The Community Spotlight - 03/03/2011
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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! A lot has been happening across all Whiskey Media sites most of which pertain to the re-launched and redesigned version of the Whiskey Media home site! In fact if you have any strong opinions about the new Whiskey Media site and its new direction publish them here! Not only that but if you live in Canada, Europe (Britain included), or Australia and would like the Giant Bomb crew to visit your country help the Bombcast go on A WORLD TOUR! On top of that we have a lot of data to talk about. Check out Mike Tatum's blog where he discusses the Browser War between Tested and Giant Bomb. Ethan has the latest edition of Data Porn on the Whiskey Media Site...I'm the top wiki mod on Giant Bomb and #3 wiki mod across all Whiskey media sites.
Oh yeah a Giant Bomb user beat Ninja Gaiden on the NES on a DDR dance pad:
Also Giant Bomb music maestro Hamst3r has made some music magic for you to enjoy:
Notable Current Events
Official Matchmaking Thread for Dawn of War II - Retribution -- Check out the details HERE!
A New Hope: MvC3 Tournament (PS3 ONLY) -- Sign up and read the rules HERE!
Vito's (PAL ONLY) Game Giveaway #7 - Free Copy of Mass Effect 2 - Entries due Sat. March 5th - Sign up HERE!
Wonderful Wikis
The name game this week is Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution, and as to be expected it has a wonderfully wiki. Norrath is yet another monstrosity of Marino's creation. With and upcoming HD re-release check out the wiki entry for Beyond Good & Evil to find out what that game is about. Vagrant Story is the latest PSN release of a classic JRPG that is well represented on Giant Bomb. A new Pokemon game is coming out but read about the franchise's roots. Bear and Engrish rounds out the concept ridiculousness on the Giant bomb database.User Reviews
- ttocs's review of Rift
- Oni's review of Bulletstorm
- spilledmilkfactory's review of Hyperdimension Neptunia
- Tikicobra's review of Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Omali's review of Medal of Honor: Heroes
- sgt_match's review of Uplink: Hacker Elite
- Vague_Optimism's review of Galerians
- bsjirk's review of Xenogears
- Popskinz's review of Splinter Cell: Conviction
- Daavpuke's review of Twin Blades
Lovable Lists
Last week you may remember that I brought Marino's low list rating to your attention. Well congratulations Giant Bomb Community because we got the wiki master's lists to an above 80% recommendation rating. Mission Accomplished! However it has unfortunately come to my attention that PsEG also was struck by this troll and I forgot to mention him. So if you can please help out!- My WiiWarehouse (By: Dalai)
- Game I Should Have Played in 2009 (By: PsEG)
- Games I Deeply Love (By: Diamond)
- Game Informer's Top 200 Games of All Time (By: dantebk)
- Games That Desperately Need Sequels, and Will Most Certainly Not Get Them (By: Foggen)
- Video Game Characters That Just Need a Hug (By: Br3adfan)
- 10 Emotionally Stressful "Game Over" Events (By: Doomrunner)
Best of Blogs/Fantastic Forums
B0nd07 has completed the second part of his Promo Gallery Archive. ahoodedfigure talks about the changes and evolution of the The Elder Scrolls franchise. dudeglove talks about the re-designed Dante for the upcoming Devil May Cry game. FrankCanada returns with his nostalgic Notable Events blog series. ZanzibarBreeze is the podcast re-cap master as always, but this time makes a re-cap of The Adam Carolla Show. ask any questions you have about Dawn of War II - Retribution of the Beginners thread. And as always the usually suspects are blogging about video games and their lives! Check it out son!- Community TNT Promo Gallery Part 2 (By: B0nd07)
- Fast Travel: A Case Against TES Changes Being a Steady Decline (By: ahoodedfigure)
- Let's Play 'DR2: Case Zero' Rages Rage On! New Episodes Daily (By: Ashuku)
- The Price is Right (By: Sweep)
- Deconstructing Dante (By: dudeglove)
- De Bullets and de Blob (By: Dalai)
- Notable Events from the GB Community: The Return from Hiatus (By: FrankCanada97)
- Official Beginners Thread (for Dawn of War II - Retribution) - Have a Question? Post it! (By: Jeffsekai)
- The Best of The Adam Carolla Show (January 2006) -- Over 16 Hours (By: ZanzibarBreeze)
- Awesome Video Game Music: Athletic and Flower Garden from Yoshi's Island (By: MajorMitch)
- The Evolution of Video Game Narrative - Part 1 (By: Gamer_152)
- Cloudy With a Chance of Gaming -- 02/27/2011 (By: JJWeatherman)
- Needle In The Camel's Eye 02/28/11 (By: natetodamax)
- Rolling Through NWN2 (04): Now With Actual Screenshots! (By: ArbitraryWater)
- How Realistic is Too Realistic? (By: Fullmetal216)
User Created Podcasts
Author's Note: So how do you get on the Community Spotlight? Just drop a comment and a link on this here blog and I'll remember to put the recommended content on for next week. Also please don't rely on PMs or Wall posts. I get so many of those now that it's really hard to keep a track of what you asked me to brag about.
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