Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and as always I, @zombiepie, am honored to be you host as we look back at the best user-created works from the community. Every Spotlight has a "theme" and this time around it is quite obvious the community has been writing up a storm. We have the most amount of blogs I have seen in months and there are even lists and user reviews which rival some of the blogs I have to share in terms of length. Likewise, the community as a whole is still buzzing about the Xbox Series X event as well as Assassin's Creed Valhalla and the merits of its theme. Regardless, we have a moderate amount of site-related housekeeping, so, let's jump right into it!
- Giant Bomb is hosting a premium membership sale! The sale will go until the end of May, and any new subscribers will help keep the flow of awesome content from the Giant Bomb staff during Lockdown 2020!
- Abby's FINAL FRIDAY CHARITY STREAM raised over $10K for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières! As mentioned earlier, this was the last Friday Charity Stream but you can still donate using the link.
- Jan guested on another podcast, this time he appeared on the The New Entertainment System Podcast where a randomizer "pitches" a random video game. It makes sense in context, trust me.
- A lot of user reported experiencing issues with the Roku App, and Rorie announced the GameSpot app broke too so the engineering team are assuming something happened on Roku's end. Feel free to continue reporting issues over here.
Tweets Of The Week
i edited this to be accurate to me @giantbomb pic.twitter.com/09y6AN8sm3
— parker (@_coldbloom) May 9, 2020
GB cares.. now animated! @giantbomb #giantbomb #animated pic.twitter.com/5y5jSBduQz
— Jearum (I am archiving my works to Ko-Fi) (@jea_rum) May 8, 2020
Thanks to some @giantbomb community members including Slow_pC, the @alex_navarro drumming stats spreadsheet now includes Spotify playlist links.https://t.co/6rvJtUguX2 pic.twitter.com/V8kOFR9HeX
— Brad Lynch 🍐 (@MarinoV1) May 8, 2020
Sometimes the @giantbomb community votes WRONG on polls; this is one such occurrence. #foodcrimes pic.twitter.com/DTmOLfHId0
— GB Duders Feed (@GBDudersFeed) May 8, 2020
We raised over $10k for @MSF_USA !! Thank you everyone who donated, watched, and supported these great charities!! WAHOOO!! https://t.co/wITVLOiP92
— abby russell (@ybbaaabby) May 9, 2020
Giant Bomb Galleria
Giant Bomb Cares Portrait& Animated .GIF (By: @jearum)
This week resident Giant Bomb artist, jearum, whipped up an adorable portrait of the Giant Bomb icon. Later, they even made an animated version of the same picture which you saw in the "Tweets of the Week" section. As always, don't forget to support and follow artists however you can!
Cowboy Vinny Photoshop (By: @wolfpupy)
Giant Bomb East has had a handful of technical difficulties in the past few weeks, and in response, Twitter user wolfpupy went ahead and made this fun photoshop in honor of Vinny.
Community Activities
"Shiver Me Duders" - The Giant Bomb Sea of Thieves Xbox Club & Discord Server (By: @bearhardt)
Inspired by the recent batch of coverage from the staff, the Giant Bomb Community Sea of Thieves Xbox Club & Discord Server want you to know they are still happily accepting NEW MEMBERS! Just drop a comment asking for a new invite to the Discord.