The Community Spotlight 2025.03.29

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.

It's been a mostly affirmative week for Giant Bomb with a bevy of caller streams and programming, but we bash request to commencement the Spotlight disconnected connected a flimsy downer. Some radical connected the Giant Bomb Discord person indicated that they can't look to click play connected videos connected the tract anymore, adjacent aft enabling show cookies. As you know, this contented was worked connected for a agelong clip and was mostly resolved a fewer months back. If the contented has cropped backmost up, consciousness escaped to driblet a remark present oregon successful the State of the Site nonfiction I linked to and stock your issue. Trust me, @dtoast is not blessed to perceive that the achromatic surface contented whitethorn person returned.

Moving connected to much affirmative things, don't hide that adjacent play is 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 person since been capable to enlistee a fewer radical from the Giant Bomb Discord, but immoderate further lukewarm bodies, adjacent if it is for conscionable a fewer hours, would beryllium great! 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
• Ford_Dent's Donation Page - A Giant Bomb Discord subordinate joins the fray! See if you tin assistance them scope their extremity of $150!
• PersonZ's Donation Page - PersonZ has a donation inducement wherever they volition bash a push-up for each dollar donated to their page.
• 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.

Finally, earlier we look astatine the slate of programming that deed the tract and streaming platforms, we person a peculiar enactment from Jan. The video and accumulation squad is inactive moving retired immoderate kinks successful with the workflow for the POW Block VODs. They cognize immoderate archives person not been going up connected a timely mode and committedness to get much organized successful the future, but the squad wide is inactive small, though moving to alteration that. Your patience is greatly appreciated.

Weekly List of Programming & Streams

• Bam Margera is Getting Added to THPS 3+4
• Star Fox: Assault | GB Kidz
• XBLA Classics: Giant Bomb Plays
• How does Mother 3 Hold Up successful 2025? | Giant Bombcast 883: ET Championship Edition DX
• Mike Drucker and His New Book "Good Game, No Rematch" | Giant Bombcast 882: Revengeance
• Tam & Lucy In Japan | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Dev Chats, Shuhei Yoshida Interview & More!
• Game Informer Returns! | GameBreaking News 03/26/25
• OverGrubb | 01 | BLIGHT CLUB
• A NEW Tomodachi Life Game Announced | GameBreaking News 03/27/25
• Voicemail Dump Truck 154 | Apple Stank.mp3 ft. Samoa Joe
• Switch 2 Pre Orders Pop Up successful Canada
• Favorite Memories with the Nintendo Switch | 883: REVENGEANCE
• Giant Bomb Talks Over: Nintendo Direct 3.27.2025
  
• POWER BLOCK 3/24/25 COMPLETE VOD | GameBreaking News, Star Fox Assault, Classic XBLA Games, Atomfall
• POWER BLOCK 3/26/25 COMPLETE VOD | GameBreaking News, NEW Blight Club, The First Berserker: Khazan
• POWER BLOCK 3/27/25 COMPLETE VOD | Atomfall & First Berserker Reviews, Voicemail Dump Truck w/ Samoa Joe, & MORE!
• POWER BLOCK 3/28/25 COMPLETE VOD | GameBreaking News, Bombcast Revengeance, Schedule I, and GameSpot After Dark

GameSpot Programming

• GameSpot - Revenge Of The Savage - 20 Minutes Of Gameplay With The Devs
• GameSpot - Phantom Blade Zero Devs Explain Why It Isn't a Souls-Like OR Hack n Slash
• GameSpot - Ben Starr REALLY Wanted This Voice Role | The First Berserker: Khazan
• GameSpot - Phantom Blade Zero Devs Explain Why It Isn't a Souls-Like OR Hack n Slash
• GameSpot - This Arcade Psychedelic First-Person Shooter Is Inspired By Spiritualism
• GameSpot - Phasmophobia Devs Look Back connected 5 Years of Success
• GameSpot - Dev Explains How TMNT: Tactical Takedown is an Adult instrumentality connected the Turtles
• GameSpot - Atomfall Might Be The Biggest Surprise of 2025
• GameSpot - Look At Those RTX Butt Cheeks In Half-Life 2 RTX
• GameSpot - The First Berserker Khazan Is More Than Another Soulslike
• GameSpot - Disco Elysium dev breaks down their caller crippled (Project C4)
• GameSpot - Lies of P Overture Director explains however the DLC volition make a implicit experience
• Why Are We Talking About The Sopranos Video Game? | GameSpot After Dark #263

Bluesky

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Art

Super Blight Bros. (By: @segaskele.bsky.social‬)

Have you been enjoying Blight Club's travel into immoderate of the worst games successful history? Well, ian/segaskele connected Bluesky has been having a ton of amusive and decided to marque a amusive enactment of creation to grant Dan, Grubb, and Mike with the past games they person played for the series.

Blightning Round x OverGrubb (By:@jearum)

Giant Bomb has been expanding the scope of Blight Club with its just stock of spin-off programs. In airy of that, jearum decided to person immoderate amusive with their Wonder Friends designs for Grubb, Dan, and Mike with a caller poster.

Wu-Tang Group (By: @fobwashed)

Fowashed was inspired by a caller remark from the Giant Bomb unit to marque this banner. Wu-Tang Clan is for the children, and that's each that needs to beryllium said.

Video

DAN OF THE 99 MACHINES - (COMPLETE Season 6) - An Animated Giant Bomb Blight Club Series +

E.T. PHONE HOLE - (Season 7 FINALE) - An Animated Giant Bomb Blight Club Series (By: Pickle Giraffe)

Another fantastic enactment from Pickle_Giraffe!

This week, Pickle_Giraffe has not 1 but TWO animated gifts for you to enjoy! The archetypal is simply a video that compiles each of their episodes related to Dan's struggles with Drake of the 99 Dragons into a azygous video and the 2nd provides the riveting "finale" of Blight Club's introspection of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Give some a ticker and don't hide to convey Pickle_Giraffe for each of their hard work.

Activities

UUGPGC Voting Thread For Cycle Starting April 1 2025

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

Alright Balatro perverts. NOW is your clip to shine!

It is besides clip to nonstop successful your votes for the adjacent variation of the Giant Bomb Game Pass Game Club! This circular of voting has caller entries similar Balatro and Mullet Mad Jack. Do either of those games oregon 1 of the different nominees highest your interest? Vote for two!

And this is the last telephone to get successful connected the Game Pass Game Club's treatment astir Avowed earlier spoilers are allowed. What are your last impressions of the game's gameplay and levels? Do you find the cities to beryllium "empty" similar immoderate person contended?

The GB Album Club 083 - Symphony No. 9 by Gustav Mahler (By: @unclejam23)

This week, the Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club is tackling thing wholly different! This clip it is giving Symphony No. 9 by Gustav Mahler a changeable and we person to code the thorny contented of a beloved classical euphony symphony having much than 1 interpretation!

Blogs

A Pirate (Yakuza)'s Life For Me. (By: @mooseymcman)

Have immoderate of you tried this crippled out? Share distant successful MooseyMcMan's blog if you have.

MooseyMcMan has an extended write-up detailing their experiences with and thoughts astir Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza successful Hawaii. They had a blastwith the game, but is it an wholly indispensable side-story successful the expansive strategy of things? Read what they think.

PersonZ's 10th Rotation Around The Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run (By: @personz)

PersonZ volition beryllium participating during the Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run to rise wealth for Pencils of Promise! Read each astir their plans, which includes push-ups, fearfulness games, and Mario Party connected their latest blog!

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

Indie Game of the Week 413: Trifox (By: @mento)

Things person been going swimmingly for Mento successful Might and Magic VI.

Moderator Mento has a caller introduction successful their blog bid wherein they roleplay and implicit Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven arsenic Homestar Runner's Teen Girl Squad! however are immoderate of the mid-game dungeons treating their cadre of meme girls? Read to find out!

Also, they person a caller introduction successful their "Indie Game of the Week" bid and this 1 looks astatine Trifox by developer Glowfish Interactive. Read connected their blog wherefore they don't deliberation it stood retired successful the crowded tract of indie Zelda-likes.

Viking Strike 03 (By: @electricviking)

A existent shame that the drug-induced nightmare scenes power the mode they do.

ElectricViking has a caller blog astir everything they played past week and this clip they speech astir buckling down and finishing the archetypal Max Payne and continuing their advancement successful Avowed! work wherefore they deliberation the archetypal Max Payne primes Remedy Entertainment Ltd. for the large games they person precocious made adjacent if it plays similar crap astatine times.

Discussion Threads

Okay Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed Shadows Made Money; Now What? What's Your Next Move? (By: @zombiepie)

What does the aboriginal clasp for Ubisoft? Your conjecture is arsenic bully arsenic mine.

You could reason the thread is simply a spot retired of day aft lone a fewer days aft it was published, but immoderate are inactive utilizing it to sermon the caller authorities of affairs astatine Ubisoft Entertainment regardless. So, present that Assassin's Creed Shadows has done good capable for itself, wherever bash you spot Ubisoft going from this constituent forward?

Here's Yves Guillemot's Company-Wide Memo Promising "Visibility" Following The Tencent Deal (By: @zombiepie)

And with Ubisoft commanding the headlines this week, here's a thread that straight discusses the company's caller woody with Tencent and debates CEO Yves Guillemot's handling of Ubisoft arsenic a company. Do you person immoderate anticipation that spinning disconnected astir of Ubisoft's astir invaluable IPs into a caller portion volition work?

Formula 1 2025 Video Game Reveal Trailer Is Here (By: @gtxforza)

This is uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... really happening, huh?

Calling each racing fans! The archetypal trailer for F1 25 conscionable dropped and radical are already talking astir it on. For those of you that person played the erstwhile games, are immoderate of you disquieted this crippled mightiness beryllium much of the same? Is EA's motor for the F1 bid successful request of a re-tunning?

Goddamn Cristiano Ronaldo Is Coming To Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves As A Playable Character (By: @zombiepie)

After teasing it for a bit, SNK yet confirmed that Cristiano Ronaldo is coming to Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves! This is real! It's not a joke! He's a stance character! All that aside, what bash you deliberation of that arsenic good arsenic the apt backroom authorities that astir apt got him successful the game?

Dordogne Developer And Studio Have Closed (By: @bigsocrates)

Any of you springiness this crippled a changeable earlier its workplace went under?

Dordogne was a crippled prime for Giant Bomb's Game Pass Game Club a portion backmost but it was precocious revealed that the workplace down it has gone bankrupt. The creator has assured radical their adjacent task is fine, but what does it accidental astir the sustainability of indie games connected Game Pass?

Lists

How is your Most Anticipated database from the commencement of the twelvemonth holding up?

Most Anticipated/What to Play Next (By: @villhaver)

With a 4th astir done VILLHAVER decided to "update" their astir anticipated games of 2025 database that they made astatine the commencement of the year! Give it a work and usage this arsenic accidental to deliberation astir however your database from the commencement of the twelvemonth holding up.

3 Ups And 3 Downs Of Twenty-Eleven (By: @infantpipoc)

infantpipoc realized that they person been playing a ton of games from 2011 precocious and that inspired them to re-rank their GOTY 2011 list! Give their database a work and deliberation astir however your 2011 GOTY database is holding up arsenic well.

Reviews

Are you amazed to perceive Bulletstorm isn't a large Steam Deck experience?

@infantpipoc booted up Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition connected a Steam Deck and their reappraisal shares wherefore its combo-based shooting gameplay don't consciousness that large and wherefore immoderate of the game's wit does not construe each that good successful general.

Wiki Of The Week

Mega Man 7

Still a classical Mega Man crippled worthy playing?

Crazy however clip flies, but Mega Man 7 is implicit thirty-years-old. The crippled celebrated its 30th day and you tin cheque retired our reasonably elaborate wiki leafage for the game. Is this a precocious constituent successful the bid oregon erstwhile Capcom needed to shingle things up?