The Community Spotlight 2025.10.25

It's that clip of the twelvemonth again!

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!

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Next, let's speech astir Extra Life 2025! As I mentioned successful the announcement thread I posted this week, I'm the Team Captain this twelvemonth for Giant Bomb's Extra Life efforts. I'll beryllium coordinating with the unit and Chuck to get assemblage streams and updates retired there. Right now, we are truly looking for radical who are streaming games connected Twitch oregon YouTube that conscionable don't person an Extra Life team. Even if you can't watercourse connected Game Day (November 8) oregon adjacent if you lone watercourse a fewer times a month, if you are playing games connected the net betwixt present and the extremity of the year, articulation the squad and spot if anyone successful your assemblage tin nonstop you and the Giant Bomb squad a fewer bucks to assistance retired kids successful need.

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• Giant Bomb Extra Life 2025 Community Stream Registration & Info Thread - If You Have Any Questions, Feel Free To Drop A Comment And I'll Get Back To You As Soon As Possible!
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Art

High Res Banner For Darkest Days Blight Club (By: @jearum)

If you person been enjoying Dan's hilarious trek done Darkest of Days you should beryllium arsenic blessed to cognize that jearum has made a precocious res mentation of their banner for this play of Blight Club avilable to EVERYONE! As astir of you volition agree, they simply bash not miss with these.

Dan: All Fire Is Real? (By: Slow-pC)

Jesus Christ, Dan. Many acknowledgment to Slow-pC connected the GB Discord for jumping connected turning Dan's latest Dan-ism into a meme, but Jesus.

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Activities

The GB Album Club 101 - Panopticon! by Dreamcrusher (By: @unclejam23)

Anyone a instrumentality of this philharmonic group? Feel escaped to articulation the discussion!

Panopticon! by Dreamcrusher is this week's prime for the Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club! Join the fun! Are immoderate of you acquainted with the "noise" euphony genre? Even if you aren't you tin inactive articulation the amusive by dropping a remark successful the thread linked above.

Creatures Of Ava Is The 10th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4. Finish By November 1. Mark All Spoilers. (By: @bigsocrates)

Creatures of Ava by Inverge Studios and Chibig is this month's prime for the Giant Bomb Game of the Month Club! Do immoderate of you person tips and tricks to stock astir however to research the antithetic biomes successful the game? If so, articulation the amusive by clicking the nexus above!

Blogs

Tuesdays* of Terror: ...Iru! + Indie Game of the Week 442: Necrobarista (By: @mento)

Do you ahev a favourite coffee-based indie game?

It's clip to proceed moderator Mento's retro gaming Halloween-themed blog bid with a fantastic write-up by them astir ...Iru! connected the PS1! Is this cult crippled deserving of the hype and really wirth tracking down and playing?

And the moody vibes proceed with their latest "Indie Game of the Week" blog which looks astatine Necrobarista. Do they deliberation it slots successful good against different akin indie games similar VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action and Coffee Talk? Well, you'll conscionable person to work to find out!

Reading A 3000 Year Old Epic As A Video Game Tie-in Novel (By: @infantpipoc)

infantpipoc decided to get experimental with their latest blog! What if you work The Illiad AND the Odyssey arsenic tie-ins to Hades and Hades II? Do you recognize the characters successful the bid better? See however their position changed implicit here.

How To Kill A Console – The Beginning Of The End For Xbox (By: @vendettadylan)

Was this week the existent extremity oregon decease of Xbox?

Between Sarah Bond's comments astir the terms and scope of aboriginal hardware arsenic good arsenic Xbox's caller attack towards "exclusives" and present Halo is coming the PlayStation, it's starting to truly consciousness similar the "end" of Xbox? Is it? VendettaDylan definite thinks so.

Green: Decoding the Game Pass Price Hike (By: @gamer_152)

Speaking of the imaginable extremity of Xbox hardware arsenic we cognize it, it seems much than apt to instrumentality to Gamer_152's constitute up successful effect to the Game Pass terms hikes and instrumentality to their treatment astir what the terms hike says astir wherever Xbox is astatine close now. Not to spoil it, but thing good.

Discussion Threads

Extra Life 2025 Community Stream Planning Thread! (By: @rasgueado)

Are you acceptable to assistance rise wealth for kids!

Do immoderate of you program to watercourse during Extra Life 2025? Do you request assistance readying a watercourse thought oregon are struggling to enactment with the event's template oregon widgets? Whether you are an Extra Life seasoned oregon newcomer, driblet a remark present and get immoderate tips connected however to person an eventful and amusive Game Day this year!

Dan Really Sold Me On LEGO Party (By: @dya)

Dan seems to beryllium enjoying LEGO Party but what bash you think? It sounds similar different assemblage members person been taking Dan's proposal to springiness the crippled a changeable and person been having a blast! Are you 1 of them? If not, what's holding you backmost from checking the crippled out?

Dispatch Discussion Thread (By: @junkerman)

Dispatch has released, but it volition beryllium coming retired successful an episodic format and that has immoderate people, particularly those that weren't immense fans of Telltale Games, connected edge. For those of you that took the plunge connected the archetypal fewer episodes, what are your thoughts and words to those skeptics?

Name Me An Episode Of Television That Is Way The Hell Better Than The Show In Which It Appeared (By:@atheistpreacher)

This was BY FAR past week's astir palmy thread and that's crushed capable to beforehand for astatine slightest a 2nd week successful a row. As the rubric mightiness suggest, what's a TV amusement wherever you consciousness similar there's 1 truly bully occurrence but the remainder of the amusement is precise mean oregon mid? Share your prime successful the thread!

Videogame Halloween Costumes? (By: @matpaget)

Anyone other springiness this crippled a shot?

This thread gets revived beauteous overmuch each twelvemonth and has been astir for a while, but it's that clip of the twelvemonth again, and immoderate radical person already started sharing their ideas for video game-themed Halloween costumes. Are you going to formal up arsenic a video crippled character? Share distant successful the comments if you are.

Lists

Green Ladies (By: @jacobproper1)

Can you deliberation of different examples?

JacobProper1 has different amusive and goofy quality conception database that could usage YOUR HELP! They're trying to marque a database that annotates each pistillate video crippled quality associated with the colour green. They cognize they don't person everyone close present and are unfastened to suggestions.

Top 25 Singleplayer First Person Shooters (By: @drjimmyb)

The years person not been wholly benignant to the singleplayer archetypal idiosyncratic shooter. So, DrjimmyB decided to person a spell astatine what they deliberation are the implicit champion campaigns successful the past of archetypal idiosyncratic shooters.

User Reviews

Is the AAA fearfulness crippled dead?

@gamer_152's The Callisto Protocol reappraisal shares wherefore they felt unsatisfied by it mechanically and morally arsenic a full acquisition adjacent if it looked bully and had spooky moments. Also, they stock wherefore its nonaccomplishment feels similar the extremity of modern AAA fearfulness games.

@doomocrat's Hades II reappraisal relays wherefore they deliberation the crippled was truthful adjacent to greatness but missed the people ever truthful slightly. They inactive enjoyed the game, but a fewer niggling nitpicks annoyed them capable that they couldn't assistance but deliberation astir however it could beryllium better.

Wiki Of The Week

Shadow of the Colossus

Does this crippled inactive nonstop shivers down your spine?

It's chaotic to deliberation but this period Shadow of the Colossus celebrated its 20th anniversary! What makes this "cult classic" truthful beloved by galore successful the gaming hobby? If you privation an idea, cheque retired our MASSIVE wiki leafage for the crippled that leaves nary chromatic unturned!