Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Community Spotlight! The updates continue at a steady pace just look at the new News Page. That's not the only good news as the second Big Live Live Show is all set for September 9th.  The interns have been belting out the enjoyable video content with a new Kessler Kam and an anime edition of Dog Deep by Lemon. Sadly but true interns aren't to last forever. So with that please check out Intern Undeadpool's send off as his internship has ended. With all of that in mind please check out the latest edition of the Community Spotlight as presented by mracoon:
 

Community Starlet- Featuring Mento!

When bringing back the Community Starlet one of the things I wanted to do was highlight not just users who are well known for their community content but those that might fall under the radar. That's why this week's ComStar is awarded to Mento.

Those searching for insightful, humorous and atrociously-named discussion about videogames would be wise going through Mento's blogs. He covers a plethora of topics from a comparative look at Baldur's Gate II vs. Dragon Age II to what makes a good achievement and even a hideously-named retrospective on From Software. People ask where all the thoughtful and well written content is and it's right here.

Mento also has a thing for lists as he's created 19 of them. Some select choices are 'Fun With Anagrams', 'List of Wizards & The Things They Find F'd Up', 'Character's Better Suited for Tycho's Chair in "Poker Night at the Inventory"' and 'Acrostatic' reviews.

I haven't even got to the best part yet, wiki subs! Yes, Mento has earned over 6500 wiki points and they were mostly gained from two pages: War Wind and Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance. Never heard of them? Me either but thanks to Mento we have more information that we'll ever need about these two classic PC titles. One other page to look out for is the, for once, brilliantly-named Jelly Boy whose titular character, from reading the page, doesn't sound like he's actually made out of jelly.

Important Fun Stuff

• Giant Bomb Community SC2 US Tournament #10 - July 9th, 2:00PM EST/11:00AM PDT - Sign Up HERE!

• The Giant Bomb Team Fortress 2 Bombing Run Thread - Get the Game Times HERE!

• Halo Reach Community Night - Say if You are Interested HERE!

• Star Wars Galaxies Send Off Community Project! - Sign Up HERE!

• Vito's Game Giveaway #24 - Due July 2nd - Win Free Games HERE!

Wonderful Wikis

• Team Fortress 2
  

• Chris Delay
• Lucy Kuo
• The Thinker
• Noel Vermillion
• Shadows of the Damned
• Xenoblade Chronicles
  

Lovable Lists

• My Top 9 Colossi (By: RagingLion)
• Grand List of Supporting Characters Who Should be Given Their Own Game (By: Brodehouse)
  

Fantastic Forums/Best of Blog

• Vinny Needs a New Body (By: buzz_clik)
• From Bronze to Gold: A StarCraft 2 Quest: 06/30/2011 (By: grant742)
• Terraria: How to Ineptly Kill Your Open-World Sandbox Experience (By: heatDrive88)
• The Mostly Complete Beginner's Guide to TF2 (By: LordXavierBritish)
• A Beginner's Guide to TF2 (By: Atlas)
  
• Duke Nukem in One Minute (Video) (By: TurboMan)
• Summer Jamz! Quest Stats (By: PsEG)
• New Quest Set: Summer Jamz Hint Thread! (By: Lumley)
  
• The Difference Between Narrative , and Play (Or Play + Rules) (By: just_nnonplussed)
• The Mentop Tento: Ten Best Chase Bosses (By: Mento)
• I Need Some Banners for the TNT Archive (By: X19)
  
• Link has Been Vanquished [SSC18] (By: bonbolapti)
• I Play Porn Games For The Story // 26.06.2011 (By: Psycosis)
• Confused By The Hate: Dungeon Siege III (By: jakob187)
• The Unreasonable Expectations of Mr. Nukem (By: Gamer_152)
• Aren't you Supposed to be Cleaning? A Day 3 Skarlet Kombo Video (By: StarvingGamer)
• Ruining My Childhood Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (By: ArbitraryWater)
• And Not a Single Obscure Game was Blogged About (By: Neville_Chamberlain)
• Looking Back at it The Games We Waited So Long For Part 1 (By: insanejedi)
  

User Reviews

• tactis's review of Dungeon Siege III
• talljack's review of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
• Noct's review of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D
• Bojangle's review of Jamestown
• DH69's review of F.E.A.R. 3
• Musambani's review of Vindictus
• YukoAsho's review of Duke Nukem 3D
  

• insanejedi's review of Mirror's Edge
  

User Created Podcasts

• Pass The Whiskey - Episode 2: Title is To Dang Long
  
• Game Logic Episode 4: Time to Heal
• We Are Race Night Episode 8: Pony Loving Drunks

So now I surrender shit to the Nazis? Why?

Oh man, thanks for having my blog on this!

Good to see that my last minute plead for attention came through. I am truly a desperate person. That, or a prima donna who needs his time in the (community) spotlight. 
 
Congrats to Mento. You probably deserve it. Thanks to your work on that Birthright page, I am now in the active process of looking up videos for it, as well as reading Wikipedia pages about every D&D setting. (Is it just me, or is every single setting way cooler than Forgotten Realms? Ok. Maybe not Greyhawk. But still, Dark Sun and Ravenloft are both settings that deserve more than two fairly obscure DOS era games respectively to their names.)

I like it, because this week has been the most social "Sunday Social" hahahaha.  I don't know why I give things certain names, but goddamnit it sticks.
 
Although I guess we should be getting back into the habit of doing the TL;DL podcast so I should remind myself to keep it posted for the community spotlight

That Game Logic thing was totally lame. I hated it.

I really wish they'd put followed blogs back on the homepage but good post nonetheless :)

Thanks for putting me on! As dumb as it is to ask to have myself moved to the more crowded category, I really ought to be filed under blog. But hey, I leave that to the powers that be.

Daaaamn, that's a surreal thing to wake up to. Super appreciated, guys, thanks!
 
Now for an influx of "Who?", "What, why?" and "Should've been Pepsiman/Turboman/Claude" posts to bring me back down to Earth. Chop chop, duders.

Now for an influx of "Who?", "What, why?" and "Should've been Pepsiman/Turboman/Claude" posts to bring me back down to Earth. Chop chop, duders.

I wrote a blog about my thoughts on Darksiders as a Dark Zelda game, along with a review of Darksiders. Both are fairly extensive pieces and I would appreciate if they got a little attention.

@Mento said:

Daaaamn, that's a surreal thing to wake up to. Super appreciated, guys, thanks! Now for an influx of "Who?", "What, why?" and "Should've been Pepsiman/Turboman/Claude" posts to bring me back down to Earth. Chop chop, duders.

I'm more of a whore than starlet. You deserve it, congrats.

Well established users should never be featured as a starlet.

Congratulations to Mento, good to see one of the more unfairly overlooked community members featured. Oh, also, I haz a blog.

@ZombiePie: Thought I'd submit my review of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition for the Community Spotlight. Enjoy!

@ZombiePie: I've got a review of Puzzle Agent 2 I spent a bit of effort on, if you're interested.

I did a video review of Splinter Cell Conviction as a blog post (because I wasn't sure if I should do it as a review or not) in which I break the story into little tiny plot-hole-filled pieces.

Check out the latest edition of the Spotlight here!

Congrats everyone!