The Community Spotlight - 03/09/2012
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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! This week the staff were at GDC talking to and interviewing a motley number of industry members. If you tried to use the mobile site last week and had issues rest assured that site engineer Andy has fixed them and the site should be fine for mobile viewing. If you have plans on going to PAX East this year rejoice at the news that Dave will be going to the event as well and promises to buy drinks will "on the house" if you meet up with him. In other big new Ryan Davis has become engaged! If you wanted to follow the lucky lady on Twitter @EnemyNanner. Giant Bomb user Mustard who has been diligently maintaining his Brad Quick Look Start to Death is retiring the list in light of Brad's 100th Quick Look Death. Anyways as always remember to check out the Bomb Shelter and to email interns@whiskeymedia.com to get content on the "Rad Stuff" tab on the front page of Giant Bomb.
Community Events
- Official Street Fighter X Tekken Community Thread - Join and Play with the Community Over Here!
- Giant Bomb Community Guild Leaders for Guild Wars 2 - Learn About the Guild Leaders Here!
- Giant Bomb Community Guild Rules for Guild Wars 2 - Read the Rules Before the Game Comes Out Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
The release of Mass Effect 3 and Street Fighter X Tekken has wrapped a good number of the GB community into creating amazing wikis for those games. The SLy Cooper character page caught the attention of a couple of Giant Bomb users after they discovered it was blank and the same can be said about the slew of Fire Emblem Character pages being showcased this week. If you're curious as to who won what award during the latest GDC head on over to the Game developers Choice Awards 2012 page.- Mass Effect 3
- Street Fighter X Tekken
- MLB 12: The Show
- Sly Cooper
- Game Developers Choice Awards 2012
- Burnout Revenge
- Aran
- Nephenee
- Laura
Best of Blogs
When it comes to this week the community continues its creative and meditative streak. The highlight of the week is GB user ShadowVirus's amazing Giant Bomb Quick Look Death infograph. GB user Valames's continues providing Giant Bomb fan art this week with an homage to the Bombcast. User ZZoMBiE13 created fanart to coincide with the final episode of The Amazing Test: Bricked. GB user Sin4profit has created an archive of evry QL that features Dave, Vinny, and Drew. Wrighteou86 got to visit the HQ for Volition and shows the pictures he took on his latest blog this week. TerraMantis pitches his dream video game based on Firefly. FLStyle talks about the fighting game community in light of some controversies. Mento discusses accessibility for games in general while nukesniper talks about the inaccessibility of Black Ops. Beyond these highlights there are so many more blogs worth talking about so feel free to look over all of them!- Brad and Friends QL Deaths Infrograph (By: ShadowVirus)
- Skyward Otaku...yea, that Fits Me Pretty Well. (By: Video_Game_King)
- What Happens When I Stare at Box Art for Twenty Minutes (By: Video_Game_King)
- The Sense of an Ending: Preliminary Thoughts on Mass Effect 3 (By: Egge)
- My Journey Into Journey - The Most Emotional Experience I've Had (By: TonyBlue87)
- The Acclivity of Accessibility (By: Mento)
- My Homage to Giant Bomb: Part 2 (By: Valames)
- The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Epic: Day 1. Things Go South (By: EarlessShrimp)
- Me vs. Call of Duty: Black (and Treyarch) (By: nukesniper)
- My Max Payne 1&2 Playthrough, My Memories, and Max Payne 3 [Pt 1] (By: AhmadMetallic)
- Flight Sim'in with Drew, Vinny, & Dave [Archives] (By: Sin4profit)
- Weekend Update 02-26-12 (By: Mago)
- No.0017 & No.0018 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War I & II (By: hsvlad)
- I Play Semi-Old Games (The Witcher) (By: ArbitraryWater)
- My Journey to the Moon (By: MajorMitch)
- I Play Porn Games for the Story // 03.04.2012 (By: Psycosis)
- Ladies and Gents, I Present the Real Fighting Game Community (By: FLStyle)
- Not So Legendary After All (By: dankempster)
- Recently Played: Rhythm Heaven Fever (By: Sarumarine)
- Whiskey Shots 4 "Challenge Day" (By: ZZoMBiE13)
- What's Your Dream Video Game? (By: TerraMantis)
- Claude's Closing Credits: The Lost and the Damned (By: Claude)
- Meanwhile, at Volition... (By: Wrighteous86)
Lovable Lists
GB list master Mento appears to have lost his touch with his latest work for this week. GB user ran88dom99 is working on chronicling user creation tools in games that aren't for crazy people, and Sarumarine lists a handful of lovable jerks in video games.- Professional Jerks: Characters You Love to Hate (By: Sarumarine)
- Mass Effect 3 Cameos (By: Mento )
- Really Easy Content Creation Inside and for Video Games (By: ran88dom99)
Great Guides
And now for the return of User Created Guides. This should have happened earlier as many of these guides were created and published last week but I'm just now showcasing them now because I forgot to check the Guides tab last week. Rest assured if you take the time to work on a game guide I promise you I'll showcase it.- Link's Awakening DX Photo Album Guide (By: CountMacula)
- Super Stardust Delta Trophy Guide v1.1 (By: Salesmunn)
- BloodRayne Betrayal Scores (By: Sergey)
Useful User Reviews
- ZZoMBiE13's review of SSX
- BlaineBlaine's review of Dungeon Village
- Oni's review of Syndicate
- MikeLemmer's review of Containment: The Zombie Puzzler
- Entmoot's review of Crusader Kings 2
- GUnitVer1's review of Street Fighter X Tekken
- Sammo21's review of Asura's Wrath
- Gamer_152's review of Shadows of the Damned