To-Do List

- Read the latest featured blog titled Baptism of the Human Heart.
- Appreciate the fantastic fan art of Pandora’s Tower.
- Find out who won the Bioshock Infinite Creative Writing contest.
- Enter to win in the Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Create a Monster Contest.
- Participate in our newest writing assignment The Pokemon Paradigm.

Tip: Community Game Night Pick Your Poison

The GSPN community is getting together this Wednesday (April 24th) to play some classic Borderlands, we’re currently voting on what platform we should be playing on. So feel free to drop by and make your voice heard, or simply show up to the GSPN on the day of the event and get your game on.

Your assignment is to write up an editorial focusing on the palatial Pokemon production. Deadline to have your entries submitted is April 25th, at 12:00pm PST

Need some inspiration? Consider the following topics:

- How do you feel about the Pokemon game franchise at this point? Has its decisions to continue to add more beyond the original 150 been a positive experience, or do you perhaps feel that in this particular case less is more and the ever growing numbers of creatures to catch is bogging down the game?

- If you could revolutionize the franchise by rebooting it, how would you start over? Would you go back to the way things were with Pokemon Red and Blue or would you completely retool the mythos that's been created.

- How do you feel about the current online Pokemon tournaments? Do you feel that this is just another eSport or do you think that this is a great way for players to immerse themselves in PokeCulture?

- Where do you think the game will be in the next three years, how about the next five years?

Chalk Talk submissions must include the following:
- Entries must be a minimum of 500 words
- Do not use altered text fonts, colors, and be aware of your formatting.
-Select at least one image to act as your "cover shot".
Submissions are due by April 25th, at 12:00pm PST, please submit as either a link in the comments below or the announcement in the Writers Round Table.

To-Do List

- Read the “Reviewers of the Month” for March.
- Suggest what you want GameSpots future to look like.
- Draw art for the Pandora’s Tower Artist Arcade
- Track the Community Calendar

Tip: GameSpotting

Have you ever found yourself reading a user blog on GameSpot and thought “Wow, this is really awesome and should be an actual feature!” Well now you can help make that dream a reality by adding “#GameSpotting” to the comment section of their blog.

The code monkeys of GameSpot will be performing tomorrow (Thursday) March 7th at 5:00am PST in a scheduled maintenance performance. This performance will cause a short outage which is expected to last approximately two hours. While you should still be able to browse much of the site as per usual, there are a few features will be unavailable.

Important things to know about the down time:
- Forums will be down for maintenance, so you will not be able to access them during the 2 hour window.
- User Blogs will be down for the duration; however user reviews will still be available.
- Users will stay logged in, as this maintenance only affects forum related activity

If you find yourself with an urge to participate on the site during this time the comments section will still be available on news articles, videos, and features. We have a reboot video blog contest, as well as a new Chalk Talk assignment. You can also keep in touch with us via Twitter, Facebook, or if you're in San Francisco there's always smoke signals.

To-Do List

- WATCH the BAFTA Games Awards livestream starting at 12:30 PT
- RESPOND to Mrs Violence playing Gears of War: Judgement
- GRAB a Blacklight: Retribution AK470 bundle

Tip: User Reviews Recognition Changes

We have announced some changes involving the way we recognize users who write reviews. What you should know in a nutshell:

- Top 100/500 emblems will retire on March 31.
- You can request to receive one before they expire.
- Reviewers of the Month emblem coming soon.
- The video review emblem is still available!

UPDATE at 4pm PT: Forums maintenance planned at 5pm PT but it should only take 10-15 minutes.

To-Do List

- WATCH Episode 2 of GameCribs
- ENTER Reboot Review Contest
- Discuss What makes a good horror game.
- COMMENT on the emotional price of making games

Tip: Who has the most likes?

Did you know that now you can sort comments in news, reviews and feature stories by "most liked"? Well you can! Simply click the "Most Likes" section located under the comments module and TA-DA, like magic you can filter the insightful from the cellar dwellers.