The Community Spotlight 2025.10.04

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 site-related quality and champion assemblage creations from the past week!

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Chuck should beryllium backmost soon aft enjoying his well-deserved honeymoon. Speaking of which, if you person yet to nonstop him your congratulations for his caller wedding, consciousness escaped to bash truthful connected BlueSky.

Speaking of staff-related congratulatory news, congrats to Niki Grayson for getting a caller occupation implicit astatine iam8bit!

The acquisition that keeps connected giving, Drew's presumption arsenic a meme whenever they effort to rise wealth for charity, has reached caller heights with NBC News, SFGate, and news.com.au each penning reports and front-page articles astir him and his efforts to rise wealth for Bike MS, which you tin inactive donate to utilizing this link! Huge props to him already raising astir $70K!

Finally, arsenic mentioned past week, aft a hiatus, the Giant Bombathon is back! That's right, the Giant Bomb unit are readying to travel unneurotic successful the aforesaid country with a smattering of guests for your entertainment! This volition hap adjacent the extremity of the period and beryllium a 24 hr stream.

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Art

Dan In The Civil War (By: Synthminded)

So, Giant Bomb is returning to the chaotic and wacky satellite of Darkest of Days? If that's the case, who connected the unit bash you deliberation volition beryllium capable to propulsion disconnected the champion David McCullough impression?

Giant Bomb Forever Tattoo (By: Weazman)

Huge props to Weazman connected the GB Discord for permanently cementing their content successful GIANT BOMB FOREVER with this INCREDIBLE tattoo! Not everyone volition spell this acold with their emotion for the unit and site, truthful you truly person to extremity your chapeau to Weazman.

Chuck Coffee Art +

Mike Virtual Hydlide Coffee Art (By: SIR5000)

As galore of you already cognize due to the fact that I person shared their java foam-based creation before, Sir5000 is connected a quest to hone successful connected their quality to make coffee/espresso art. First, we person their tributes to Chuck's caller matrimony to their spouse and besides congratulatory works of foam creation successful grant of Mike beating Virtual Hydlide.

Mike And Mario Face Swap (By: EdMcMahon)

Many acknowledgment to EdMcMahon implicit connected the GB Discord for having immoderate amusive with Mike and Mario! If you privation to bask fantastic works of instrumentality creation similar this the infinitesimal they travel out, articulation the Giant Bomb Discord by clicking the nexus above!

Bluesky

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Activities

Are you successful the temper for immoderate saxophone-based tomfoolery?

Herdling Is The 9th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4. Spoilers OPENED! (By: @bigsocrates)

As we easiness into the commencement of a caller month, the Giant Bomb Game of the Month Club has opened its treatment for Herdling by Okomotive to SPOILERS! for those that joined the radical with this game, what did you deliberation of its conclusion? Share your last impressions now.

The GB Album Club 098 - Moon Hooch by Moon Hooch (By: @unclejam23)

The latest variation of the Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club is for Moon Hooch by Moon Hooch! Are immoderate of the fans oregon acquainted with their percussion- and saxophone-based music?

Blogs

After each of the online controversy, what's the authorities of this initiative?

Consumed: Some Thoughts connected Stop Killing Games (By: @gamer_152)

Stop Killing Games is simply a question with the powerfulness to sphere countless endangered media and to bid players for a larger mission. However, 1 peculiar portion of vocabulary is holding it backmost and moderator Gamer_152 writes astir what that is.

Hades II Presents Eight Guests To The Snake Diner (By: @infantpipoc)

infantpipoc inactive can't assistance but consciousness a small spot disappointed with Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater and its productions values, truthful this week they penned an effort connected however Konami could person done truthful overmuch amended with the JP dependable acting!

Anyone down for a chill Picross clone?

Supertember: Week 4 +

Indie Game of the Week 439: Voxelgram (By: @mento)

Moderator Mento snuck successful 1 last variation of their "Supertember" diagnostic connected earlier the period came to a adjacent and this 1 looked astatine with Neugier: Umi to Kaze nary Koudou, Super Adventure Island II, and Pieces! If similar me, you hadn't heard astir these games until now, this write-up is simply a highly acquisition experience.

Likewise, for this week's variation of their "Indie Game of the Week," they played Voxelgram from developer Procedural Level! Why bash they see it 1 of the astir compelling picross/nonograms-based games to travel retired successful caller memory? Read their blog to find out!

AtheistPreacher's Media Digest, October 2025 (By: @atheistpreacher)

A batch has happened since the past clip AthiestPreacher blogged connected the site, so, they person published a reasonably exhaustive rundown of everything they played the past mates of months. Read each astir their gaming highs and lows, though, it seems similar they had much highs than lows, implicit here!

Discussion Threads

Is present truly a bully clip to play Diablo IV?

If You've Ever Enjoyed Diablo, Now's A Good Time To Get Back Into Diablo IV! (By: @doubledaddydan)

Inspired by Mike precocious streaming Diablo IV, doubledaddydan takes to the forums to speech astir however overmuch amended the crippled has gotten since its motorboat and wherefore it's ne'er been a amended clip to leap into the crippled if you haven't already done so.

Demon Slayer New Movie Is Amazing Did Anyone One To Discuss, How Much Story They Cover In Next Movie? (By: @rameshwar01)

What's your absorption to Demon Slayer Infinity Castle becoming the highest grossing Japanese movie of all-time, and not conscionable successful the satellite of anime? Is Tanjiro's checkerboard signifier garment the caller Naruto headband for the existent procreation of anime watchers?

Black Ops 7 - I Don't Have The Will Power To Care Anymore(By: @loloy0101)

Anyone spot the caller Demon Slayer movie?

It seems similar astir online multiplayer shooter fans are gravitating towards Battlefield 6 implicit Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. Are you successful the aforesaid camp? What bash you deliberation is the main culprit for people's apathy for much CoD?

Reports Suggest EA Is In Talks To Go Private With Help From Jared Kushner And Saudi Arabia Investment Funds (By: @zombiepie)

Whelp... a bully woody of quality conscionable dropped astir EA and it officially going backstage and it's not each good. What's your prediction for thing non-sports related successful EA? Do you deliberation we perceive astir BioWare being sold for parts earlier the extremity of the year?

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

The Uma Musume Pretty Derby presently has faced 1 situation aft another. The problem? Some of the astir caller events person been kicking people's asses. Do you person immoderate tips oregon is the play to instrumentality with Group B for the peculiar events?

Why are truthful galore radical not excited astir this game?

What Video Game Genres Do You Wish To See On The Next Xbox Console And PlayStation 6? (By: @gtxforza)

With the imaginable of the adjacent Xbox oregon PlayStation 6 apt getting pushed to 2027 oregon 2028, what ailing oregon declining genres bash you deliberation would astir payment from a caller batch of console hardware? Also, are determination immoderate franchises you'd similar to spot marque a mini-comeback?

Lists

It mightiness person a spot of recency bias, but however bash you fertile Bananza on the much legendary Donkey Kong games?

My Ranking of Donkey Kongs (By: @majormitch)

With the merchandise of Donkey Kong Bananza, MajorMitch decided to re-visit their idiosyncratic ranking for each large crippled successful the Donkey Kong franchise they person played. Does Bananza ace their apical five? Only 1 mode to find out!

Reviews

Is determination inactive a bully crushed to instrumentality to Tactics Advance?

@pauljeremiah decided to footwear up Final Fantasy Tactics Advance with everyone talking astir The Ivalice Chronicles merchandise this week. Does the GBA mentation inactive person immoderate peculiar features that makes it a mentation worthy checking retired these days?

@djcube's Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast shares wherefore they deliberation this legendary and influential crippled isn't the champion playing acquisition these days, particularly arsenic idiosyncratic who didn't similar the Unreal-based jumping and platforming.

Wiki Of The Week

You truly had to beryllium determination to recognize the propulsion of SOCOM

SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs

The franchise is fundamentally dead, but for those of you that were gaming online connected your PS2, you retrieve erstwhile SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs was a HUGE DEAL. This period marks the 20th day of the 3rd crippled successful the series, which felt similar an apt capable crushed to showcase its large wiki page.