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The Community Spotlight - (02/27/2015)

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State of the Site/Housekeeping

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I am your honored host as always, and for those wondering yes this was released super late! The reason is that this week marked the first week in about two years where I "lost" a Spotlight. But enough of my problems let's discuss the notable news and site happenings this week.

There are TWO new t-shirt designs available on the Giant Bomb store. The first design is a Metal Gear Scanlon themed t-shirt, and the second is the 2015 Members t-shirt. Be quick as some sizes have already sold out! Also in a bit of surprising news did you know that the Happy Hour intro song had lyrics to it originally? Well check out this post from Vinny on Tumblr, and have your mind blown. With that let's get on with the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight!

Clip(s) of the Week

As listeners of the Bombcast may recall there was a recent joke about the crew forming their own band and calling the band "Guns N Roses II." Well @jgray went ahead and created a T.V. advertisement for the would be musical ensemble. The second video comes from Dan and...I don't know wrestling is happening at PAX East this year again.

Awesome Artwork

@monkeyman04 has created a new logo for Giant Bomb East using the New York F.C. emblem. @metalliccookies on the other hand created codex hub pictures for Dan and Drew in lieu of the start of Metal Gear Scanlon 3. Finally @ltsquigs "discovered" Dave Lang's wonderful acting career.

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Community Activities

  • The Next Annual Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run is All Set for April 12th!!! Sign up to Help or Host a Livestream on the Official Thread Over HERE!
  • Giant Bomb Community Game Jam!!! - Help @havochq Potentially Organize a Giant Bomb themed Game Jam By Heading Over Here!
  • Giant Bomb Under Nigh In-Birth Exe-Late Community Hub - Hook-up with Other Users Playing This Game Online Over HERE!

Wonderful Wikis

Resident Evil and DragonBall are the big new releases this week and they both have wiki pages that are worth checking out. Anime fighter Under Night In-Birth finally was released in the United States which means that if you have not heard of the game you should check out our wiki page for it.

Best of Blogs

JJWeatherman has written a massive blog detailing the first twenty hours that he played in Monster Hunter IV Ultimate and tries to "demystify" why he enjoys the game. JBG4 joins him, but is a newcomer to the franchise with Monster Hunter IV being his first experience with the franchise. JBG4 also provided a weekly update on what he played, similarly mooseymcman shares his thoughts on The Last of Us' Left Behind DLC as well as The Fall, Giant Bomb's "Best Story" of 2014 GOTY recipient. GrantHeaslip has written a massive blog detailing exactly why he has warmed up to Final Fantasy XIII, whereas N7 details why he is flummoxed with the first episode of Resident Evil: Revelations 2. Some may call demoskinos a crazy person as he spent $93 on Dead or Alive 5 Last Round, but he stands up for his purchasing decision on his latest blog. The science of basketball and the world and atmosphere of Grim Fandango where the subjects of two blogs from thatpinguino. Mento has the special distinction of having written four blogs this week. However, Mento is also struggling to get comments on his blogs so please give them a check and drop a comment on them. ArbitraryWater is back to his old tricks and is playing old games of questionable quality and this week he played Bound By Flame. VincentAvatar admits that the Resident Evil re-remake is a cash grab, but it's a cash grab that he can get behind. Finally morecowbell24 discusses the difficulty and art of making a balanced game, and joe423 has started a retrospective blog series for Okami.

Fantastic Forums

As already mentioned jgray has created an AMAZING mock T.V. commercial worth seeing. metalliccookies has created the first piece of Metal Gear Scanlon 3 fanart on the site with Codex Pictures for Dan and Drew. The Final Fantasy XIV and Guild Wars communities welcome you to read all about the updates to their games. On a more somber note you are also welcomed to share your experiences with losing save data as well as the cancelled games you are most disappointed never were released. Finally...wrestling stuff is going to happen soon. Something about a P-A-X from what I hear.

Lovable Lists

TechnoSyndrome is working on a list of the coolest video game main characters, and if you have any ideas for additions on his list drop a comment on it. CottoneUD on the other hand completed his Endurance Run of Persona 4 Golden and lists out all of the games he played and potentially completed while he worked on Persona 4 Golden a day at a time.

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