The Community Spotlight 2025.04.05

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 erstwhile week.

While determination person been immoderate changes present and determination to that archetypal sentence, I privation you to conjecture however agelong I person been saying that to each of you. I airs that thought workout due to the fact that this week marks the 10th day of the Community Spotlight becoming a beforehand leafage article. This week besides marks 15 years since @marino and I became moderators. While things person decidedly changed successful those 10 years, and the scope and series of the Spotlight has morphed successful effect to the shifting priorities of the tract and staff, it is inactive present gracing you each Saturday morning.

It's hard for maine to deliberation of everyone who deserves a hardy acknowledgment with this anniversary. First, I privation to convey @rorie for being the archetypal idiosyncratic to suggest making the Community Spotlight an officially sanctioned feature. I besides privation to convey @marino for editing this and @mento for his assistance making this during the aboriginal days. To each unit subordinate oregon impermanent that rolled into the comments the past 10 years, whether it beryllium Dave Snider, Mike Minotti, Jeff Grubb, Abby, Jess, Lexi, and galore more, I privation to convey you arsenic well. That you took the clip to springiness this diagnostic a read, adjacent successful passing, meant the satellite to me. To each of you that person been speechmaking this feature, whether it beryllium each bluish satellite oregon each week the infinitesimal it goes up; you excessively person made this travel wholly worthy it.

I started doing the Community Spotlight arsenic a stickied thread during the aboriginal days of Giant Bomb earlier shifting it to my idiosyncratic blog connected Giant Bomb aft years of tinkering. There are truthful galore assemblage members that helped maine marque this diagnostic amended during those experimental days that are improbable to spot this post, but if someway you do, I privation you to cognize however important you were. I tin number connected possibly 1 manus those of you who tin retrieve the likes of @claude, @hamz, @sweep, @systech, @kush, and @mb, but they excessively played large roles successful keeping maine motivated to get up successful the greeting to marque the Spotlight. We mightiness beryllium getting older and our passions successful beingness whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium changing, but that doesn't alteration the information that we had amusive and we each helped each different go the radical we are today.

Alright, onto immoderate much method news. Last week, galore of you reported that you were not capable to usage the video subordinate connected the tract and @dtoast has relayed to maine and the Giant Bomb Discord that a hole was so deployed and the video subordinate is moving connected his extremity arsenic good arsenic for each of the engineers. However, a fistful of radical are saying that things aren't moving for them, adjacent aft they alteration their Performance Cookies and alteration browsers. Given that the unit aren't capable to replicate the issues immoderate users are having, if you are inactive having issues with the video player, please @ Dtoast successful this thread and helium volition effort to analyse your issues individually. If you are Discord, helium is unfastened to radical DMing him with their circumstantial issues.

Video publishing connected the tract and connected the podcast RSS feeds was somewhat delayed owed to Jan and institution being retired for the Nintendo event. I cognize it's not the astir convenient, but everything from yesterday and the remainder of the week going up Friday greeting is the champion everyone could bash and your knowing is appreciated. If you consciousness similar thing is inactive missing, consciousness escaped to caput to the Giant Bomb Discord and study the missing programme oregon podcast successful the Site-Tech-Issues channel.

In much affirmative news, successful effect to everyone having Nintendo connected their mind, Giant Bomb has decided to "unlock" ALL of Steal My Sunshine connected YouTube! If you privation to re-live PEAK Dan and Giant Bomb East, click the nexus to find the useful playlist with each azygous occurrence successful chronological order, and without the request for a Giant Bomb premium subscription.

Weekly List of Programming & Streams

Giant Bomb Power Block Programming

• Tomodachi Life Setting Records for Nintendo's Social Media | GameBreaking News 03/31/25
• BAZR: Super Mario 64 but it's Balatro | GB Kidz
• OverGrubb | 02 | Blight Club
• Giant Bombcast 884: Yassified Villains
• Giant Bomb Talks Over Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 – 4.2.2025
• Everything Announced astatine the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct | GameBreaking News 04/02/25
• Giant Bomb Breaks Down All the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct News
• inZOI | Giant Bomb Plays
• Nintendo Switch 2’s $450 Price Likely Influenced By Tariffs, Experts Say | GameBreaking News 4/02/25The 2025 Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run
• Voicemail Dump Truck 155 | Shiba In You.mp3
• Switch 2 Price Likely To Increase As Nintendo Pulls US Preorders | GameBreaking News 04/04/25
• Switch 2 Event Report | Giant Bombcast 884: REVENGEANCE
• POWER BLOCK 3/31/25 COMPLETE VOD | GameBreaking News, GBKidz, and MONDAY BLIGHT CLUB!
• POWER BLOCK 4/01/25 COMPLETE VOD| Giant Bombcast 884
• POWER BLOCK 4/02/25 COMPLETE VOD | GameBreaking News, Nintendo Switch 2 Direct News Breakdown, inZOI Let's Play
• POWER BLOCK 4/03/25 COMPLETE VOD | SWITCH 2 HANDS-ON, South of Midnight Review, Verdansk In Warzone
• POWER BLOCK 4/03/25 COMPLETE VOD | GameBreaking News, BCR, Unprofessional Fridays, GameSpot After Dark

GameSpot Programming

• I Played Doom: The Dark Ages And It RULES
• Looking Back astatine 30 Years of Remedy with Creative Director Mikael Kasurinen
• 33 IMMORTALS Let's Play: Does It Stack Up?
• What Was Not Said At The Switch 2 Direct
• The Nintendo Switch 2 - First Impressions (Features Jan & Dan)
• Hands-On With The Midnight Walk, A Cozy Horror Game Made Out Of Clay
• The Switch 2, South of Midnight, and Doom: The Dark Ages | The GameSpot Show
• South Of Midnight Review Explained
• Just A TOTALLY Normal Week In Video Games | GameSpot After Dark #264

The 2025 Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run Charity Drive!

Join the amusive if you can!

• Giant Bomb Chat - Please articulation and ticker idiosyncratic watercourse for foundation 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
• ArbitraryWater's Donation Page - A predominant poster and blogger connected Giant Bomb with a donation extremity of $500
• 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

My Neighbor Tolkoto (By: @jearum)

With radical emulating Muazaki's creation connected societal media successful each the incorrect ways, jearum decided to marque a Giant Bomb x My Neighbor Totoro movie poster that refreshingly didn't usage AI and is instantly much awesome arsenic a result. Don't hide to convey them for their large enactment erstwhile you person time.

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!

So with Blight Club shifting successful its scheduled aerial time, Pickle_Giraffe wasn't capable to people a caller occurrence of their Animated Blight Club series. So, I'll simply promote everyone to cheque retired the 2 works they published past week again! 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

Atomfall Is The 4th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4! Finish By May 1! Mark All Spoilers +

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

Have you enjoyed the metallic detector worldly successful this game?

Hey, everyone! The Game Pass Game Club is keeping it hep and modern with its latest prime arsenic this period it is going to look astatine Atomfall! Have immoderate of you fixed Rebellion's latest crippled a shot? Are you sick and bushed of however often you request to usage the metallic detector? Share distant implicit here!

Also, with the commencement of a caller month, that means the erstwhile Game Pass Game Club pick, Avowed, has opened up its treatment thread to SPOILERS! Where bash you basal connected however the crippled ends and if the crippled wide is simply a bully oregon atrocious communicative outing from Obsidian?

The GB Album Club 084 - Low by David Bowie (Cycle Finale) (By: @unclejam23)

How galore of you are David Bowie fans? Share distant successful the Album Club play ender!

The latest play of the Giant Bomb Album Club is ending with a BANGER! This prime is Low by David Bowie! If you person thoughts astir this medium oregon privation to articulation the fun, remark here. Also, what is your favourite epoch of David Bowie oregon your favourite quality of his?

Blogs

Mento's Month: March '25 +

Indie Game of the Week 414: Dredge (By: @mento)

Were immoderate of you fans of Dredge's DLC?

It's the commencement of a caller period truthful that means moderator Mento has a caller blog discussing their favourite games and anime from the past month! Give it a work for immoderate anime and video crippled recommendations!

Likewise, Mento has different variation of their "Indie Game of the Week" and this 1 checked retired their reasonably large hit, Dredge! Were you a instrumentality of the crippled and its ship-based exploration? Did the crippled marque your GOTy database a fewer years back? If so, stock wherefore connected their blog!

The Game That Deserves Nightdive Remaster Treatment (By: @melodicvirus)

Expect immoderate PEAK FMV-based goodness this weekend!

Do online-only oregon F2P games merit the remaster/remake treatment? MelodicVirus uses Brink arsenic an illustration of a multiplayer-focused crippled of that benignant that seeks to payment from the existent remaster culture.

Sure, I Guess I Can Play Nothing But Bad & Questionable FMV Games For Charity For More Than Twenty Hours (By: @zombiepie)

ZombiePie, that's ME, has large plans for the Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run Charity Drive! That's right, they're playing thing but the worst FMV video games from the 90s! If you privation to spot Jeff Goldblum hamming it up successful Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland, work this connected erstwhile you request to tune in.

This Weekend I Am DOOMed (For The Kids!) (By: @ford_dent)

If determination are immoderate Doom fans, bash I person a watercourse for you!

Ford_Dent is besides going to beryllium streaming for the Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run! For their foundation watercourse they volition beryllium streaming an endless proviso of DOOM including a marathon tally with SIGIL and SIGIL II! Help them retired here!

Discussion Threads

Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 Presentation Discussion Thread (By: @bigsocrates)

My chap Americans, are you prepared to wage $700 for a Switch 2?

What does everyone deliberation astir the Switch 2 present that clip has passed since the Nintendo Direct? How astir that price? With Nintendo starring the complaint astir upping the mean terms of hardware and games, bash you interest the hobby is getting excessively expensive?

Did Anyone Catch A Good April Fool's Joke Today? (2025) (By: @topcyclist)

Did immoderate of you really drawback a amusive gag for this April Fool's Day? Where determination immoderate fake gaming oregon gaming-related announcement connected this precise peculiar time that made you smile? In an epoch wherever AI seemingly tin propulsion info from parody and gag articles and contiguous them arsenic factual, is it adjacent liable to enactment successful the event?

Nintendo Is Delaying Pre-orders In The Us For Switch 2, Probably Raising Price. (By: @bigsocrates)

Sounds similar the GS and GB radical had immoderate amusive past week (Source: Jesse Vitelli)

So... tariffs. Nintendo has signaled that caller tariffs by the Trump medication volition interaction people's quality to pre-order the Switch 2. However, beyond conscionable the Switch 2 most, if not all, of the gaming manufacture is apt to beryllium impacted negatively by these tariffs.

What Types Of Driving/Racing Games Would You Like To See On The Playstation 6 And The Next Xbox Console? (By: @gtxforza)

Driving and racing games person ever been fashionable tools to showcase caller consoles astatine launch, so, what are you expecting from the genre erstwhile clip comes for Sony and Microsoft to showcase their caller hardware? Are you expecting mainline Gran Turismo and Forza titles? Are you expecting third-party developers to person racing games for some console ecosystems?

State of the Site: March 2025 (By: @dtoast)

Once again, successful lawsuit you missed it past week, there's a caller "State of the Site" station by Dtoast that shares updates astir the authorities of the video subordinate and bug fixes and tract improvements that are planned betwixt present and the extremity of this month. Almost each of what they person to stock this clip astir is affirmative quality truthful springiness it a work and stock what other you'd similar the tract to bash successful the future.

Lists

15 Of My Favorite Switch Games (By: @bowl-of-lentils)

What are the Switch games connected your apical 10 oregon 15 list?

With the console nearing the extremity of its lifespan, bowloflentils wrote a amusive database looking astatine their 15 Nintendo Switch games! Which games made the cut? Click the nexus to find out! Also, see making your ain database erstwhile you person time!

Better Half Of A Decade Clubs (By: @infantpipoc)

We mightiness beryllium person than you deliberation to the large console manufacturers introducing caller hardware. So, infantpipoc re-reviewed each crippled level that had a lifespan for much than 5 years.

Wiki Of The Week

Jade Empire

Real OGs retrieve beating this crippled utilizing thing but Paralyzing Palm.

It's benignant of the BioWare crippled that clip forgot, but Jade Empire is nearing its 20th anniversary. There are immoderate who volition archer you that they would happily enactment a Jade Empire 2 and you tin get a consciousness of wherefore by checking retired our reasonably awesome wiki leafage for the game.