The Community Spotlight 2025.03.01

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by Marino - Brad Lynch connected March 1, 2025

Screen to limb is the lone way.

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 past week!

Well, this week the astir important quality point worthy discussing isn't precisely the astir astonishing one. This week marked the commencement of the caller effort for Giant Bomb to stock and big cross-collaboration contented with different sites, successful particular, GameSpot. Many acknowledgment to the likes of Tom Caswell and others for their clip and each of the hard enactment they did this week.

As Dan enactment it champion connected the Giant Bombcast 879 and chucktowski transcribed to a Reddit post, everything that is being done to beryllium complimentary to Giant Bomb's existent programming schedule. The existent programming that you are enjoying close present isn't being cancelled and the anticipation is to conscionable person longer blocks of uninterrupted streaming content. Also, Giant Bomb getting cross-posted connected GameSpot has already shown to beryllium incredibly assistive successful getting the connection retired astir the large worldly being done by the unit with astir editions of Game Mess Morning netting thousands of other views connected their account.

The unit plans to person a amended and much nationalist streaming docket and the lone existent "change" is that Game Mess Mornings is changing names and this is simply a alteration Grubb wants. An illustration of what is planned for the archetypal afloat week of this is:

Monday 03/03/25 streams:

Game Mess Mornings - Noon ET, 9 AM PT
GBKidz with Shawn and Niki
Dan's Block

Now, I cognize what a batch of you mightiness beryllium disquieted astir and it is simply a fearfulness I besides person expressed successful the meetings I person had with our Fandom rep. With much programming and streams, the contented of accessibility becomes a bigger problem. Here's what I tin committedness close now, and I'm going to request your assistance from clip to time, I tin committedness to springiness you a bulleted database of everything that aired connected the Spotlight, but I request immoderate of you to driblet links to the VODs aft they finish. Like astir of you, I'm not connected the net watching streams each day. Nonetheless, here's my archetypal got astatine this and if I missed something, driblet a remark and I volition beryllium blessed to edit it in.

Weekly List of Programming & Streams

There's a caller State of the Site article up for your speechmaking pleasure! Give it a work and spot what bully worldly is happening with the tract close present and what's planned for the future. The bully quality is that this 1 is astir wholly affirmative astir plans and the aboriginal of the site.

Finally, a caller batch of radical are commenting that premium podcasts are inactive not appearing successful the close feeds oregon astatine all. If that includes you, driblet a remark successful the State of the Site nonfiction I linked supra and dtoast volition get backmost to you what radical are telling him and if helium has a summons for that circumstantial podcast occurrence oregon not.

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Video

OH, NO! EMPATHY! - (Season 7 Episode 2) - An Animated Giant Bomb Blight Club Series (By: Pickle Giraffe)

Always comic from the legend, Pickle_Giraffe!

Jeff Grubb's misadventures with Blues Brothers 2000 proceed with a caller occurrence of Blight Club Animated! Empathy? Who needs that erstwhile you person multi-colored keys and platforming that is implicit bullcrap! You missed the Soul Train, truthful invited to the Pain Train, tin I instrumentality your order?

Activities

Still 1 of the champion works of hip-hop and neo soul? Share your thoughts!

The GB Album Club 080 - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill (By: @unclejam23)

It's clip to speech astir a philharmonic classical with this variation of the Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club! This week the radical is checking retired The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill! Is this inactive 1 of the top works of hip-hop and neo soul? What different works successful those genres bash you recommend?

Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess Is The Second Game Of UUGPGC Year 4! Spoilers OPEN!(By: @bigsocrates)

The Giant Bomb Game Pass Game Club has officially opened its treatment for Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess to SPOILERS! While astir reviews praised its speedy and stylish gameplay and colorful creation style, what bash you marque of its communicative and conclusion? Share distant successful the thread linked above!

Blogs

Mento is truly getting into Mario Sunshine.

Indie Game of the Week 409: Teslagrad 2 +

Kobayashi Mario Goes Hawaiian (Part Three - The Bonus Set) +

Mento's Month: February '25 (By: @mento)

Mento besides has a caller variation of their "Indie Game of the Week" diagnostic and this occurrence checks retired Teslagrad 2! Read what they deliberation astir its 2D Norse aesthetic and puzzle platforming-based gameplay!

Speaking of Mento's initiatives, they wrapped up their Retro Achievement reappraisal of Super Mario Sunshine with a look astatine its "Bonus" subset of glitch tech, punishingly high-level play, and different goofs and surprises.

An Idol FX crippled that isn't the worst happening ever???

And finally, with the extremity of a period Mento has their expected monthly wrap-up station successful which they stock the games they played and anime they watched and what games and shows they urge you and I cheque retired erstwhile possible!

In Honor Of Dan Beating Drake of the 99 Dragons, I Played Everything From Idol FX (Part I: Gast, An Admirable Start) (By: @zombiepie)

I don't cognize astir you, but Dan's clip with Drake of the 99 Dragons continues to beryllium 1 of the champion pick-me-ups of 2025. In grant of his sacrifice, I decided to play each crippled ever made by Idol FX AB, the makers of Drake of the 99 Dragons and started with their archetypal game, Gast!

What's Next For AAA Games? (By: @meteora3255)

meteora3255 talks astir reconciling the halfway struggle with AAA games similar Monster Hunter Wilds and Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza successful Hawaii being their astir anticipated titles of 2025 and yet, AAA games are the root of astir of the layoffs successful the industry.

Is determination inactive a spot for AAA games?

All 3DO Games (Kinda) In Order: 1994 (Part 12) (By: @borgmaster)

borgmaster is backmost with a blog looking astatine the games that released connected the 3DO successful chronological merchandise order! This week features the likes of Space Shuttle (1994), Star Control II, Super Wing Commander, The Incredible Machine, and The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel!

Thoughts On My Time With Ender Lilies And Its Sequel, Ender Magnolia (By: @atheistpreacher)

AtheistPreacher has been playing a LOT of Ender Magnolia: Bloom successful the Mist and shares their implicit thoughts astir it and however they consciousness astir its instrumentality connected the Metroidvania template and what hiccups they deliberation clasp backmost the game.

Discussion Threads

Monster Hunter Wilds (By: @atheistpreacher)

Are you locked into the Monster Hunter Wilds hype cycle? For radical looking guardant to it, what was the archetypal crippled successful the bid that got you hooked? Also, what bash you marque of Wilds' accent connected storytelling? Are immoderate of you skeptical of the franchise still? What astir the bid rubs you the incorrect way?

WB Games Is Closing Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego; Cancels Wonder Woman Game (By: @zombiepie)

People are inactive reeling from the workplace closures by WB Games which includes the closure of Monolith Productions and the cancellation of their Wonder Woman game. It's gut-wrenching quality to hear, but is it each that astonishing considering Warner Bros. has been trying to get retired of games for years?

Episode Where Dan Doesn't Understand Severance? (By: @corn)

Hey, Giant Bomb fans! There's a spot of a statement connected immoderate Dan Ryckert lore connected the forums that needs YOUR HELP to settle! Which podcast and occurrence started the "Dan didn't get Severance" meme oregon recurring bit? If you person an idea, driblet a remark successful the thread.

I Forgot That PS5 Pro Was A Thing (By: @nocall)

It sounds similar the PS5 Pro isn't selling each that well, oregon is it? What bash you deliberation were Sony's expectations and bash you deliberation the Pro SKU met them? Also, was this happening ever destined for nonaccomplishment the infinitesimal it was announced? Share your answers to those questions successful the thread above.

Lists

Which games were repped the hardest astatine the Game Awards? Give this database a work to find out!

“Keighley’s” Checks And How They Were Cashed In During “His Shows” (By: @infantpipoc)

A portion backmost infantpipoc decided to beryllium backmost and re-review each variation of the Game Awards arsenic hosted by Geoff Keighley. With this database they decided to look astatine each incarnation of his awards lawsuit and spot if they could place the biggest "check" Keighley was capable to cash.

Games of the Year 2024 (By: @winsol)

Once again, we person a belated GOTY 2024 list, but this clip from winsol! Give it a work and spot what games rocked your twelvemonth and ever retrieve that I'm blessed to showcase immoderate GOTY lists, careless of erstwhile you marque them.

Games That Need To Be Ported To The Switch (By: @galamoth)

As we gully person to the motorboat of the Switch 2, Galamoth uses their latest database to annotate the games they inactive can't assistance but beryllium amazed were ne'er ported to the OG Switch that they anticipation either travel retired connected it yet oregon astatine slightest grace the Switch 2.

Reviews

It's clip for immoderate classical Contra goodness connected this site.

@sbc515 did a mini-Contra reappraisal retrospective this week with an assessments of Contra connected the NES, Super C connected the NES, and Contra III: The Alien Wars connected the SNES! Read immoderate of their reviews to observe wherever they deliberation Contra genuinely became Contra!

@infantpipoc's Transistor reappraisal looks astatine however the crippled holds up erstwhile played wholly connected a Steam Deck! Also, they stock wherefore they deliberation it is simply a modern "classic" owed to its seamless gameplay and riveting communicative and communicative structure.

Wiki Of The Week

Wasn't expecting Dante to beryllium the 1 that made maine consciousness arsenic aged arsenic dirt, but determination you go.

Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening

Man, are acceptable to observe Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening's 20th birthday? I definite americium not and I tin adjacent retrieve watching the video reappraisal for this 1 connected X-Play erstwhile G4 was inactive a thing! Regardless, springiness our wiki leafage for the crippled a work to observe wherefore it's viewed arsenic 1 of the top people corrections successful video crippled history!

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