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Well, we all survived E3, so now it's time to put the focus back where it belongs — on you, the Bitmob community. The big news story of May was, of course, the PlayStation Network outage, and our community writers covered it better than anyone with informative research, interesting features, and great satire. On top of that, we had stories about screaming laptops, game development students, and manly, manly men. Congrats to everyone!
Here are the most-read community stories from May 2011:
10. Portal 2's marketing is a triumph by Sean Hinz
9. Student game development: The story of six college undergrads in England by Louis Garcia
8. Top 10 PlayStation 3 PR nightmares by Sean Hinz
7. How Witcher 2 slayed my "gaming" laptop by Tristan Damen
6. 8 reasons why everyone should give Brink a try by Corey Burres
Hit the jump for the rest of May's list.
5. 10 greatest gaming ad campaigns of the last decade by Josh Finderup
4. The manly man's men's magazines of Double Fine's Trenched, for men by Brad Muir
3. Five PS3 games to help forget about the PSN outage by Reggie Carolipio
2. Confession: I accidentally turned off the PlayStation Network by John Michael
1. Detective work reveals PSN servers up to date by Brad Grenz
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