Weekly Report: Blogs Blowout!

Announcements

Box Art Hunt - Spooky Edition
Test your spooky box art knowledge in the latest edition of GameSpot's Box Art Hunt activity! Learn more by clicking the link above.

Off-Topic Celebrity Costume Contest
As you might know, we don’t allow any kind of games discussion in this forum because there are numerous forums for games, and the general games discussion forum is good for random gaming topics. We figured it was time to give the off-topic posters a chance to dress up celebrities in costumes. Once the entries have been received, we’ll have a guessing game contest open to everyone who would like to participate.

Game Night: Halo Reach
Chris Watters would love to jump into some games with you all next Wednesday starting at 5 p.m. PT. Drop by the game night discussion if you can attend and share your suggestions about upcoming game nights.

ToU Agreement Updates Coming Soon
We plan to have some edits to the Terms of Use agreement early next week. The changes won’t necessarily be anything new to many of you who understand what will get you moderated. Click the link above for further details

Minor Advertisement Changes
We have made a couple of changes to the appearance of certain areas around the site. Pages were changed with a different-sized advertisement (changed from 160x600 to 300x250) and minor appearance changes include the gamespace forums (game boards linked from a game page), regular forums/UCB discussion pages (known as threads), image index pages, image view, and the search results.

Side Note
I am taking baby steps to return the weekly report back as normal, so the user videos and reviews were not included this week due to having a limited time to view all of them in the past few weeks. I am considering an additional news post some time next week to share a couple months' worth of user videos and the past few weeks of user reviews. We also have information for the Terms of Use agreement to share next week among other little tidbits. Wish me luck!

Member Spotlight

This week’s member spotlight goes to bowlingotter for having an interesting selection of scary game recommendations in his blog. A couple of these scary games were also mentioned by GameSpot editors when I needed their list of scary games for the box hunt activity earlier this week. If you haven’t already submitted your answers for the Spooky Box Art Hunt activity, check his blog for a couple of clues about a couple of games!

Blog Bunker

Holiday Bundle
- It's the Holiday Season. Where are the Games? ErrolJames
- Frightful Gaming 2010 Series - Part 1 TwistedMetalFan
- Games and the deadly winter season Opnotikis

Consoles & Handhelds
- Playstation Move impression otacon645
- What Happened To PC Games? Creigz
- How about that 3DS? AK_the_Twilight

Games! Games! Games!
- 5 Games That Make Me Happy MC_Bally_Who
- Beating Final Fantasy 7 TheMosesMan
- Borderlands 2 Wishful Thinking List BessenStock
- Enslaved: Odyssey to the West Impressions bowlingotter
- Bungie, I salute you! Azghouls
- DLC. My newest enemy 198d
- Remembering Games Past - Volume 2 Asagea_888
- Online-only games really the future? jazzfan4

Player Driven
- Scarcer Resources to a Gamer gdw0908
- The moon is disappointing when we expect the stars GabuEx
- A unique and memorable gaming experience luc11044n
- Why casual gaming is hardcore gaming's best friend Thekiteless
- Designing Games For Girls Setho10
- Seven things that every Gamer shares MrWhite325

Off the Wall
- The Video Game Industry (Poem) crazyluigi199
- Halo And Star wars are brothers? Msteele48
- Top 5 Favorite WWE Superstars YoungMaverick
- Samus is a WOMAN? CrimsonMaher
- Gaming's Greatest: Best Weapons Sukharevskaya

Event Exploration!
- Post-Pax Impressions SymonDezyn
- Eurogamer Expo Experience -INKling-

Tip of the Week

The tip of the week is back, and it's all about writing and reading reviews! [Details]