to Twitch.tv to view the video versions of the E3 Livestreams as an on site archive is unlikely, although the audio versions will be hosted on the site as podcasts. Patrick's Interview Dumptrunk has broken the top ten on iTune's podcast list, although a website named "GamingBlend seems to think that Patrick looks like Shia LaBeouf. Finlly here are the winning banners for our E3 Banner Contest:

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Clip of the Week

This one is over a week old but I just recently came across it. Give it a check if you want some Giant Bomb x Anime madness.

E3 Stuff Still Worth Looking Over

Community Activities

  • Giant Bomb Guild Wars 2 Guild Lincoln Force 50/50 Raffle - Help the Guild Raise Money Over Here!
  • The Animal Crossing New Leaf QR Code Thread - What Having you Been Doing with the Sables Sisters? Post Your Design Codes Here!
  • The Last of Us Private Online Matchmaking Thread - Join Fellow GB Users in Playing The Last of Us Online Here!
  • The Giant Bomb Uncharted 3 Hub - Read About the Recent Activities and Updates to the Hub Here!

Wonderful Wikis

Yeah I have a lot of wikis from games that were announced or showcased during E3. Check out the surprisingly detailed wiki pages for all of the consoles and video games that are not even out yet!

Best of Blogs

Hey there are a lot of blogs about people's different interpretations of the console and game announcements during E3 2013. You should read them all because they are all rational and reasonable takes on the future of gaming. See Giant Bomb chat, it is possible. Other non-E3 related blogs come from Video_Game_King who is playing obscure Japanese games as usual. HS21 wants you to help him in turning the always smiling Brad Muir into a meme, and Jan wants you to marvel at his ability to make Halo Spartans dance. Mento has started playing Vampire: The Masquerade and ComradeCrash has been playing State of Decay. Finally TwoLines discusses why Chrono Cross is a baffling masterpiece and Alaska_Gamer talks about Double Dragon Neon and Demon's Souls.

Fantastic Forums

The Last of Us is out and the community is a buzz about the game! Talk about what you like and dislike about the game in the respective forum topics. Are you in the mood for something more calming? If you have Animal Crossing New Leaf talk about your town on the discussion thread.

Lovable Lists

E3 2013...I have two lists from the community that had actual text to them and they are from Mento and Jensonb. Following them are Euricaeris with a list of his twenty favorite DS games, and TechHits who has a list of his five favorite Mega Man games.

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The Community Spotlight - 06/07/2013

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Congratulations to BeatSafari for Design the Winning Banner for the Konami Press Conference!
Congratulations to BeatSafari for Design the Winning Banner for the Konami Press Conference!

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I am your host as always, and this week we wait until the slog known as E3 hits us. Yup crazy to think that E3 2013 is upon on us. That said if you haven't done so already read over our guide to E3 2013 & You. As with every year please be mindful of duplicate threads and wiki pages when new games or game news is announced. Friend of the site Eric Pope has published some bullshit on the forums. Read all about his favorite drum frills, OH WAIT no you can't because he still hasn't finished his list.Finally if you haven't seen it yet Vinny has finally completed Bioforge! Wait in anticipation for his next old PC game video feature.

Clips of the Week

It seems as if every week at least one Giant Bomb user puts their video editing skills to good use to make a fun and entertaining video clip. As such I bring you the latest edition to the Community Spotlight, The Clip(s) of the Week! For our first entry we have Turboman showcasing the best moments of Backflips 'n Bioforge. For our second clip someone on YouTube showcases their flute playing talents by playing the melody from Bioforge:

Community Activities

  • Official DOTA 2 GiantBomb Tournament - Sign Up for the Tournament Over Here - Form Your Team Over Here!
  • Giant Bomb Marvel Heroes Community Guild - Join the Guild Over Here!
  • Giant Bomb DUST 514 Name Database - Post Your DUST 514 Name Here!
  • Giant Bomb Animal Crossing: New Leaf Friends Code Swapping Thread - Trade Friend Codes Here!

Wonderful Wikis

The because of the impending nature of E3 this Spotlight will showcase wonderful wikis for the new releases of this and next week. Read about why everyone is abuzz about The Last of Us. Read about fruit stacking and other new features in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Also,Gunpoint and Remember Me are the interesting smaller games that you learn about on the wiki. Finally check out the amazing work done on the Himiko, even though she probably never existed in real life.

Best of Blogs

We have fewer blogs this week, but that just means you have a better opportunity to read all of them, right? OH GOD JUST SAY YES! Anyways, as seen with our clip of the week Turboman has brought back his Best of Giant Bomb Quick Looks video feature, but this time has a showcase of all of the best moments from Vinny's adventures with Bioforge. Video_Game_King has a blog about the shooters, Steel Storm and Harmful Park. As an outsider looking in perfidioussin discusses what it was like going to the fighting game event UFGT9. PsEG continues to descended into the mad world of iRacing and shares his addiction with the "game" now with videos this week of his madness. Mento took the time to look back on all of the games he played as part of his May Madness blog series that he did not get to finish, and I make a guest appearance in his blog. isomeri pontificates how the Xbox One may utilize the iPhone's annualized hardware release. davedota provides his second guide to Dota 2, but this guide discusses how to properly lane and create balanced teams. Alaska_Gamer recently jumped on the Alan Wake Humble Bundle and has written a blog about franchise. Finally Lies shares you a personal blog about what he's been doing and why everything going to be alright for him, and you.

Fantastic Forums

As already mentioned please read Marino's E3 2013 & You message. The Star Trek Online community is hosting a trivia contest the you should feel free to participate in and win some stuff. If you plan on going to PAXAUS the Austarlian Giant Bomber community is organizing a community meet, drink, and greet. If you have been playing Remember Me and(or) Marvel Heroes share your impressions of those games on the discussion threads. Join the effort to create more stupid icons that you can copy and paste into the Giant Bomb live chat. Finally be your own Michael Patcher and share your "outrageous" predictions about the next generation of consoles and video games.

Lovable Lists

drath, who has created the lone notable list this week, is working on a list of every game that involves surviving in the wild as the main conceit.

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The Community Spotlight - 05/31/2013

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buzz_clik Continues to Amaze Us With His Artistry This Week!
buzz_clik Continues to Amaze Us With His Artistry This Week!

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! Good news to all of our Australian users! Giant Bomb will be represented in some way at PAX Australia this year! Are you ready for Giant Bomb to invade Australia? In other interesting staff news Vinny has set up a Tumblr account and is answering all of your video and fatherly questions over there. You can also ask him wildly inappropriate things, but it's up to him to answer them. Jeff was recently on an episode of This Week in Tech, featuring someone name Leo Laporte and talked about the Xbox One. Also Friday was @mattyftm's birthday! If you haven't yet wished him a Happy Birthday go ahead and do that! You might also want to ask him if he's done anything about the testicles on his face.

Also Special Thanks to Symptomz for Continuing his Pokemon a Day Art Challenge!
Also Special Thanks to Symptomz for Continuing his Pokemon a Day Art Challenge!

Community Activities

  • The 5th Annual E3 Banner Contest Challenge - Show Off Your Banner Making Skills Over Here!
  • GRID 2 PC Giant Bomb Community Steam List - Play With Other GB Users By Heading Over Here!

Wonderful Wikis

GRID 2 and Fuse are the big releases this week. Some good work has been done on the Eggerland/Lolo franchise page. Finally we see the return of awesome, but wacky concept pages this week with "Gender Exclusive Equipment," and "Sleeping Under the Covers," being added to the database this week.

Best of Blogs

As seen on the banner for this week buzz_clik has made an absolutely amazing BioForge "A Fork" fan-art. Mento proves that he's secretly a robot having published over four blogs this week ranging from his May Madness, Comic Comish, and TurboMento blog series. Video_Game_King also graces us with multiple blogs this week with one being incredibly Japanese, and the other...also featuring a game from Japan. ArbitraryWater went back to Baldur's Gate and also played Resident Evil: Revelations this week and shares his thoughts about both. dankempster wraps up the month of May with his latest Metal Gear May Madness blog series with an entry about Snake Eater. Music maestro Hamst3r has a remix of the Water World theme from Duke Nukem 3D. Having gone crazy PsEG discusses why he created an iRacing.com account and what it's been like so far. thatpinguino discusses the use of amnesia as a plot element in the Final Fantasy game franchise. LawGamer has another blog talking about copyright laws in the video game industry. Finally thesilentgod felt nostalgic and with the end of this generation of video games went back to the N64, and somejerk wants to remind you of when CES was the "big" video game trade show.

Fantastic Forums

Give symptomz a big congratulations for continuing his effort to draw every single Pokemon until the release of Pokemon X/Y. Also, if you can think of any notable examples of rap music mentioning or referencing video games report them on the Video Game x Rap Music Reporting Thread1 It's on like Donkey Kong, as Ice-Cube would put it.

Lovable Lists

lynxcanadensis is working on creating a list of games that can be completed without the use of weapons, and if you can think of any notable examples comment on the list. Helcheth on the otherhand has decided to create a list of games that can essentially be played "forever," either by multiplayer or game design.

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The Community Spotlight - 05/24/2013

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Special Thanks to Eidderf for This Work of Art!
Special Thanks to Eidderf for This Work of Art!

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I am your host as always, ZombiePie. Some Xbox stuff happened this week. Unless you have been living under a rock you probably know that the Xbox One has been revealed and announced. Well that and the community and staff have been in a perpetual buzz about the console. Prior to the Xbox One reveal Patrick announced that before he moves to Chicago he plans on doing one more Jar Time video, send him any questions you may have to his Comic Vine or Tumblr account. Other madness this week includes Jonny Moseley responding (postively might I add) to Ryan's joshing around about Jonny Moseley's Mad Trix. If you enjoyed the old Behind the Screened Door podcast Alex and Matt Rorie have started a new movie podcast for subscribers! If you were wondering why this is subscriber content or have any other questions about this new project head on over here. With that check out these two Bombcast based videos! One about alcohol based enemas and the other being another great Bombcast animated clip:

Oh, and check out giantbomb.net.

Community Activities

  • Giant Bomb Arts and Craft Competition - Compete and Win Some Awesome Stuff in EVE Online Over Here!
  • Giant Bomb Star Trek Online Space Neon Lobsters Guild - Learn About How you Can Be a Romulan and Join the Guild Here!

Wonderful Wikis

One more thing about the Xbox One. XONE is the official abbreviation of the Xbox One, and not XBONE while that is considered an alias for the platform. Please keep this in mind when editing the wiki. Oh hey the Shin Megami Tensei IV has an amazingly detailed wiki page! It's almost as if there's a significant Shin Megami Tensei sub-community on Giant Bomb...I wonder how and when that happened. What the heck is Word Realms?! Well read all about the game on its surprisingly detailed wiki page.

Best of Blogs

Send your comments and thanks to Edderf for providing the "Call Zobeck" banner for this week. ArbitraryWater went old school and contemporary this week with his blog about Baldur's Gate and Resident Evil: Revelations. Video_Game_King learnd how 2 spel with 2 edumacation gamz, and starts a brand spanking new picturelogue blog about Beauty and the Beast. Mento has officially gone mad as he has now gone four weeks of daily game blogs! granderojo had a smashing time with the Game of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings II and discusses why, whereas humanity implores you to play Dragon's Dogma. Oh and people talked about the Xbox One...lots of people. Jensonb, Blazehedgehog, and Gamer_152 (and likely others that I didn't catch!) hold the distinction of being able to share their thoughts and opinions about the Xbox One in a rational and calm manner. Check out what they had to say about the reveal. LawGamer provides the second episode to his video game copyright blog series, simultaneously dankempster shares the fourth episode of his Metal Gear May Madness blog series. Fobwashed has a handful of detailed reviews for soundcards and headsets, and FLStyle keeps you updated on the Fighting Game Community with an event list for UFGT9.

Fantastic Forums

LackingSaint is the one who provided the latest Bombcast animated clip as seen above send him your thanks and comments about the clip. BeachThunder points out that Vinny is getting incredibly close to finishing BioForge, and asks which DOS game you'd like to see him play next. Rorie wants you to talk about your favorite E3 demo. The Lincolncast wants YOUR questions for their next Giant Bomb Guild Wars 2 community podcast, The Lincolncast, with a special guest from ArenaNet. Finally, if you have been playing the latest Call of Juarez game discuss your impressions and thoughts about, any news about laddergoat?

Lovable Lists

Here's a PSA/PIF (freaking British people) about the list feature, the engineers estimate that in the next 2-3 weeks they plan on fixing the bug issues with large lists (i.e. not being able to edit some of your lists at all). With that aside jbrite shares his 10 favorite PS1 era RPGs and Emerald85 has started a list chronicling every single female ninja in video games.

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The Community Spotlight - 05/17/2013

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I Would Watch This Show...OH WAIT I ALREADY DO!
I Would Watch This Show...OH WAIT I ALREADY DO!

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! Even though we have officially hit the early part of the Summer Video Game Drought," there's plenty of stuff worth talking about.There's some massive news about Patrick if you haven't heard, he's moving back to Chicago. Luckily he'll still be our news guy, but for the foreseeable future the office and podcast room is going to be a little on the empty side. The other major news of the week is the recent hacking attacks made on the site. For all users that are concerned about your own account rest assured that we have no reason to believe that user information has been compromised. If you would like to read more about the attacks check out Rorie's piece about the situation over here. In happier news Rorie intends on bring back his old Ramblin' Rorie subscriber feature from his Screened days! You can ask him any questions you'd like him to answer on his Tumblr account (NOT Properly Petting Puppies!). It was Will Smith's birthday on Wednesday, if you forgot to wish him a happy birthday check out the second episode of the A Bunch of Dads podcast featuring Vinny, Dave Snider, Jeff Green, and Will Smith. Finally...I have some video madness to share with you. What happens when you mix Game Room Quick Looks with anime? Well here you go:

Finally check out this VGCW inspired madness featuring a "fake" Jeff Gerstmann fighting Kanji in WWE'13

Community Activities

  • Community Steam Trading Card Thread for Trading Trading Cards - If You Want to Trade Any of Your Coupons or Trading Cards for Something Different Head on Over Here!
  • DUST 514 Giant Bomb Community Corp. - Join the Community Corp Over Here!

Wonderful Wikis

Prison Architect , DUST 514, and Sanctum 2 are the notable recent releases for this week and you can learn more about all of them on our wiki pages for those games. Finally some great work was recently done on the Fi Legend of Zelda character page worth marveling over.

Best of Blogs

The blog of the week for this week comes from silentz0r who provided the Hanna-Barbera themed staff fanart as seen on the banner for this week. Hamst3r has a couple of Let's Plays for you to watch, and Video_Game_King finished Final Fantasy XIII-2 as well as Iron Commando. Lawgamer discusses the status of copyright laws in the video game industry, simultaneously BlazeHedgehog extrapolates upon why he thinks Nintendo's new stance on Let's Plays isn't that big of a deal. Blazehedgehog also blogged about how the Twict.tv app on 360 is functional but mediocre, whereas Mento continues his daily May Madness blog series with a smattering of games both new and old. dantey got another opportunity to interview Drew, but this time his interview is more "Icelandic." ArbitratyWater kicked off a bunch of games from his gaming bucket-list and wrote about all of them, and Mordeaniischaos shares how mods made him fall back into Skyrim after all these months since its release. Atmonauti blogs about how video game potentially cause us to dehumanize human life, whereas EpicSteve shares a lot of the ways the United States military is using video games. Finally Yummylee bought Lost Planet 2 for five pounds and stand up for that purchase on his blog.

Fantastic Forums

EVE and Steam have dominated the discussion threads this week. The Giant Bomb EVE Corp. has created recruitment videos featuring the crazy nonsense that they have been up to. We also have a tips and tricks thread for anyone playing DUST 514. What do you think of the real money hat marketplace for TF2 or the Steam Trading Card system? If you have any thoughts or impressions of either share them on the threads. If you are playing the Bladewolf DLC for Metal gear Rising detail what you think of it, and share any advice you may have for new players for Prison Architect.

User Created Lists

The only list that we have for this week comes from GalacticGravy who has taken up the almost insurmountable task of annotating every single game that has taken place on a space ship, space station, or star bases.

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The Community Spotlight - 05/10/2013

By ZombiePie 16 Comments

These are the
These are the "Top Men" of Giant Bomb!

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community, and I'm your host as always! It's a slow week in terms of games but there's plenty of video content to enjoy this week. You got three Bombasticas, plenty of Quick Looks, Icelandic text and video content, and plenty of other great stuff to mull over. That said if you were on the site at any point earlier in the week you may have had issues with editing the wiki or posting on the site. Following that there were issues with the moderation tools that involved users getting necessarily banned without warning. If you ever have these issues never hesitate to attempt to contact @rorie our new Community Manager, he'll get to the bottom of anything now. At least that's what I have been told they are paying for...jeez I hope they are paying him. Speaking of Rorie, he may be on the Guinness Book of World Records as being the first person to write a blog about unemployment with pictures of puppies in it. Also great work Giant Bomb Community in your input on where the Mega Man series should go next:

Yeah.......
Yeah.......

Community Activities

  • Persona 4 Arena Xbox/PS3 Friends list (Europe Edition) - Join the Community European Friendlist Over Here!
  • Monaco XBLA Co-Op List - Play Monaco via XBLA With Other Users By Heading Over Here!

Wonderful Wikis

It was a week of almost nothing in terms video games...So for the wonderful wikis let's look at the two of the three subjects of Bombasticas this week! So if you want to learn more about Life Force or Burnout 2 check out our wiki pages for those games! Also, soem great work was recently done on the wiki page for Mini Motor Racing EVO.

Best of Blogs

Mento is a blogging machine this week as he continues his Mento May Madness providing a blog about a different game every day. Check them all out if you have the time. However that not the only notable blogging series this week. Dankempster has started his journey through every single Metal Gear game with Metal Gear on the NES. RJPelonia has started a blog series examining games of this generation that were cancelled and begins with Eyedentify. Terramantis contemplates on what the next big art style will be for the next generation by examining the history of art. Video_Game_King finally got around to Psychonauts and talks about that and Psycho Fox, and has an update on his screenshot journey through Persona 3. Euphorio is a long standing League of Legends player and talks about how Dota 2 is different and similar to LoL. Atmonauti details why he's started to warm up to Defiance after playing it for an entire month now. Demoskinos rediscovered why Dragon's Dogma was a great game with the release of Dark Arisen. Colorwind has already decided what he thinks his GoTY list will be and Daneian play through Mother 3 with the announcement of Earthbound coming to the WiiU. GERALTITUDE has broken down why you should be incredibly skeptical about giving Dennis Dyack your money and SPENCE_5060 gives you an update on the games he played this month. Finally thatpinguino wrote an essay about Telltale's The Walking Dead that he has re-posted for you to read over and comment on.

Fantastic Forums

The "Can't Remember the Name of This Game" Thread is back in action! If there are any games that you have on the tip of your mind, but have forgotten the name to head on over there! Do you have a favorite quote from Jeff? If so share it on the Jeff Quote thread. Do you have any games you plan on completing during the summer, dare I say Summer game jams? Talk about them on the summer gaming discussion thread. Finally are there any games you wished were not on your achievement history? Explain which games you could delete from your history forever on the thread discussing your most regrettable game achievement.

Lovable Lists

Probablytuna is playing his first Fire Emblem game with Awakening, and given you a list of his casualty list as he progresses through the game, so read all about the his mistakes on his list! Angouri finally bought a PlayStation Vita and lists the games he has played on it.

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