Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! For those interested to read up on some information about the various interns that Giant Bomb is bringing into their premises check out Ethan's blog about the new blood. If any of you are even more interested about what it is like being an intern for Whiskey Media then check out intern Undeadpool's blog about his first month. By hook and by crook the Giant bomb Community barely was able to accomplish the Limited Edtion Brink Quest Set for bonus EXP for 3,000 fastidious users. There are now TWO user created Giant Bomb Windows Phone 7 apps that serve different needs for all of the Giant Bomb users with Windows Phone 7. Here's a thread for one of the apps. Audio/Video man Drew recently celebrated his birthday! Tell him happy birthday if you can!

Important and Fun Stuff

• Vito's Game Giveaway #18! Two More Games + Bonus Portal Contest! - Due Saturday, May 21st - Try to win FREE GAMES HERE!

Wonderful Wikis

• L.A. Noire
• Terraria
• Chrono Trigger
• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
• Hydrophobia
• Skies of Arcadia

User Reviews

• Bloodgraiv's review of L.A. Noire
• LethalKi11ler's review of L.A. Noire
• Needle's review of Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury
• aquacadet's review of Terraria
• Sparky_Buzzsaw's review of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
• Little_Socrates's review of Dungeon Raid
• Count_Zero's review of Rock 'n Roll Racing
• ShawnS's review of The Ultimate Alphabet
• Gamer_152's review of Portal 2
• YI_Orange's review of Skies of Arcadia: Legends

Lovable Lists

• Great Coles of Fire (By: Brackynews)
• Several Species of Small Hot Pixels Gathered Together in a Screen and Grooving with your Libido (By: KillyDarko)
• Characters Which, in a Royal Rumble, Would Mean the End of the Cosmos (By: dbz1995)
• Five Single-Player Games That I Will never Grow Tired of (By: ryanlaser)
• Games That Shaped me Into the Gamer I am Today (By: hsvlad)
• The "Best" Games I Never Played (By: sickVisionz)

Best of Blogs/Fantastic Forums

• Pepsiman's Guide to Researching Japanese Release Dates (By: Pepsiman)
• A Tale of Wonderment and Woe (In Blog Form!) (By: Tebbit)
• Green Gaming (By: JJWeatherman)
• Excessive Force 101: A Stryker Kombo Video (By: StarvingGamer)
• New Quest Set: Los Angeles Black Hint and Discussion Thread (By: benjaebe)
• Los Angeles Black Quest Set (By: PsEG)
• Possibly the Darkest and Most Hate-fueled Blog I Have Ever Written (By: Video_Game_King)
• I Play Old Games (Dues Ex) (By: ArbitraryWater)
• This Year #9: More of the Adam Carolla Show for Everyone to Enjoy (By: ZanzibarBreeze)
• L.A. Noire is Awesome. Let's Talk About it! (By: EpicSteve)
• The Secrets of Portal 2 - Part 1 (Warning: Spoilers) (By: Gamer_152)
• A Wrighteous Wretrospective -- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (By: Wrighteous86)
• Community Quick Look: Ocarina of Time (By: wasteguru)
• Going Overboard: Advance Wars - Dual Strike vs. Days of Ruin (By: Sarumarine)

User Created Podcasts

• We Are Race Night Episode 2: This Was All a Dream

Author's Note: Did I miss something or have you created something awesome yourself? Drop a comment on this blog and give yourself the proper amount of attention you deserve! That and I will remember to showcase it for next week.

First fuckers.

Yay!  Someone noticed the We Are Race Night podcast!

@Claude: Second, fool.

Did you purposely misspell "Deus Ex" and "Stats"?

@LordAndrew: The links still work.

@LordAndrew: The links still work.

Much obliged for the plug on my release guide!

No love for my Gabe blog :'(

@Underachiever007 said:

@Claude: Second, fool.

I would love to play a game called "First Fuckers". Best game ever. It would give FF a run for its money or not.

Nice, my first spotlight! Hopefully the first of many. Now it's time to read up.

I love the fact that I see more games having wiki pages that has a soundtrack section.

I recently wrote a blog about my writings on video game soundtracks that I'm conducting on the music blog I work with. I know it's a link to an external site, but it does outline the (hopefully) weekly project i'm conducting on bringing people who normally wouldn't encounter the music (aka, the people who don't play games but enjoy good music). 

Unless there are any objections I think this will make a most excellent banner for the next Spotlight:

@ZombiePie: I think i'm going to go and edit you into this as full-size. I didn't have your full-sized avatar before, but now I do.

EDIT: done. Also I made you one that's slightly more banner-ish, Z

Hey, thanks for featuring my incredibly arduous music blog!

@ZombiePie: I still have no idea where you are in that picture.

@Video_Game_King said:

@Unknown_Pleasures said:

@ZombiePie: I still have no idea where you are in that picture.

I still have no idea what the shit at the top is. As for your problem, hint: Zombie Pie is watching you from afar.

That would be Joseppi to the left, NuclearWinter in the middle, and LordofUltima to the right. NuclearWinter is named after a Freedom Force character. LordofUltima is a fan of the Expos...And Joseppi....well...yes.

Honestly I thought MB was the hardest to find.

That would be Joseppi to the right, NuclearWinter in the middle, and LordofUltima to the right. NuclearWinter is named after a Freedom Force character. LordofUltima is a fan of the Expos...And Joseppi....well...yes.

Honestly I thought MB was the hardest to find.

@Video_Game_King: Oops that's Joseppie. I meant to say left with Joseppie's avatar.

For those who might find themselves a little frustrated with the amount of praise being heaped onto LA Noire, I recommend you check out my review of the game to get a different, but hopefully still reasonable, perspective than that offered by the press. Hope you don't mind some negative criticism. (Just got 20 recommendations on a single review, so I'm feeling pretty good about that, even if it did come with 12 down votes as well.)
 
Also, the Giant Bomb Mortal Kombat Fight Night could use some pimping. We even have a fancy new banner!

For the next edition, I recommend ShadowVirus' TNT promo info-graphic.  Now in blog form.

@ZombiePie said:

@LordAndrew: The links still work.

And the words are still wrong. :P

@LordAndrew said:

@LordAndrew said:

@ZombiePie said:

@LordAndrew: The links still work.

And the words are still wrong. :P

To clarify, "Quest Set" should be spelled "Quest Stats" and "Dues Ex" should be spelled "Deus Ex". Everything's functional, it just makes you look like you don't know how to spell simple words like "stats". :P There's still time to fix this before the next CS.

Soooooooooooooo...lazy....

Is this where we recommend stuff for the next spotlight? I just wrote a review of Dungeons and Dragons: Daggerdale after finishing it earlier. It's not a very good game!

@AjayRaz: You wrote a review for a Dead or Alive game? Why?