The Community Spotlight 2025.11.01

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!

First and foremost, let's springiness a immense congratulations to the unit for pulling disconnected the Giant Bomb-A-Thon! The 24-Hour Marathon Stream delivered connected laughs and thrills. But, champion of all, the Giant Bomb assemblage utterly SMASHED each donation people the lawsuit had! Jan and Bakalar are readying their Giant Bomb themed tattoos, sportfishing week is connected the menu, and truthful overmuch more. Also, monolithic props to the idiosyncratic who dropped $15K to assistance enactment the site; that's downright astonishing stuff.

If you missed the lawsuit oregon privation to re-live the magic, I'll see the VOD below. However, ne'er suffer show of wherefore the Bomb-A-Thon was hosted. If you tin inactive enactment the tract and everything these duders do, delight bash truthful nevertheless you can. If you haven't maxed retired your premium subscription, that's ever an avenue. Likewise, the Giant Bomb Ko-Fi page isn't going anyplace anytime soon. But, thing I truly loved seeing were the radical buying acquisition subs for radical oregon friends they encouraged to make accounts for connected the site. That's the benignant of originative reasoning that volition guarantee this tract truly continues connected for years to come!

• GIANT BOMB-A-THON 2025! | Part 1
• GIANT BOMB-A-THON 2025! | Part 2

Additionally, the BOMB-A-THON mightiness beryllium over, but you tin inactive get immoderate INCREDIBLE Bomb-A-Thon merch! If you privation a t-shirt oregon hoodie with re-imagined versions of the staff, cheque retired the caller quality plan connected the store! There's besides the non-character hoodie and t-shirt for anyone that doesn't privation cartoon versions of the gang!

• Bombathon 2025 Shirt with Characters: $28.00
• Bombathon 2025 Hoodie with Characters: $50.00
• Bombathon 2025 Shirt (No Characters): $28.00
• Bombathon 2025 Hoodie (No Characters): $50.00

Most importantly, mugs are backmost successful the store! After truthful galore of you complained astir the deficiency of mugs, now's the clip to amusement you each meant what you said. Also, delight beryllium diligent portion the unit program for however to instrumentality each of the donation goals that were met. For example, I cognize the readying process for the zine is already underway.

• GB Mug: $15.00
• Anti-Mugs Mug: $15.00

From 1 large Giant Bomb-led lawsuit to another, let's speech astir Extra Life 2025! I'll speech much astir successful the dedicated conception for Extra Life below, but arsenic I stated past week, I'm going to beryllium your Team Captain this clip around. You should tune into Giant Bomb's podcast and streams this coming week to larn much astir what the unit person planned for the foundation drive. If anything, I truly request immoderate and each of you that haven't joined the squad to bash so. Even if you person zero intentions of streaming, we're inactive asking everyone to make pages due to the fact that we usually person donation incentives and matching activities were adjacent bare squad pages get donations. The much the merrier arsenic they say!

And erstwhile again, with the extremity of the twelvemonth drafting nigh, don't hide astir communicating with everyone you cognize that they request to log into their Giant weaponry tract accounts betwixt present and the extremity of the year. If you truly privation to cheque to spot if you're each squared distant click this link.

If aft clicking this link, you get instantly re-directed to the homepage, that means there's thing you request to do. You'll lone spot a disclaimer with a fastener to click if you haven't already opted into the relationship transportation process.

If you inactive are not capable to log into the beta tract and person premium, DM chucktowski connected Discord with your username and email and helium tin benignant it out.

Extra Life 2025

Giant Bomb needs YOU 1 much clip earlier the extremity of the year!

• 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!
• Giant Bomb Extra Life Team Page - SIGN UP NOW! Even if you can't watercourse connected Game Day oregon astatine all, we truly are trying to thrust up squad members for matching donation incentives.
• Community Stream Registration Form - Any Non-Staff Team Members Should Fill This Out If You Plan To Stream On November 8th oregon 9th!
• My Team Captain Extra Life Page - Consider Donating To My Page If You Have Enjoyed The Spotlight Over The Many Years I Have Been Authoring It!

Art

Giant Bomb-a-Thon Coffee Art (By: @sir5000)

In grant of Mike getting their melon played similar a brace of bongos, sir5000 decided to grace america 1 again with immoderate fantabulous java art! The information they were capable to NAIL Mike's grimace with java foam is downright unthinkable worldly if you inquire me.

Bakalar's Island + The Bombathon Couch (By: Pickle Giraffe)

Pickle Giraffe isn't rather acceptable to driblet the adjacent "official" play of Giant Bomb Blight Club Animated, but they person shared plentifulness of snippets and creation assets that corroborate that the adjacent play volition beryllium an implicit BANGER! To afloat admit what I mean, click the links to spot what artistry they person been up to recently.

Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/danryckert.com/post/3m4dq5vmfis2x

https://bsky.app/profile/janochoa.bsky.social/post/3m4g5are3h22d

https://bsky.app/profile/picklegiraffe.bsky.social/post/3m4f5ibcwhk2k

https://bsky.app/profile/heyderekstone.bsky.social/post/3m4foqjhmrs2o

https://bsky.app/profile/marinov1.bsky.social/post/3m4a6x254ik2s

Activities

The GB Album Club 102 - The Newest Joke by Veltpunch (By: @unclejam23)

Hey! The latest prime for the Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club is The Newest Joke by Veltpunch! Have immoderate of you heard of this Japanese alternate stone band? Join the amusive implicit present and arsenic this rhythm nears its end, the radical is looking for caller humor to revive the groups ranks and bring successful adjacent much medium recommendations.

Creatures Of Ava Is The 10th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4. Spoilers OPEN! (By: @bigsocrates)

Creatures of Ava by Inverge Studios and Chibig is this month's prime for the Giant Bomb Game of the Month Club! This week the treatment thread has officially opened its speech to everything and thing related to the game's communicative and last batch of levels. Do immoderate of you person juicy takes astir however the crippled wraps up? Share them NOW!

Blogs

The archetypal endurance fearfulness game? Learn astir it with Mento.

The Myth of a Conservative Halo (By: @linksocarina)

LinksOcarina wrote an effort connected wherefore they deliberation it is important to propulsion backmost connected the increasing communicative that Halo is by plan a blimpish crippled that espouses blimpish ideals. Do you person immoderate thoughts astir this taxable successful airy of the Trump administration's caller appropriation of Halo?

Tuesdays* of Terror: Shiryou Sensen: War of the Dead +

Mento's Month: October '25 +

Indie Game of the Week 443: Maid of Sker (By: @mento)

Mento has a smattering of blogs for you to bask this week! Halloween mightiness beryllium over, but they person 1 much retro fearfulness crippled blog and this 1 tackles War of the Dead/Shiryou Sensen: War of the Dead. Does the archetypal existent endurance fearfulness crippled inactive clasp up?

Morally dubious oregon much than the sum of its parts?

Likewise, with the decision of Halloween marking the extremity of the month, Mento has their accustomed monthly wrap-up sharing what they loved playing and watching past month. If you're funny successful getting immoderate indie crippled oregon anime recommendations, this is the blog for you!

Finally, the taxable of their "Indie Game of the Week" this clip astir is Maid of Sker! Was this a large mode to circular disconnected their spooky October?

Double oregon Nothing?: Buckshot Roulette and Lethal Gambling (By: @gamer_152)

Moderator Gamer_152's latest effort is each astir Buckshot Roulette and successful it they research the past of Russian roulette, the taxable of addiction, and however Buckshot Roulette opens up a greater treatment connected however you tin marque a crippled of luck into a crippled of skill.

Some TMNT Brawlers, Ranked successful No Particular Order for No Particular Reason (By: @ford_dent)

A ton of retro crippled ranking connected the tract this week which is ever awesome to see.

Ford_Dent makes a glorious instrumentality to blogging by publishing what they see the astir definitive ranking of each azygous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brawler ever made! If you person immoderate thoughts, stock however the "science" works for you.

Let The Record State, The Xbox Series X Was Genuinely Great Hardware That Deserved So Much Better Than This (By: @zombiepie)

As the rubric suggests, with the temper astir the aboriginal of caller Xbox console hardware astatine an all-time low, moderator ZombiePie can't assistance but consciousness similar the Xbox Series X|S truly got shafted. In their opinion, they truly deliberation the console was an unthinkable portion of hardware that deserved a amended destiny than this.

Moosey May Cry Part 1. (By: @mooseymcman)

Between the Netflix bid and caller interviews with the radical that made the bid coming out, MooseMcMan decided to commencement a caller retrospective wherever they look astatine the Devil May Cry franchise. Obviously, they commencement with the crippled that started it each and you tin work what they thought of the game's "stylish action" combat.

Discussion Threads

Are determination immoderate sportfishing games you privation to spot connected the site?

Fishing Week Suggestions (By: @doowaygee)

First Giant Bomb did Golf Week and present acknowledgment to Jan and his chickenhearted nugget eating abilities, determination volition beryllium a Fishing Week! What sorts of games would you similar to spot played arsenic portion of this feature? Share distant successful the thread linked above!

RECOMMENDATIONS: Need Mobile Game To Play With My Bestie! (By: @jnerd)

Where person each the multiplayer and co-op mobile games gone? Are determination immoderate mobile games that let others to play with each different that you recommend? If you tin deliberation of a game, consciousness escaped to stock it successful the treatment thread by jNerd!

Simpsons Games Retrospective (By: @matabus)

Mike mentioned YouTuber honestom23's retrospective connected each Simpsons video crippled ever made and here's a amusive thread wherever you tin stock your appreciation of the retrospective connected the forums. Do you person immoderate beardown opinions astir the gaming highlights and lowlights of the Simpsons IP?

Were you a instrumentality of The Simpsons arcade crippled oregon did you find it to beryllium a frustrating coin guzzler?

High Resolution Screenshot Sharing Thread (By: @simplestrobot)

The aged screenshot thread has gone agelong abandoned, so, I'm much than blessed to beforehand this thread arsenic a caller alternative. Have you taken immoderate amusive precocious res screenshots of your games? If so, consciousness escaped to stock them and the strategy oregon rig you took them connected successful this thread!

Lists

Any thoughts astir what is and is not making your GOTY database this year?

GOTY 2025 (By: @cardgameenjoyer)

Yup, it's that clip of the twelvemonth again! How are everyone's GOTY lists shaping up? Do you cognize what your apical 5 games from the twelvemonth are? Are you struggling with the placement of immoderate of your games and what are going to beryllium the champion games that don't marque the cut? If you marque a list, don't hide to support maine posted!

10 Favorite Games of All-Time (Alphabetical Order) (By: @finalboss)

With this quickie list, FinalBoss decided to update their aged "Favorite Games of All-Time" list, but they struggled with a due numbered database truthful they went with alphabetical order.

User Reviews

Disney games usage to beryllium allowed to beryllium weird. I miss it.

@djcube's PK Out of The Shadows reappraisal takes america backmost to a clip erstwhile Disney games were allowed to beryllium weird... truly weird. Check this reappraisal retired to larn each astir the Donald Duck-led crippled based connected an Italian comic series!

@djcube's Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom connected the GameCube looks astatine 1 of the much forgotten Yu-Gi-Oh! video crippled outings and tries to spot if there's immoderate crushed to springiness it a 2nd gander beyond conscionable bully aged fashioned nostalgia.

Wikis Of The Week

Also, we are each getting old, man. (Photo from E3 2000)

PlayStation 2

Last week marked the 25th day of the PS2's North American launch. With that day successful mind, it seems much than due to constituent you each to our downright INCREDIBLE wiki leafage for the console. Marvel implicit each conceivable item astir the console and besides the site's monolithic representation gallery for the level that rocked the world!

Jeff Grubb

With the find of our precise ain Jeff Grubb being listed successful the peculiar acknowledgment conception of Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection, that means helium qualifies for a Person leafage successful the Giant Bomb Wiki! So, get successful determination and bash your worst champion with filling retired his page.