The Community Spotlight 2025.10.18

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 and champion assemblage creations from astir the web!

First, galore acknowledgment to each who tuned successful and adjacent donated during Tamoor's Metal Gear Solid foundation watercourse past week. He ended up raising implicit £11,000 towards Medical Aid for Palestinians!

Speaking of friends of the tract having beardown outings astir the web, Bailey made her play debut implicit connected the Good Time Society YouTube account. If immoderate of you wants to ticker a cozy execution enigma starring her, Becca Scott, Erika Ishii, Persephone Valentine, Emme "negaoryx" Montgomery, and Xander Jeanneret, this mightiness beryllium the video for you!

Second, arsenic Grubb has affirmed, play week is forever! If you inactive haven't picked up immoderate Golf Week-themed merch, you tin inactive bash that connected the Giant Bomb store. Remember, each purchases connected the Giant Bomb store present spell towards supporting the tract and unit successful the aboriginal originative endeavors! If you are wondering astir the prices, they are:

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

I mean, conscionable look astatine however snazzy this caller Golf headdress looks!

Also, the Giant Bomb Discord opened a caller transmission connected their server called "⁠career-and-jobs-talk" and it has already go the spot for the assemblage to speech astir occupation searching, vocation advice, and decision-making. If that sounds similar thing you need, articulation the Discord utilizing this nexus close here.

And present let's punctual everyone astir the incredibly important quality that nary 1 should hide about! The site's in-person streaming extravaganza, The Giant Bomathon, volition commencement connected Monday, October 27th astatine 2:00 PM PDT. Remember, this is simply a 24-hour stream. So, 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, Chuck, and Shawn positive immoderate concealed guests!

Finally, with the extremity of the twelvemonth drafting nigh, don't hide astir communicating with everyone you cognize that they request to log into their Giant weaponry 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.

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.

Art

Mike Glizzy Based Economy Mugs (By: Niklas Karlsson)

Niklas Karlsson has joined the fray successful calling for the instrumentality of Giant Bomb mugs! However, they deliberation aft subjecting america to BBQ-based tomfoolery, the mugs should travel astatine the disbursal of Mike's dignity. And honestly... they bash person a point.

The Corn Field Runner(s) + Shadaloo Country Club Golf Tournament (By: @jearum)

Inspired by Dan telling a communicative astir Ben Hanson moving done a maize field, Jearum decided to revive their aged Junji Ito-esque instrumentality creation plan for this tribute to Ben Hanson.

Likewise, Golf Week reminded them of an aged spot plan they made for shits and giggles.

Clips

The Brisket Joke (By: Chris Davis)

No much and ne'er again.

So... however overmuch intelligence harm did you instrumentality listening to Mike's BBQ joke? Over connected YouTube, Chris Davis spent astir 2 hours transcribing Mike's effort to archer the gag into the signifier of the Star Wars opening. As they constituent out, 2 hours is astir the aforesaid magnitude of clip it took Mike to archer the joke.

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Activities

The GB Album Club 100(!) - Homogenic by Björk (By: @unclejam23)

An all-timer, right? Also, congrats to the Album Club crossing the 100 albums reviewed mark!

The Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club continues looking astatine philharmonic classics with this week's prime being Homogenic by Björk! Are determination immoderate Björk fans connected the tract and besides this thread is simply a spot peculiar for the radical considering this marks the 100th medium tackled by it passim its galore years of existence.

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! Do immoderate of you person tips and tricks to stock astir however to research the antithetic biomes successful the game? If so, articulation the amusive by clicking the nexus above!

Blogs

Some Demos I Played During The Steam Next (By: @valorianendymion)

It's clip for a classical fearfulness crippled with Mento this week!

ValorianEndymion already has had a BLAST playing a fistful of demos done Steam's existent Next Fest event! Read each astir their favourite demos and consciousness escaped to stock which demos stood retired arsenic the champion successful their blog arsenic well.

Tuesdays* of Terror: Sweet Home +

Indie Game of the Week 441: 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure (By: @mento)

Mento continues their spooky retro video crippled diagnostic with a look astatine Sweet Home! What makes it truthful influential and an informative crippled that led to Resident Evil? Also, wherefore aren't determination much fearfulness RPGs being made?

Likewise, this variation of their "Indie Game of the Week" diagnostic looks astatine 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure! Despite the somewhat agelong title, is determination thing peculiar astir this 2D metroidvania crippled to acceptable it isolated successful a crowded field?

The Quest For The Worst Adventure Game Puzzle: The 11th Hour Is So Much Worse To Play Than 7th Guest [Part 2] (By: @zombiepie)

Man... website plan usage to beryllium good.

With Mike reviving their efforts to wrapper up their playthrough of The 7th Guest, moderator ZombiePie returned to the weird and chaotic satellite of The 11th Hour, the game's sequel! Not lone bash they person puzzles that would marque Mike groan, but they besides recovered immoderate amusive earl-career reporting from Geoff Keighley arsenic seen to the right!

Hey, Look, Diablo 4 Is Better Now (By: @atheistpreacher)

Once again an AthiestPreacher blog from a portion backmost seems to person gotten a mini revival of sorts. This time, a fistful of radical commented successful their Diablo IV blog for astir a twelvemonth agone to echo thing that Mike has been saying repeatedly: playing Diablo IV has gotten a batch amended recently.

Discussion Threads

What's Your Reaction To The Reviews Of The Asus ROG Xbox Ally/Xbox Ally X Being All Over The Place? (By: @zombiepie)

The reviews being each implicit the spot seems to echo the instrumentality itself being that.

This week saw the merchandise of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X and the reviews are somewhat each implicit the place. Some radical look to presumption it arsenic having a niche successful the handheld/portable PC arena whereas others person been ripping isolated for being thing similar what Microsoft promised. Join our speech successful the thread and consciousness escaped to stock if you ever program to bargain the device.

Tomonobu Itagaki, The Legendary Creator Of The Dead Or Alive Series, Passed Away At Age 58 (By: @monkeyking1969)

As galore of you already person heard, Tomonobu Itagaki has passed away. What's your absorption and however are you squaring distant his estimation and respective controversies with his wide legacy? Also, were determination immoderate games of his that you enjoyed the most?

Name Me An Episode Of Television That Is Way The Hell Better Than The Show In Which It Appeared (By: @atheistpreacher)

We person a amusive thread this week that a batch of y'all look to person been joining successful on!

Here's a amusive treatment connected the forums: What's a amusement you either dislike oregon are not a instrumentality of that has a beauteous bully oregon outright large azygous episode? Here's an illustration from the thread to get each of you reasoning astir the amusement oregon shows that travel to mind.

Horror Shooter Game Recs? (By: @triazolam73)

As we adjacent Halloween, what are immoderate of your recommendations for those funny to scratch their shooter itch that besides privation to get spooked? Whether it beryllium "classic" games from id Software oregon caller indie boomer shooters, stock fearfulness shooters for those wanting to get into the tone of Halloween!

Nu-Atari Will Actually Release An Intellivision Anniversary Console Before The Intellivision Amico (By: @zombiepie)

Once again, Giant Bomb is YOUR PLACE to get round-the-clock quality astir thing with the "Intellivision" name! This week we leap into and sermon the quality of Atari releasing an day console for the Intellivision and chuckle implicit the information Atari managed to merchandise an Intellivision console earlier the Intellivision Amico.

New Assetto Corsa Spin-Off Announced (By: @gtxforza)

Intellivision hardware that doesn't consciousness similar a scam?! Say whaaaaaaaaat?!?!

First, iRacing.com announces an arcade racing spin-off crippled and present Assetto Corsa joins the inclination with a caller disconnected rally racing game! Will this yet capable the void near by DiRT oregon Sega Rally? Click the nexus supra and stock what you deliberation based connected the announcement trailer!

Lists

Good Story, Bad Game (By: @captainofthestars)

I deliberation we each tin deliberation of astatine slightest 1 crippled successful our postulation that falls into this category.

I deliberation everyone has their ain examples, but what are games that person bully to large stories oregon characters that you subordinate to, but see the crippled they are successful either boring oregon conscionable not large overall? Have you ever thought "Man... this quality deserves a amended game!"

User Reviews

Does this merit to beryllium a recurring spin-off successful the satellite of Nintendo?

@djcube decided to footwear it up, but retrieve erstwhile Namco decided to revive the Dead to Rights franchise? How good has the present twenty-three year-old effort to get radical reasoning astir Jake Slate and his furry canine companion aged? Read each astir it!

@djcube's The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom reappraisal shares wherefore they not lone loved the crippled but they besides deliberation this escapade with Zelda truly deserves to go a full-on spin-off franchise from present on.

@djcube's Split Fiction reappraisal shares wherefore they deliberation it afloat deserves to go everyone's default go-to cooperative game, compared to their erstwhile picks similar Portal 2, erstwhile trying to play games with video crippled newcomers.

Wiki Of The Week

Tomonobu Itagaki

Itagaki had a marque and ne'er mislaid show of that.

As mentioned successful the tribute thread above, the passing of Tomonobu Itagaki has taken the video crippled assemblage by surprise. As galore inactive effort to process the news, here's a reminder that Giant Bomb inactive has an unthinkable wiki leafage item his vocation highs and lows, including 1 of my favourite goofs connected the full Giant Bomb wiki.