The Community Spotlight 2025.09.13

Welcome to the latest variation of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, americium honored to beryllium your big arsenic we look backmost astatine the important tract and staff-related quality arsenic good arsenic champion assemblage creations from the erstwhile week!

For those of you that experienced audio sync issues with the 09/09/2025 variation of the Giant Bombcast, that should beryllium fixed and disposable connected your favourite podcast app. Speaking of podcast apps, if you are inactive having issues with Pocketcasts not having updates RSS Feeds, the "fix" I mentioned past week seems to beryllium solving astir of the issues. To review, 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 with Premium, immoderate breathtaking caller updates person deed the beta site! Premium members present person the quality to "resume" videos utilizing YouTube AND the site's bespoke video player. Also, for those wondering, sometimes videos instrumentality a spot to instrumentality connected the server and the tract has to autumn backmost connected YouTube version. However, the tract video subordinate mentation should yet post.

Nonetheless, determination was a idiosyncratic that mentioned they were having issues accessing the beta due to the fact that determination wasn't thing to log successful with erstwhile they went to the driblet down menu. If this happens, wide your cookies and cache for the site. Chuck says determination are "some weird cases wherever users extremity up with similar a fractional authenticated session" and they are inactive successful advancement penning guardrails to drawback the issue.

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]. Also, Chuck's telephone for assistance from a fewer weeks back is inactive up and applicable for each who whitethorn beryllium interested.

Finally, send Jan immoderate emotion connected bsky erstwhile you person the chance.

Art

Giant Bomb x House of Mouse Design (By: CreackyLegs)

The net has been making a valiant plea for caller Giant Bomb to bring container java mugs CreakyLegs joins Lexi successful appealing to Merch Master Mike's emotion for each things Disney to get america immoderate ceramic-based merch connected the store again.

Jeff Grubb T-Shirt Meme Template (By: CreakyLegs, magillamyke, turbohotdog, moondoggydogg, shroudoffate, giggy, trashboitrashhands, mstsc, and nickcoffman)

Over connected Bluesky, CreakyLegs was engaged starting a caller Giant Bomb meme template, but this 1 astatine the disbursal of Jeff Grubb. Grubb tends to amusement disconnected his t-shirts to the camera during podcasts and streams, so, wherefore not usage that arsenic an excuse to person immoderate fun? Here are the champion examples of the template enactment to bully usage that I could find, but I tin lone presume determination are immoderate that I missed. If that's the case, consciousness escaped to driblet a remark with a nexus oregon upload of the representation successful question!

Bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/sir.bsky.social/post/3lylnyweqrc2z

https://bsky.app/profile/chucktowski.com/post/3ly767mvfd22j

https://bsky.app/profile/thehanna.com/post/3lyomkkl7ic2a

https://bsky.app/profile/lexluddy.xyz/post/3lyk6xswohk26

https://bsky.app/profile/gbdudersfeed.bsky.social/post/3ly72pzjbjk2f

Activities

The GB Album Club 096 - Scaring the Hoes by JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown (By: @unclejam23)

Anyone present person beardown opinions astir JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown?

There's a caller medium to sermon arsenic portion of Giant Bomb's Album of the Week Club! This week the radical is listening to Scaring the Hoes by JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown! Want to articulation the amusive talking astir this recent-ish collab? Then, click the nexus and stock away!

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

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!

Blogs

Supertember: Week 1 + Indie Game of the Week 436: Duck Detective: The Secret Salami (By: @mento)

Any privation to larn astir a cozy duck detective game?

Moderator Mento is starting a bid this period successful which they effort to implicit arsenic galore SNES games arsenic possible! Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and Super Adventure Island are up first! Are determination immoderate SNES classics you privation them to tackle next?

Likewise, Mento has a caller introduction successful their "Indie Game of the Week" diagnostic and this 1 is each astir Duck Detective: The Secret Salami! After playing Return of the Obra Dinn and The Case of the Golden Idol, however does this duck detective-based escapade crippled stack up?

Island Time: The Good of Super Mario Sunshine (By: @gamer_152)

It isn't precisely a fashionable stance to take, but moderator Gamer_152 decided to pen an effort connected the indisputable affirmative aspects of Super Mario Sunshine. Where are my Sunshine defenders? I cognize you are retired there!

Darkest of Days PC Demo Impressions (By: @calidan777)

Again, wherever are my Sunshine defenders???

Yes, this is an implicit ten-year-old blog that has incredibly janky formatting aft presiding implicit aggregate tract revisions and updates, but it's inactive bully to spot Jeff Grubb bumping immoderate "classic" Giant Bomb assemblage goodness for the lols.

Discussion Threads

Borderlands 4 Discussion Thread (By: @atheistpreacher)

Any of you playing the astir caller Borderlands thing?

Borderlands 4 is getting mostly favorable reviews with immoderate disapproval directed astatine its show connected PC. Nonetheless, person immoderate of you fixed it a shot? Does it play arsenic smoothly arsenic the erstwhile games and what are you playing it on?

Nintendo Direct September 2025 Discussion Thread (By: @zombiepie)

So, what were your thoughts of the astir caller Nintendo Direct? Most radical thought it was fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine, but was determination immoderate announcement oregon crippled that stuck retired to you successful particular?

Your Thoughts On The First Trailer For Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave (By: @gtxforza)

This price... definite is SOMETHING!

After months of rumors and speculation, Nintendo FINALLY announced a caller Fire Emblem game: Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. It mightiness not beryllium the long-rumored remake of Fire Emblem: Seisen nary Keifu/Genealogy of the Holy War, but it looks beauteous sharp! Share your aboriginal impressions successful this thread!

What Is The Best Brawl Game? (By: @oliversin11)

What are the "most necessary" brawlers oregon bushed 'em ups radical should play? Is it a crippled from the Streets of Rage oregon Final Fight series? Can you deliberation of modern games worthy playing from the genre? Share your picks successful the thread nexus above!

It's Been A While...Maybe I Might Go Back To Battlefield 6 (By: @monkeyking1969)

Some are sharing however the unfastened beta for Battlefield 6 near them impressed, but are acrophobic astir however the crippled volition beryllium astatine launch. Are you excited for the game? Is this going to beryllium the archetypal Battlefield successful a portion that has a unchangeable launch?

The GBTrainers Club For Uma Musume Pretty Derby (By: @propagandapanda)

Got immoderate impressions of the Fire Emblem trailer?

After being a viral deed for months, galore caller worldwide Uma Musume Pretty Derby players are hitting the game's "gacha wall" and burning retired connected its grind. Do you person immoderate tips oregon tricks for them? How are you avoiding the peculiar events from kicking your ass?

Maru, The Internet's Favorite Cat, Has Passed Away. (By: @angryjedi)

The satellite precocious mislaid Maru, the internet's favourite cat, arsenic good arsenic Haru Urara of Uma Musume Pretty Derby fame. What makes these "viral" real-life animals truthful peculiar and wherefore bash truthful galore radical consciousness similar they talk to them? Share your reply to that punctual successful the thread linked above.

Lists

Trove of Favorite Games (By: @odysseyrpg)

Can you deliberation of your Hall of Very Good?

OdysseyRPG shares their "Hall of Very Good" games. This is simply a database of games that they loved successful the past and inactive bash today, but nary of them volition ever marque their All-Time Games list!

Starcraft Like (By: @thecollectorx)

thecollectorx decided to whip up a database of the StarCraft-likes they deliberation person much going for them than conscionable being StarCraft clones. Are determination immoderate StarCraft-likes that basal retired to you arsenic being much than the sum of their parts?

Wiki Of The Week

Super Mario Bros.

How galore of you person really finished Super Mario Bros.?

As the astir caller Nintendo Direct has reminded each of us, OG Super Mario Bros. is turning 40 this month! Despite that milestone, the crippled remains arsenic playable and enjoyable arsenic ever. You tin work each astir the crippled foodstuff that makes it "work" connected Giant Bomb's wiki leafage for the game!