The Community Spotlight - 03/17/2011
by zombiepie
Special Thanks to ME!!!! For the Banner This Week! Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! Well it's St. Patrick's Day and you know what that means. It's either a religious monet where you and your community congregate at your nearest chapel or you get stone cold drunk. If you want to discuss Irish themed games then well you have a thread to meet those nee...
Special Thanks to ME!!!! For the Banner This Week!
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! Well it's St. Patrick's Day and you know what that means. It's either a religious monet where you and your community congregate at your nearest chapel or you get stone cold drunk. If you want to discuss Irish themed games then well you have a thread to meet those needs. Check out this awesome user created MK9 themed Giant Bomb logo. There's fresh batch of wiki tasks that are still open to everyone to get some easy points for. Other than that the staff is still recuperating from their PAX ordeal/fiasco. A lot of crazy stuff happened at PAX...here's proof if you needed any: Upcoming Events
Giant Bomb Community StarCraft II Tournament #8 - Set for 2:30PM EDT, 11:30AM PDT on Saturday, March 26th - Sign Up HERE!
Test Drive Unlimited 2 Xbox 360 GB Community Club - Sign up HERE!
Vito's Game Giveaway #9! - Due Sat., March 19th - Test your luck HERE!
Wonderful Wikis
League of Legends and Pokemon are the stand outs for this week. League of Legends being one of the most detailed wikis on the entire sites. The Enix Corporation wiki tells an interesting tale of corporate history. Final Fantasy XII was recently Wikipedia's Featured Article of the Day so Giant Bomb should showcase their own entry to toot! Also the weakling Sean continues the theme of Street Fighter characters having awesome wiki entries.User Reviews
- Eirkr's review of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
- LinksOcarina's review of Homefront
- Yanngc33's review of Homefront
- AV-Gamer's review of Major League Baseball 2K11
- Mystyr_E's review of Dragon Age II
- Forum_User's review of Rift
- masterbedgood's review of Torchlight (XBLA)
- EpicSteve's review of Torchlight (XBLA)
- MatPaget's review of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
Lovable Lists
LordAndrew seems like the new target of the phantom list down voter. Help him out by checking out and up voting any lists you find entertaining or interesting.- Complete List of PC Games With DirectX 11 Support (By: buckybit)
- Too Cool for Wikipedia (By: LordAndrew)
- Awesome Things I Found via the Mod Tool (By: Ibid)
- Games I Wish to Complete Before I Die (By: Cwaff)
Best of Blogs/Fantastic Forums
PAx East is the big theme for this week with many users describing their experiences and encounters with the Giant Bomb staff. People are still musing about Dragon Age II and are still split about the game's new direction. The Persona Re-Endurance Run continues. Mento contemplates about genre bending dungeon crawlers and GlenTennis tells you why Goemon is the best N64 game ever made. I- Hybridized Dungeon Crawlers (By: Mento)
- Dragon Age II Impressions: Dragon Ager (By: bonbolapti)
- Sports Video Games Will Always be Better Than Poker Games (By: DevWil)
- Final Fantasy XIII - The Second Two Hours vs. The Uncanny Valley (By: smokemare)
- Re-Endure the Persona 4 Endurance Run (By: Make_Me_Mad)
- The PAX East 2011 Experience (By: natetodamax)
- Cloudy With a Chance of Gaming -- 03/13/2011 (By: JJWeatherman)
- Oh, Man Battle: Los Angeles is Such a Bad Game (By: BlazeHedgehog)
- Video Dissing the Bomb Squad (and Other PAX Misadvetures) (By: Siphillis)
- Pokemon Isn't For You Anymore (By: dankempster)
- 5 Reasons Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon is the Best N64 Gamever (By: GlenTennis)