The Community Spotlight 2025.09.06

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 erstwhile week!

Earlier, aggregate radical reported that they were experiencing issues with Pocketcasts not having updates RSS Feeds. As a reminder, there's a workaround with Pocketcasts. If you transcript the RSS provender URL, past adhd "&foo=bar" astatine the extremity of the URL, you tin someway hole oregon reset your RSS Feed connected the app. As Rorie tin attest, Giant Bomb has had issues with Pocketcasts for astir a decennary and inactive nary 1 knows what they oregon this tract does truthful otherwise that makes Pocketcasts specified a problem.

For those of you that noticed that Giant Bomb Forever was banned connected Twitch earlier, the contented has been resolved. The admin of the relationship has confirmed that GBF was banned by mistake and Twitch recovered that it had not engaged successful thing that violated its presumption of service. I volition stock the thread successful which galore expressed concerns for the involvement of posterity.

There was a Premium Townhall connected the Giant Bomb Discord. If you missed it, a VOD is incoming. If you had earlier issues with the Discord Premium Bot successful trying to unlock the Premium channels connected the Giant Bomb Discord, those issues should beryllium resolved astatine this time.

And here's your play reminder to scope retired to each past and contiguous Giant Bomb assemblage members to fto them cognize that it's incredibly important to log-in truthful they tin opt into preserving their usernames going into the caller Giant Bomb site. The ETA to bash this inactive is "before 2026," but doing things earlier is better. Also, for anyone acrophobic astir if you person opted successful oregon not, if you clicked yes and the pop-up isn't appearing anymore, you are successful the clear. If you privation to beryllium perfectly definite you are opting to support your username, nonstop a DM to chuck connected Discord oregon nonstop an email to [email protected].

Speaking of Chuck, his plea for much assistance building and polishing the caller wiki inactive stands. As a reminder, immoderate of the biggest needs are radical with expertise successful infrastructure and hosting with GCP oregon Docker, MediaWiki Administration, information migration, accusation architecture and contented curation, benignant guidance successful CSS, authentication/authorization, 301 redirection, and wide contented editors. If immoderate of that applies to you, driblet a remark successful the thread and Chuck volition effort to get backmost to you erstwhile they can.

And speaking of contented connected the caller site, if you missed it, don't hide to cheque retired Ford_Dent's assemblage nonfiction implicit determination astir spooky fearfulness games to get yourself acceptable for Halloween!

Art

Minotti Hydmike + Game Informer Giant Bomb Ad Zoomed In (By: @jearum)

jearum has 2 MAGNIFICENT works of creation this week! First, to people the latest play of Blight Club diagnostic Mike playing done Virtual Hydlide, they went up and envisioned Mike connected the screen of the game's JP boxart!

Likewise, it seems a batch of you truly enjoyed the Game Informer mag advertisement Giant Bomb took past period and jearum was benignant capable to springiness you a adjacent up of immoderate of the details successful the ad. And earlier you ask, yes, the advertisement was really done wholly successful 3D. Simply incredible.

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Activities

Herdling Is The 9th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4. Finish By October 1. Mark All Spoilers! (By: @bigsocrates)

Does herding sheep-like beasts marque you consciousness human?

Herdling by Okomotive is the latest crippled prime for the Giant Bomb Game of the Month Club! Have immoderate of you heard astir this mythical herding game? Have you seen its expressive creation benignant successful motion? Join the amusive implicit present and driblet a supportive remark erstwhile you can!

The GB Album Club 095 - Swansong by Carcass (By: @unclejam23)

This week's prime by the Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club is Swansong by Carcass! Are immoderate of you fans of this utmost metallic band? Are you wholly unfamiliar with this metallic group? Regardless, articulation the amusive implicit present and don't hide that you tin articulation the nine immoderate time!

Blogs

EA Made My Dream Skate Game, But You Will Probably Hate It (By: @willin)

Anyone other impressed by the Skate. Early Access?

willin takes to the tract to sermon wherefore they emotion astir everything they person played of Skate.'s Early Access release. However, contempt their idiosyncratic emotion for the game, they stock their interest astir the constricted entreaty of a Skate crippled for Skate fans.

The Strands That Bind Us. (By: @mooseymcman)

After penning a non-spoiler blog astir Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, MooseyMcMan decided to pen an effort discussing each story-related spoiler astir the crippled connected this blog. If you privation to sermon the game's galore twists and turns, this is the blog for you.

Mento's Month: August '25 + Indie Game of the Week 435: After Death (By: @mento)

Kojima was well-represented connected the tract this week.

A caller period means that moderator Mento is backmost looking astatine their idiosyncratic gaming and anime highlights and lowlights of their erstwhile month! If you privation immoderate recommendations, springiness the archetypal nexus a changeable erstwhile you person the time.

Likewise, Mento has a caller variation of their "Indie Game of the Week" diagnostic tackles After Death, a "monster-filled Metroidvania!" Does this crippled person immoderate foodstuff to differentiate itself successful a crowded field? Mentio thinks truthful and you tin work wherefore implicit here!

Industry-led Labels & Definitions: The Latest Barrier Making Boycotting Generative AI In Game Design All But Impossible (By: @zombiepie)

A caller contention emerged erstwhile Bandai included an generative AI disclaimer connected Everybody's Golf: Hot Shots. But, arsenic ZombiePie points out, you mightiness not privation to picket the crippled and the concern highlights however the existent exemplary of relying connected industry-led labels is simply a looming catastrophe for consumers.

Gears of August (By: @infantpipoc)

Unaware determination adjacent was a Snake Eater novelization? Give infantpipoc's blog a work for the details!

infantpipoc shares wherefore they are unimpressed by Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater and however they dilatory but surely consciousness similar the novelization of Snake Eater is starting to look similar the definitive mentation of that peculiar story.

Discussion Threads

Silksong Is Actually Releasing (September 4)(By: @atheistpreacher)

Unsurprisingly, radical person been talking astir Silksong connected the forums.

But really... however bash we each consciousness astir Hollow Knight: Silksong? Is it an really bully video game? Does the last merchandise unrecorded up to the hype? Are you bittersweet the Silksong memes are apt over? Share your effect to immoderate of these questions arsenic good arsenic sharing your wide thoughts successful the thread above!

Hollow Knight: Silksong: What's Up With The Cloud Of Online Hate For This Game? (By: @topcyclist)

Were you alert of Silksong getting reappraisal bombed by Chinese players implicit a atrocious translation? Also, is simply a counter-narrative forming against Silksong online? Learn each astir immoderate of these "controversies" and if immoderate of them volition dilatory down the excitement surrounding Silksong.

Drew Carey Show Discussion Thread (By: @psmgamer)

A TV fable oregon menace?

One of the much progressive caller threads this week is asking the assemblage if they person immoderate favourite memories of The Drew Carey Show. Wait... what? Uh... okay. Anyone a instrumentality of Mimi??? Remember erstwhile Drew Carey did things that weren't crippled shows?

Did Anyone Else Try Out The Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Network Test? (By: @bigsocrates)

Did immoderate of you drawback the Sonic Racing CrossWorlds web test? Are determination immoderate netcode oregon equilibrium changes you privation to spot earlier the game's afloat release? Is it looking similar a morganatic alternate to Mario Kart World? Join the speech erstwhile you can!

UPDATE: It's OK! Original: Twitch Has Suspended/Banned Giant Bomb Forever. Also Twitch Is Going After Certain Channels (By: @ben_h)

Is this shaping up to beryllium a morganatic Mario Kart alternative?

As mentioned earlier, GiantBombForever is good and its prohibition earlier past week was a mistake. Nonetheless, this thread's different points astir circumstantial Twitch channels being targeted by morphing moderation standards inactive stands and you tin larn each astir it successful this thread.

Lists

Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcom (By: @mento)

Anyone present person nostalgia for classical Falcom games?

Mento has been dabbling successful the fantastic satellite of Nihon Falcom games this year! Learn each astir immoderate of the fantastic caller and aged Falcom treasures they person played for a imaginable diagnostic connected the tract by clicking the nexus above.

Reviews

At the time, this crippled was a method achievement.

@sbc515's Checkered Flag reappraisal shares however not lone is it 1 of the worst Atari Jaguar games ever made, it mightiness beryllium a forgotten campaigner for worst racing crippled ever made adjacent if it has the excuse of being an aboriginal 3D/polygonal game.

Wiki Of The Week

Rayman

In hindsight, Rayman was benignant of bullshit.

It's brainsick to think, but the precise archetypal Rayman crippled is turning THIRTY this month! The franchise has decidedly had immoderate highs and lows, but you tin springiness our wiki leafage for the crippled that started it each a work to larn each astir the galore versions and releases of the crippled and however they disagree from 1 another!