The Community Spotlight 2025.06.14

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 tract and staff-related quality and champion assemblage creations!

This week provided the unit with immoderate much-needed R&R aft they perfectly killed it during Not-E3 2025! Now, I cognize during immoderate of the livestreams that Giant Bomb aired during this clip galore radical experienced audio issues and buffering. While I person included the full unedited versions of the nighttime streams, Jan and institution urge you find the somewhat edited segmented videos connected YouTube of Giant Bomb @ Nite arsenic they are apt to beryllium somewhat amended listening experiences. Regardless, here's everything Giant Bomb aired during that highly eventful play to marque everyone's beingness a small spot easier.

Giant Bomb's Not-E3 2025 Livestreams

Is this infinitesimal 1 of the worst things Giant Bomb has ever dreamed into existence?

• State of Play (06/04/25) | We Talk Over
• We Talk Over Summer Game Fest 2025
• Giant Bomb Talks Over the Xbox Showcase
• A Quick Look astatine Summer Game Fest 2025
• Giant Bomb @ Nite | Nite 1 (Complete Unedited Stream)
• Giant Bomb @ Nite | Nite 2 (Part 1)
• Giant Bomb @ Nite | Nite 2 (Part 2)
• Giant Bomb @ Nite | Nite 2 (Part 3)

Giant Bomb @ Nite By Segments

• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 1-1
• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 1-2
• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 1-3
• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 1-4
• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 1-5
• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 1-6
• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 1-7
• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 2-1
• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 2-2
• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 2-3
• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 2-4
• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 2-5
• Giant Bomb @ Nite - Nite 2-6

Don't forget, merch purchases spell to enactment artists and the GB staff!

In different news, don't hide that THERE'S STILL NEW GIANT BOMB MERCH TO BUY IN THE STORE! The caller merchandise this week includes 4 caller garment designs arsenic good arsenic a tote bag! NickToilet implicit connected Bsky ever posted a timelapse of them making the Spoon Heaven garment design.

• Spoon Heaven - $28.00 (Artist: Nick Oliveto, NickToilet)
• He's Gonna Look So Cool - $28.00 (Artist: Nick Oliveto, NickToilet)
• We Bought A Bomb - $28.00 (Artist: JEARUM)
• Blight Club - Blighty Bunch - $28.00 (Artist: JEARUM)
• Mitch connected Mars Tote Bag - $33.00 (Artist: Moz Lee Lunsford)

Art

Giant Bomb As a Monkey Island Code Wheel +

Giant Bomb Declined Shirt Design +

Jan As A Final Fantasy Tactics Unit +

Jeff Gerstmann x Peanuts (By: @jearum)

Well, jearum was surely engaged this week. I honestly don't cognize wherever to commencement whether it beryllium their nostalgia tingling imaginations of the unit being connected a classical LucasArts codification instrumentality oregon Jan arsenic a portion successful Final Fantasy Tactics. Then you person the rejected garment plan they recovered from years agone arsenic good arsenic them continuing their contented of designing the Giant Bomb unit arsenic characters successful Peanuts with their precise family-friendly hat.

Rascal Garden + Chuck At Giant Bomb @ Nite + Danny & Gregg Make A Porno + Jeff Grubb: The Professional (By: Pickle_Giraffe)

Pickle_Giraffe besides was engaged this week moving connected their highly anticipated reboot of Blight Club Animated arsenic good arsenic having a spell astatine making creation involving each of their favourite moments from Giant Bomb @ Nite. As to beryllium expected, everything they made is bound to marque you grin oregon laugh.

Bluesky

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Videos

All of Season 7 is present for your viewing pleasure!

BLINK & YOU'LL MISS IT! - (COMPLETE Season 7) - An Animated Giant Bomb Blight Club Series (By: PICKLE_GIRAFFE)

Pickle_Giraffe's classical Giant Bomb Blight Club Animated bid volition beryllium backmost with caller episodes soon! Until then, here's a video with each azygous occurrence of "Season 7" of their animated-based efforts! Be careful, due to the fact that if you blink you mightiness miss it!

Activities

The GB Album Club 085 - Wet From Birth by The Faint (By: @unclejam23)

Guess what's backmost connected the tract and amended than ever!

The Giant Bomb Album of the Week Community Club is BACK BAYBEE! To commencement this cycle, the radical is listening to Wet From Birth by The Faint! Show your emotion implicit present if you emotion oregon hatred this medium oregon consciousness escaped to conscionable driblet a remark with you appreciation of the radical continuing on!

Monster Train 2 Is The 6th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4! Finish By July 1! Mark All Spoilers!(By: @bigsocrates)

Are you successful the temper for immoderate card-based ACTION?! Because the adjacent crippled prime for the Giant Bomb Game of the Month Club is Monster Train 2! Do you person immoderate platform strategies and bash you person immoderate proposal connected however to bushed immoderate of the bosses?

Blogs

Not E3 2025: Sony + Not E3 2025: Summer Game Fest Keynote (By: @gamer_152)

Why did this Game Fest consciousness truthful bad?

Moderator Gamer152's heavy introspection of Not-E3 2025 continues with a blog astir Geoff Keighley's marquee event, Summer Game Fest! With this blog they effort to get to the bottommost of a cardinal question others person been wondering about: Why did this variation of SGF consciousness truthful off? They besides wrote astir what they thought of Sony's June 2025 State of Play and wherefore it gave them mean assurance astir the aboriginal of Sony.

Game OVA Season 4: Episode 1 — Zillion + Indie Game of the Week 423: Fearmonium (By: @mento)

Learn much astir the origins of Gerstmann's avatar connected the site.

It's clip to delve into the weird and wacky anime OVA to video crippled pipeline with moderator Mento and this week they looked astatine a idiosyncratic favourite of Jeff Gerstmann: Zillion! Nostalgia aside, is determination immoderate originative merit to thing associated with the Zillion IP?

Additionally, for this variation of their "Indie Game of the Week" feature, Mento played and reviewed Fearmonium! Is this horror-themed and clown-based Metroidvania immoderate good? Read their blog to find out!

I Picked A Terrible Time To Get Into Evil Dead Again (By: @ford_dent)

Ford_Dent wrote a blog detailing the galore ways present was a unspeakable clip to get into the Evil Dead series, particularly Evil Dead-based video games! This blog shares their highly elaborate reappraisal of the 4v1 game, Evil Dead: The Game!

Open World Street Racing Is Likely To Be The Most Popular Type Of Driving Game On Next Xbox Home Console & PS6 (By: @gtxforza)

Is nu-metal really arsenic atrocious arsenic its detractors say?

Are we successful the mediate of a displacement wherever each driving games go unfastened world? It definite feels similar it and Giant Bomb's nonmigratory racing crippled enthusiast, GTxForza, is present to speech to you astir however that feels similar a certainty and whether it is thing to fear.

How/Why Did Nu Metal Become Our Generation's Disco/Glam Rock/Hair Metal (i.e., Our Go-To Genre We All Agree Is "Bad?") (By: @zombiepie)

It is clip to speech astir a recurring punchline successful games and music: nu-metal. In this blog I wonderment erstwhile we each decided to usage nu-metal arsenic a venerable people arsenic a genre we collectively agreed was "bad" and if that is each just to the nu-metal artists that graced the genre and its fans.

Discussion Threads

GB@Nite Was Incredible (By: @ben_h)

A nighttime to remember.

Did you bask Giant Bomb's GB@Nite and Not-E3 2025 contented this year? Did seeing Jeff Gerstmann arsenic a impermanent connected the sofa get you excited? If so, caput connected implicit to THIS THREAD connected the forums to stock your appreciations for each of the unit and guests that made it a peculiar event!

The Absences At The Xbox Games Showcase 2025 Were Maybe The Most Notable Part Of A Fiiiiiiiine Conference? (By: @zombiepie)

What is your wide people oregon appraisal of the 2025 Xbox Games Summer Showcase? Were determination immoderate highlights? What astir the absences of Halo, Gears of War, Perfect Dark oregon Fable astatine the event? Was that weird oregon surprising?

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Was At One Point An Online Live-Service Title (By: @michaelenger)

Any thoughts astir this conference.

Jason Schreier's study astir Dragon Age: The Veilguard's accumulation overgarment a bleak representation astir the aboriginal of BioWare. Between the Mass Effect and Dragon Age teams not getting on and EA yanking the Veilguard team's concatenation aggregate times, what bash you marque of the authorities of BioWare?

Your Wishlist For The Fire Emblem Franchise On Nintendo Switch 2? (By: @gtxforza)

A Switch 2 Fire Emblem crippled has rumored for a portion but what bash you really privation to spot from the bid successful the future? Do you privation a remake of an older rubric oregon a wholly caller adventure? Also, what changes to the gameplay bash you inactive privation to see?

Did SGF Give You Hope For The Future Of Video Games? (By: @treethan)

Did thing from Not-E3 get you happy?

Now that it's over, did Not-E3 2025 springiness you immoderate optimism astir the aboriginal of games? Share however you measure the large and tiny conferences this twelvemonth and if immoderate of them instilled positivity astir the aboriginal of the manufacture successful you.

Where And Why Do You Use Your Portable Console (Switch/Steam Deck)? (By: @atheistpreacher)

For those of you with a Steam Deck oregon adjacent a Switch 2, wherever bash you find yourself playing them the most? Likewise, for radical that undock their Switch, wherever does it hap the most?

Looking For Idle Games While Working (By: @tsuyuri57)

Where are you playing your portable devices these days?

Do immoderate of you person caller idle crippled suggestions oregon possibly caller mobile games that rock? The writer of this thread needs thing that is engaging and can't precisely bring a Switch to enactment truthful immoderate mobile-based games would beryllium greatly appreciated.

Lists

Gone, But Not Forgotten: Games Are Only Dead When You Stop Talking About Them (By: @inklimb)

Gone, but not forgotten!

Inspired by the rebirth of the Giant Bomb audience, Inklimb made a tiny database arsenic their archetypal existent enactment with the tract since they joined and started lurking for respective years. Some gaming memories they volition ne'er forget, but tin ne'er person again and this database looks astatine games they either tin ne'er play again oregon conscionable aren't what they erstwhile were.

Wiki Of The Week

Battlefield 2

The representation that practically made Battlefield mainstream.

It's wide considered the crippled that enactment Battlefield connected the representation of being accepted by the mainstream arsenic a titan successful the online multiplayer shooter field, but Battlefield 2 is nearing its 20th anniversary. With that successful mind, springiness our in-depth wiki connected the crippled to amended recognize its enduring legacy. Also, yes, we person a leafage to Strike At Karkand itself.