The Community Spotlight 2025.10.11

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, hopefully you enjoyed Giant Bomb's GOLF WEEK theme! In lawsuit you are inactive brainsick for golf, cognize that there's caller Golf Week Merch connected the Giant Bomb Store!

• Giant Bomb Golf Cap - $29.00
• Giant Bomb Golf Shirt - $38.00

Wondering wherefore the t-shirt is simply a spot pricier than normal? Well, it's not a t-shirt. Giant Bomb partnered with Sport-Tek to marque definite this tee had the company's PosiCharge worldly to marque it an existent golfware due collared shirt! Also, don't hide that each merch income are present going towards supporting the site. Regardless, present are immoderate SNAZZY pictures of Mike posing successful the caller merch!

And the Giant Bomb positivity bid isn't stopping! We yet person a day and clip for the Giant Bombathon! The in-person streaming extravaganza volition commencement connected Monday, October 27th astatine astir 2:00 PM PDT. Remember, this is simply a 24-hour watercourse truthful if you are astatine enactment erstwhile it starts, you should person a accidental to articulation the amusive portion it's happening eventually. Also, don't hide that this is going to diagnostic Grubb, Bakalar, Dan, Jan, Mike, arsenic good arsenic Chuck and Shawn connected apical of plentifulness of guests!

Again, the impetus for the Bombathon is to drive up Premium Subs arsenic good arsenic enactment for Giant Bomb's squad present that the tract is successful its last steps towards independence. If you privation to help, you tin re-up your premium subscription, see gifting 1 to a person oregon promote your gaming peeps to marque accounts connected the tract truthful you tin nonstop them a acquisition sub, oregon driblet donations connected Giant Bomb's Ko-Fi page!

If you are speechmaking this erstwhile it archetypal publishes, person of the tract Tamoor is streaming for Medical Aid for Palestinians. You tin drawback their watercourse and foundation efforts implicit on their Twitch account.

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And I harped connected this constituent before, but it's worthy repeating. If you personally cognize anyone that has ever posted oregon utilized Giant Bomb, delight scope retired to them astir keeping their accounts alive. If they accidental they've moved on, that's okay, but we truly privation everyone that has immoderate idiosyncratic transportation to their usernames to clasp them and that tin lone hap if they log into Giant Bomb and click the fastener to articulation the tract successful its modulation to thing new.

Related, but if you are successful the Beta site, you tin usage it and not the contiguous tract to renew your premium subs and if you are inactive having issues logging into the beta and person premium, DM chucktowski your email/username connected Discord.

Art

Golf Week Coffee Art (By: @sir5000)

You each enjoyed sir5000's java creation past week, truthful here's a snapshot of thing they made successful grant of Giant Bomb's Golf Week! The inclusion of the greenish turf was an fantabulous determination if I bash accidental truthful myself.

Jeff Bakalar Meal (By: Jess Jeverage)

For those of you alert of the "Jesse Plemons Meal" meme, Jess Jeverage implicit connected Bluesky decided to person their mode with the meme but it's a representation of Jeff Bakalar and includes what they deliberation Bakalar would bid astatine Wendy's! The "I get it sometimes" is perfectly the champion part!

Mikey Shack + Transparent Mike In Golf T-Shirt For Meme Purposes (By: SoulScreme)

With Mike posing for the camera to showcase disconnected the site's caller Golf Week merchandise, that tin lone mean 1 thing: MEMES!

Many acknowledgment to SoulScreme for starting the Mike Wolf Week memes connected a bang with this hilarious enactment of photoshopping goodness and if you privation to articulation the fun, I included a transparent mentation of Mike successful Golf Week merch for your pleasure.

Bluesky

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Activities

The GB Album Club 099 - Turn connected the Bright Lights by Interpol (By: @unclejam23)

The Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club is doing different CLASSIC by listening to Turn connected the Bright Lights by Interpol! Are immoderate of you fans of Interpol? If so, however does this stack to the remainder of their works? Is it an all-timer similar galore see it to be?

Creatures Of Ava Is The 10th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4. Finish By November 1. Mark All Spoilers. (By: @bigsocrates)

Creatures of Ava by Inverge Studios and Chibig is this month's prime for the Giant Bomb Game of the Month Club! Join the amusive and stock your thoughts of the crippled by clicking the nexus above!

Also, this is the last telephone to articulation the Game of the Month Club to sermon treatment for Herdling by Okomotive but beryllium warned that SPOILERS ARE OPENED! For those that joined the radical with this game, what did you deliberation of its conclusion? Share your last impressions now.

Blogs

Why is determination ever a chess puzzle successful each crippled Trilobyte made?

The Quest For The Worst Adventure Game Puzzle: Mike, The 11th Hour Is So Much Worse Than The 7th Guest [Part 1] (By: @zombiepie)

Inspired by Mike Minotti's trek done the game, Giant Bomb moderator ZombiePie decided to footwear up and play the game's sequel, The 11th Hour. They constitute wherefore it's truthful overmuch worse than The 7th Guest. So, truthful overmuch worse than The 7th Guest.

Tuesdays* of Terror: The 7th Guest +

Indie Game of the Week 440: The Vagrant (By: @mento)

Also inspired by Mike's adventures with the game, moderator Mento decided to play and people each puzzle successful The 7th Guest! Which puzzles did they truly conflict with and however did they consciousness astir the chess puzzles? Give it a work to assistance you get into the spooky spirit.

Remember this game?

Cyberspace: The Many Tribulations of Virtual Reality (By: @gamer_152)

What's the implicit authorities of VR gaming successful the twelvemonth of our Lord, 2025? Does the aboriginal look promising? Giant Bomb moderator Gamer_152 tries to reply those 2 questions portion they besides effort to navigate the fume and mirrors of the existent VR landscape!

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

Man, you each truly bask talking store astir ocular novels, don't you? AthiestPreacher's blog getting into the nitty gritty astir Zero Escape: The Nonary Games was 1 of the astir discussed blogs we person had connected the tract successful a while, so, I'm happily including it a 2nd clip to get immoderate much-needed and warranted attention.

Discussion Threads

Do immoderate of you person thoughts astir this game?

This Discord Leak/Breach Sure Feels Like A Reminder Of How Flawed Online ID Rules Are (By: @zombiepie)

The Discord leak/breach rocked a batch of radical this week, truthful overmuch so, galore are questioning if the Age Verification Laws successful the UK and elsewhere are bound to effect successful an endless watercourse of hacks oregon information vulnerabilities successful the future. What bash you think?

Do I Start With Ghost Of Tsushima Director's Cut Before Ghost Of Yotei? (By: @monkeyking1969)

For those of you playing Ghost of Yōtei, is it recommended that radical play Ghost of Tsushima first? Is it a indispensable acquisition to afloat admit oregon bask Yōtei? Is the tutorial oregon gameplay on-ramp successful Yōtei capable for newcomers.

Modern Podcasts Having The Ads Baked Into The Show (By: @heraldfighter64)

What's your wide content of the existent authorities of podcast ads and advertising? Are baked-in ads hurting your quality to bask podcasts? Are determination immoderate alternatives to assistance enactment podcast creators? Share distant successful this thread.

It Speaks Volumes That Microsoft Had To AGAIN Issue A Statement They Aren't Entirely Ditching Console Hardware (By: @zombiepie)

It definite speaks volumes that Xbox erstwhile again had to clarify that it wasn't ditching hardware, but adjacent then, however debased is your assurance successful them? As Grubb brought up during Game Mess Mornings, however joined to Xbox and Game Pass bash you really deliberation Microsoft's enactment is?

Hades II is yet out, but FOR REALZIES!

Hades II Full Release Discussion Thread (By: @gyratyne)

What's everyone's impressions of the afloat merchandise mentation of Hades II? Did you bask the caller mechanics? How overmuch of a quality is it to the archetypal game? Is the implicit communicative bully and what bash you marque of Melinoë arsenic the caller lead?

Lists

But seriously, erstwhile did the TMNT franchise get fashionable again?

Pyrokinetics (By: @jacobproper1)

Once again, JacobProper1 is moving connected a caller "catch all" database and needs YOUR HELP! Right present they are moving connected creating a database of each quality that would number arsenic a pyrokineticist. spot who they person frankincense acold and driblet a remark if you tin deliberation of much examples!

Retro Revival (By: @thecollectorx)

Games that grant oregon revive 80s oregon 90s properties are each the rage present truthful thecollectorx tried to deliberation of the champion examples arsenic good arsenic upcoming releases with this caller list. Also, erstwhile did the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles get "hip" oregon "cool" again? Did I miss something?

User Reviews

Also, 1 of the fewer times a Star Wars crippled wholly jumped headfirst into the Star Wars EU.

@djcube's Star Wars: The Clone Wars was written owed to the game's mythical presumption wrong the emulation assemblage for being 1 of the hardest GameCube games to emulate, but they recovered a wholly coagulated and amusive conveyance combat crippled radical shouldn't overlook.

@djcube besides decided to cheque retired Shrek Extra Large, the platforming crippled that ties into the archetypal movie but hilariously doesn't travel the communicative oregon events of the movie astatine all. Is determination thing to the crippled worthy checking retired too the novelty? Read to find out!

Wiki Of The Week

Viewtiful Joe

Also, bash you person immoderate fond memories of this game?

October 7th marked the 22nd day of the North American merchandise of Viewtiful Joe! If you privation a snapshot of wherefore this stylish enactment crippled is truthful beloved by those that person played it, you should springiness Giant Bomb's exhaustive and AMAZING wiki leafage for the crippled a read!