The Community Spotlight 2025.05.24

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 week.

After publishing past week's Spotlight, I had a flimsy fearfulness that activities with the assemblage and tract would dip backmost to wherever they were earlier Giant Bomb went independent, but americium blessed to study that things are astir arsenic engaged arsenic they were past week!

First, let's speech astir lawsuit enactment and method issues with the site. You tin study immoderate and each problems you person with the tract itself and its usability to [email protected]. If you person merchandise issues oregon problems with your premium subscription, see pinging Rorie (mrorie) connected the "site-tech-issues" transmission connected the Giant Bomb Discord. He's presently helping the unit successful those 2 areas for a bit. You tin besides see creating a thread connected the Bug Reporting committee with immoderate caller issues but see @-ing @chucktowski successful your station to get a response. Also, don't hide to cheque retired the Giant Bomb FAQ to spot if your occupation oregon contented hasn't already been addressed. If it hasn't delight see dropping a reply and I'll spot if I can't get a effect soon.

Detanglement betwixt Giant Bomb and Fandom is progressing and the unit would similar to convey everyone who offered their clip to assistance successful that process. Luckily, Will Carle, the erstwhile manager of website engineering of CBSi who led aggregate tract revisions of Giant Bomb and its backend, has agreed to consult and assistance with getting the tract afloat independent.

Next, it has been confirmed that the Giant Bomb Staff volition beryllium attending Summer Game Fest this year. A batch of enactment is inactive being done with Giant Bomb's streaming and signaling setup and this volition necessitate patience the adjacent mates weeks. Details volition beryllium announced soon™.

Nonetheless, here's a useful streaming docket Marino made of the confirmed conferences astatine this point. This is NOT a last database of events. @marino volition supply updates connected his Bluesky.

To repetition a constituent from past week, if you are excited astir Giant Bomb's adjacent steps towards afloat independence, don't hide astir the caller ways you tin spell astir supporting the tract and staff. That includes:

• Giant Bomb Premium Subscriptions ($9.99/month oregon $99.99/annual)
• Tip Giant Bomb connected Ko-Fi (one-time lone oregon monthly)
• Subscribe connected Twitch here! (ad-free viewing + emotes)
• Giant Bomb's YouTube transmission (send Super Chats erstwhile they are enabled)

Finally, the Giant Bomb unit were incredibly engaged guesting connected different podcasts and livestreams successful hopes of getting much buzz and assemblage engagement with Giant Bomb! Here are immoderate of the highlights I was astir to way down, but there's a accidental I whitethorn person missed thing truthful consciousness escaped to stock successful the comments if you cognize of thing involving the unit that my radar did not prime up.

• Axe of the Blood God - An RPG Podcast - Featuring Guest Mike Minotti
• Asking Dan Ryckert Everything About Giant Bomb’s Independence - MinnMax Interview
• Better Offline Podcast - Saving Games Journalism With Giant Bomb featuring Jeff Grubb, Jeff Bakalar, and Dan Ryckert
• The VGBees Podcast Episode 51 – Randy’s Looking Over Your Shoulder w/ Dan Ryckert

Art

Giant Bomb Blight Club Skull Shirt Design + Giant Bomb University (By: TompTomp)

TompTomp connected Bluesky is simply a spot of a caller entrant to making Giant Bomb themed artwork and memorabilia, but the 2 things they made this week are decidedly cool! First, they made a Blight Club t-shirt plan that adjacent got Mike excited. Additionally, they imagined Giant Bomb arsenic a assemblage with a fistful of chill logos. Just effort not to ideate Dan arsenic a prof of immoderate subject.

Tit Rascal's Troubles successful Time (By: @manburger)

Manburger has thrown their chapeau into the STACKED tract of Giant Bomb members that marque instrumentality creation and they started disconnected by having a spell astatine this nightmarish enactment based connected Mike, Dan, and Rascal!

Welcome To Flavortown With Mike Minotti (By: @kone)

Here we person different Kone abomination/artwork but this clip imagining a decked retired Mike Minotti hanging retired with his culinary champion bud, Guy Fieri!

Minotti Rascal x Doctor Manhattan (By: @mleelunsford)

As requested by Giant Bomb and adjacent Mike himself, MLeeLunsford imagined a Rascalized Mike Minotti unsocial similar Doctor Manhattan from The Watchmen. I deliberation it perfectly captures however dejected Mike was erstwhile helium realized his redeeming mistake.

GAME OVER (By: eviemae)

Once again, this Blight Club with Rascal is delivering the goods with much highly originative works of creation and photoshop! Here we person eviemae from bsky imagining Mike fused into Rascal's Game Over screen.

Mike Meets Violent J (By: SrirachaChili)

How superior are the Giant Bomb unit astir attending the Gathering of the Juggalos? Only clip volition tell.

Grubb's Game Mess (By: NickToilet)

Also connected Bluesky, NickToilet decided to person a spell astatine making a amusive enactment of creation picturing Jeff Grubb cervix heavy successful an existent crippled mess! Also, they posted a amusive timelapse of themselves making this work.

Mike Versus His Nemesis, Cody Rhodes (By: groancrime)

Cody Rhodes has opinions astir Disney that mightiness hitch Mike Minotti the incorrect way. Nonetheless, here's a amusive photoshop placing the wrestler close adjacent to Mike connected a caller rollercoaster astatine Universal.

Mike Minotti Blight Club Road Warrior (By: JOOOOOOOOOOOOSH)

Should Mike beryllium considered the "Road Warrior" of Blight Club considering everything helium has done and however rapidly helium tends to bushed his games? JOOOOOOOOOOOOSH connected Bluesky definite seems to deliberation so!

Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/creakylegs.lol/post/3lpqlqmwk4c2y

Videos

Best of Giant Bomb - OverBlood [Blight Club] (By: @turboman)

Pipo died for your Sins.

After the unthinkable reception to their archetypal mates attempts astatine reviving their Best of Giant Bomb compilation video series, TurboMan/DerekStone had a spell astatine highlighting what they see the champion moments from Giant Bomb's Blight Club for OverBlood. Try to convey them for getting backmost to the Giant Bomb video making erstwhile you person the chance.

Best of Blight Club - Ryckert of the 99 Dangons (By: AlexWP)

A caller challenger emerges to bring attraction to the champion moments from Giant Bomb's Blight Club feature! AlexWP decided to person a spell astatine compiling each of their favourite moments from Dan's adventures with Drake of the 99 Dragons connected YouTube. Give the video a ticker and nonstop them acknowledgment successful their comments.

Activities

Mullet Mad Jack Is The 5th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4! Finish By June 1! Mark All Spoilers! Maintain Brand Safety! (By: @bigsocrates)

How galore tries did it instrumentality earlier you finished the game?

Nothing stops the Giant Bomb Game Pass Game Club! The radical is inactive up and moving and the existent prime is Mullet Mad Jack! Share your thoughts of the crippled arsenic good arsenic your tips for radical that person yet to bushed it implicit here!

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

I cognize this enactment thread is ancient, but arsenic idiosyncratic who is portion of Giant Bomb's Album of the Week Club, I tin archer you that the radical has precocious revived its efforts and is readying itself for a caller rhythm oregon season! If you privation to articulation the amusive conscionable driblet a remark successful the thread linked above!

Blogs

South Of Midnight Is One Of Those Games That's Pretty Good But Frustratingly Close To Greatness (By: @bigsocrates)

Do you hold with immoderate reviewers calling this a spiritual escapade game?

bigsocrates penned a blog astir South of Midnight wherein they sermon wherefore they deliberation the crippled narrowly misses existent "greatness" contempt being "perfectly good" successful their books. Whether you consciousness the aforesaid astir the crippled oregon not, see joining their treatment astir the game.

May nary Monogatari: Part Two (Saturn) +

Indie Game of the Week 420: Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip (By: @mento)

It's clip to speech astir the chaotic and wacky satellite of the Sega Saturn with Mento's latest blog! This week they sermon the decidedly quirky Dungeon Master Nexus! If each you cognize is the archetypal Dungeon Master, this blog is simply a implicit treat.

Likewise, Mento has different variation of their "Indie Game of the Week" diagnostic and this 1 tackles Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip! Read wherefore they deliberation this unfastened satellite indie crippled from past twelvemonth is an underrated gem.

Y'all Hear About That New DOOM? (By: @ford_dent)

It's clip to delve into the satellite of Saturn games with Mento!

Most are talking astir and playing Doom: The Dark Ages, but Ford_Dent wants to speech astir thing "different" that is inactive undeniably Doom. Join them successful their treatment astir Amalgoom! If you person ne'er heard of Amalgoom, past decidedly springiness this blog a read!

Bottom of the Barrel successful the FF/MTG Crossover (By: @thatpinguino)

You mightiness person heard that Magic the Gathering is doing a crossover happening with Final Fantasy. What's the woody and wherefore is everyone truthful excited? Check retired thatpinguino's blog to find retired and besides consciousness escaped to lament the insane outgo each of these paper packs are going for!

The Mountain Within: How Celeste Transforms Gameplay into Psychological Struggle(By: @pauljeremiah)

It's classical DOOM II but not really.

pauljeremiah penned an effort astir Celeste and its metaphorical upland and however the crippled gets storytelling retired of in-game trials and challenges. While astir who play the crippled recognize the game's metaphorical meanings, pauljeremiah gives the taxable an introspective heavy dive.

Discussion Threads

How Do You Think Bluey Made It So Big Where Other Kids Shows Just Fizzled Out? (By: @harinosho)

What is Bluey's concealed sauce?

It has spawned a reasonably progressive statement connected the forums, but what's you instrumentality connected this question: How bash you deliberation Bluey made it truthful large wherever different kids shows conscionable fizzled out? Do you ticker the amusement and person an sentiment astir the prime of its penning and characters?

What Are Your PS1 Essentials? (By: @angryjedi)

If you started a PS1 postulation close now, what would beryllium the archetypal games you get? What are the large ones arsenic good arsenic obscure titles that you'd want? This applies to games that ne'er came retired of Japan arsenic good arsenic games that lone had constricted runs.

It's Officially Over - The FTC Has Completely Dropped Its Case Against MS Over The Activision Blizzard Deal (By: @zombiepie)

What's the close absorption to this news?

The FTC has officially dropped its efforts to artifact Microsoft's effort to bargain Activision-Blizzard. This storyline is over, but is that bully quality for the scenery of video games? Without the deal, would the Xbox marque and consoles beryllium successful a amended oregon worse spot?

WAR HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO SUPER EARTH! - Helldivers 2 Heart of Democracy Update (By: @vendettadylan)

Calling each Helldivers II players! What is your archetypal absorption to the Heart of Democracy update? Has it inspired you to footwear up the crippled again successful bid to support democracy? Do you similar it oregon hatred it? Share your thoughts successful our authoritative assemblage treatment for the update!

At What Point In Doom: The Dark Ages Did You Break Down And Use A Life Sigil? (By: @big_denim)

Have you been doing your portion to combat for democracy?

For those of you playing DOOM: The Dark Ages, erstwhile was the archetypal clip you utilized your archetypal beingness sigil? What level oregon circumstantial brushwood forced your hand? Share distant your answers to those questions arsenic good arsenic if the crippled benefits from having them successful the archetypal place!

How Many People In This Community Stream Games Themselves? (By: @doubledaddydan)

This is simply a telephone to everyone successful the Giant Bomb community! How galore of you are streaming connected Twitch oregon YouTube? Share your streaming relationship links and let's commencement watching each other! Also, if you are already travel immoderate different assemblage members, consciousness escaped to beforehand their socials present arsenic well.

Lists

The Good Star Wars Games (By: @m_kolibri)

Jokes aside, determination person been immoderate INCREDIBLE prima Wars games implicit the years.

With the decision of Andor play 2, m_kolibri had a manus astatine creating what they deliberation are the 10 "best" Star Wars games. Give their database a work and consciousness escaped to person a spell astatine your ain list.

Giant Bomb 5 Stars (By: @seanjhealy)

Want a database of each crippled that has gotten a 5 prima reappraisal connected Giant Bomb? Well, this database from seanjhealy has you covered! Whether it beryllium reviews from erstwhile the tract archetypal motorboat oregon much caller ones, they were capable to way down each azygous crippled to get pristine marks from the staff.

Reviews

Anyone other person thoughts astir the latest Doom?

@willin's Doom: The Dark Ages reappraisal relays wherefore they are not arsenic enthused by the crippled arsenic astir people. In fact, the connection they deliberation champion describes the crippled is "dull," and you tin work wherefore they deliberation that successful their review.

@pauljeremiah continues their retro video crippled reviews with an in-depth appraisal of Mickey Mania! Is the fervent nostalgia for the this crippled warranted oregon has Father Time been unkind to this game?

RETRORENTSAL's The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered reappraisal talks astir however the crippled felt similar returning "home" and that includes each of the game's bugs and flaws.

Wiki Of The Week

Splatoon

Maybe 1 of the astir important competitory shooters successful the past 10 years.

The 10th day of Splatoon is coming up! It's brainsick to deliberation that Nintendo's competitory shooter has been astir for that long, but it's true. So, let's springiness props to the site's beauteous unthinkable wiki leafage for the crippled that started it all!