Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! As we reach the halfway point of the summer it is quite apparent that Giant Bomb users have not been enjoying the wonderful weather outside. This joking aside the staff and heads of Whiskey Media have been providing you with the very best content to enjoy while you relax in front of your screens. Andy would like you to know that videos should be fixed and the buffering and loading issues should be remedied. Intern EpicSteve has created a blog about his internship and living with Matt Kessler. The intern invasion continues as they have created their own podcast and have been using the very recording room for the Bombcast even! Finally I guess Jeff has confirmed the return of TANG? Not really though.....Well with that bit of housekeeping completed let's get on with the latest edition of the Spotlight!

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Wonderful Wikis

• Half-Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax
• Maniac Mansion
• Kenshi
• Wipeout HD
• Kirby's Dream Land

Lovable Lists

• Scarriest Horror Games (By: SonicFire)
• Species, Monsters, and Mutants (By: toxin45)
• Games Played on "GAAAAMES!!!! Live" (By: c0l0nelp0c0rn1)
• Cool Hispanic Characters (By: TheRedFear)

Fantastic Forums/Best of Blogs

• Why Darksiders Wasn't the Dark Zelda I'd Been Waiting For (By: Bass)
• Achievements That Make You Feel Dirty, So Very Dirty (By: SonicFire)
• Why Mass Effect 2 Failed to Live Up to Its Predecessor (By: Hate_Machine)
• I've Been Duked (By: vidiot)
• The Limitations of Motion Controls - Part 1 (By: Gamer_152)
• Breaking it All Down: Splinter Cell Conviction Review (By: Count_Zero)
• 2011 Steam Sale Event Thread (By: c0l0nelp0c0rn)
• Non-Steam PC Summer Sale Buyer's Guide (By: Tuffgong)
• Vito's Game Giveaway: Six Months and Counting (By: Vito_Raliffe)
• I Play Porn Games For The Story // 03.07.2011 (By: Psycosis)
• SID-licious #1: Mutants (By: buzz_clik)
• Quest: AMERICA! (By: mracoon)
• How Does Kinect Make You Feel? (By: Sweep)
• HoMM6 Beta Digest - Maybe I Put Too Much Effort Into This (By: Tenmuerti)
• Bioshock Infinite Choices (By: ahoodedfigure)
• Do You Have Google+? Let's Connect & be Friends! (By: jNerd)
• Doubt This Will End Well (By: James_Buchanan)

User Reviews

• Bass's review of Darksiders
• Fullmetal216's review of The Witcher: Enhanced Editions
• meatsounds's review of Puzzle Agent 2
• bonbolapti's review of Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D
• CraigAA's review of Galaga Legions DX
• Grumbel's review of Garshasp: The Monster Slayer
• MisterBananaFoam's review of The Fancy Pants Adventures

User Created Podcasts

• Internal Affairs 06-30-2011: The Whiskey Media Intern Podcast
• We Are Race Night Episode 9: We Are Lonely Night

Author's Note: Did you find or create any showcase worthy content on Giant Bomb be it related to the wiki or forums? Well then drop a comment on this here feature with a link to anything you have created or found and I promise to showcase it next week. Also to stay up on the best of the best of the Giant Bomb Community follow me on Twitter@GiantBombSquad.

James Buchanan? Now that's just obscure. Glad to see that you're making the examples fit the crown.

No starlet? Come on ZombiePie.

Too bad you (or mracoon, I guess) couldn't get a Starlet written up in time. I guess the last guy (whoever that was) will have to remain the current one for another week.
 
Honestly, I'm impressed so many GBers managed to contribute something this week considering how busy the Steam sale must be keeping everyone. Not to mention that bug that blew up certain people's profile pages. Kudos duders. Kudoders?

Are ArbitraryWater and I that easy to confuse? :P
 
Thanks as always for these lists. Helps make the effort feel more worthwhile :)

Congrats everyone! I wish I had some time leftover from AV's wiki work and family stuff to contribute. Just got to add info once a month or biweekly to my favorite games.

@Unknown_Pleasures: Good things need time. So far we have been publishing Starlets at a faster rate than when they were intern/staff articles.

@ahoodedfigure: I have no idea what you are talking about. (85% Chance of Success using Speech)

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This blog sucks. Especially compared to the Screened Community Showcase which is much more professional and classy.

Screened.com--tell your friends!

Fireworks are cool.

Yay! Excited to see that my contributions to the Maniac Mansion page made it into the spotlight this week!

I have this thingy for next week's spotlight. Also, that picture of Ryan is excellent.

Thanks a bunch for featuring my blog for the last few weeks! I try to post 4pm on Saturdays, which really isn't that convenient for this going up on Thursdays. So whoops.

On that note this week's blog is totally up, but I'm really here to pimp the Nimbus review I recently wrote because I badly want the review quests it'd be cool if more people played Nimbus!

As long as people are recommending their blogs, I might as well do the same. Also, I should probably have my next one finished in time for the next Community Spotlight.

My review of Hot Pursuit.

I'd like to recommend my latest blog I'm a Sucker for Hair Physics. Enjoy!

Here's stuff I've recently posted. Hopefully it's worthy of a spotlight. 
 
Does Being Bizarre Elevate a Game to Greatness? (blog) (Updated link)
 
My Review of Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon (contains video review)

As long as people are recommending their blogs, I might as well do the same. Also, I should probably have my next one finished in time for the next Community Spotlight.

I'm making the Spotlight earlier, smaller, and probably without a Starlet this week. I have to take my sister to the Harry Potter premier as a Birthday present promise.

@ZombiePie: Damn you! Now I have to stop being lazy and go make VGG #28!

@pat4327: Also once again I got more comments and views than the Screened Community Showcase.

I'd like to recommend my new review for Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. It's a pretty fun game!

We Are Race Night Episode 10 hit earlier this week, as always. A mention in the next spotlight would always be appreciated.

@ZombiePie: You are So Wizard for the movie trip. Hope it's as good as my Potter friends hope it's good. :) I usually watch 'em about 6 months later.

PROTEGO!

Yo, I made another developer retrospective. But because I didn't call it a "Mentospective", no-one read it. Lesson learned: Stick with the terrible self-aggrandizing portmanteaus in the future (though wiser folk than I might've perceived the lesson as "write more interesting articles" instead.)

Yo, I made another developer retrospective. But because I didn't call it a "Mentospective", no-one read it. Lesson learned: Stick with the terrible self-aggrandizing portmanteaus in the future (though wiser folk than I might've perceived the lesson as "write more interesting articles" instead.)

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@Mento said:

Yo, I made another developer retrospective. But because I didn't call it a "Mentospective", no-one read it. Lesson learned: Stick with the terrible self-aggrandizing portmanteaus in the future (though wiser folk than I might've perceived the lesson as "write more interesting articles" instead.)

That's not how you get views. The best way to get views is to make a controversial title. How do you get the comments, though? Express a controversial opinion. Why else do you think my last two blogs didn't do so well, even though they're pretty damn good?

This is exactly the way. When I have written blogs concerning things people are less likely to disagree with then no-one read them, but the one I wrote about not liking something the majority of the community liked I got a load of comments and like 1500 views.

Latest edition of the Spotlight is up now.

@ZombiePie: BUT Giant Bomb has seven times as many registered users. So adjusted for inflation, Screened is still better.