Weekly Report: Feedback
Community News Blog - This week's community report shares the latest GameSpot forums activity, member spotlight, tips about reporting advertisements, and more!
Announcements
Box Art Hunt Activity
GameSpot's first image-guessing game gives us the opportunity to test your box art knowledge! Box Art Hunt is a new activity that will be held in the General Games Discussion forum each month. Also, you do not have to get each of them right. You may guess what you think the image is to receive the new emblem as long as you have eight games mentioned.
Upcoming Beta Giveaway
Keep your eyes peeled for an announcement about a beta key giveaway for any of you who are car racing fanatics. More details to follow mid next week. You can check back here or check the front page for a link to the upcoming beta page.
Make Something Unreal Contest Winners
In other game community news, Epic Games announced its latest winners of the Make Something Unreal Contest. Keep an eye on their site for other related Unreal series community activities.
Emblem Shout-Outs
Quite a few people received an emblem over the past week. True_Avery received the Hotspot emblem for submitting the best homework last week. We also have some new user reviews you’ll be seeing! The top 100 Reviews or Top 500 reviewers emblem was granted to the following user profiles: Allicrombie, -SpikyBlueHero-, AlmightyMax, buft, KrAzY_Croat, msudude211, Paul_GameFury, smithbubbajones, Soniczero1993, TissueShoe, calvinsora, Dan_Lionheart, gdw0908, ehsan8888, Kbaily, J-man45, horrorboy, herviross_2, gunslinger_boy, pspitus, Pierst179, Gelugon_baat, mattsn22, Gameblender, GeekyDad, ZanarkandTidus, smm217, Crimsader, NuKkU, and bigd575.
Member Spotlight
This week’s member spotlight goes to TechnologoDoom for his blog about the best Xbox Live indie games. TechnologoDoom also created a union dedicated to indie-game content or other game deviations, so you’ll want to check it out.
User Reviews
PC
- The Saboteur: Elk
- World in Conflict: Gelugon_baat
- Dragon Age: Origins: Garrison_Ford
X360
- BioShock 2: celtic1962
- Halo 3: ODST: stephenage
- Mass Effect 2: smbius and Justplain Lucas
- Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City: bigd575
PS2/PS3
- PixelJunk Shooter: c_rake
- Heavy Rain: gunslinger_boy
- UP: ebbderelict
- God of War II: gdw0908
Staff Fingerprints
- Kevin VanOrd has posted a scary moment in Unreal 2 you might have missed. Tell him how much you enjoyed it so he’ll post more scary moments in games!
- Chris Watters has his second edition of quotable Mass Effect 2: Volume 2 - Mordin Solus.
- Giancarlo Varanini took numerous questions on the previews page and posted the answers about Metroid: Other M in his blog.
Blog Bunker
- Paul_GameFury shares thoughts about finishing Crysis.
- Samson089 revisits an old massive multiplayer online game.
- AK_the_Twilight dreams about great things for the Wii.
Tip of the Week
This week’s tip is about ways you can report feedback about GameSpot.com’s advertisements you see around the site. There are two different kinds of advertisements, so you’ll want to follow these steps in the revised advertisement feedback thread.
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Newsmakers
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Mortal Kombat developer to diversify in 2012
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No new Xbox in 2012 - Microsoft
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Sony sweetens PS Vita 3G deal
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Nintendo considering new name for Wii U - Report
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