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The Bitmob Featured Community Writer series focuses on you, the Bitmob community member. We dust off a writer's old articles and give them their just reward: more eyeballs. We're featuring some of your favorite contributors, some you may have overlooked, and maybe even you!
Tristan Damen only joined the Bitmob community this year, but he's been a prolific contributor and a Spotlight mainstay. He's also written some great reviews, which we really appreciate, since Bitmob doesn't officially review games. Tristan's also an equal-opportunity gamer -- whether it's on 360, PS3, PC, or DS, Tristan's got it covered.
Check out Tristan's Meet the Mob post (the first in a series), then feast your eyes on some of his highlights from the front page and the Mobfeed.
Front-page highlights
How did Dead Island defy the Australian Classification Ban Hammer?: "Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) has done it again. Their decision to bestow Dead Island with an MA15+ rating (which allows it to be sold in the country) has left me confused...especially in light of some of the Office's more recent bungles."
I'm not renewing PlayStation Plus: "I can no longer indulge in the luxury that is PlayStation Plus. I'm canceling. It's a decision I made that was reaffirmed after reading an email from Sony last week that enthusiastically reminded me of what the service has offered me over last year: a bunch of (usually) dated content that I don't need and couldn't possibly find the time to play."
How The Witcher 2 slayed my "gaming" laptop: More than any other, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is a PC-exclusive release that needs to find its way onto a console. Why? Because the PC as a platform has too many variables despite my laptop apparently being, at least according to the launcher's auto-detect option, capable of rendering the game with medium settings at the highest possible resolution."
Mobfeed highlights
Return on investment: Time and loss in Dark Souls: "I can't get back the two hours and two thousand souls that I just lost to a dragon after finally besting the Taurus Demon. If I invest four hours in a game, I expect to have made four hours' worth of progress, not a solid two hours' of progress and then an hour and a half trying to consolidate the following thirty minutes' worth of work."
Bastion: Innovation in narration: "For the first few minutes, I found this constant commentary distracting, almost annoying. About three hours in, however, this vocal chronicle of my adventure becameessential. It elevates what is -- in all honesty -- a fairly standard (though beautifully rendered) hack-and-slash adventure to a thoughtful experience that I would recommend without hesitation."
Infamous 2 review: Fight and flight in the Big Easy: "In spite of some recurring issues, superficial additions, and narrative stumbles, Infamous 2 proved to be a great sequel and offers some genuinely new and compelling experiences. Most essential of all are the grand boss fights which eclipse all competitors in terms of scale."
Want to be a Featured Community Writer? Then register with Bitmob and start contributing! You need to use your real name, and it wouldn't hurt to write a Meet the Mob post about yourself and tag it with "Meet the Mob." If you have a favorite Bitmob community writer and want to nominate him or her, send me an e-mail at layton.shumway@bitmob.com.
