The Community Spotlight 2025.11.29

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by Marino - Brad Lynchand connected November 29, 2025

The extremity of an era.

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!

Obviously, the biggest nugget of quality is the looming tract migration date. In lawsuit you missed the announcements connected the Bombcasts the past 2 weeks, there's present a useful nonfiction connected the site that reviews the large changes and impacts of the transition. On December 1st, this existent tract volition beryllium frozen and you'll apt not beryllium capable to adjacent log into your ain account. The tract volition stay frozen until December 6th. On that date, Giant Bomb is hoping to afloat migrate the information and contented to the caller site. If you request to get your Giant Bomb station fix, usage the caller site, but beryllium warned, thing you station connected the forums is apt to get wiped arsenic the forums volition request to beryllium reset to marque their implementation officially official.

User reviews and database instauration tools are planned for the caller site, but they won't beryllium disposable astatine launch. Also not acceptable connected December 6th are forum email notifications, the quality to download video and audio straight from the site, and APIs. The caller Giant Bomb wiki, which is inactive looking for much programming help, volition person viewable pages, but the editing and instauration tools inactive request much clip to cook successful the oven. However, portion the Wiki whitethorn not beryllium afloat functioning connected December 6th, remainder assured that each of the information volition beryllium there.

As scary arsenic this modulation mightiness seem, remainder assured that astir of the features we bask and emotion connected Giant Bomb close present volition beryllium coming back; the lone quality is that penning blogs, soon to beryllium renamed "articles," idiosyncratic reviews, and idiosyncratic lists volition present beryllium premium-only features. Also, each of the lists, blogs, and reviews you person published connected the tract successful the past volition beryllium rejoining you connected the caller site.

The lone complication is that you and the radical you cognize NEED TO LOG INTO GIANT BOMB. We person been harping astir this for months, but present the owed day is here. If you don't opt into the tract modulation by logging successful and agreeing to beryllium a portion of the transition, you'll request to re-create your username and relationship from scratch. If you're disquieted if you person done this already oregon not, click this link OR spell to https://giantbomb.com/account/tos-confirmation/. 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. A wide email was sent to notify everyone astir the transition, but it seems similar it didn't scope everyone. If you logged successful and didn't get an email, don't worry, you are successful the clear.

For the Community Spotlight, it volition spell connected a hiatus and determination volition not a caller Spotlight connected the 6th. I'll beryllium looking to restart connected December 13th, which would springiness you each a week to trial the caller tract and large freaky with it. Seriously, let's get weird and esoteric if the caller tract is really going to springiness america each props and person its ain portal for user-created articles! Also, let's flood the caller forums with amusive and wacky discussions to amusement however grateful we are determination adjacent is simply a video crippled forum to usage successful the twelvemonth of our Lord, 2025.

Now, moving connected to different news, Giant Bomb is hosting a Black Friday merchandise merchantability that volition proceed into December 1st. New merch has a 15% discount and immoderate older merch has a 50% discount!

GOTY is accelerated approaching. As mentioned past week, remainder assured that Marino volition person Guest Lists successful precocious December and determination volition beryllium voting for a Community GOTY 2025; it'll conscionable person to instrumentality a antithetic format than however we person done things successful the past.

Friend of the site, Lexi, has been going done a unsmooth patch, and if you tin spare sending them immoderate support, that would beryllium greatly appreciated.

So, arsenic we look towards the future, here's to 1 past variation of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight connected the aged tract we each cognize and love! Man, has it been specified an unthinkable ride, and I look guardant to seeing and talking to you each precise soon!

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https://bsky.app/profile/alexnavarro.bsky.social/post/3m6fkc27z2s2p

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Art

Quan Chi Family Reunion (By: Pickle Giraffe)

How tin thing beryllium comical and besides nightmare inducing? That's what I proceed to inquire arsenic I look astatine this representation from Pickle Giraffe taking the infinitesimal erstwhile the Giant Bomb unit and guests during the Extra Life 2025 watercourse started donning Quan Chi makeup. I respect the craft, but I besides don't deliberation I similar it? Help. I'm confused

Smile Grubb! + Grubb Snatch (By: NickToilet)

Here are a mates of posters from the ever large NickToilet that I someway missed. The archetypal was inspired from erstwhile Grubb got Quan Chi'd during the Bombathon and the 2nd depicts Dan arsenic the lovable scamp we each cognize him to be.

Activities

Are determination immoderate communicative twists and turns successful Keeper worthy discussing?

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

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!

Also, if you're speechmaking this soon aft the Spotlight goes live, it mightiness adjacent beryllium clip to stock your thoughts astir the game's story!

The GB Album Club 104 - Tunnel Vision by Beach Bunny (Finale!) (By: @unclejam23)

It's clip for the FINAL medium for this play of the Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club! The radical is rounding things disconnected with a BANGER by listening to Tunnel Vision by Beach Bunny! However, if immoderate of you are successful the temper to beryllium a portion of a euphony listening club, now's the clip to driblet a remark to beryllium portion of the fun!

Blogs

The Quest For The Worst Adventure Game Puzzle: The 11th Hour Is So Much Worse To Play Than 7th Guest [Part 4: FINALE] +

The Case For Keeping This Torch Alive & Other Thoughts About Giant Bomb's Next Steps (By: @zombiepie)

First, I yet got astir to wrapping up my exhausting but highly rewarding blog Let's Play of The 11th Hour. What started retired arsenic a look astatine Trilobyte, Inc.'s follow-up to The 7th Guest pursuing Mitch's efforts, turned retired to beryllium a mode bigger nightmare than I could person ever imagined.

Second, I took the clip to stock why, contempt immoderate tenable nervousness, each of you should articulation the effort to "make it" to the caller tract erstwhile December comes rolling in. We've been done a batch together, and it would beryllium a shame if that ended this weekend.

Indie Game of the Week 447: Mullet MadJack (By: @mento)

With this variation of their "Indie Game of the Week" feature, moderator Mento takes connected the run-based and neon-drenched Mullet Mad Jack! Read their blog connected wherefore they were impressed by its neon-tinged hyper-masculine anime parody styling but could lone ever negociate 1 oregon 2 sessions of it per day.

Sounds similar 2nd time's not the charm with this game.

Robocop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business Shows That Some Tasks Can Safely Be Left Undone (By: @bigsocrates)

bigsocrates makes a instrumentality to blogging with a reappraisal of RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business! You tin work each astir how, portion they deliberation the crippled is inactive fun, it doesn't perfectly emulate the bosom of the archetypal game.

Clowns As Algebra: Arithmetic In Balatro (By: @gamer_152)

Have you been looking for an effort connected however Balatro does the intolerable and marque mathematics and basal multiplication fun? Good news! A clown forced moderator Gamer_152 to constitute this precise taxable astatine gunpoint this week.

2 Switch 2 Games. + MmC: Moosey May Cry. (By: @mooseymcman)

Where bash you basal with emo-boy Dante/not Dante?

Longstanding essayist MooseyMcMan precocious bought a Nintendo Switch 2 and talks astir the archetypal 2 games they played connected it and what their aboriginal impressions of the console and its imaginable are arsenic they look to 2026 and what's coming retired for it.

Likewise, it's yet clip for MooseyMcMan to tackle the ever divisive and arguable DmC Devil May Cry with their retrospective connected the Devil May Cry series! As idiosyncratic that enjoyed the "traditional" entries successful the franchise, did they emotion oregon hatred Ninja Theory's instrumentality connected Devil May Cry?

Discussion Threads

Anything peculiar connected your GOTY list?

What Is On Your GOTY 2025 List? Link Them And Discuss Them HERE! (By: @zombiepie)

You don't person a ton of time, but you tin inactive whip up a GOTY 2025 database connected the existent tract to marque definite it survives the modulation to the caller site. Also, consciousness escaped to stock distant wherefore the games connected your database made the cut!

What Are You Playing/Finishing/Abandoning This Week? (By: @laughingman)

As we adjacent GOTY season, what are the games with GOTY hype that you are playing and trying to decorativeness earlier the onslaught starts? Have you dropped immoderate GOTY games being considered candidates due to the fact that they conscionable aren't your jam? Share distant successful the thread!

What Happened To Project Motor Racing? (By: @gtxforza)

Is this crippled conscionable astir breaking shit?

What successful the satellite happened to Project Motor Racing? The much-hyped adjacent crippled from the supervisor down Project Cars came retired and is getting annihilated successful the reviews. Were their informing signs oregon reddish flags that the crippled would merchandise blistery is this a implicit astonishment to you?

Does Donkey Kong Bananza... Go Anywhere, Or Is The Punching Stuff It? (By: @heraldfighter64)

GOTY scrutiny hits each crippled and for this week it seems similar the Giant Bomb forums person applied a peculiar spotlight to Donkey Kong Bananza. Is it just to springiness GOTY nominations to Donkey Kong erstwhile its gimmick is truthful simple? Is determination much to the crippled than conscionable punching stuff?

Well, What Games Are On Your "Best Games Of The Last Ten Years" List? Thoughts About Giant Bomb's Staff List? (By: @zombiepie)

Can you deliberation of immoderate ways to marque Giant Bomb's Best of the Last Ten Years database better?

You've heard and listened to Giant Bomb's unit database what they deliberation are the 10 champion video games of the past decade, but which games are connected YOUR list? Can you deliberation of games that merit to beryllium connected the database that didn't adjacent illustration the staff's list? Share and sermon everything successful the thread linked above!

Why Did Concord Fail? (By: @topcyclist)

Why bash games similar Concord neglect truthful rapidly oregon spectacularly? Also, bash you deliberation we are seeing an uptick successful online-only games that getting their severs pulled wrong 1 to 2 years? Do you deliberation this is going to get amended oregon worse successful the adjacent fewer years?

Lists

Shoot your changeable and marque a GOTY database earlier it's excessively late!

Best Games of 2025 (By: @av_gamer)

Top 10 Games Of 2025 (By: @rendr)

GotY 2025 (By: @killerfly)

If you find yourself making a GOTY 2025 during the last countdown and aft the tract gets frozen, support maine successful the loop erstwhile we travel backmost online connected the 6th! I'm much than blessed to springiness everyone their flowers erstwhile the clip comes!

Games That Mean a Lot to Me: One Last(?) List (By: @thefakepsychic)

As the tract migration looms, TheFakePsychic pens 1 much database earlier the tract migration and this 1 looks introspectively astatine the sixteen games that personally mean the astir to them. Which games person stories that inactive deed them and which games bash they inactive person a blast to play? Read to find out!

A genuinely peculiar database from TheFakePsychic this week!

My Most Influential Games (By: @digitalfirefly)

DigitalFirefly ran with the taxable connected the tract wherein everyone is trying to database what they deliberation are the champion games of the twelvemonth oregon decade, but with this database they alternatively made what they deliberation is simply a definitive database of the "most influential" games of all-time.

User Reviews

@djcube's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets reappraisal sees if a puerility GameCube staple has truly stood the trial of time. How unsmooth is the platforming successful this crippled by today's standards, for example.

@djcube's Rugrats: Royal Ransom reappraisal shares why, portion this crippled isn't the best, that determination was a Rugrats-based crippled that WASN'T the worst crap imaginable.

Wikis

For this rendition of the Wiki of the Week I decided to showcase a bevy of wiki pages that are simply "too chill for Wikipedia!" While the caller wiki volition usage MediaWiki, everything that presently makes the Giant Bomb wiki "special" is inactive coming with america and present are each the champion conception pages that beryllium the Giant Bomb wiki truly is thing worthy protecting!

Xtreme Naming
Aggressive Door-Opening
Alone With A Pistol
Crude Renditions of Real People
Cutscene Equipment Mismatch
Games Based On Movies Based On Games
Same Name, Different Game
Game Titles That Are Also Questions
Suspicious Generosity
Showing Half A Face On Box Art
Weaponized Fish
Snakes with Legs
Ordering Food
Character Gains Beard successful Sequel
Sealing Your Own Fate
Monsters That Look Suspiciously Like Genitalia
In-Engine Sleeve Rolling
Dear Diary, I'm Being Murdered
Dear Diary, Today I Turned Into a Zombie
Released Between Christmas and New Year's Day

Editor's Note: @marino here. Just adding immoderate much conception pages that are my idiosyncratic favorites. See y'all connected the different side!