Weekly Report: New Fuse Friends Emblem!
Check out what we have this week!
Announcements
Splinter Cell: Conviction Downloadable Content
We teamed up with Ubisoft to give away Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction downloadable content. Each week we’ll be giving away some items in the game, and on May 13, we’ll be handing out an exclusive map.
Super Street Fighter IV Game Night
Check back next week for our Super Street Fighter IV game night. The staff roster will include Brendan Sinclair, Lark Anderson, and Ryan Mac Donald!
New Fuse + Friends = New Emblem!
If you have more than 10 friends using Fuse, you will notice a new emblem called "I'll form the head" on your profile for it. If you don’t have any friends, start tracking people with the hope that they track you back, which will establish the status of friends.
Member Spotlight
Our latest member spotlight goes to Esotericus for his creative way of learning language through playing games! Aside from the game he tried, are there any other games with multiple languages? Drop by his blog to let him know!
Featured User Videos
- Twisted Metal: Small Brawl Video Review dragon_king64
- Wired to Wireless PS2 Gear ebbderelict
User Reviews
- PS3: White Knight Chronicles SemiMaster
- PS2: Beyond Good & Evil asian_pride69
- PS2: God of War calvinsora
- X360: After Burner Climax Asagea_888
- X360: Sonic & Sega All-StarsElk
- X360: 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand celtic1962
- Wii: Geometry Wars: Galaxiesloopy_101
Blog Bunker
- Azghouls relived Deus Ex and made me jealous because I never finished the game!
- MC_Bally_Who has posted a top-10 list of underappreciated games.
- smm217 wrote an unofficial guide to buying games, platforms, and handhelds.
- jazzfan4 plans to share 25 bargain bin games.
- Daavpuke has an open letter to Sid Meier about Civilization V.
- Mankar_Camoran believes that storytelling and plots can be simple but not horrible.
- nicktarist shares some awesome art work about game mechanics.
- doc18 posted a blog a while back about why Aladdin’s character and story is better than Mario. Since I just stumbled upon it, it's definitely worth a read.
Tip of the Week
This week's tip is about the After the Fact emblem. As of last year, the editorial staff wanted to update reviews after they were posted to recognize bug fixes and improvements that are made in patches. Here is an excerpt from Justin Calvert:
"After the Fact" updates aren't used to detail every single patch and piece of DLC for every single game, but we think they're a great way for us to let you know when, as a result of a patch, the information in our original review is no longer entirely accurate. For example, when Castle Crashers was released on XBLA, there were some problems with the game's online play and these were noted in the review. Now that said problems have been addressed, we've posted an After the Fact update on the review page acknowledging this.
Many of our After the Fact updates are posted after readers take the time to let us know about patches and such that we might otherwise have overlooked by e-mailing afterthefact@gamespot.com. When we receive those e-mails, we verify the information as soon as possible and, if it all checks out, we post the update and award an emblem to the reader or readers who told us about it."
Shout Out!
I’d like to give a belated shout out to our April "Moderator of the Month," rragnaar. He hasn’t been a moderator for that long and he’s already getting voted among his peers. Thanks again for helping out, rragnaar.
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