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The Community Spotlight - 10/13/2012

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Let Me Show You My Fairway.... 
Let Me Show You My Fairway.... 
Hello and welcome to the belated weekly Community Spotlight! I would like to apologize for this being late, however a few personal matters came up this week the prevented me from doing this Spotlight on the usual time. Beyond the late Spotlight did anyone notice that Jeff changed his profile avatar? If so what do you think about his new one? If you are in the mood for another mind blowing statistic get this, Gamebomb.ru's YouTube page is about to exceed 60,000,000 video views and 200,000 subscribers! Ryan was on another edition of GameSpot's Quoted For Truth and seems to be making yelling at GameSpot employees a habit. The fine marketers of GameSpot and the Giant Bomb staff would appreciate if you all took the time to fill out this comprehensive form about our community demographics. Finally the Giant Bomb PC Game Night Community has posted this highly entertaining compilation video of their recent adventures with Arma 2: 
      
  

Game Activities and Communities 

  • Let's Make a Game 2012 - Join the Community Effort to Make a Video Game Over Here!
  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown Steam ID Multiplayer Posting Thread - Hook-Up With Fellow Users to Play Online Over Here!

Wonderful Wikis 

The Giant Bomb Community has done a bang up job with the XCOM: Enemy Unknown wiki page continuing the tradtion of the Giant Bomb community honoring Sid Meier games with awesome wiki pages. The same can be said about Pokemon Black/White Version 2...You all sure do like your Pokemon judging from the crazy good wiki page for teh game. The excitement for Dishonored  has transcending onto the game's wiki page. Finally if you are even a bit curious about Retro City Rampage check out our wiki page for teh game to see a comprehensive list of all of the modes and filters that are in the game. 

Best of Blogs 

Dankempster is back to his usual grind of trying to beat Final Fantasy VII and user Sarumarine discusses his take on the grind that is Resident Evil 6. Hizang bit the bullet and bought a 3DS XL and discusses the trials and tribulations of trying to find a battery charger for it, whereas Phatmac finally bought a DS and talks about his first impressions of the handheld. A lot of users are still playing Borderlands 2 and the other big releases last month like MajorMitch, BitterAlmond, and Alaska_Gamer. RedRocketWestie wrote a blog defending the Kinect as a a poor piece of hardware but not a disappointment. Apocralyptic detailed his adventures in XCOM: Enemy Unknown in the form of a diary while on the flip-side Forderz rationalizes why he enjoys failing at XCOM and struggling with the battles in the game. Video_Game_King took the time to play Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver and Moon Crystal whereas user Mento briefly jaunted through Synergistic's Birthright. GB user Mento also provides a very entertaining MS Paint webcomic for your amusement. Gamer_152 implores you and the entire gaming community to stop getting angry at PETA because it is counter-intuitive. Encephalon continues his blog series looking at games he likes that have thing in them that he doesn't like, with the game this time being The World Ends With You. Daneian implores you to check out Double Dragon Neon's soundtrack even if the game doesn't appeal to you and TurboMan has started a gaming marathon blog series that intends to showcase numerous games from Tim Schaffer's adventure game days starting with Full Auto. 

Fantastic Forums 

Chapter 4 of The Walking Dead has come out and if you have played the episode discuss your decisions and their impact on your play through over there. If you plan on going to PAX East 2013 talk about what you are looking forward to and where you are staying in the PAX East 2013 discussion thread. Have there been any notable new video game characters that stuck with you this year? If so talk about them in the thread about the "Best New Character of the Year," and why you feel like they are a great character. Are you having a tough time with XCOM: Enemy Unknown? If so check out the help and hint thread to see if experts can assist with any missions yo are stuck on. Finally if you have been playing Dishonered talk about what your impressions are as well as what you think of the game on the discussion thread about the game. 

Lovable Lists 

I had to go back to the backlog once again this week but I have some interesting ones at least. KurbiosShoe (man I wish that was my username) has created a list of video game objects he wished he had in his possession. MysertiousBob has created a list of characters that aren't "good" per-say but he still kind of likes one way or another. Finally Giant Bomb user Costello has created a list of all the games he has played that did not have quests or a quest system in them. 

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