Weekly Report: Springing forward!

eajack has written a blog about the different kinds of characters found in games. He asks a variety of questions about why gamers play mute characters in some of our favorite game titles over the past year. Stop by his blog to read more about one-dimensional game characters.

User Reviews:
Below is this week's activity from the top 100 and 500 reviewers list.

- Killzone 2 (PS3) by wonderboy_46
- Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (DS) by nintendofreak_2
- Suikoden III (PS2) by 3KindgomsRandy
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (PC) by Domstercool
- GTAIV: Lost & Damned (360) by NBAmaster33
- Silent Hill (PS1) by Video_Game_King
- Ninety-Nine Nights (360) by zh666

Featured Videos

- Banana's don't like chess by certifieddata
- Gabu singing Texas Flood by GabuEx

Honorable mentions: Easy cr0wned achievement by white_sox and Odd Keystone in Twinleaf Town by mastetofthedark.

Randomness teh Awesome

- Off-Topic forum topic for this week is the 2009 OTcars Awards Ceremony. The OTcars is the Off-Topic Board's version of the Oscars. Users get a chance to nominate other users in categories like Best GS newcomer, Funniest User and King and Queen of OT.

- Legolas_Katarn recently posted a play by play of what happened in the Halo Wars marathon matches.

- Sackboy goes to Japan is a visual journey created by GameSpot's very own Sophia Tong.

Union Activities

The Pokemon League Union is hosting a Diamond and Pearl Tournament. read the rules and sign-up!

Tip of the Week

We recently made an announcement in the Site Enhancement board about copyrighted and watermark user videos being removed from the site. If you have uploaded a video or watched a user video on GameSpot, stop by the thread for some important details .

Until next week!