The Community Spotlight 2025.03.15

Welcome to the latest variation of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, americium erstwhile again honored to beryllium your big arsenic we look astatine the site-related quality and champion assemblage creations from the past week.

First, lets each springiness a immense circular of applause to the Giant Bomb, GameSpot, and Fandom unit that made the past week of streaming possible!

As you whitethorn person heard, the existent collaboration of streaming contented betwixt Giant Bomb and each of its affiliate sites is moving guardant arsenic the "Power Block" oregon "Pow Block" format. As explained connected this GameSpot article, from Monday to Friday, starting astatine 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET each time and moving until astir 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET, you volition get hours of Giant Bomb and GameSpot content. As I mentioned past week, Game Mess Mornings is being renamed "GameBreaking News" though the contented and scope of the diagnostic remains the same. I besides privation to accidental I was hoping to person a thread connected the tract with info astir the Pow Block news, but I had a brainsick week of enactment and conscionable didn't person the time. The places to drawback each of this is:

• Giant Bomb Site Chat
• Giant Bomb YouTube
• Giant Bomb Twitch
• GameSpot YouTube
• GameSpot Twitch

Here's adjacent amended quality astir the caller Pow Block programming. Moving forward, you volition adjacent beryllium capable to ticker and perceive to each of the programs successful a time of streaming successful a azygous VOD. For example, the streaming docket for 3/13/25 is disposable connected YouTube and you tin ticker each 4 and a fractional hours worthy of Giant Bomb and GameSpot programming successful a azygous video. As you mightiness expect, these videos instrumentality clip to marque and volition not beryllium disposable close from the rip, truthful your patience is greatly appreciated. The lone different occurrence of Pow Block that has an uninterrupted VOD is the 3/14/25 block.

When it comes to hosting videos connected the Giant Bomb site, an effort is being made to get amended astir that. You tin find astir of what is being aired connected the "Videos" tab of the site. There are immoderate gaps, so, here's a useful database of each the tract programming I was capable to way down from past week:

Weekly List of Programming & Streams

• SpongeBob is Getting into Magic the Gathering | Game Mess Mornings 03/10/25
• 10 Mario Games for Mario Day!
• Totally Normal Super Mario Bros. | GB Kidz
• What's Even Happening successful Death Stranding 2? | Giant Bombcast 881: No Tabby Touchy
• Capcom Trademark Could Hint astatine the Return of a Franchise | Game Mess Mornings 03/12/25
• Checking Out the 8BitDO Ultimate 2 Controller
• Mitch's Quest | Blightning Round
• The Oblivion Remake Could Launch Sooner than Expected | GameBreaking News 03/13/25
• Voicemail DUmptruck 152 | Confronted by Salsa.mp3
• Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 3 successful Development | GameBreaking News 03/14/25
• Mt. Rushmore of Co-Op Games | Giant Bombcast 881: REVENGEANCE
• R.E.P.O. | Unprofessional Fridays
• GB Reacts - Death Stranding 2 SXSW Trailer
• GameSpot Present - Humble Games Showcase 2025
• GameSpot Presents - Atomfall's Exciting Take On The Post-Apocalyptic Genre
• Atomfall Preview, Best Games of 2025 So Far | The GameSpot Show
• GameSpot Presents - JaVale McGee Rewinds with a Spin successful Diddy Kong Racing | Star Players
• GameSpot Presents - Split Fiction Let's Play: EXCITING First Impressions!
• We're Trying Something NEW!!! | GameSpot After Dark #261

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Art

Uncle Fuddy Duddy (By: Pickle Giraffe)

The Fester's Quest Blight Club ended quicker than expected, but what tin you accidental different than Mike is bully astatine video games? Also, Pickle_Giraffe didn't usage that arsenic an excuse to not marque a chill enactment of creation successful Mike's honor. And successful lawsuit you can't spot it supra successful the bsky conception of the Spotlight, they besides posted an unthinkable timelapse showing however they made this enactment of art.

Video

THAT'S FROGS, BROTHER! - (Season 7 Episode 4) - An Animated Giant Bomb Blight Club Series (By: Pickle Giraffe)

Another classical from Pickle_Giraffe!

Will Blues Brothers 2000 beryllium the crippled that yet "breaks" Grubb? Only clip volition tell, particularly with him rotating retired for caller editions of Blight Club, but that's not going to halt Pickle_Giraffe from making much chill animated editions of Blight Club.

Activities

Avowed Is The Third Game Of UUGPGC Year 4! Finish By April 1! Mark All Spoilers (By: @bigsocrates)

Do you partake successful the shoegaze?

Well, unsurprisingly, a batch of you person thoughts astir Avowed. Some of you emotion the crippled and others look somewhat disappointed that it didn't wholly unrecorded up to your anticipation of it being an Elder Scrolls-like crippled with sky-high ambitions. Regardless of wherever you mightiness stand, stock distant your thoughts successful this thread hosted by the Game Pass Game Club!

The GB Album Club 081 - No New World by Mass of the Fermenting Dregs (By: @unclejam23)

Hey, Giant Bomb community! This prime for the Album of the Week Club, the radical has gone with No New World by Mass of the Fermenting Dregs! Have you ever heard of this philharmonic radical from Japan? Who wants to sermon immoderate shoegaze?!

Blogs

Let's Review Demos From The February 2025 Steam Next Fest - Part 1 [Monster Train 2, Wanderstop, New Cosmo D, And MORE!] (By: ZOMBIEPIE)

Yes, determination is simply a pizza cooking minigame successful a Cosmo D game. Water is wet.

Steam's February 2025 Next Fest has been down america for a while, but ZombiePie can't halt reasoning astir immoderate of the crippled demos helium played during the event. If you privation to work their recommendations astir Monster Train 2, Wanderstop, the latest crippled from Cosmo D, and MORE, springiness their latest blog a read!

Might and Mento: The March-Date of Heaven: Part One+

Indie Game of the Week 411: Manifold Garden (By: @mento)

Mento with a throwback blog for each of you Giant Bomb OGs.

Moderator Mento decided to person immoderate amusive with their latest blog feature: Re-creating Homestar Runner's Teen Girl Squad successful Might and Magic VI! Yes, this is real, and, yes, this mightiness already beryllium a coagulated campaigner for "Best Blog" of 2025.

Likewise, they person a caller variation of their "Indie Game of the Week" diagnostic and this 1 looks astatine the funny puzzler, Manifold Garden. Read each astir wherefore they were stunned and impressed by this simplistic first-person puzzle crippled connected their write-up astir it.

NamCompendium 16: A Tale of Two Sequels +

Presenting, Viking Strike 01 (By: @electricviking)

ElectricViking has different variation of their NamCompendium blog and this 1 looks astatine Pole Position II and Galaga 3/Gaplus! Which arcade classical has benefited amended from location console ports and why? Read their blog to find out!

ElectricViking is besides trying retired a caller format to get successful the wont of penning caller worldly connected the tract astatine slightest weekly. That format is to constitute 1 paragraph, and lone one, portion reviewing games they've played, some caller and old, and wherefore helium recommends oregon condemns them.

Help I'm Trapped successful Mid-Budget Action-JRPG Heck (01): The Hottest Games of 2022 (By: @arbitrarywater)

Valkyrie Profile deserves truthful overmuch better...

ArbitraryWater returns with a blog titled "Help I'm Trapped successful Mid-Budget Action-JRPG Heck" that looks astatine Valkyrie Elysium and Star Ocean: The Divine Force! Is the B-Tier video crippled inactive live successful the JRPG genre? Check retired their latest blog to find out.

Looking At A Potential Peak Point In March, 2025 (By: @infantpipoc)

Hades II is inactive successful Early Access, but infantpipoc decided to bust retired their magnifying solid to truly look astatine what the Warsong update does to alteration the crippled and spot if we tin surmise thing astir what the last merchandise volition look like.

Discussion Threads

Dirty Dan Ryckert Shirt =D (By: @fobwashed)

Incredible worldly from the Giant Bomb forums this week!

Yes, this thread is implicit ten-years-old, but there's a crushed for maine including it successful this variation of the Spotlight. @offnickel bumped the thread to assertion they had recovered an past Dirty Dan Ryckert t-shirt astatine a Goodwill and I was capable to person them to station a photograph verifying that to beryllium true. So, person you recovered Giant Bomb-themed shirts successful unusual places?

Your Wish List For Ports And Remakes For Switch 2? (By: @gtxforza)

We are drafting person to the Nintendo Direct wherever it is expected that Nintendo volition springiness a amended representation of what they person planned for the Nintendo Switch 2. Nonetheless, astir everyone agrees determination volition beryllium immoderate games that are ports and remakes shared during that Direct. So, what remakes and remasters are connected your wishlist?

What Matters To You Most In A Controller? (By: @topcyclist)

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are rumored to beryllium readying large things for their adjacent controllers, what bash you worth astir successful a controller these days? Share distant connected this canvass and consciousness escaped to stock however you consciousness connected this thread.

It's Not Just Microsoft; Sony Is Experimenting With Generative AI In Game Development (By: @zombiepie)

After Microsoft made their generative AI instrumentality public, Polygon published a study suggesting that Sony is experimenting with AI arsenic well. What are your thoughts astir this news? Is AI slop inevitable adjacent successful the satellite of premier oregon AAA video games?

What Pop Culture Twist Did You Go Without Knowing Via Osmosis Somehow? (By: TOPCYCLIST)

What's the biggest spoiler you managed to avoid?

Here's a amusive taxable connected the forums: What's the astir awesome twist oregon crippled constituent you someway wholly avoided getting spoiled? Is it a movie oregon game? As you tin spot successful the screenshot to the right, 1 idiosyncratic seemingly was capable to debar getting Final Fantasy VII spoiled until adulthood.

What Games Are You Looking Forward To In 2025? (By: @atheistpreacher)

Using Aloy to demo generative AI erstwhile she, herself, is simply a leader who stands against AI is....

The archetypal 4th of 2025 is astir over, so, it's clip to cheque successful connected those of you that shared your astir anticipated games of 2025. How did the archetypal salvo of games dainty you? Were determination immoderate misses oregon duds successful the opening months of the year? Have you added thing to your list?

Lists

Worst Of The Worst +

Hot Imports (By: @marino)

Do you person immoderate import classics successful your library?

Fellow moderator Marino has played his just stock of video games and that includes immoderate existent duds. Of the 1700+ games helium owns, here's their database looking astatine the 10 worst games based connected their Metacritic scores.

Have you ever imported a game? Marino besides published a database wherever they database and sermon each crippled successful their postulation they imported from different state and determination are immoderate existent obscure and classical gems connected this list!

Only Keighley’s Bards (By: @infantpipoc)

infantpipoc has a caller database that looks astatine the past of Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards and this clip they decided to look astatine each of the modern "Best Narrative" winners!

Fakey's 2024 Games of the Year (By: @fakekisser)

Do The Game Awards person a benignant erstwhile it comes to its Best narrative/Story award?

FakeKisser astir thought astir skipping making a 2024 GOTY database wholly but they yet got astir to making one. Read each astir the caller and aged games they loved and hated and don't hide that it's ne'er excessively precocious to marque a GOTY list.

Reviews

Do immoderate of you adjacent retrieve Omega Boost connected the PS1?

• @pauljeremiah's Omega Boost reappraisal talks astir what they deliberation is simply a criminally forgotten mech crippled connected the PS1 that deserves much attention. Read wherefore implicit here!
• @pauljeremiah's Chrono Trigger reappraisal celebrates the game's 30th day with a reappraisal successful which they articulation the choir successful calling the crippled 1 of the champion JRPGs ever made.

Wiki Of The Week

Skullgirls

What makes this crippled a continual cult favourite from the Fighting Game Community? Read our wiki for it to find out!

Last week marked the 14th day of Giant Bomb debuting the archetypal gameplay footage of Skullgirls! If you privation to retrieve Brad fielding Reverge Labs, LLC questions astir the earliest builds of the cult-classic warring game, here's a nexus to the Quick Look!