The Community Spotlight 2025.11.08

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 important site-related quality arsenic good arsenic champion assemblage creations from the erstwhile week.

Before we get to the onslaught of Extra Life related news, let's speech astir the different amusive updates astir the site. First, for anyone who placed an bid for a mug oregon Bomb-A-Thon t-shirt during the Bomb-A-Thon erstwhile they archetypal dropped, astir of those orders person either shipped oregon should person already reached you. If you person immoderate issues, delight nonstop an email to [email protected]. And yes, the caller mugs are conscionable regular sized mugs alternatively of the elephantine monstrosities that were the Beastcast mugs.

It's inactive a precise bully mug. (Image provided by Tosshi)

Deku Deals is Giant Bomb's sponsor this period and to footwear this concern disconnected connected the champion imaginable footing, they adjacent person a quiz that matches you with a Giant Bomb staffer based wholly connected your favourite games and wide gaming likes and dislikes. Who did you lucifer up with? Feel escaped to stock successful the comments! More importantly, Giant Bomb volition beryllium utilizing Deku Deals and their voting strategy to determine games they should watercourse during the period of November. Vote with your bosom and possibly the unit volition play thing you love!

Some of you whitethorn person noticed that the tract pulled the Premium mentation of Game Mess Mornings from Thursday, 11/6/2025. As per TurboShawn, the unit pulled the occurrence concisely to flip the problematic ads that appeared successful it and astir Friday a reupload should person deed your RSS Feed that is each good.

However, there's nary uncertainty that the large quality this week is the commencement of Extra Life 2025 festivities. I'll stock astir of the accusation successful the Extra Life section, but determination is 1 happening worthy remarking upon successful the intro of this variation of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight. GIANT BOMB SITE CHAT IS BACK BAYBEEEEEEE! Chuck utilized each of his acheronian magic to marque it hap and I don't cognize however you feel, but I couldn't beryllium happier. Like galore of you, seeing the tract chat backmost is simply a existent travel down representation lane. Admittedly, this is lone a impermanent instrumentality truthful we person an easier clip sharing community-led streams this play (Nov 8-9). So, adjacent if you aren't capable to donate and possibly can't tune successful for excessively long, astatine the precise slightest see dropping by the tract chat to popular disconnected your favourite emote truthful you tin relive the magic of the aged tract chat. This mightiness good beryllium your database accidental to accidental goodbye to the tract chat, but arsenic they say, crazier things person happened.

Guess what's back!

Also, the staff's Extra Life tomfoolery volition commence adjacent play connected November 15th. They person a full acceptable of goofy bits astatine his location similar successful erstwhile years, but they needed a spot much clip betwixt the Bomb-A-Thon and Extra Life to get acceptable up.

Likewise, delight see reviewing our squad page and tracking down each of the radical connected our squad that inactive person yet to rise a dollar towards their Extra Life goals. As is contented connected Giant Bomb, we privation to marque definite not a azygous idiosyncratic of the Giant Bomb Extra Life ends this year's Game Day astatine $0 raised.

And for my last enactment astir Extra Life, if you person appreciated my efforts to skipper Giant Bomb's assemblage Extra Life efforts oregon this precise Community Spotlight feature, please see sending a donation to my Extra Life page. Even if you tin lone spare a azygous tiny donation, immoderate magnitude helps and if you can't donate, delight see spreading the connection to anyone who mightiness beryllium funny successful helping retired sick kids during their clip of need.

Finally, let's extremity things with the accustomed updates and notifications astir the tract and the pending modulation to the caller site. For everyone logged successful and speechmaking this feature, you are successful the wide astir maintaining your usernames. What is important is communicating with everyone you cognize that mightiness person moved connected oregon person not utilized their tract accounts successful a portion that they request to log into their Giant Bomb 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.

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Extra Life 2025

Let's bash this FOR THE KIDS!

• 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!
• Dan's Donation Page - When clip comes to enactment Dan successful each of his brainsick shenanigans, this is wherever you should nonstop them! He has a donation extremity of $10,000! dan volition beryllium streaming connected the 15th.
• Giant Bomb Extra Life Team Page - SIGN UP NOW! Extra Life doesn't hitch retired pages until the commencement of 2026, truthful adjacent if you can't watercourse during Game Day, if you bash watercourse astatine all, delight see joining the squad and seeing if you tin get a fewer of your viewers to spot successful a fewer dollars.
• Giant Bomb Site Chat - From evening of November 7th until astir 7:30 PM PST connected November 9th Giant Bomb tract chat volition beryllium backmost truthful we tin big assemblage streams!
• 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!

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Activities

Keeper Is The 11th Game Of UGPGC Year 4. Mark All Spoilers. Finish By December 1st, 2025! (By: @bigsocrates)

Was Keeper worthy the agelong wait? Join the latest variation of the Game of the Month Club to stock your thoughts!

It won by a landslide, but the adjacent crippled prime for the Game of the Month Club is Keeper by Double Fine Productions, Inc.! Was the crippled worthy the years of vigor soundlessness from Double Fine each of these years? Join the amusive and articulation the speech astir the crippled implicit here!

The GB Album Club 103 - Doom Garden EP by Catbite (By: @unclejam23)

Hey everyone! This week the Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club is listening to Doom Garden EP by Catbite! Are immoderate of you acquainted with this radical and their work? Share distant your thoughts and newcomers are welcomed. In fact, arsenic the radical nears the extremity of different season, it's clip for anyone funny to stock if they privation to articulation the amusive adjacent time!

Blogs

Indie Game of the Week 444: PowerWash Simulator 2 (By: @mento)

is this crippled much than a blameworthy pleasure? work what Mento thinks.

This week, for their "Indie Game of the Week" feature, moderator Mento played PowerWash Simulator 2! Read wherefore they loved the crippled and recovered it to beryllium a large betterment from the archetypal game. How overmuch of an betterment and is it bully capable to marque their GOTY list? Read to find out.

Ranking of Roguelikes #5: Caveblazers + Ranking of Roguelikes #6: Nowhere Prophet (By: @laughingman)

aughingman revives their aged blog diagnostic successful which they play and fertile modern roguelikes from champion to worst. This week they played and reviewed Caveblazers arsenic good arsenic Nowhere Prophet! Do either crippled bash thing to acceptable themselves isolated successful a crowded field? Only 1 mode to know!

Moosey May Cry Part 2. (By: @mooseymcman)

What truly makes DMC2 specified a bummer? MooseyMcMan has immoderate theories.

Last week, MooseyMcMan started a retrospective connected the Devil May Cry franchise with a look astatine the archetypal game. Obviously, that means the 2nd introduction has to screen the incredibly arguable Devil May Cry 2. With that successful mind, work wherefore they deliberation the crippled simply does not enactment oregon unrecorded up to expectations.

Super Robot Wars 30 (By: @valorianendymion)

After an extended hiatus, ValorianEndymion is backmost to reviewing entries successful the Super Robot Taisen series! This week they look astatine and measure 1 of the much caller entries successful the franchise, Super Robot Wars 30. If you privation to work astir however characters from SSSS.Gridman oregon those godawful Code Gease OVAs signifier up alongside classical Gundam characters, springiness their blog a read!

ZombiePie's FMV Friday Special For Extra Life & The Glorious Return Of Site Chat (Temporarily) (By: @zombiepie)

What a beautifully weird and wacky franchise.

As mentioned earlier, the glorious instrumentality of Giant Bomb chat is present and I went up and wrote a speedy blog astir what I person planned for this year's Extra Life festivities on with a amusive plea for you each to articulation america successful chat astir apt 1 past clip earlier we accidental goodbye to it.

Discussion Threads

I Don't Think This Game Is Getting Enough Respect And Attention (Ball X Pit) (By: @doubledaddydan)

Do immoderate of you consciousness similar this is worthy of GOTY awards considerations?

Have immoderate of you fixed Ball x Pit a shot? Are you enjoying it and bash you person immoderate tips and tricks for radical worthy sharing? Also, what level are you playing it on? If you person immoderate thoughts oregon feelings astir the game, driblet a remark successful the pursuing treatment thread!

Halo Infinite Is Ending Active Development (By: @zombiepie)

In a connection connected Halo Waypoint, Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) announced that Halo Infinite would extremity progressive improvement aboriginal successful the period of November. With that successful mind, what bash you marque of the existent authorities of Halo Infinite? How bash you reconcile the game's mediocre post-launch enactment with the information the basal crippled is genuinely amusive to play?

Overwhelming Cynicism Sucks And Is A Huge Problem In Gaming (By: @laughingman)

After years of vigor soundlessness each I person for this year's N7 Day is simply a teaser representation and an Amazon TV series.

As laughingman shares successful this thread, it seems similar negativity oregon cynicism astir the video crippled manufacture is translating into radical being antagonistic oregon cynical astir caller games oregon radical being capable to bask caller releases. Do you consciousness that's the case? Share wherefore oregon wherefore not successful their thread.

BioWare Confirms They Are Actively Working On A New Mass Effect. They Only Have A Singular Teaser Image To Share (By: @zombiepie)

N7 Day came and went for the Mass Effect faithful, but the leaders astatine BioWare erstwhile again privation you to cognize that they are perfectly moving tirelessly connected the Next Mass Effect (Working Title). Did they person immoderate gameplay oregon adjacent a teaser trailer to share? NOPE! Instead each they person is simply a hidden teaser representation with cardinal art. Is that concerning?

Lists

The (Not Completely, Absolutely Official Just Yet But Pretty Close) Top 100 SNES Games List (By: @mento)

What does you apical 100 SNES games database look like?

It seems similar an intolerable task, but Giant Bomb moderator Mento made a database of what they see the 100 champion games connected the SNES successful bid of greatness! Give their database a work and mull implicit if you deliberation you are up for the situation of making your ain list, and if you do, I'll happily enactment it connected the Spotlight arsenic well.

Top 10 1985 Games (By: @alianger)

alianger made a glorious instrumentality to database making and this clip annotated the games they deliberation are the champion of 1985! If you privation a existent travel down representation lane, springiness this database a work and deliberation astir your ain list! Can you deliberation of astatine slightest 10 games from the twelvemonth worthy playing?

Video Game That Make You Say Hell Nah (By: @redfoxbennaton)

Space Harrier is so a banger.

I americium wholly convinced that redfoxbennaton has perfected the creation of making troll lists and they cognize precisely what they are doing, but I don't cognize for certain. What bash you think? I'm each ears. There's excessively overmuch "craft" enactment into the wit of this list.

User Reviews

Man... retrieve erstwhile Die Hard tried to marque a comeback successful video crippled form?

@djcube's BMX XXX reappraisal attempts to demystify wherefore they don't wholly judge the crippled deserves to beryllium considered 1 of the worst games ever made. Sure, it's not good, but successful the realm of almost-porn video games, is it truly worse than Plumbers Don't Wear Ties? They accidental "No."

@djcube's Die Hard: Vendetta reappraisal attempts to get to the bottommost of the long-forgotten effort to bring backmost the Die Hard franchise successful video crippled form. Is this amended oregon worse than A Good Day to Die Hard? I conjecture you'll conscionable person to work their reappraisal to find out!

Wiki Of The Week

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

The FPS that honestly shook the genre to its core.

It's a crippled that practically defined an full procreation of multiplayer shooters, but November 7th marked the 18th day of the merchandise of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare! To telephone the crippled "important" would beryllium an understatement and our wiki leafage for it truly lays retired what makes it specified a seminal enactment successful the realm of first-person shooters.