The Community Spotlight - 06/14/2013 [E3 2013 Edition]
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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! As this week concludes E3 comes to and end and everyone can go back to living a life filled with mundane surprises instead of groundbreaking industry changing ones. However, let's give a hand to everyone involved in production and direction of all of the videos that entertain us this year! Especially after the theft of all of the staff's video equipment it was a significant undertaking to bring you the video entertainment we all enjoyed for this year. On that note special thanks to Danny O'Dwyer and GameSpot for providing Giant Bomb with their spare video kits, and Drew and Vinny for recording and processing hours of entertainment at the cost of their sanity. If case you have time to kill someone has posted Jeff's 6 hour plus recording of his drive to Los Angeles for E3 on YouTube. For those asking you will most likely have to go to Twitch.tv to view the video versions of the E3 Livestreams as an on site archive is unlikely, although the audio versions will be hosted on the site as podcasts. Patrick's Interview Dumptrunk has broken the top ten on iTune's podcast list, although a website named "GamingBlend seems to think that Patrick looks like Shia LaBeouf. Finlly here are the winning banners for our E3 Banner Contest:
Clip of the Week
This one is over a week old but I just recently came across it. Give it a check if you want some Giant Bomb x Anime madness.
E3 Stuff Still Worth Looking Over
- E3 2013 Day One, Two and Three Live - Twitch Links (By: @alternate)
- Royalty-Free Song of the GB Livestream Show(s) (By: @equitasinvictus)
- Giant Bomb Staff Popping Up On Other Shows Thread (By: @lanerobertlane)
- The Official 2013 Giant Bomb Community E3 .gif Creation Thread (By: @TerribleBritishHamburger)
- Now That the Three Main Press Conferences are Over, Which Console Do You Want? (By: @xyzygy)
Community Activities
- Giant Bomb Guild Wars 2 Guild Lincoln Force 50/50 Raffle - Help the Guild Raise Money Over Here!
- The Animal Crossing New Leaf QR Code Thread - What Having you Been Doing with the Sables Sisters? Post Your Design Codes Here!
- The Last of Us Private Online Matchmaking Thread - Join Fellow GB Users in Playing The Last of Us Online Here!
- The Giant Bomb Uncharted 3 Hub - Read About the Recent Activities and Updates to the Hub Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Yeah I have a lot of wikis from games that were announced or showcased during E3. Check out the surprisingly detailed wiki pages for all of the consoles and video games that are not even out yet!
- E3 2013
- Playstation 4
- Xbox One
- Watch_Dogs
- South Park: The Stick of Truth
- Pikmin 3
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Best of Blogs
Hey there are a lot of blogs about people's different interpretations of the console and game announcements during E3 2013. You should read them all because they are all rational and reasonable takes on the future of gaming. See Giant Bomb chat, it is possible. Other non-E3 related blogs come from Video_Game_King who is playing obscure Japanese games as usual. HS21 wants you to help him in turning the always smiling Brad Muir into a meme, and Jan wants you to marvel at his ability to make Halo Spartans dance. Mento has started playing Vampire: The Masquerade and ComradeCrash has been playing State of Decay. Finally TwoLines discusses why Chrono Cross is a baffling masterpiece and Alaska_Gamer talks about Double Dragon Neon and Demon's Souls.
- Can Brad :D Muir be : ( ? (By: @hs21)
- Dubstepping Spartans (By: @jan)
- We Won E3, Ya'll! (By: @epicsteve)
- E3 2013: Microsoft and EA & Ubisoft and Sony (By: @gamer_152)
- Greatness Awaits (By: @jensonb)
- E3 2013 impressions: Beyond, Ryse, Dead Rising, Knack, and Nintendo Stuff (By: @cheddartyme)
- E3 and Consumer Anxiety (By: @bobby)
- Chrono Cross- Provocative, or Totally BONKERS? You Decide... (By: @twolines)
- A Blog of Sort-of Spin-Offs (By: @video_game_king)
- My Current State of Affairs: Decaying (Spoilers for State of Decay) (By: @comradecrash)
- Mento's Alternative to E3 2013: Day 3 [Day 2, Day 1, Day 0] (By: @mento)
- [insert title] 6-8-13 (By: @alaska_gamer)
Fantastic Forums
The Last of Us is out and the community is a buzz about the game! Talk about what you like and dislike about the game in the respective forum topics. Are you in the mood for something more calming? If you have Animal Crossing New Leaf talk about your town on the discussion thread.
- The Last of Us Discussion Thread (By: @yummylee)
- Your Gripes (With The Last of Us) - Share Them! (By: @seppli)
- How's Your Animal Crossing New Leaf Game Going? (By: @sanity)
Lovable Lists
E3 2013...I have two lists from the community that had actual text to them and they are from Mento and Jensonb. Following them are Euricaeris with a list of his twenty favorite DS games, and TechHits who has a list of his five favorite Mega Man games.
- Best of E3 2013 (By: @jensonb)
- E3 2013 (By: @mento)
- My Top 20 Nintendo DS Games (By: @euricaeris)
- My 5 Favorite Megaman Games (By: @techhits)
Useful User Reviews
- @branthog's user review of Remember Me
- @machofantastico's user review of Remember Me
User Created Podcasts
- GB Community Podcast - E3vaganza!
- TL;DL Podcast 34: Electronic Entertainment Crossing
- The Scotchcast Rp 6: E3, Day 0/1 (The Off-Topic Guild Wars 2 Podcast)
- The Lincolncast Episode 47: WvW, Templates and E3
- [Podcast] The Mighty Electronic Box (E3 2013: Day 1)
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