Announcements

　　- Game Hero brackets open tomorrow! For those of you who would like to begin creating or borrowing other GameSpot member image kits (signatures, avatars and profile banners) for your favorite game heroes, drop by this campaigning rules. If you decide to create some image kits for other GameSpot members, be sure to post them in the submission thread .

　　- This week's game night will be on the PlayStation 3. Players can take part in Fat Princess & MotorStorm: Pacific Rift action! We'll start playing at 4pm PT.

　　- The FireStarter emblem has rarely been updated over the past few years because it was manually chosen by Editorial staff. We have re-purposed the emblem with a new description and purpose. Thus far, the new emblem holders represent what we define as talented discussion creators who tend to keep the hot forum icon.

　　Hot forum icon example:

　　Thanks for creating some well worded discussion threads for us to take part in Cactus_Matt, Nintendo_Man, NielsNL, S0lidSnake, and ASK_Story.

　　Member spotlight

　　This week's member spotlight goes to david_lck for his investigative reporting on retro games and how they have influenced today's handheld games. david_lck was also added to the Soapbox feature for this editorial blog.

　　Here is an excerpt:

　　"Nintendo aficionados, will no doubt know the history of this great company. But did you know that long before the GameBoy and G & W handhelds, there was Hanafuda cards, playing cards to those not familiar with the term."

　　Featured User Videos

　　Consoles Generation Union Commericial by omega-sonic

　　CSS surf video fail by rtssam

　　User Reviews

　　Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (X360) JustPlainLucas

　　Braid (PC) SYdoggXxX

　　Knights in the Nightmare (DS) c_rake

　　Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii) NeonNinja

　　Mortal Kombat II (SNES) Garrison_Ford

　　Phoenix Wright 2 (DS) Platyphyllum

　　Prey (PC) ChristianKiss

　　Quake 4 (X360) loopy_101

　　Rogue Galaxy (PS2) asian_pride69

　　Shadow Complex (X360) PAJ89

　　Shadow Complex (X360) dracula_16

　　Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht (PS2) AzelKosMos

　　Zack & Wiki Treasure (Wii) bacchus2

　　Randomness Teh Awesome

　　Blog Bunker

　　- capin131 finds the Flower game to be the beauty of the world.

　　- TurtlePerson2 shares the good and bad of downloadable content.

　　- HeyMaa asks abou the future of gaming.

　　- pakhair does a comparison between the PS3 Fat, PS3 Slim, and X360

　　- LucasPenney, a PS3 player, believes the PC still has the best gaming community.

　　- TheKungFool asks where have all the campaigns gone?

　　- theR34p3R believes that the WoW: Cataclysm expansion has caused the community to fall into chaos.

　　VivaVavideos!

　　- Epic Boss Battle Captain Hook by mizasterj

　　- THUG1 Glitches and things by Minimme

　　- Memento Mori Game Ending by dark_being

　　Misc. Drawer

　　- TOTS premiere emblem will be added to profiles a bit later this week. Anyone who receives the emblem receive a private message from us.

　　- This week's screenshot caption winner is ZeruelZero. He also receive the Screenshot Captioner emblem.

　　- Game Night Bounty Hunter emblem went to lettuceman44 for kicking butt at QuakeLive.com.

　　Tip of the Week

　　nintendo-naut recently wrote an advice blog about writing better user reviews. In brief:

　　- The purpose of reviewing a game is to inform others if the game is worthy buying.

　　- Writing a decent review takes time and a bit of effort.

　　- Write a clincher sentence.

　　- Talk about the game's core and controls.

　　- Point out what's good about the gameplay.

　　- Point out the game's problems.

　　- End the review with a brief summary and some final thoughts

　　Drop by his blog for more review tips.

　　Until next week…