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The Community Spotlight - (02/13/2015)

by zombiepie

Many Thanks to @aurahack for Creating This Wonderful Art! Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight, and I am honored to be your host as always. This week let's all enjoy a box of Good and Plenty together! State of the Site and Housekeeping As hinted in the link provided above fellow moderator @sparky_buzzsaw is being a big fat poopy head. After I shared my p...

Many Thanks to @aurahack for Creating This Wonderful Art!

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight, and I am honored to be your host as always. This week let's all enjoy a box of Good and Plenty together!

State of the Site and Housekeeping

As hinted in the link provided above fellow moderator @sparky_buzzsaw is being a big fat poopy head. After I shared my personal love for Good and Plenty he went ahead and used a forum thread to try and mock me. That is why my fellow Giant Bomb users I ask that you join me in voting up Good and Plenty on his travesty of a poll. Even if you dislike the taste of "true" licorice, join the forces of good and dispel this bully. Also worth noting is that @rorie is hosting another edition of his always fantastic "Box Office Winner's League!" Head on over to the thread and try to win some wonderful prizes! Finally, @krullban noticed that a recent Teens React video used Giant Bomb as a source of information.

Clip of the Week

On the YouTube side of things Brenton Bagley has given a shot at creating the Giant Bomb team in #IDARB. Check out his effort and feel free to pause the video to capture his QR codes.

Awesome Artwork

Once again special thanks go to @aurahack for the Puyo Puyo Tetris themed artwork. @bbalpert is the user to thank for the WWE themed Valentine's Day Cards inspired by The Powerbombcast. arlenpringle created a cool Dr. Tracksuit Japanese inspired t-shirt design. Humanity has a poster reminding you that PAX East, and the return of Dr. Tracksuit, is nigh. spacedongle envisioned Jeff as a character in Persona 5. vintagespiffy has Jeff and Brad dressed as their respective Mario Party compatriots. Finally the Giant Bomb Blur account reminds you of Alex referencing Haze during the Gravity Ghost Quick Look.

Community Activities

  • Evolve Online Gamertag, Steam ID, and PSN ID Exchange - Hookup with Other Users Over Here!
  • Giant Bomb MH4U Hunters Guild - Hunt With Other Users By Heading Over Here!

Wonderful Wikis

Evolve and Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate are the recent releases that have attracted the most amount of attention from the wiki editing community this week. Also worth noting is that last week marked the 25th anniversary of the U.S. release of Super Mario Bros. 3.

Best of Blogs

Please join the rest of the community in thanking aurahack and BBAlpert for the artwork that they have provided this week. DevourerOfTime continues to countdown the big 2015 games that he is interested in. Colorwind asks some pointed questions about Capcom's game design and future. Mento is back with dueling blogs this week. The first provides a more in-depth examination of Harvester, whereas the second plots out his wiki plans for a handful of TurboGrafx-16 games. Speaking of dueling blogs thatpinguino has a Deep Look about FFX's use of blitzball to depict sports culture, and his thoughts on Grim Fandango as a newcomer to the game. JBG4 has a new weekly gaming update, and this episode discusses his thoughts on a smattering of horror games. Also worth noting is that JBG4 is starting a weekly blog series examining the weekly offerings from the WWE. MooseyMcMan reminisces about the tough as nails difficulty of Link to the Past. Shindig and nophilip both have belated, but still awesome summaries of their gaming last month. Finally nophilip went to a concert that played a setlist of Final Fantasy themed music and shares his thoughts on the experience.

Fantastic Forums

For those of you that have played and completed Dying Light, what are thoughts about the game's ending? If you have thoughts share them on our ending discussion thread for the game. We also have an impressions thread for IDARB, as well as the upcoming movie adaptation of the Hitman franchise. Can you think of the best story in an open world game, or how about the ethnicities of Waluigi and Wario? Finally AlisterCat is hosting his own edition of "Ask Me Anything" for the new 3DS XL.

Lovable Lists

LisaTiffany is and always will be a console gamer, but a handful of PC games have caught her attention lately as seen on her latest list. Brodehouse looks back upon 2002 and lists off the biggest and best games of that year. Finally Zapbrader introduces himself to the community with a list of his favorite games of all time.

Useful User Reviews