The Community Spotlight - 06/20/2014
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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight, I am your host as always! The site has officially recovered from E3 2014, and we are back in action! Before E3 2014 becomes a complete afterthought our very own @patrickklepek wants to have your feedback in regards to the site's coverage of E3! Whether you had an issue with any of the streams, or felt like their coverage contained gaps share your thoughts, in a civil manner, over here. Speaking of Patrick he recently made an appearance on GameTrailer's Bonus Round, you can get the links to the various streams over here. Patrick has also started a new podcast with @maxistentialist(Max Temkin) which is all about the television show LOST titled the "LOST Rewatch." GB user @eccentrix has set up a tube(synch) chatroom where you can chat while watching Giant Bomb videos 24/7. With that let's get on with the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight!
Clips of the Week
@turboman took time from his wrestling addiction to compile the best moments of Giant Bomb's E3 2014 coverage. @akyho combines Giant Bomb with the Persona 4 anime in a video tribute to Ryan. Finally the top video comes from @wallofbricks that compiles the most hilarious moments of the staff competing against each other.
Community Activities
- Giant Bomb Playstation 4 Destiny Group - Learn How to Join LINCOLN FORCE Over Here!
- Giant Bomb Ottawa Meetup - Meet Other Canadian Duders In Person By Heading Over Here!
- Summer Games Done Quick 2014 Master Thread - Donate and Learn About the Event Here!
- Pushmo World QR Code Sharing Thread - Share Your QR Codes Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Oh yeah...we have hit the Summer Gaming Drought. The notables this week are for WildStar and EA Sports UFC.
Best of Blogs
The top blog of the week comes from MikeLemmer, who decided to do something questionable...that being he decided to play Eve Online. Read all about his adventures and failures on his highly informative and entertaining blog. thatpinguino has two allocutions this week; the first being an extrapolation on how Splatoon is more revolutionary than most are giving it credit for, and the second is a deep look on the junctioning system in Final Fantasy VIII. Video_Game_King stretched his gaming juxtapositioning to a critical state with Penny Arcade and Doraemon as his featured games this week. Taking a note from Video_Game_King, smcn has a picture based Let's Play for 999. Mento's latest Comic Commish is all about the most prominent gaming moments of the first half of 2011. CottoneUD is still plugging along with Persona 4 Golden and has two new editions of his blog series. Despite the stupid title MooseyMcMan's blog enumerating his thoughts related to Watch_Dogs, Destiny, and E3 is worth reading. Speaking of E3 GB mod Marino has the video stats of which game trailers and E3 videos were the most popular, meanwhile DarthOrange listed out the five games that impressed him the most from E3 2014. FLStyle has an event list and itinerary for CEO 2014 for fighting game fans to review. Benspyda delineates why he's still playing Skyrim all of these years after its release. Sarumarine recounts every track in Mario Kart 8 and reviews them. bobafettjm is still doing great work on the wiki and you can read about his wiki related activity this week. Finally ArbitraryWater shares his conflicted thoughts concomitant to Final Fantasy XIII.
- 1 Week in EVE: Don't Fly What You Can't Lose (By: @mikelemmer)
- Splatoon: Changing Shooters by Moving the Target (By: @thatpinguino)
- Deep Look: Final Fantasy 8- Junctioning (By: @thatpinguino)
- Finally. A Blog as Random as the Games Within It (By: @video_game_king)
- The Comic Commish: The Previous Generation (Jan-Jun 2011) (By: @mento)
- Persona 4 Golden New Game Plus -- The Continuing Adventures of William Rikeru (Part 20 6/18/2014) [Part 19] (By: @cottoneud)
- _Dogs, _Destiny, and _Du..._Di..._Da...uh...E3 (By: @mooseymcman)
- CEO 2014 Preview (June 27-29) + FighterMania & E3 Fighting Games Round-up! (By: @flstyle)
- Summer 2014 Anime Capsule Previews: These Ghosts Are Hot (By: @dochaus)
- The Comic Commish: The Previous Generation (Jan-Jun 2011) (By: @mento)
- My Love Affair With Skyrim, Life's Great Teacher! (By: @benspyda)
- Sarumarine's Mario Kart 8 Course Review (By: @sarumarine)
- Let's Have a Magical Ocean Adventure with Junpei and Friends! (By: @smcn)
- Data Dump: E3 Trailers Edition (By: @marino)
- Weekly Wiki Update - Sunday, June 15th 2014 (By: @bobafettjm)
- Arbitrary Versus XIII (and Other Wonderful Uses of Time and Money) (By: @arbitrarywater)
- My Top 5 Games of E3 2014 (By: @darthorange)
Fantastic Forums
The Steam Summer Sale is here! Remember to discuss your purchases and the discounts you are looking forward to on the Master Thread. Please thank both akyho and wallofbricks for making some fantastic Giant Bomb themed videos this week. Join the discussion as to how you think ad revenue for popular live streams and let's plays should be distributed. As already mentioned Patrick and Max Temkin have started a new Lost (T.V. show) themed podcast so discuss the points made during the podcast, or follow them in their journey on the site. Feel free to discuss your favorite new IP revealed during E3, Dead Rising 3 Super Ultra Whatever, and...if you would want free gas for three years or free Air Jordans for life.
- Steam Summer Sale 2014 Master Thread (By: @mb)
- Giant VS Bomb (By: @wallofbricks)
- Who Deserves Ad Revenue When Games are Streamed? (By: @mrcraggle)
- Ryan Davis Tribute Video Using Persona 4 the Animation (By: @akyho)
- Brad as the Bombcast Host Discussion Thread (By: @darknessmyoldfriend)
- Super Ultra Dead Rising 3 Discussion and Arcade Location Hint Thread (By: @megabite10164)
- Free Gas or Free Air Jordans? (By: @washablemarkers)
- Patrick and Max Temkin's new Lost Podcast Discussion Thread (By: @hammondoftexas)
- The Lost Discussion Thread - Pilot (Parts 1 & 2) (By: @notdavid)
- New IP E3 2014 Reveal You're Most Excited About Discussion Thread (By: @mocbucket62)
Lovable Lists
In an attempt to thumb his nose towards a certain video game publisher/developer DevourerOfTime has annotated every game that had a presence at E3 2014 that featured a playable female character. Kindgineer on the other hand has taken the time to list out his top ten favorite games of all time.
- E3 2014 - Year of the Female Playable Character (By: @devoureroftime)
- My Top Ten List (By: @kindgineer)
Useful User Reviews
- @trevi's review of Dragon Story