Welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, am honored to be your host. E3 2023 is officially cancelled! While the convention itself had seen better days, there's no doubt that the last handful of years of E3 prior to the pandemic created some of the best content the site had generated. I can confirm the staff had been planning to host an L.A.-based interview show in conjunction to E3, but we'll have to wait and see if some version of that is still going to happen.
The good news is that Giant Bomb is returning to the convention circuit sooner than that! Way sooner in fact. If you plan to be in San Diego from April 7-9, you will have the opportunity to watch Jan, Grubb, Dan, and Fandom personalities host in-person panels! In fact, the Giant Bomb-led panel will be a LIVE Voicemail Dump Truck. They're asking that all call-ins be gaming related, so, keep that in mind if you plan to call in.
Tam and Lucy were presenters for the video game BAFTAs! If you missed the stream, here's a link to the Twitch VOD. Plenty of fun moments have come from the event and it's worth checking when you have three hours to spare.
Many of you continue to report issues when attempting to watch classic or older videos on the site. The engineer in charge of the issue has been trying to nail down which cookies specifically are causing the issues with old videos and narrowed it down to "__gamesVideoPlayer" and "AMCV_[a bunch of letters and numbers]." As they claim, if you delete those and refresh the page the player should work without you having to delete all cookies, and re-login.
Finally, @marino and I celebrated the 13th anniversary of us being moderators on Giant Bomb. I was doing the Community Spotlight almost a year prior to becoming a moderator, so I've likely been doing this feature for about 14 years. If you've enjoyed it, drop a comment because Father Time sure is a bastard. And you know what? I don't think I have ever mentioned in one of these that my first name is Chris. If you actually read the site-related news sections of these, there's your early "Easter Egg."
Tweets
#e3mysteries pic.twitter.com/Ljb8m9kUaR
— danny dyer (@dannyodwyer) June 25, 2019
At least I have all these Polaroids. <> pic.twitter.com/jf3w8D1siR
— Brad Lynch (@MarinoV1) March 30, 2023
Also, with E3 2023 cancelled, here's Lockdown. It would be a crime to the first degree if the @giantbomb community did not get its yearly dose of it somehow.
— GB Duders Feed (@GBDudersFeed) April 1, 2023
Don't you see what you're doing to me? I'm in love and I can't break free.
Music Link: https://t.co/94bd89j3q3
— Derek (@HeyDerekStone) March 30, 2023
Turns out I’m actually gonna be presenting awards on stage. They let me into the green room and I nicked a big bag of Haribo Starmix. https://t.co/tVxB3CTHZd https://t.co/yXuP1SzdZA pic.twitter.com/dngVTZGY1X
— Tamoor Hussain (@tamoorh) March 30, 2023
Beef and Kinstone Boys @Tolkoto @JeffGrubb pic.twitter.com/YKKmRDGdAm
— DuctSauce (@DuctSauce) March 29, 2023
Hey, happy to announce that I'm joining @nullvideogames as Head of Community. Looking forward to helping bring you some fun indie games in the future!
— Matthew Rorie (@frailgesture) March 29, 2023
Art
Jeff Grubb Hotdog & Other Memes (By: @Its_xcore, @NJShadowReborn, @CreakyLegs, @ogto_rt, and @CreakyLegs)
Oh my God. I guess it should come as no surprise that the internet took Jeff Grubb eating copious amounts of hot dogs and made it into a mini-meme of sorts on Twitter. As long as you did not find the segment itself queasy, enjoy!