Announcements

QuakeCon Coverage

　　GameSpot will be covering some of the tidbits happening at QuakeCon this year. You’ll want to drop by late next week and the week after for news and other related announcements. Until we start offering the news, drop by the official site to know what this free event has to offer.

　　Comic-Con Coverage

　　It looks like we’ll have a little more news trickle in over the next week, but not too much.

　　Upcoming Community Activity

　　While general announcements for community features and activities have been quite slow, we do have news coming as early as late next week or the week thereafter. Stay tuned for further details.

　　Upcoming MLG Tournaments

　　Looks like MLG has Halo 3, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Tekken 6 tournaments happening August 27-29. Drop by MLGDeimos’ GameSpot blog for further details.

　　

Member Spotlight

This week’s member spotlight goes to readingfc_1 for his blog about choices that offer morality in certain video games.

　　

Featured User Videos

- How to build a video review Elk

　　- Random song I made edpeterson

　　

User Reviews

Limbo seems to be the most talked about game this week. Check out the user reviews from Dan_Lionheart, AK_the_Twilight, Asagea_888, dracula_16, Setho10, and Maluigi.

　　Here are the remainder user reviews! - Bayonetta (X360) ShadowLaguna

　　- Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (X360) bacchus2

　　- Crysis (PC) Cunhao

　　- Donkey Kong Land (GB) Gelugon_baat

　　- EyeToy: Operation Spy (PS2) ebbderelict

　　- Final Fantasy XIII (PS3) charizard1605

　　- Mass Effect 2 (X360) NBAmaster33

　　- Red Dead Redemption (PS3) PSFreak1

　　- Sniper: Ghost Warrior (PC) Jedo

　　- Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) NeonNinja

　　- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (X360) The_Game21x

　　

Blog Bunker

- Video Game Character look-alike blog series Msteele48

　　- Starcraft Versus Warhammer 40K subyman

　　- How I Learned to Like Transformers Esotericus

　　- My User-Written Game Reviews Gelugon_baat

　　- Can't Buy a Thrill ehsan8888

　　- Top 5 Most Annoying Enemies Garrison_Ford

　　- Gaming PC built with pics boybrushdred

　　- Comic-Con highlights Martialbullet

　　- Real versus fake Starcraft II reviews smbius

　　

Staff Fingerprints

GameSpot staff did tons of mingling in the comments and on Twitter during the San Diego Comic-Con this year, but let’s catch up with other areas, such as Mark Walton’s blog about IndySpot and Brendan Sinclair’s request for help in Starcraft II.

　　

Tip of the Week

This week’s tip is about using the term Japan or Japanese properly when you’d like to shorten it. If you do a search online, you’ll notice that just having the term "Jap" is considered an offensive usage. Many of you do not realize that and will use this term to describe a Japanese game or a game created by a developer or publisher in Japan. If you’d like to use a short version of Japan or Japanese, the proper usage is "JPN." While the staff and moderators understand if you mistakenly use this term, it’s best to avoid using it. So please do take the time to type out the entire word or use JPN for short.

　　That’s all for this week’s report. We’ll see you next week!