The Community Spotlight - 04/18/2014 (This Blog is [Full of] Art)

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I am your host as always, and thankfully it appears that all of you have survived the madness of PAX East 2014. Speaking of PAX East 2014 the site is still "recovering" from the event. The archive for Giant Bomb's PAX Panel is now up, as well as Jeff's talk at NYU, and Patrick's panel with Zoe Quinn (StormCloud/Audio only version can be found here). Also you can find the archive to the 404ing It panel can be found here (featuring @patbaer, Eric Pope, Jeff, and @maxistentialist).

Now with the PAX business out of the way let's go over some Giant Bomb housekeeping. This Thursday Giant Bomb migrated its servers from Amazon Web Services(AWS) to a new service. If you are having any issues in regards to viewing or publishing content on the site please reset your DNS. For detailed instructions on how to do this please refer to this. If you are having or have noticed issues in regards to the Giant Bomb live chat please report your issues here.

Clips of the Week

@turboman is back, but this week he has all of the best moments of the Royal Rumble and Giant Bomb PAX East 2014 panel. Also, someone on YouTube went ahead and used WWE 2K14 to host a re-match between Dr. Tracksuit, John Drake, Dave Lang, and Alex Navarro. The insanity is amazing.

Community Activities

• GB Community Endurance Run 3 - Gaming and Raising Money - Join Other Users in raising Money for Child's Play Over HERE!
• Trials Fusion Console Neutral Name Sharing/Leaderboard Thread - Drop a comment so Other Users Can Add you to Their Leaderboards Over Here!

Wonderful Wikis

Is it a jokey joke wiki week this week? Actually no, even if Jeff may have disdain for Shenmue AND Milon's Secret Castle they both have significant wiki pages on the site. In fact...Jeff was the last person to edit the Milon wiki page, and did so in January of this year. Finally I would like to take this time to recognize that Jeff Gren's wiki page will forever have "He is a real American and fights for the rights of every man," as a trivia fact.

• Shenmue
• Jeff Green
• Milon's Secret Castle

Best of Blogs

Fobwashed gives you a piece of his insane journey to distributing his Papers Please/Luchadeer shirt at PAX East 2014. Marino, Mento, and Sparklykiss give you a snapshot of what they learned from PAX East. PimblyCharles is working on digital painting that will be filled to the brim with Giant Bomb references, and shares the first stage of his digital painting. On a much more serious note gyrfal equivocates on how he was able to related to the characters of Sleeping Dogs in a way he hasn't been able to before. Gamer_152 talks about how the Advanced Edition of FTL has him back being a space captain. GrantHeaslip challenges the notion that Project Diva F is a "guilty pleasure," by breaking down how it's actually a well designed game. morecowbell24 hypothesizes on how other game developers can learn from From Softwares boss design. Video_Game_KIng hits you with two blogs this week with one about fairy princesses, and the other about Japanese porno. Pick your poison because both will kill you. thatpinguino took a break from his Lost Odyseey retrospective and shares his romp through Rogue Legacy. MikeLemmer projects his disdain for being forced to pick an end all be all "favorite game" of all time when discussing games. GunStarRed finishes up his blog series examining the various game adaptations of is favorite movies. Cottoneud was serious about that Persona 4 Golden New Game+ "endurance run" he started last week, and has the second part this week. Wess is still trying to be a Pokemon master, and Hero_Swe is continuing his roleplaying adventures in Skyrim. Finally, bushpusherr explains what Fast Fourier Terrain Transform is, and what its importance is for the video game industry.

• The Great GB/PAX Shirt Adventure! (By: @fobwashed)
• PAX East 2014 in 100 Words (By: @marino)
• What I Learned at PAX East This Year (By: @mento)
• PAX East 2014 - I'm a Copy Cat! (By: @sparklykiss)
• Confronting your Identity (By: @gyrfal)
• Unfinished: <Roscoe> Original Drawing by Pimbly (By: @pimblycharles)
• Back in the Captain's Chair (By: @gamer_152)
• Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F (PS Vita): Eclectic, Rewarding, and Unabashedly Fun (By: @grantheaslip)
• Taking Lessons in Boss Design from From Software (By: @morecowbell24)
• The Unsung Heroes of Rogue Legacy (By: @thatpinguino)
• Renegade Fairy Tale (By: @video_game_king)
• The Screenshot Ballad of Heartbreakin' Hisao Nakai. Episode 2: Poor Parental Cabbage (By: @video_game_king)
• The Limitations of a Favorite (By: @mikelemmer)
• Top Ten Blog (Part 2) (By: @gunstarred)
• Persona 4 Golden New Game Plus -- Starting Today, One Day at a Time! (Part 2 4/14/2014) (By: @cottoneud)
• Graphics Blog: Fast Fourier Terrain Generation (By: @bushpusherr)
• I Wanna Be The Very Best, Part 6 (By: @wess)
• Wuulfräd's Journey (Part 10) (By: @hero_swe)

Fantastic Forums

Once again a great deal of thanks go to Humanity for creating his great PAX East Royal Rumble wallpaper. Slammers has a "reverse Interview Dumptruck," where he interviewed our very own Patrick Klepek. Nickzonak is the one that "proposed" the soda dating game from the PAX East Q&A...and he wants you to know he's actually going to make it. MB wants you to join him in discerning whatever the Hell happened during Giant Bomb's PAX East panel, and Sweep wants to know how your home network is setup for streaming...it's almost like we want to know more about you. Finally we have first impression/discussion threads for R.B.I. Baseball, Beyond Earth, Trials Fusion, and the NorCal Regionals.

• The Royal Rumble ~Wallpaper (By: @humanity)
• Interview with Patrick [4/8/2014] (By: @slammers)
• Soda Dater Pro Will Allow you to Date Cans of Soda (By: @nickzonak)
• Giant Bomb PAX East 2014 Panel Discussion Thread (By: @mb)
• What Do you Think About the Trick System in Trials Fusion? (By: @quipido)
• R.B.I. Baseball 14 Discussion Thread (By: @wolfgame)
• How Good is your Home Media Setup/Network? (By: @sweep)
• Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth First Thoughts Thread (By: @aelric)
• NorCal Regionals 2014 Discussion Thread (By: @steamrickroller)

Lovable Lists

benspyda has taken the time to list out the video games that he can hosetly say that he "loves" from the current and last generation of consoles.

• Games I Love and Why (By: @benspyda)

Useful User Reviews

• @yummylee's review of Hotline Miami
• @mento's review of The Starship Damrey

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