The Community Spotlight 2025.03.22

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.

After a flimsy delay, there's yet a thread up with each of the accusation astir Giant Bomb's existent streaming schedule, which is known arsenic the "Power Block". If you person immoderate thoughts oregon concerns astir the existent programming, consciousness escaped to driblet a remark and I volition effort to nonstop your feedback to the due channels.

Also, the implicit uninterrupted VODs for the POW Block streams are going to beryllium coming retired a batch much reliably successful the future, but determination is simply a peculiar enactment astir the Friday show. As the unit often permission astatine the extremity of streaming duties to commencement their weekend, the Friday amusement usually goes up connected Monday. Nonetheless, here's what I deliberation is everything that aired connected Giant Bomb and GameSpot this week successful 1 useful list:

Weekly List of Programming & Streams

• Metroid Prime 4 Could Potentially Have a Large Presence astatine Switch 2 Direct
• All of Pangea Software's Games | GB Kidz
• Viva Pinata, Star of Providence, and Glover | Ryckert's Roulette
• Assassin's Creed Shadows Impressions | Giant Bombcast 882: Wu-Tong Group
• Assassin's Creed Shadows | Giant Bomb Plays
• Industry-Wide Union Launched by Game Developers
• E.T. (Atari 2600) | Blightning Round
• 33 Immortals | Giant Bomb Plays
• Microsoft Is Committed To More Xbox TV Shows And Movies | GameBreaking News 03/20/25
• Voicemail Dump Truck 153 | Funeral Merch.mp3
• FBC: Firebreak Launching this Summer | GameBreaking News 03/21/25
• POWER BLOCK 3/17/25 | GameBreaking News, GB Kidz, VIVA PINATA Ryckert's Roulette - COMPLETE POW BLOCK VOD
• POWER BLOCK 3/18/25 | Giant Bombcast, Assassin's Creed Shadows GAMEPLAY - COMPLETE POW BLOCK VOD
• POWER BLOCK 3/19/25 | GameBreaking News, 33 Immortals, Blightning Round: E.T. - COMPLETE POW BLOCK VOD
• POWER BLOCK 3/20/25 | Half-Life 2 RTX, Assassin's Creed Shadows & Xenoblade Chronicles X Reviews - COMPLETE POW BLOCK VOD
• GameSpot - Our Assassin's Creed Shadows Conspiracy Theory | GameSpot After Dark #262
• GameSpot - Assassin's Creed Shadows & Xenoblade Chronicles X | The GameSpot Show
• GameSpot - Why Xenoblade Chronicles X Is Important
• GameSpot - Why We Gave Assassin's Creed Shadows An 8
• GameSpot - How STALKER 2 survived a war

In presumption of different site-related news, this week marks the authoritative commencement of activities for The Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run, the spring-time community-led foundation fundraiser! If immoderate of you are disposable to watercourse from April the 4th done Sunday April 6th, delight see joining the GBCER team! We are desperately looking for a fewer much lukewarm bodies and invited anyone that is streaming during that weekend, adjacent if it is conscionable a fewer hours, to articulation the radical and assistance america rise wealth towards charity. The foundation this twelvemonth is for Pencils of Promise, an acquisition foundation that builds schools, trains teachers, and develops cleanable h2o sources successful Ghana, Guatemala, and Laos!

• GBCER Team Page - Please Join If You Are Streaming from April the 4th to the 6th!
• Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run Announcement Thread - get the details and a useful docket of the event's streaming programming.
• thatpinguino Donation Page - The GBCER's Team Leader
• RioStarwind's Donation Page - A Giant Bomb moderator with a donation extremity of $250
• borgmaster's Donation Page - A Giant Bomb play blogger with a donation extremity of $100
• ZombiePie's Donation Page - It's me! If you bask the Community Spotlight oregon my activities connected societal media, delight see sending a donation of thing you tin spare.

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Art

3 AM Boys License Plate (By: @jearum)

You whitethorn person noticed that caller banner and podcast has been hitting the tract successful airy of the caller Power Block programming. Jearum has been sharing immoderate fan-art and teasers for authoritative commissions for the tract connected their Bluesky account, which each of you speechmaking this should travel if you haven't already.

Build Your Favorite Duder Content Lineup With $15 (By: @mynameisfatmike)

Over connected the Giant Bomb Discord (the nexus supra is an invitation if you inactive person not joined), MyNameIsFatMike welcomed the GameSpot relationship joining the server with this meme representation successful which they and others physique the champion imaginable "block" of Giant Bomb programming utilizing a fund of $15. How would you walk your money? Share distant successful the comments!

Video

GOOD WHIP, BAD GUN - (Season 7 Episode 5) - An Animated Giant Bomb Blight Club Series (By: Pickle Giraffe)

Another instant classical from Pickle_Giraffe!

There was a flimsy delay, but don't caput that due to the fact that Pickle_Giraffe is backmost with a caller animated rendition of Blight Club. Mike's clip with Fester's Quest was a little one, but Pickle_Giraffe recovered a mode to cram successful arsenic galore amusive jokes and references arsenic imaginable nonetheless.

Activities

The GB Album Club 082 - 19 MASTERS by Saya Gray (By: @unclejam23)

We person a existent absorbing medium to sermon this week!

The latest prime for the Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club is 19 MASTERS by Saya Gray! Are immoderate of you acquainted with Saya Gray? She's been called by Pitchfork arsenic a Japanese-Canadian "magpie creation pop" musician, but you tin articulation our treatment astir their debut medium here!

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

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!

Blogs

Monster Hunter... Milds? (By: @mooseymcman)

Anyone a defender of the communicative worldly successful this game?

MooseyMcMan penned a monolithic effort connected their conflicted feelings astir Monster Hunter Wilds. Read wherefore they articulation astir however person played the crippled successful disliking the communicative worldly portion mostly enjoying the gameplay. Whether you hold oregon disagree, articulation their treatment by clicking the nexus above!

SIGIL II is Harder than SIGIL (By: @ford_dent)

Ford_Dent has been celebrating 30th day of the archetypal Doom for a while, but this week they decided to look astatine SIGIL II and get to the bottommost of what makes it some a love-letter to fans of the Doom WAD country and besides a leap successful trouble compared to the archetypal SIGIL.

Let's Review Demos From The February 2025 Steam Next Fest - Part 2 [I Have So Many Games That Are Clones It's Not Funny] (By: @zombiepie)

Should SIGIL beryllium hard? That's the question astatine the bosom of Ford_Dent's latest blog.

ZombiePie wraps up their retrospective connected the large crippled demos they played during the February 2025 Steam Next Fest lawsuit and this clip they decided to reappraisal each of the "viral" games arsenic good arsenic games that consciousness derivative of bigger works. There were immoderate bully games and immoderate atrocious ones and you tin work each astir it.

All 3DO Games (Kinda) In Order: 1994 (Part 13) (By: @borgmaster)

borgmaster has a caller blog that looks astatine a smattering of 3DO games successful chronological merchandise order. This week you tin work wherefore they see Who Shot Johnny Rock? arsenic 1 of the worst games ever and wherefore World Cup Golf: Professional Edition mightiness basal arsenic 1 of the astir bizarrely designed play games successful history.

Might and Mento: March-Date of Heaven: Part Two +

Indie Game of the Week 412: Minishoot' Adventures (By: @mento)

We truly are ne'er going to beryllium escaped from 80s nostalgia, aren't we?

Mento has a caller occurrence of their blog diagnostic connected the forums wherever they play Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven arsenic Homestar Runner's Teen Girl Squad! I cognize determination are inactive a fewer Homestar Runner fans retired determination speechmaking this, but this blog is for you.

Mento besides has a caller introduction successful their "Indie Game of the Week" diagnostic and this 1 looks astatine Minishoot' Adventures from past year! Some of the impermanent lists had the crippled connected their 2024 GOTY lists, but what bash they deliberation astir this genre-blending indie game?

Help I'm Trapped In Mid-Budget Action-JRPG Heck (02): "Vita Means Stank" (By: @arbitrarywater)

Any of you person beardown feelings astir the dependable acting successful this game, particularly Charlotte.

ArbitraryWater is backmost with a blog astir B-tier JRPGs! Today they privation to speech to you astir "Vita STANK" arsenic they reappraisal Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed and Trials of Mana. Can you deliberation of immoderate RPGs oregon different games that embody the tone of the Vita?

Viking Strike 02 +

NamCompendium 17: The Tower of Druaga (By: @electricviking)

ElectricViking has different blog wherever they reappraisal each of the games they person played recently! For example, they stock wherefore they finished Assassin's Creed Odyssey this period contempt maintaining that they bash not person a ton of escaped clip these days.

Likewise, for this variation of their "NamCompendium" feature, ElectricViking penned an effort connected The Tower of Druaga, its unmistakable bequest particularly regarding FromSoftware, and its galore location console ports including a precise weird PC Engine port.

Automata: The Storytelling of Detroit: Become Human (By: @gamer_152)

To accidental From owes a batch to Tower of Druaga is an understatement.

Moderator Gamer_152 has an effort looking astatine the incredibly notorious interactive drama, Detroit: Become Human. Is the game's bosom successful the close place? Is it inactive a cringey and over-wrought communicative enactment from David Cage? Read what they thought

Discussion Threads

Assassin's Creed Shadows! Fans Of Assassin's Creed, How Do You Feel About The Game, Just Game Wise And A Little About Its Ensuing Controversy? (By: @topcyclist)

But tin oregon volition this crippled prevention Ubisoft?

So, Assassin's Creed Shadows yet came out. What are your thoughts astir its overhauled gameplay, its dual protagonists, and the controversies that seemed to travel it astatine each turn? Also, bash you deliberation the crippled is "enough" to spare Ubisoft from losing its independence?

Solar Ash Game Pass Game Club Discussion Thread (By: @bigsocrates)

Solar Ash near Game Pass recently, truthful the Giant Bomb Game Pass Game Club welcomes you to stock your thoughts astir it 1 past clip arsenic galore bid farewell to it. Is it a worthy intermediate crippled for instrumentality of Hyper Light Drifter? Share distant successful this thread.

Do You Actually Notice Frames Per Second (FPS) In Games? (By: @topcyclist)

F1 is back! Which means it is clip to marque amusive of Ferrari for screwing up a strategy!

It's a taxable that seems to gully battlelines connected net forums, but bash you really announcement erstwhile a crippled is outputting supra 60 FPS? With the emergence of amended but much costly GPUs and demanding graphical features similar raytracing, however debased are you consenting to spell for amended graphics?

Cause Of Yellowing Game Cases? (By: @trevor1114)

Are immoderate of you noticing crippled lawsuit yellowing with much caller crippled cases? Have immoderate of you tried the "hacks" to reverse UV harm connected integrative crippled carts oregon cases? Or, person immoderate of you looked into buying replacement cases for damaged ones?

Formula 1 Discussion Thread (By: @hassan918)

Last play marked the authoritative commencement of the F1 season! The archetypal contention successful Australia was a spot chaotic but radical are already speculating astir mid-season operator changes and who is going to beryllium crowned champion and which squad volition instrumentality the Constructor's Championship. If you privation to articulation the discussion, this thread is for you.

Lists

Final Fantasy Ranked (By: @doctordonkey)

This is decidedly a spicy ranking of Final Fantasy games.

doctordonkey had a spell astatine ranking each of the Final Fantasy games they person played by champion to worst. As idiosyncratic who has played their just stock of Final Fantasy games, determination are immoderate surprises successful this database but it's hard to disagree with the tone of this list. Nonetheless, if you person beardown opinions astir this series, consciousness escaped to marque your ain list!

Reviews

Never forget.

@pauljeremiah's reappraisal of Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions relays wherefore they see this to beryllium the definitive mentation of Final Fantasy Tactics and wherefore they wished determination were much ways to play this circumstantial mentation of the game.

@pauljeremiah besides has a reappraisal for Stunt Race FX and successful their reappraisal they speech astir wherefore the crippled has maintained its charm and remains a method achievement, but the gameplay has aged similar milk.

@pauljeremiah capped their video crippled reviewing circuit with a loot astatine the incredibly notorious Haze connected the PS3. Memes aside, what really makes this crippled truthful atrocious and instantly repulsive? Read their reappraisal to find out.

Wiki Of The Week

God of War

Crazy to deliberation this crippled is present 1 twelvemonth distant from being capable to portion successful the United States.

It's hard to imagine, but the archetypal God of War crippled turns 20 years aged today! Learn each astir the crippled that kicked disconnected 1 of Sony's premier franchises and what makes the crippled tick. Our wiki leafage for the classical adjacent has a amusive conception astir immoderate of the game's oft-forgotten secrets and Easter Eggs.