The Community Spotlight - 08/18/2011

Noble Notables

• Vito's Game Giveaway #34! - Due August 24th - Win a Free Game Over HERE!

• Giant Bomb Co-Op and Vs Age of Empires Online Community Thread! Check out Who Else is Playing Over HERE!

• Giant Bomb League of Legends Steam Group - See if you Can Play with Some Fellow GB Users in this Group!

Wonderful Wikis

• SNES
  
• Mega Mall Story
• Kuma
• Seven Force
• Age of Empires III
  

Fantastic Forums/Best of Blogs

• God Save the Combo ~ Evil Ryu Manefesto (By: lordofultima)
• Skyrim Speedpaint (By: Loarfy)
• 20 Years of Linux - 20 Years of Not so Much Gaming... (By: buckybit)
• LimpingFish's Computo Obscurio Episode 2: FZ Senki Axis (By: LimpingFish)
• Backlog Battle - Episode 11 - Swear Word (By: kalmis)
• The International - Tournament Discussion Thread (By: Jokers_Wild)
• The Giant Bomb - Time Magazine Photoshop Thread (By: evildeadron)
• A Link to the Zeldalikes (By: Mento)
• I Play Modern Games: Impressions (Divinity II TDKS) (By: ArbitraryWater)
• No Ask ME Anything (About Gears of War 3) (By: Sweep)
• An Obvious Blog about the Game Industry - Part 1 (By: Gamer_152)
• I Play Porn Games for the Story (By: Psycosis)
  
• Do You Want Legacy of Kain Back? (By: TerraMantis)
• Fire Emblem Path of Radiance Blind Run (By: Halberdierv2)
• [insert title] 8-13-2011 (By: Alaska_Gamer)
• Man I've Been Playing tons of PC Games Lately, Haven't I? (By: Video_Game_King)
• It Could be a Game: Black Lagoon (By: Sarumarine)
  

Lovable Lists

• The 50 N64 Games That I Decided Were All the N64 I Wanted to Own (By: LimpingFish)
• State of the PS2 Backlog (By: Mento)
• Games with Weird Names (By: JerryArr)
  

User Reviews

• misterhaan's review of Spiral Knights
  
• Abyssfull's review of Crash Twinsanity
  
• AllIsHeresy's review of Knights Contract
  
• MasterVerhoffin's review of E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy
  
• Gladiator_Game's review of
  
• CraigAA's review of Catherine
• insanejedi's review of Bastion
  

User Created Podcasts

• Pass the Whiskey - Episode 5: The EdgeTrenchCast
  
• TL;DR Episode 15: League of Remnants (Podcast)
• Joystick Tuggers - Killer Instinct and Dual Heroes
  

Noble Notables

• Vito's Game Giveaway #34! - Due August 24th - Win a Free Game Over HERE!

• Giant Bomb Co-Op and Vs Age of Empires Online Community Thread! Check out Who Else is Playing Over HERE!

• Giant Bomb League of Legends Steam Group - See if you Can Play with Some Fellow GB Users in this Group!

Wonderful Wikis

• SNES
  
• Mega Mall Story
• Kuma
• Seven Force
• Age of Empires III
  

Fantastic Forums/Best of Blogs

• God Save the Combo ~ Evil Ryu Manefesto (By: lordofultima)
• Skyrim Speedpaint (By: Loarfy)
• 20 Years of Linux - 20 Years of Not so Much Gaming... (By: buckybit)
• LimpingFish's Computo Obscurio Episode 2: FZ Senki Axis (By: LimpingFish)
• Backlog Battle - Episode 11 - Swear Word (By: kalmis)
• The International - Tournament Discussion Thread (By: Jokers_Wild)
• The Giant Bomb - Time Magazine Photoshop Thread (By: evildeadron)
• A Link to the Zeldalikes (By: Mento)
• I Play Modern Games: Impressions (Divinity II TDKS) (By: ArbitraryWater)
• No Ask ME Anything (About Gears of War 3) (By: Sweep)
• An Obvious Blog about the Game Industry - Part 1 (By: Gamer_152)
• I Play Porn Games for the Story (By: Psycosis)
  
• Do You Want Legacy of Kain Back? (By: TerraMantis)
• Fire Emblem Path of Radiance Blind Run (By: Halberdierv2)
• [insert title] 8-13-2011 (By: Alaska_Gamer)
• Man I've Been Playing tons of PC Games Lately, Haven't I? (By: Video_Game_King)
• It Could be a Game: Black Lagoon (By: Sarumarine)
  

Lovable Lists

• The 50 N64 Games That I Decided Were All the N64 I Wanted to Own (By: LimpingFish)
• State of the PS2 Backlog (By: Mento)
• Games with Weird Names (By: JerryArr)
  

User Reviews

• misterhaan's review of Spiral Knights
  
• Abyssfull's review of Crash Twinsanity
  
• AllIsHeresy's review of Knights Contract
  
• MasterVerhoffin's review of E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy
  
• Gladiator_Game's review of
  
• CraigAA's review of Catherine
• insanejedi's review of Bastion
  

User Created Podcasts

• Pass the Whiskey - Episode 5: The EdgeTrenchCast
  
• TL;DR Episode 15: League of Remnants (Podcast)
• Joystick Tuggers - Killer Instinct and Dual Heroes
  

Awesome sauce. I do love the spotlight.

Congratulations to everyone who made it in. Awesome spotlight sauce. It's delicious.

Mega Mall Story! Woo!

I need to read up on some of this other stuff. Right on.

Thanks for including my blog in the Community Spotlight. Everything else is great as usual.

Thanks and good job everyone.

I can't see which game Gladiator_Game's reviewed

Gladiator_Game's review of

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Maybe you were joking but the Time magazine websites weren't ranked. They were just grouped by category.

@Taiyo said:

Maybe you were joking but the Time magazine websites weren't ranked. They were just grouped by category.

There was definitely a number 42 attached to the Giant Bomb page. That's all I know.

@JackiJinx said:

@sirdesmond While it most certainly has 42 attached to it, if you look at all of the sites by ranked, they are categorized by subject order numerically. In the five game sites listed there, GB is number two.

So let me get this straight. Giant Bomb is the second best website in the world according to Time Magazine?

@sirdesmond: Second best video game website. They did not order any sites by best overall website.

@JackiJinx: I was joking!

@sirdesmond: Sorry, mate. Hard to tell in text form. Plus, after reading so many stories from Not Always Right..you never know.

@JackiJinx: Haha, that's definitely true. Also, thanks for re-introducing me to that site. I had forgotten all about it and it is great.

@sirdesmond: You are most welcome!

nice, my first GB spotlight!

Zombie, I love the spotlights, but you need to let me make you banners each week. :P

Seriously though. I'd be willing.

Zombie, I love the spotlights, but you need to let me make you banners each week. :P

Seriously though. I'd be willing.

@Video_Game_King said:

@JJWeatherman said:

Zombie, I love the spotlights, but you need to let me make you banners each week. :P

Seriously though. I'd be willing.

Why not make it into a contest of some type? Whoever wins gets a subscription gifted to them or something (emphasis on "or something").

How would that work? You mean each week have a banner contest? Seems like a lot to keep together week after week for something that's not super important.

@JJWeatherman: aww hell naaw, I know you didn't just belittle our community!

@Swoxx said:

@JJWeatherman: aww hell naaw, I know you didn't just belittle our community!

If you mean the "not super important" thing, I was just referring to the banner parrrrt! D: D: D:

:P

@JJWeatherman said:

@Swoxx said:

@JJWeatherman: aww hell naaw, I know you didn't just belittle our community!

If you mean the "not super important" thing, I was just referring to the banner parrrrt! D: D: D:

:P

;) I'm glad that's cleared up!

@Video_Game_King said:

@JJWeatherman: I was thinking of it more like a permanent banner he could reuse week after week.

Ohh, I see. Yeah, that could be cool. Although I have taken a liking to the week specific banners.

@Video_Game_King: @JJWeatherman: Ehh I use a free source version of Photoshop for the banners. Also I'm not ready to manage a community contest right now.

a free source version of Photoshop

Oh god, I haven't written a blog post in a week :(

I wish I wasn't so busy.

As always, there's a new episode of Joystick Tuggers (if anyone is interested) and a funny blog post from CritThreat all about arm wrestling arcade games.

EDIT: I also just put up a blog post about some of the more unusual and obscure video games in which dinosaurs have made an appearance!

Might as well shamelessly advertise my latest blog.

@Video_Game_King said:

Might as well shamelessly advertise my latest blog.

Calling anything you post shameless is redundant.

Thanks for including my blog in the Community Spotlight. Everything else is great as usual.

I could use some more recommendations about User Lists and Wikis for the next Spotlight

Just put up my review of Deus Ex: Human Revolution(Xbox360). 
 
I should have a video review put together and embedded within the next day. I'd do it sooner but Burn Notice and Suits come first.

Here is my Binding of Issac Interview with Edmund Mcmillen

Latest Spotlight is up now.