Weekly Report: Retro Revolution!

Announcements

Member Spotlight Game History Activity!
We now have a little activity you all can participate in to be mentioned in next week’s report as our featured member spotlight. Check this page for further details on how you can participate.

Retro Box Art Hunt
Looks like we have created the most difficult box art hunt yet! Are these games just that retro? Take a chance at guessing at the games! On a related note, we have only a couple more weeks left for video game history month. Drop by to see if you can learn something you never knew.

Mario Galaxy 2 Gameplay!
Drop by at 4 p.m. PT to see the latest episode of Now Playing, dedicated to Mario Galaxy 2.

Red Dead Redemption Game Night
We have the replay of our live stream of Red Dead Redemption available for those who missed out on it. Don't forget that we have another game night next week, though there currently aren't any plans to have a live stream for it. You can find more details on the Game Night page.

Member Spotlight

With Red Dead Redemption being released this week, we sneaked around just about every user profile corner to consider who talked about this game. Interestingly enough, Esotericus tugged at our hearts with his poetic cowboy memories. While he has been selected the member spotlight already once this year, we just couldn't help but truly believe he needed to be recognized for this blog. Before heading over to read his blog, be sure to have a box of Kleenex nearby.

User Reviews

DS/Wii
- Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll Garrison_Ford
- Bleach: The 3rd Phantom Domstercool
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker smm217
- Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis -SpikyBlueHero-
PS3/PS2
- Riddick: Dark Athena ZanarkandTidus
- Split/Second Asagea_888
- Darksiders AzelKosMos
- Vexx ebbderelict
- Super Street Fighter IV GeekyDad
- Quake III Revolution loopy_101
X360
- Alan Wake wonderboy_46
- Rocket Knight kbaily
- Final Fantasy XIII xboxrulze
- Final Fantasy XIII smithbubbajones
- Lost: Via Domus Skylinepigeon
PC
- Dungeon Keeper Gelugon_baat

Blog Bunker

- Uesugi-dono and gopulpfiction also have blogs about Red Dead Redemption.
- Scientist8 shares early E3 2010 thoughts.
- PSFreak1 has a hefty list of E3 predictions; you should check back with him during E3 2010 to see if he called any right.
- Haywired is somewhat alienated by the new obsession with motion controls.
- Pierst179 has two blogs about good and bad times in game franchises.
- MC_Bally_Who has a list of games worthy of being revived.
- just_nonplussed shares some tips about how he would explain game genres.
- mjemirzian has a blog about SRPG/TBS strategic complexity.
- Backlash24 shares eight witty things he hates about user reviews.
- payne6705 wonders if game characters should age.
- Same_Jeans_On shares his thoughts about the Lost Season Finale.

Tip of the Week

This week’s tip is about user review plagiarism on GameSpot and other sites. Plagiarism often leads to an account termination once the content is found. Check out these four tips to avoid having revoked permissions on the site.