The Community Spotlight - 02/17/2011
By ZombiePie 29 Comments
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! Luckily this week I encountered far fewer technical difficulties than the last Spotlight so this week I'm in a far better mood. The house keeping this week is brief but still worth going over. Firstly MB's Black Ops Funny/Offensive emblem thread has broken 2,000,000 views...which is a Giant Bomb record. MB and myself would also like to remind all Giant Bomb users to please post your forum topics in the correct forum. Vinny made a trailer mashup of the recent Dead Island trailer and the song Mad World...and musician Ice-T thought it was so impressive he re-tweeted it. Also I apparently have become a Guest Author on Anime Vice? I'm not quite sure how that happened....
Also even though the meme is over week old now the Magician images are still trickling like a leaky faucet! Here are some of the notable I'm a Wizard images this week:
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Further proving the artistic talents of the Giant Bomb Community was the recent Staff giveaway. Something you may have been aware of is that the staff hosted a Stacking game giveaway with the catch that users submit photoshopped images themed to Russian stacking dolls in order to be in the running to win copies of the game. The winners have been announced and copies of Stacking have been giveaway, but there were more than a couple of hilarious and skillful images that didn't win any prizes but were pretty awesome anyways. So here's a small showcase of the other creative works the Giant Bomb community was able to create:
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Notable Events
KZ 3 GB Clan Thread
PS3 MvC3 Community Thread
Xbox 360 MvC3 Community Thread
Vito's Game Giveaway #5 -- Due Feb. 19th -- Check out the details HERE!
Free Stuff Get! #2 -- Due Feb. 20th -- Check out the details HERE!
Battlefield 2/Battlefield 2142 Event Thread!
Wonderful Wikis
No surprises for this week as all of the wikis being showcased are prevalent and well known heavy hitters. Marvel vs. Capcom has an amazingly substantial wiki entry worth a look. With all of the talks about an HD remake of the first Halo game why not check out the amazing wiki entry for Halo; Combat Evolved. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has a wiki entry as substantial as the world it is set in. With the remake of Yars' Revenge looking more and more crazy check out the Giant Bomb wiki to see what the original was all about. Finally check out the history section of the Daikatana wiki entry. Some really cool history there.- Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Yars' Revenge
- John Romero's Daikatana
- Superintendent
- Machinima
User Reviews
- Daavpuke's review of Magicka
- GUnitVer1's review of Marvel vs. Capcom 3
- AltonBrown's review of Hard Corps: Uprising
- Protomessiah's review of Turok
- Deiterbomber's review of Dungeons
- Guildenstern's review of Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Roomrunner's review of ModNation Racers
- JasonR86's review of Stacking
Lovable Lists
- Memory Lane (By: doejonathan)
- Most Difficult Games Ever (By: Psykhophear)
- Games That I Wont Win Any Friends for Liking (By: Pepsicolaboy)
- Pages I've Done a Lot of Work on (By: StarFoxA)
- My Presidential Cabinet (By: GlenTennis)
- The Official Paulrus Atari 2600 Collection (20th Anniversary Special Edition) (By: Paulrus)
Best of Blogs/Fantastic Forums
The big theme this week are all of the threads organizing the MvC3 playing segment of the Giant Bomb Community. So if you have any desire to play the game online please feel free to check out any of the stickies on the MvC3 board! As to be expected we have plenty of blogs where users talk about what they have been playing. Finally other threads of note are the GB Community Music Playlist and the Tested Folding Tea recruitment thread1 Help cure cancer in that last thread!- Official Team/Character Discussion Thread (By: Pessh)
- Official MvC3 Live Streams Thread (By: Ibid.)
- The Official MvC3 Video Thread (By: gosukiller)
- Contribute to the GiantBomb Community Music Playlist (By: Stefan)
- I Play Old Games: Temple of Elemental Evil (By: ArbitraryWater)
- How to Become a Game Designer - Part 4 (By: Gamer_152)
- Cloudy With a Chance of Gaming -- 02/13/2011 (By: JJWeatherman)
- EpicSteve's Guide to Playing Video Games (By: EpicSteve)
- Awesome Video Game Music: Valkyria Chronicles Main Theme (By: MajorMitch)
- Halo: Combat Evolved HD Remake Wishlist (By: calidan777)
- 30 Days of Gaming: Day 1 (By: aurahack)
- Needle In The Camel's Eye 02/14/11 - Inaugural Edition (By: natetodamax)
- Join the Tested Folding Team! (By: mirado)
Author's Note: Have anything you have personally done that's worth a yelp/ Well just drop a comment on this blog and I will see if I can get you the attention that piece of content deserves!