The Community Spotlight - 03/31/2011
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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! Firstly snide has this video for you feast over and see what the new Giant Bomb will look like. Big monitors are required for this video. Yes Giant Bomb was down for a while but the future holds no bounds! StarCraft fanatics should check out the Hyperion Television YouTube channel that archives every single US StarCraft II tournament. User Egge has written a series of blogs pertaining to how he feels about Dragon Age II that you should check out. Also sister site Screened has some crazy wiki editors if you wanted to know. Finally check out this badass Pyramid wallpaper a user created for you to enjoy and plaster on your computer screen.
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Wonderful Wikis
I have a motley bunch of wikis to show for this week. Mostly old PC games but hey Giant Bomb is a community of nostalgic gamers if anything else. However this week proved to be especially difficult to find good wikis that haven't been showcased. Remember that there a whole other side to Giant Bomb that's worth checking out and working on!- Max Payne
- Day of Defeat: Source
- Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
- Spider-Man
- Icewind Dale II
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Useful User Reviews
- Abyssfull's review of Mass Effect 2 - The Arrival DLC
- masterbedgood's review of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars
- kalmis's review of Sonic Colors
- marchismo's review of Last Window: Midnight Promise
- dark_being's review of Cursed Mountain
- EXCellR8's review of SHIFT 2: Unleashed
- MajorMitch's review of Pokemon Black/White
- Yanngc33's review of Swarm
Lovable Lists
- Jumping the Gun: My Worst Impulse Buys (By: ArbitraryWater)
- RATED: The Essential Sonic Game List (By: BlazeHedgehog)
- 5 Games I Love Enough to Let Them Go (By: LeadNinja)
- SEGA Franchises I Would Like to See Platinum Games Work On (By: WebOfSomething)
- Simple Can Be Good (By: ahoodedfigure)
- Games I Experienced for the First Time on the Wii's Virtual Console (By: outlawed)
Best of Blogs/Fantastic Forums
PixelPrinny returns with her trend of writing long and extended blogs about JRPGs. PsEG's stats for the latest Community Quest are up to enjoy. Mento is meditative about video games and is followed by ahoodedfigure and RaginLion. Hailinel gets nostalgic about the end of the 3DS and RecSpec talks about a personal failure in making gameplay videos.- My Top 5 Reasons to Continue Playing Mediocre JRPGs (By: PixelPrinny)
- 3DSanity Quest Stats (By: PsEG)
- Loot Management & You: How Games deal With Your Garbage (By: Mento)
- The Game Idea Generator (By: thisisalan)
- That Sense of Entitlement (By: ahoodedfigure)
- Cloudy With a Chance of Gaming -- 03/27/2011 (By: JJWeatherman)
- Reminiscing About the DS (By: Hailinel)
- What TNT was _______ on? The Guide to Every Guest on a Giant Bomb TNT (By: X19)
- 24 Hour Impressions With My Nintendo 3DS (By: JJOR64)
- Neck Wounds and Planetoids (By: Gamer_152)
- Dream Design Docs - Random Plot Points (By: RagingLion)
- 30 Days of Gaming: Day 18 (By: aurahack)
- Eat Lead: My Experience in Making a Playthrough Video (By: RecSpec)
User Created Podcasts
Author's Note: Did I miss something or have you created something truly worthy of being showcased to the entire Giant Bomb Community? Well just drop a link to anything you think is cool and I be sure to showcase it! Feel free to recommend your own stuff or something you are involved with.