Weekly Report: Where are the PS3 Gamers?

Announcements

- Planned Maintenance will occur from 6am to 7am PT tomorrow morning, Tuesday, May 12th. If you are using the site during this time you may notice a slowdown in performance.

- This Week's Game Night will be Killzone 2 on the PlayStation 3. PS3 game nights rarely have a good attendance. Drop by the chatroom to chat it up with fellow PS3 fans if you don't have the game. Heck, play another PS3 game with those who do not have Killzone 2! Chris Watters has put out a challenge to any Killzone 2 player. He's pretty confident that he'll own everyone in the game this week. Kevin Van Ord will also be making a return. As always, we'll be handing out the bounty hunter emblem depending on the participants that show. Read the FAQ for the emblem requirements and how to participate.

- How To GameSpot/Welcomes Newbies has been changed to How To GameSpot . Please refer the forum as How To Gamespot to avoid any confusion among our newer registrants of the site.

- GameSpot's Navigation interface has been updated. Check out the changes and provide feedback .

- The Member Spotlight emblem activity in the Emblem Union will be ending soon.

Member Spotlight: Spoogei

This week's member spotlight goes to Spoogei for posting a blog about why video games are rarely used as education tools

Here's an excerpt:

User Reviews

- Silent Hill (PS) Video_Game_King
- NBA 2K9 (360) NBAmaster33
- Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade (PSP) Paully3433
- Golden Axe: Beast Rider (360) SemiMaster
- Fallout 3 (PC) Jd1680a
- F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (360) celtic1962
- Star Ocean: The Last Hope Dreski83
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (360) Dreski83
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two (PC) Aberinkulas
- Ninja Blade (360) Domstercool

User Videos

Featured:

- Assassin's Creed Video Review by Moroes

- Fat Princess Beta Walkthrough by dannyodwyer

Additional videos:

- D_West posted a video review of Guitar Hero:World Tour

- dragon_king64 posted a video about a PS2 Multi-tap that works

- Azghouls has uploaded a variety of FarCry videos.

- Akhorahill has posted a variety of Silent Hill 5 game endings.

- topsemag55 has posted a variety of gameplay videos of Painkiller and The Witcher Enhanced Edition

Randomness teh Awesome

- Sophia has asked for you to NAME THAT Game tune!

- AmateurZombie has received TheHotSpot homework emblem.

- xboxrulze has been re-added to the Soapbox for his recent editorial about realism and gaming.

- mmmwksil has reached a stage of gaming and genre fatique. l

- Amnesiac23 has some parenting advice about purchasing M rated games for children.

- GSGirl has posted an essential list of iPhone games.

- c_rake has done a wealth of research about Sony and Microsoft motion controller rumors.

Tip of the Week

GameSpot's weekly in-game activity known as Game Nights offers a bounty hunter emblem to the players that kick butt at a game. If you currently do not have the emblem, here's how you can try for the emblem.

- Start by dropping by the GameSpot Game Night schedule and see if there are future platform/game nights you can participate in. If not, the Game Night Union always has an open discussion about game recommendations for future game nights.

- On the day of game night stop by the chatroom between 4pm PT and 6:30pm PT to see if you can get in a match with a GameSpot staff member. Volunteer moderators may also host matches and give names staff, but staff choose the MVP(s) for the week.

- Depending on the amount of participants we may hand out between 1 and 3 bounty hunter emblems.

- Those who have received the emblem are featured on the game night page. You can check former MVP users on the game night feature page and the archive page .

- After you have played in game night you are encouraged to post any experiences through text, videos or screenshots in the dedicated game night FAQ or game night report thread.

Until next week!