Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! Lets get right into the big news of the week and that's the announcement that Dave is unfortunately no longer a member of the Giant Bomb team. Wish your farewells and best wishes to Dave on his goodbye thread, and join the community inchanging your avatar to hardcore Dave as a final "thank you" for all that he has done for the site. You can expect that he'll be back to guest in videos from time to time, including the inevitable video conclusion of Blade Runner, but from now on he's visiting the site and forums as a guest and not an employee. This news coincides with the announcement that Matthew Rorie will take up Dave's duties as "Product Manager" of Giant Bomb. Wish Rorie the best and share your word of encouragement over here if you haven't done so already. With that let's start a new era of good feelings the only way I know...staff fan-art:
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Community Activities
GRID 2 PC Racers Unite! (Steam Friends List) - Post Your ID to Play With Other Users Online Over Here!
Giant Bomb Community StarCraft: Heart of the Swarm Tournament #2 - Set for April 27th - Get the Details and Sign Up Over Here!
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Pawn Recruitment Thread - Trade Pawns with Other Users Over Here!
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine Steam Co-Op Thread - Post Your Steam ID to Play Monaco Online Over Here!
Beat your Backlog Competition - Compete with Other Giant Bomb Users to See is the Best in Completing Games on their Backlog List Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Learn all about the characters and mechanics in Don't Starve and Poker Night 2, which are the big releases this week. Finally love it (yes I said "it") or hate it Giant Bomb has a surprisingly detailed wiki page for Yoshi, much to Ryan's chagrin, and a great wiki page for Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, much to Jeff's chagrin.
If you are in the mod for some video entertainment check out RJPelonia's video compiling all of the intros for the Vinny/Jeff Deadly Premonition Endurance Run. If however you want to view the stuff of nightmares check out Supernormalstep's composite image combining the faces of every staff member into one single image. Related to madness and insanity is Video_Game_King who thought it was a good idea to play Cthulhu Saves the World and some Japanese Alice game, and he is followed by Mento who has attempted to formulate a solid definition of what "Metroidvania" is and good examples of the concept. theuselessgod continues to battle his old school video game collection, and FLStyle has another event list and discussion blog for a Fighting Game Community event worth checking out. MooseyMcMan talks about his weekend playing Guacamelle, meanwhile Colourful_hippie detail his disappointment with Gears of War: Judgement as a long time fan of the Gears of War franchise. Gamer_152 discusses the good and negative implications of an online always future for video game consumers, whereas fobwashed discusses the difficulties of making good shading and lighting in video games. EpicSteve conducted his very own interview dumptruck with the artist of Divekick, and animasta has two blogs that I have long neglected to showcase and continues to highlight the need for the followed users feed to come back on profile pages.
Hamst3r is thinking about doing another project involving him working with the Giant Bomb community! Help him decide what that would look like on his thread about his potential ideas. We have discussion threads for Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen and Starseed Pilgrim. Finally it has been four years in the making, but we FINALLY have a staff look-alike thread so people can stop posting individual threads about people that they think look like Jeff, Ryan, Vinny, Brad, and everyone else.
Mento had a bit of a challenge for his list for this week. He challenged himself to create a list of every single Zelda game he has played and provide biographies for each game with less than sixty seconds on each without describing the art styles of each game. Check it out and see if you can do the same. Deoppelgamer on the other hand has taken the time to create a list of all of the license games, from movie to comic book adaptations that he thinks are great.
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! Lets get right into the big news of the week and that's the announcement that Dave is unfortunately no longer a member of the Giant Bomb team. Wish your farewells and best wishes to Dave on his goodbye thread, and join the community in changing your avatar to hardcore Dave as a final "thank you" for all that he has done for the site. You can expect that he'll be back to guest in videos from time to time, including the inevitable video conclusion of Blade Runner, but from now on he's visiting the site and forums as a guest and not an employee. This news coincides with the announcement that Matthew Rorie will take up Dave's duties as "Product Manager" of Giant Bomb. Wish Rorie the best and share your word of encouragement over here if you haven't done so already. With that let's start a new era of good feelings the only way I know...staff fan-art:
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Many Thanks to Everyone Who Made This Art!
Community Activities
GRID 2 PC Racers Unite! (Steam Friends List) - Post Your ID to Play With Other Users Online Over Here!
Giant Bomb Community StarCraft: Heart of the Swarm Tournament #2 - Set for April 27th - Get the Details and Sign Up Over Here!
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Pawn Recruitment Thread - Trade Pawns with Other Users Over Here!
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine Steam Co-Op Thread - Post Your Steam ID to Play Monaco Online Over Here!
Beat your Backlog Competition - Compete with Other Giant Bomb Users to See is the Best in Completing Games on their Backlog List Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Learn all about the characters and mechanics in Don't Starve and Poker Night 2, which are the big releases this week. Finally love it (yes I said "it") or hate it Giant Bomb has a surprisingly detailed wiki page for Yoshi, much to Ryan's chagrin, and a great wiki page for Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, much to Jeff's chagrin.
If you are in the mod for some video entertainment check out RJPelonia's video compiling all of the intros for the Vinny/Jeff Deadly Premonition Endurance Run. If however you want to view the stuff of nightmares check out Supernormalstep's composite image combining the faces of every staff member into one single image. Related to madness and insanity is Video_Game_King who thought it was a good idea to play Cthulhu Saves the World and some Japanese Alice game, and he is followed by Mento who has attempted to formulate a solid definition of what "Metroidvania" is and good examples of the concept. theuselessgod continues to battle his old school video game collection, and FLStyle has another event list and discussion blog for a Fighting Game Community event worth checking out. MooseyMcMan talks about his weekend playing Guacamelle, meanwhile Colourful_hippie detail his disappointment with Gears of War: Judgement as a long time fan of the Gears of War franchise. Gamer_152 discusses the good and negative implications of an online always future for video game consumers, whereas fobwashed discusses the difficulties of making good shading and lighting in video games. EpicSteve conducted his very own interview dumptruck with the artist of Divekick, and animasta has two blogs that I have long neglected to showcase and continues to highlight the need for the followed users feed to come back on profile pages.
Hamst3r is thinking about doing another project involving him working with the Giant Bomb community! Help him decide what that would look like on his thread about his potential ideas. We have discussion threads for Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen and Starseed Pilgrim. Finally it has been four years in the making, but we FINALLY have a staff look-alike thread so people can stop posting individual threads about people that they think look like Jeff, Ryan, Vinny, Brad, and everyone else.
Mento had a bit of a challenge for his list for this week. He challenged himself to create a list of every single Zelda game he has played and provide biographies for each game with less than sixty seconds on each without describing the art styles of each game. Check it out and see if you can do the same. Deoppelgamer on the other hand has taken the time to create a list of all of the license games, from movie to comic book adaptations that he thinks are great.
Hello and welcome to the belated latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight. I am your host as always, ZombiePie to provide you with a weekly "spotlight" on the latest great works from the Giant Bomb community. The week is over, luckily that's true! With the doldrums of the video game season in full effect, and recent events considered may I recommend that you take the time to tell someone you care for that you love them? Anyways, if you haven't seen the images that the community has produced as a result of Ryan's request for a new podcast image...man, you are missing out. I means here are some examples:
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Great Work Everyone!
Community Activities
Giant Bomb Injustice: Gods Among Us Community Online Play Thread - Post Your Gamertag or ID Over Here!
Brand New Giant Bomb Community Minecraft Server - Join the Server Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Injustice is the big release this week and you should check out the wonderful wiki for teh game if you can. I'd make a lame joke about how I sure hell don't know anything about Shin Megami Tensei games...but I've done that joke ten times already. Crusader: No Remorse and Games on Which Comic Books are based both have had some awesome recent work done on them worth looking over.
Fobwashed shares the progress to his MegaMan X GiantBomb flash games and explains why he needs your help now! cisko, cabelhigh, and jakob187 all discuss how BioShock Infinite is more than just a first person shooting game to them. Mento list the miscellaneous video games he played recently and theuselessgod has started a blog series examining the games in his old school game collection. Hailinel has three notable 3DS RPG games he like to talk to you about on his latest blog, whereas EarthBowl shares a poem and novel about how he feel about Xenoblade Chronicles. JohnSublime looks back and reminisces upon his old 3D Movie Maker projects, while Grant Heaslip explains why going back to Donkey Kong Country was harder than he thought it would be. Busted1der explains how issues with cloud saves led to him re-playing Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and spykereightsix shares what playing videos games is like when you are thirty and on the road a lot. Finally StarFoxA continues to play through his Humble Bundle backlog with Thirty Flights of Love.
Nickieroonie is the user that sent the staff those awesome painted shoes this week and breaks down what making them was like. We have plenty of threads related to Injustice from sharing tips and tricks to posting live streams with awesome combos. Have any ideas of what hat would look awesome on Patrick? Post your ideas on the Patrick Hat Project, or P.H.P. With Dota 2 still lighting the world on fire talk about your online follies as a newcomer if you are one on the community newcomer thread. Finally what's your working definition of "Metroidvania," and what are your favorite examples of the genre? Share you thoughts and examples on the discussion thread about the issue.
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! Patrick Klepek wants to do his own Jar Time video series, but he needs more questions! Ask him any video game or horror movie related questions that you have on his Comic Vine account. Are you still having issues with the video player on Giant Bomb? If so file detail your issues on Jeff Tumblr post over here and he'll direct your input the the proper engineers. Finally someone on Tumblr has created this wonderful piece of Patrick Klepek fan art:
Community Activities
Giant Bomb Dota 2 Steam Group - Get Notifications Whenever an Event is Going to Happen Over Here!
Dota 2 Game Key Giveaway Thread - If You Have a Dota 2 Key You are Willing to Give to Another User Post Them Over Here!
Giant Bomb Community Tournament #2, April 27th - Sign Up for the Next Tournament Over Here!
Skullgirls New Matchmaking Thread - Excited for the New Characters? Get Ready for Them By Playing With Other Users Over Here!
Defiance BombSquad North America PC Clan - Join the "Fun" Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Now that Brad is drunk on Dota mystery you can join him by checking out the Dota 2 wiki page, and reading the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (i.e. MOBA) concept page as well. Finally with the release of Age of Empire HD (which we do not have a separate wiki page for) get an idea why there are so many fans for the series by examining the Age of Empires II page.
The big highlights of this week come from Gamer_152 who discusses the development of generalizations related to genres in video games and with consumers, and Rmack who went to the Pinball Wizard pinball museum. MAguilera takes the controversial perspective that the ending of BioShock Infinite was slightly disappointing, whereas MetalGearSunny explains why the ending was mind meltingly awesome. RagingLion also joins the BioShock Infinite discussion this week by contemplating upon areas of improvement related to the game and for the industry, simultaneously yeah_write has a series of aweomse BioShock Infinite fan posters worth checking out. gogosox82 provides a comprehensive break down of the recently released Dark Souls 2 trailer, and Nonused decided to go back to his childhood favorites by re-playing Super Metroid. FLStyle shares the last hopes that we all have in regards to good fighting game movies, while mwng shares his recent foray into the Melty Blood fighting game series. Mento gets visual novel on you with a 999 centric blog. EpicSteve provides a rebuttak to the notion that the combat is the worst part to BioShock Infinite and SirOptimusPrime had some fun with Betrayal at Krondow with a fun role play inspired blog. BillytheKid and bishna bought knocked games from their backlog, similarly StarFoxA has defeated most of the Humble Bundle games for Andorid that he has been meaning to play.
The poll of the week for this edition of the Spotlight is related to everyone's opinion about in-game purchases for random loot. We have an official Livestream thread for Divekick and an official discussion thread for Guacamelee. Finally if you have an impressive Warframe in Warfarme post pictures on the Warframe bragging thread.
We have two lists this week one coming from Taku128 who has created a list of every single "retro" video game that has been quick looked on the site. Boiglenoight on the other hand has created a list detailing the best old school PC games that he has ever played.
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! GDC and PAX East are over, and the site is getting back to it's old motions. War were declared on the Giant Bomb EVE Online Corporation, Kite Co. Space Trucking. Join the war effort if you can over here. Also Dave is a father! Yeah, crazy right? Giant Bomb is mad with baby fever.
That said I'd like to remind you that @marino@mracoon and I have officially been moderating Giant Bomb for three years now! Also, I've been doing this Community Spotlight stuff officially for FOUR FREAKING YEARS!
As I stated on my Tumblr account thanks to everyone who made this all possible. Many of the people who helped me get to where I am either no longer moderate Giant Bomb or are no longer posting anymore. I’ve seen a lot of good and bad people come and go. Sometimes by choice, and other times…not so much. It’s humbling to say the least. It's been fun, and here's to another year!
Community Activities
Tiger Woods Giant Bomb Country Club - Search for Giant Bomb as Seen Here!
Dota 2 Community Team - Join a Hamburger's Giant Bomb Dota 2 Team (Kind of Sketchy!) Over Here!
Giant Bomb Defiance Community Guild - Join the Luchadeers Guild Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Pour one out for LucasArt with the news that the studio has been closed. Also, check out the wiki page for the LucasArts company page and plenty of other LucasArts developed games, new and old, but mostly old. It may be the last time you'll see them as they get sent to the Disney vault. BattleBlock Theater on the other hand is that little game that finally came out and the Fire Emblem wiki editing community has done some great work on the Stahl character page.
LordAndrew has a special extension for any users wanting to edit the wiki on their Android devices, and EpicSteve continues to hit it out of the park with his blogs with this blog sharing his interview of the creator of Soda Drinker Pro. Mento graces us this week with two blogs, one providing a funny MS Paint webcomic and the other continuing his mad adventures with TurboGrafx-16 games. Video_Game_King played through Nimbus and The New Zealand Story on his latest and always hilarious weekly gaming blog. dankempster has written a blog discussing The Walking Dead's treatment of player choice, whereas leebmx explains why he considers The Walking Dead to be the most enjoyable fraud he has every played. Resident Might and Magic expert ArbitraryWater extrapolates on why Dark Messiah of Might and Magic isn't just a bad Might and Magic game, but a bad game overall. RetroVirus contemplated on why the combat is the root of his dissatisfaction with Dead Space 3, and Grantheaslip shares why he considers himself to be a Twilight Princess defender. Dalai survived PAX East 2013 and explains how on his latest llama filled blog, and BlazeHedgehog shares his recent creation having finally dabbled in the dark arts of game development. 7force has finally translated an interview of on of the minds behind Dark Souls completely, DonChipotle shares his early disappointed impressions of Defiance, and finally Demoskinos details how Ninja Gaiden 3: razor's Edge for the WiiU is what the game should have been in the first place.
Brandonleedy has made some fantastic Interview Dumptruck art that has since gone on to become the iTunes art for the feature. Humanity on the other hand has created some BioShock Infinite fan art with a nice Jeff cameo. However, that's not the only BioShock related thread worth looking at! We still have loads of good discussions related to the game this week as the community is still a buzz about the game. Finally look over the winners of the GDC Awards and indicate which games would have been on your ballot.
Mento returns as the king of lists with an annotation of all of the female pirates and pirate queens of video games that he has experienced. Griffinmills on the other hand has created a list of brawlers that have translated well to home consoles and others that have not.
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! There was a lot of GDC madness this week...you probably already knew that though. There were crimes against pies and cakes committed by Ryan and a lot of great roundtable discussions during the livestreams. In other news the 28th was Sean Coonce's birthday! The PM glitch has been fixed! That means that when you read all of your site messages your inbox should tell you that you have 0 messages. With that here's @turboman's latest Best of Giant Bomb Quick Look video:
Community Activities
Giant Bomb's Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Community Hunting Nights - Get the Details and Join the Fun Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Bioshock Infinite is the big game of the week...and probably for the rest of the year, and if you haven't been able to play it read up about the game before you jump in. The madness of Divekick has overtaken the Giant Bomb community in the form of it's Dave Lang Approved wiki page. Luigi's second mansion caper and the concept page for GDC both also deserve looks if you have the chance.
Mento explains how he played a "perfect" game of Yakuza 2. Video_Game_King shares his thoughts on Jet Grind Radio as well as A Reckless Disregard for Gravity. Phatmac reviews Tomb Raider on his latest blog and UnhappyCanadian shares his interpretation about the controversy associated with Tomb Raider. IrishDoom explains why he think Mass Effect 1 is the best entry in the franchise whereas MooseyMcMan details his thoughts on the Mass Effect 3 DLC and Rayman Origins. Somberowl contemplates on games that he would be interested in being set in an open world. With the release of Bioshock Infinite Sunjammer blogs about the little things that bugged him about the game, and TwoLines felt inspired to go back to System Shock 2, a game he still loves. EpicSteve, Marino, and Fistfulofmetal all had plenty of fun at PAX East 2103 and have blogged about their time at the event. FLStyle gives you another update on the upcoming events of the Fighting game Community. Finally Pepsiman has created the most objective reviewing system for any games in the New Super Mario Bros. franchise...that system being Start to Wah-Wah.
The poll of the week for this week asks which of Giant Bomb's GOTYs you think is your favorite. Mezmero asks you to contemplate on your favorite dive kicking characters in fighting games. Then we have a slew of BioShock Infinite related threads ranging from discussing the plot to the little things that you noticed and liked.
Supermike has created a list detailing why he thinks 2010 was the absolute best year in video games ever. BabyChooChoo on the other hand has created a list of his favorite video game characters.
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! It's PAX East week and you may have noticed that there neither a TNT nor Unprofessional Fridays was recorded this week as a result of this fact. As seen from the banner expect to view the wonderful hilarity of Giant Bomb's PAX East 2013 panel when everyone comes back for next week, though with GDC right around the corner maybe expect some on that delays. Despite the convention madness that has consumed most of the staff our very own Brad Shoemaker guested on Adam Sessler's video series discussing DmC: Devil May Cry (Spoiler Warning!). Continual friend of the site Matthew Rorie recently wrote a blog detailing his World of Warcraft retirement. The Giant Bomb PC gaming community has been up to a bunch of madness in Arma II's alpha. The community Roundtable Dialogue Options is looking for new recruits! Let out a yelp on the most recent edition of the feature to be a part of future editions of Dialogue Options. Finally here's TWO compilation videos from YouTube, one being the latest Best of Giant Bomb Quick Looks by @turboman and the other compiling the best Vinny moments:
Community Activities
Giant Bomb Community Tournament #1, March 23rd - Set up for March 23rd, 19:00 GMT - Sign Up and Get the Details Over Here!
Giant Bomb Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Community Guild - Join Other Users in Hunting Down Monsters Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
PAX East 2013 is this week and if you were not able to attend the event check out the wiki page for the convention and lament on what you are missing including the ridiculous photos people always attach on the PAX wiki pages. Gear of War: Judgement is the big game for this week and you can learn more about it on its wiki page. Finally the wiki editing community has created great pages for the Fire Emblem character Ricken, and LEGO City Undercover.
ArbitraryWater being a fan of the Fire Emblem franchise details his adventures in one of the older entries in the series, whereas dankempster shares his thoughts and opinions related to the most recent Tomb Raider game as a long time fan of the adventures of Lara Croft. Video_Game_King graces us with two blogs this week; one containing a picture guide to his adventures in Persona 3 FES, and the other extrapolating upon Sonic Adventures and Punky Skunk. Speaking of Sonic resident Sonic the Hedgehog expert BlazeHedgehog provides a scathing review of the unleashed mod for Sonic Generations. thatpinguino managed to create two blogs this week with one detailing why Brutal Legends is a wonderfully flawed game, and the other further detailing his thoughts on the mechanics of Final Fantasy VIII. FLStyle provides an itinerary of all the fun events the Fighting Game Community has in store for PAX East 2013, simultaneously camoufrage explains why he's terrible at playing fighting games online. Mento took the time to explain what "real" mahjong is all about and how it works. StarFoxA made a crack at the Humble Bundle pack for Android by playing Solar 2 and Dynamite Jack, and Chaser324 has seven roguelikes he wants you to read about on his latest blog. linus_south shares his good, bad, and insane "misadventures" with his 3DS. devise22 contemplates on EA's recently follies in online require video gaming with the troubled launch of SimCity. RayCarter gave Nier a chance and explains why you should too. Colorwind provides his personal pitch for a new Mega Man X game, Wrighteous88 continues to descend into the mad world of video game books, and Mordeaniischaos explains why he's tired of Assassin's Creed's combat system.
As the madness of the VGCW consumes the internet join the insanity by discussing the most recent follies of the event on the discussion thread. Also comment on the Warframe open beta if you got in and talk about your first impressions of Supergiant Games' Transistor. Talk about what you consider to be "pretentious" in video games, and finally check out morbid_coffee's explanation and guide to Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate's Charm system if you have any confusions about it.
The always languorous and lustful list loving Mento luckily graces us today with a luxurious list labeling the ferrymen of death he has given a look while letching video games. Oh that lovable lesbian!
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight, and Happy Birthday to the Bombcast! That's right the sickly podcast for this week marked the fifth birthday for the Giant Bombcast! PAX East 2013 is all set for this week and if you plan on going remember to check out Marino's PAX Guide to PAX, and check out the floor plan.
Community Activities
Giant Bomb Community Tournament #1 - Set for March 23rd, 19:00 GMT - Get the Details to the Event Here!
Official StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Matchmaking Thread - Play Online Matches with Fellow Users Over Here!
Darkstalkers Resurrection Matchmaking Thread - Hook Up with Other Darkstalkers Fans Over Here!
Giant Bomb Corporation and Community - Join the Kite Co. Space Trucking Corporation in Eve Online Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Have you heard about this game called StarCraft? Another StarCraft came out this week! I have to say I don't understand why the call it StarCraft when there's no real "crafting" in it. Minecraft has more crafting than StarCraft for goodness sake! Read all about it on the wiki page for that space madness! Also a new God of War game came out and you can read all about that too.
Check out the latest edition of the community round table discussion featuring all sorts of community members' opinions about The Binding of Issac. After having discussed the hardware of the PlayStation 4 Gamer_152 has written up a comprehensive blog related to the announced games thus far for the platform. Video_Game_King continued his recent trend of playing water themed video games with Hydrophobia, and bucked that trend by also playing Marchen Adventure Cotton 100%. Mento entertains with his latest MS Paint webcomic for this month. aurahack celebrates his 100th blog by writing about 999, Fire Emblem, Crashmo and other things. believer258 pontificates upon his controversial position of thinking that Uncharted 3 is a mediocre experience, whereas Animasta defends The Last Remnant for being a fun and interesting game worth playing. User nate still is playing through and discussing his problems with Assassin's Creed 3. After having bought the game for cheap zoozilla talks about his adventures with El Shaddai. Finally Alaska_Gamer provides a sane blog related to his thoughts of the craziness of Metal Gear Rising.
If you do plan on going to PAX East this week then join the meet-up thread in picking out a meet up event before the Giant Bomb panel. There is also an Arma 3 Alpha Steam code trading thread, a thread discussing the origins of everyone's usernames, and an appeal by the Guild Wars 2 community to join their cause. Finally the poll of the week is whether or not Patrick should shave his facial hair.
We have a good deal of lists this week with DoppelGamer creating a list of all the super hero themed video games he has played in order of preference. oldskooldeano has taken up the task of creating a list of games that exclusively take place underwater and patanu is working on a list of normal video game couples. If you can think of any games that could potentially be on their lists, help them out!
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! The engineers are still ironing out some leftover issues with the new site, but the live stream content is coming at a furious rate. There's a new "New releases" show featuring Giant Bomb and GameSpot staff members working to showcase you all of the latest games. Have any thoughts on the show? Go ahead and share you thoughts on the discussion thread for the new show over here. Also worth noting is that Patrick is planning on playing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and if you are a fan of the series wants your advice on playing the game. Finally if you haven't read Jeff's comment on changing review scores after publishing them, you should. szlifier's Quick Look search engine that allows you to filter Quick Looks by staff members is nothing short of amazing.
Community Activities
Giant Bomb Community TrackMania 2 Stadium Server - Join the Trackmania Madness Over Here!
Giant Bomb SimCity PC/Origin Friends List - Have Other GB Users Join Your Regions Over Here!
Share Your Etrian Odyssey IV Guild Cards - Share Your Cards and ER Codes Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Tomb Raider and SimCity are the big releases this week and not only are they both reboots that have dropped their numbering, but they both have detailed wiki pages. Also for both pages go back and check out the Lara Croft and SimCity 2000 pages to read up their wonderful history. Baseball season is drawing near and that means that the major baseball games are coming out, MLB 13: The Show most notably. Finally you can always count on the fire Emblem wiki editing community to provide a great character wiki page as seen with the new and improved Gaius page.
The passes for PAX East 2013 are being sent out this week and that means that Marino has provided another PAX Guide to PAX which should be required reading for any PAX first timers. Blogging machine Video_Game_King graces you with two blogs this week with one providing an in-depth analysis of the box art for Persona 3: FES and the other plunging into the depths by detailing his experiences with Bioshock and The Little Mermaid. Humanity explains why he's starting to get bummed out by all the cynicism he has noticed recently proliferate the video game community. Related to SimCity spiralcut shares his rants on the launch day issues with SimCity. In light of the launch issues with SimCity TheAdmin discusses his expectations and hopes for always online games. thatpinguino recently went back to Final Fantasy VIII and explains how developers could learn a lot on how to deal with random encounters in role-playing games. Inspired by Matthew Rorie's employment luck and Unprofessional Fridays Mento whipped up a very dog centered blog detailing his adventures in Dog's Life and Okami. Phatmac finally got his hands on Fire Emblem: Awakening and shares his thoughts in a very detailed blog this week. Finally humphreys shares his perspective on the Mass Effect series as someone who has just played all three games back to back.
Again, szlifier's Quick Look search engine that allows you to filter Quick Looks by staff members is amazing! Check it out if you haven't already! With two upcoming game conventions hook-up with and set up meeting places with other users on the PAX East 2013 and SXSW Gaming Expo discussion threads. Find any great free apps or games for the iPhone? Well share them on the Free App attention thread! Finally Seppli asks you to think of your favorite games with difficulty scaling and SpudBug discusses why the "Why does this game exist" question is incredibly reductive.
This week abbyrose shares the most disappointing games ever released. EightBitWarrior on the other hand has created a video Game of the Year list detailing every single game that would take his game of the year award since his birth.
This Edition of the Community Spotlight is Brought to by "The Plaid Zone."
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! If you have received a PM from this edition of the Community Spotlight, don't panic! You have created something worth showcasing! For this edition of the Community Spotlight I am going to utilize the #username feature when inputting usernames. There are a couple of reasons for this: 1) It's faster than manually hyper-linking the usernames, and 2) It allows for more users to be aware that they have done something notable. I have done a terrible job at notifying people that they are being showcased or featured on the front-page. By using the #username feature I'm able to notify a larger number of users that I'm showcasing something that they have done quickly and easily. If you absolutely hate it I can put your username on a blacklist to not be linked that way, but honestly give it a try. Again it makes things easier for me, and you get a little congratulatory PM containing the entire edition of the latest Spotlight...almost as if it were an actual community newsletter.
Super House of Dead Ninjas Super Score Challenge Thread - Post You High Scores in SHODN Over HERE!
Always Be Cloaking - Giant Bomb's Community Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online Clan of Deadly Duders - Join the Clan Over HERE!
Wonderful Wikis
This edition of Wonderful Wikis is brought to you by the wonderfully weird and obscure! Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of Titans continues the trend of JRPGs having impressively detailed wiki pages, yet again. Phantom Break: Battle Grounds is your "I Bet You Didn't Know THAT Was Released This Week," game and you can read all about what it's all about on our wiki page for the game. Last weekend I noticed that our Dog's Life wiki page is better than it has any right to be...kind of like the Dog's Life video game. Finally help make the neat idea of having a "Plagiarism," concept page by attaching more examples you can think of the concept as well as detail the examples of it already known.
Menace to society and blogging legend Video_Game_King has officially published his 300th blog on Giant Bomb. Check out all of his detailed stats about his blogging "career" on Giant Bomb. Mento published not one or two blogs this week, but three! Read all about his issues with the new site to the Turbo-Grafx weirdness he has been playing. BlazeHedgehog shares his impressions of the Castlevania: Mirror of Fate demo, whereas Phatmac discussed his thoughts on Metal Gear Rising...I wonder which was longer the demo or the game....Fattony12000 in anticipation for the upcoming release of SimCity played through every PC SimCity game and discusses the evolution of the franchise on his blog, simultaneously GrantHeaslip has finally completed his personal "Endurance Run" of Final Fantasy XIII and reasons out his final thoughts of the game. ArbitraryWater enjoyed Fire Emblem: Awakening so much that he wrote a blog about why it's probably going to be his Game of the Year for 2013. The fourth edition of Dialogue Options, the community round-table blog series, discusses the merits and de-merits of always having the protagonist end up on top in video game stories. JJWeatherman has written a blog explaining why he kind of like much lampooned Amy, and Sweep addresses his concerns about how "bigger" games for this next generation, may not be for the best. Finally evanbower does you a solid this week by not only sharing why he found Super Mario 3D Land slightly disappointing, but also for starting a blog series providing time stamps of all the hilarious and memorable moments for Unprofessional Fridays.
This week we have video game discussion thread for BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner 2, and the God of War: Ascension Demo. We also have an interesting poll related to whether or not you watch every cutscene when playing video games. Finally we have a discussion thread for Alex's new Guns of Navarro feature and everyone's favorite obscure buried treasures from this generation of video games.
Well Mento may have actually broken his record for most appearances on a single Community Spotlight with his three blogs and list of every Mega Drive/Genesis game that he has played. tablefloor on the other hand has created a list sharing his top 10 favorite games from this generation of console games.
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