The Community Spotlight - 05/26/2011
By ZombiePie 29 Comments
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! This week we have a sizable amount of sites news to go over! As you may have noticed the site got a recent revision! If you have any strong opinions about the site revision (positive or negative) head on over to this thread. If you have found any major bugs on the site check out this thread. For those of you that think Giant Bomb has too many concept pages you might want to read this response by Jeff on his Formspring. Tony (aka G-Man) from Comic Vine celebrated his birthday on the 24th. Also Comic Vine has a new Community Twitter account worth checking out. Finally if you ever wanted to know what it is like being an intern in Whiskey Media check out GlenTennis's blog about his second day as an intern.
Important and Fun Stuff
EpicSteve's Twenty-Eleven Essay Contest Extravaganza 2011!! - Read the rules and see what the prizes are HERE!
Giant Bomb Mortal Kombat Fight Night - Every Thursday at 6:00 P.M. PDT - Sign up HERE!
Giant Bomb DiRT 3 Race Night (for 360 & PC) - Every Sunday 8:00 PM ET - Sign up HERE!
Vito's Game Giveaway #20! 1600 MSP, $20 PSN, or $20 Steam! - Due Saturday, June 4th - Win some FREE POINTS/MONEY!
The Giant Bomb Uncharted Club - Sign up to Prepare yourself for Uncharted 3 HERE!
Wonderful Wikis
- Street Fighter II
- Sagat
- DiRT 3
- Cole Phelps (Spoiler Warning)
- Dead or Alive: Dimensions
- Astérix & Obélix XXL 2: Mission: Las Vegum
User Reviews
- Slaker117's review of L.A. Noire
- HorsemanVI's review of L.A. Noire
- Ursus_Veritas's review of Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale
- SgtReznor's review of Superbrothers: Swords & Sworcery EP
- TerraMantis's review of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
- Marz's review of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
- AjayRaz's review of Dead or Alive: Dimensions
- AndrewVerse's review of Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers
- Burn1n9m4n's review of Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes
- Sparky_Buzzsaw's review of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Lovable Lists
- Abandoned XBLA Games for TNT (By: LordXavierBritish)
- My ABC's of Gaming (By: ShawnS)
- Games I Wish I Loved Better (By: Ibid)
- It Would Pretty Neat If These Games Got Translated Into English (By: Mento)
- Just so You Know (By: Brackynews)
Best of Blogs/Fantastic Forums
- Terraria has Convinced me I Never had Fun in Minecraft (By: LordXavierBritish)
- Dragon Quest IX is Still Awesome (By: Feigr)
- By the Numbers (By: Marino)
- Guys, I Made a Couple DiRT3 Wallpapers. Critiques? (By: BestUsernameEver)
- Nothing but Sega Shooters in This Blog. Also, Spiders. (By: Video_Game_King)
- Alpha Centauri/Star Wars a la BioWare/Note about L.A. Noire (By: ahoodedfigure)
- I Play Old Fighting Games Part 1 (Street Fighter Alpha Series) (By: ArbitraryWater)
- My TNT Statistics Infographic (By: ShadowVirus)
- In Defense of the Adventure (By: vidiot)
- Japan's Favorite Soundtracks. Apparently. (By: Mento)
- Community Quick Look: Mirror's Edge + Perfect Dark (By: wasteguru)
- A Blog as Confusing and Long-Winded as Nier (SPOILERS) (By: buzz_clik)
- The Baddest Games We Like (By: Hailinel)
- My Final Thoughts on L.A. Noire (Spoilers ABOUND!) (By: MooseyMcMan)
- Tennis and Driving [SSC16] (By: bonbolapti)
- The Secrets of Portal 2 - Part 2 (Warning: Spoilers) (By: Gamer_152)
- Downwards is the Only Way Forwards (By: Sweep)
- L.A. Noire Crime Report Day #1 - Into The Mean Streets (By: natetodamax)
- A Quick Look at Question of the Day (By: LordAndrew)
- I Recently Started Writing About Video Game Soundtracks (By: A_Cute_Squirtle)
User Created Podcasts
Author's Note: Have you created an awesome piece of content or found something you think is worth a toot? Well just drop a comment on this blog with a link to the content and I will make sure to showcase it next week the Spotlight rolls around! Also if you are unaware check out the Giant Bomb Community Twitter @GiantBombSquad to stay up on all of the best of the best of the Giant bomb Community's activities...and also some shenanigans.