The Community Spotlight 2025.04.19

Welcome to the latest variation of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, americium erstwhile again honored to beryllium your big arsenic we look backmost astatine the site-related quality and champion assemblage creations from the past week!

As we look backmost astatine each of the fantastic things Giant Bomb and GameSpot did this week, delight beryllium alert that scheduling conflicts made a dent connected immoderate of the archetypal programming. For example, there was nary UPF and different days had their programming schedules chopped short. The unit are moving connected chill things down the scenes, and anticipation to bring you the fruits of their labour precise soon.

Regarding the tract itself, different large hole dropped connected the tract to code the tract video player. If you are inactive having issues, please driblet a remark implicit here. However, it does look that disabling uBlock Origin and astir advertisement blockers has been fixing a batch of, if not each of, the issues radical are reporting.

In general, @dtoast, the tract engineers, and myself are having issues replicating video subordinate problems pursuing the astir caller tract update. As a result, immoderate radical inactive experiencing issues are encouraged to scope retired via [email protected] oregon the site's Zendesk ticketing system. As portion of your bug report, delight effort to see a surface recording, screenshots, the rubric of your non-functional video, a database of extensions you usage with your browser, and your browser version.

Likewise, portion it seems similar the non-Premium podcast governmental ads reported past week person been replaced by ones led the Black Rifle Coffee Company, which espouses wide governmental beliefs portion selling their product. These ads person been reported and should beryllium removed from the podcast shortly. If you announcement akin ads successful the future, delight study them connected the Site-Tech-Issues transmission connected the Giant Bomb Discord, oregon fto retired a yelp successful the comments and I tin record a study connected your behalf.

Weekly List of Programming & Streams

Giant Bomb Power Block Programming

• PS5 Prices Increasing successful Some Regions | GameBreaking News 04/14/25
• Let's Crack Open A Tarkir Dragonstorm Booster Box
• Does Warside Stack Up to Advance Wars? | Giant Bombcast 886: Plate of Spaghetti
• Fallout 3 Remaster In The Works, But It's Not Arriving Anytime Soon | GameBreaking News 04/16/25
• OverGrubb 04 (FINALE) | Blight Club
• Hands-On With the Nintendo Switch 2
• Giant Bomb Talks Over: Mario Kart World Direct
• Everything From Today's Mario Kart World Direct | GameBreaking News 04/17/25
• Voicemail Dump Truck 157 | Chicken the Long Way.mp3
• Nintendo Switch 2 Preorders Begin April 24 successful US | GameBreaking News 04/18/25
• POWER BLOCK 4/15/25 [COMPLETE VOD] | Giant Bombcast, Opening Magic the Gathering Cards
• POWER BLOCK 4/16/25 [COMPLETE VOD] | GameBreaking News and Blight Club!
• POWER BLOCK 4/17/25 [COMPLETE VOD] | GameBreaking News, The GameSpot Show, VMDT, and Galaxies Gaming Showcase

GameSpot Programming

• MARATHON Feels Like Early DESTINY successful the Best... and Worst Way | Hands-On Impressions
• Palia's NEW Elderwood Update - 30 Minutes of Gameplay
• Silent Hill 2 Remake Devs Open Up astir the Game's Reception - and Fan Criticisms
• Bloober Team Breaks Down Their Next Game, Cronos: The New Dawn
• CRONOS: THE NEW DAWN Could Be The Beginning Of A New Era For Bloober Team
• The OBLIVION Situation | The GameSpot Show
• The OBLIVION Remaster Needs To Be BAD In Order To Be Good
• I'm Tired of My Consoles | GameSpot After Dark #266
• Galaxies Gaming Showcase | We Talk Over

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Art

Niki Grayson x Peanuts + Tamoor x Peanuts (By: @jearum)

Friend of the tract jearum is backmost with a caller batch of Peanuts-inspired artwork imagining the Giant Bomb unit arsenic characters successful the Peanuts universe. Up first, they tried their manus astatine making Niki and Tam characters and they decidedly nailed it.

Activities

Is Atomfall excessively short? Share your thoughts successful the Game Club thread!

Atomfall Is The 4th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4! Finish By May 1! Mark All Spoilers (By: @bigsocrates)

The Game Pass Game Club is keeping it hep and modern with its latest prime arsenic this period it is going to look astatine Atomfall! Have immoderate of you fixed Rebellion's latest crippled a shot? Are you sick and bushed of however often you request to usage the metallic detector? Share distant implicit here!

The GB Album Club 084 - Low by David Bowie (Cycle Finale) (By: @unclejam23)

Get your favourite medium connected the adjacent wheel!

David Bowie's Low closed the latest play for the Giant Bomb Album Club and the radical is unfastened to suggestions and caller humor for the adjacent season! If you are funny successful joining an online medium oregon euphony club, past driblet a remark successful the thread!

Blogs

I'm Playing Everything From Idol FX (Part III): Wait, The Drake of the 99 Dragons Studio Invented DLC?! (By: @zombiepie)

Not each crippled discussed by the assemblage is simply a banger.

After a spot of a hiatus, ZombiePie is backmost to their aged tricks of looking astatine each crippled from Idol FX AB, the developer down the notorious Drake of the 99 Dragons. This week, they speech astir 2 games mostly forgotten and absent connected astir video crippled databases: Grump and Imp. Want to larn astir however Idol FX accidentally "invented" DLC?

The Dredge of Seventeen Rising: Redredgence (Part Two) +

Indie Game of the Week 416: Later Alligator (By: @mento)

This week, Mento has a caller introduction successful their bid looking astatine the 2017 crippled titles they missed with a caller introduction looking astatine Metroid: Samus Returns! Is it much than conscionable "more Metroid?" Is it worthy of courting GOTY favors? You'll conscionable person to work to spot what they think!

Likewise, this variation of Mento's "Indie Game of the Week" diagnostic looks astatine Later Alligator by developers SmallBü and Pillow Fight. Do they deliberation the crippled has much going for it than its cute art? Did they bask really playing the game?

That Was a Lot of DOOM (By: @ford_dent)

Want immoderate proposal connected however to beryllium a Doom-playing pro?! Ford_Dent has a blog for you!

Ford_Dent precocious played a LOT of DOOM and SIGIL including for charity. So, this week they decided to reappraisal each of the things they person learned astir DOOM the past period and what tips and tricks they person to springiness to anyone that mightiness beryllium a newcomer to the crippled and its galore WADs.

Double-Click: What's Up With the Switch 2? (By: @gamer_152)

Will the Switch 2 beryllium a operator of creativity successful gaming the mode the archetypal Switch was? Will the Switch 2 ever person a crippled arsenic influential arsenic The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. What adjacent is simply a console these days? Those are immoderate of the questions astatine the bosom of Gamer_152 's latest blog.

Lords of the Dark Souls Clone (By: @atheistpreacher)

Magnets? Sounds similar witchcraft to me!

Lords of the Fallen precocious got a monolithic spot that re-balanced parts of the crippled and made it somewhat antithetic than the crippled it was astatine launch. So, AthiestPreacher decided to revive an aged blog of theirs to spot what precisely has changed and if those changes were for the better.

Discussion Threads

Nintendo Will Maintain Switch 2's Pricing; Controllers & Accessories Are Going Up; Paused US Pre-Orders Begin April 24th (By: @zombiepie)

Do immoderate of these terms summation fuss you?

It goes without saying that tech prices and tariff concerns were a spot of a recurring storyline this past week. One of the bigger quality items connected that beforehand involves Nintendo announcing that they would beryllium maintaining the primitively announced terms for the Switch 2 portion besides expanding the terms of controllers and accessories. If you person immoderate thoughts astir this, consciousness escaped to stock them!

So Sony Just Announced Another PS5 Price Increase To Europe And Other Markets (By: @abs_b)

Speaking of which, the PS5 is jumping up successful terms successful aggregate countries, but not the US. Many are claiming that this is simply a trickle down effect of Trump's tariffs, but what bash you think? Do you deliberation Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo person been looking for an excuse to rise prices before?

Devil May Cry Netflix Anime Discussion Thread (By: @topcyclist)

Where bash you basal with the originative changes successful this Netflix adaptation?

How does everyone consciousness astir Netflix's Devil May Cry show? Did you extremity up liking oregon resenting its originative changes from the video games? Do you get oregon recognize the contention associated with it? Whatever you answers are to those questions, consciousness escaped to stock them successful the thread linked above!

Citing Tariffs, RetroTINK Will Temporarily Cease Shipping To The US Soon; Razer & Framework Pause Sale of Some Laptops (By: @zombiepie)

RetroTINK is going to temporarily artifact US customers from buying their products owed to tariffs. Also, Razer and Framework are blocking income of immoderate laptops owed to tariffs. Do you deliberation much successful the gaming and tech sphere volition travel suit?

PSA: Now Is Probably A Good Time To Upgrade Your Electronic Devices (By: @atheistpreacher)

Tariffs aren't conscionable hurting the biggest names successful tech.

It's different thread bump, but the taxable is arsenic topical arsenic ever. Have immoderate of you made caller tech purchases successful an effort to debar predicted ballooning tech prices owed to tariffs? Do you expect to marque purchases this summer?

Lists

All Keighley’s Quests (By: @infantpipoc)

I retrieve the audible gasps portion watching the Spike Video Game Awards erstwhile Oblivion bushed Gears of War for GOTY.

infantpipoc looks backmost astatine The Game Awards and each crippled to triumph "Best RPG" astatine a Keighley-led event. If you privation to spot which games person won the award, it's worthy a read! Give it a work connected and retrieve that weird clip erstwhile JRPGs ne'er won crippled amusement awards.

Top 10 Games Of The PS2/Xbox/GameCube Generation (By: @desuroku)

Desuroku isn't arsenic aged arsenic immoderate different Giant Bomb fans, so, they grew up connected the PS2/Xbox/GameCube procreation of video crippled consoles and they decided to look backmost and database what they deliberation are the champion and astir important games from that era.

Best Games of 2024 (By: @guip1408)

guip1408 yet got astir to making a 2024 GOTY database and you tin cheque retired which games they deliberation were the champion from the year. Remember, I americium ever blessed to beforehand GOTY worldly whenever you get the clip to marque it.

Best Of 1991 (By: @lelcar)

Anyone other retrieve Midtown Madness?

Lelcar decided to replay each of the games of their puerility and that inspired them to marque a 1991 GOTY list! Check it retired and spot which games are connected it and consciousness escaped to marque your ain mentation of this database erstwhile you person the time.

Reviews

A venerable Nintendo classical oregon overrated?

@daavpuke's Donkey Kong (1994) reappraisal discusses wherefore they were not that impressed by the crippled aft checking it retired pursuing the beardown recommendations of Grubb and Mike. Why aren't they a instrumentality of the game's puzzle design? Read to find out!

Wiki Of The Week

Psychonauts

Double Fine's Psychonauts day enactment celebration.

The good folks astatine Double Fine Productions, Inc. are celebrating Psychonauts' 20th anniversary, which released connected April 19, 2005. Whether you are a caller instrumentality oregon person enjoyed the adventures of Razputin since the precise beginning, cheque retired our incredibly awesome wiki leafage for the cult-classic platformer.