The Community Spotlight 2025.09.20

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 works from the erstwhile week!

Here's an important update astir the beta and tract issues. chucktowski volition beryllium retired of the bureau from 9/18-10/3. If you request help, delight deed up Shawn connected each things contented oregon RSS podcast feed-related. For method issues oregon tract bugs, delight usage the mean channels similar an email to [email protected] oregon the "site-tech-issues" transmission connected the Discord. Regardless, your patience and knowing is greatly appreciated.

A speedy update astir the beta site, Chuck has removed downvotes - for the remainder of the beta helium volition astir apt permission it alone. Turning Upvotes/Downvotes into a singular "Yeah" fastener is astir apt what they volition bash successful the future, but that's a customized occupation that volition necessitate clip to implement.

Likewise, the beta tract has finalized video subordinate updates similar the video subordinate remembering wherever you near disconnected connected a video aft pausing a VOD oregon Quick Look. Related, Chuck is moving connected a "Watched" presumption connected the tract that allows you to filter by watched videos. This diagnostic is connected the back-burner truthful they tin enactment connected immoderate different much integral work, but it highlights the breathtaking caller things coming up.

If you are inactive having issues with signing up for the beta tract and are a Premium member, conscionable nonstop chucktowski a DM connected Discord with your username and email. They person been capable to hole this contented alternatively rapidly but arsenic I mentioned determination mightiness beryllium a flimsy hold owed to Chuck being retired for a bit.

Here's your play reminder to scope retired to each past and contiguous Giant Bomb assemblage members to fto them cognize that it's incredibly important to log-in truthful they tin opt into preserving their usernames going into the caller Giant Bomb site. The ETA to bash this inactive is "before 2026," but doing things earlier is better. Also, for anyone acrophobic astir if you person opted successful oregon not, if you clicked yes and the pop-up isn't appearing anymore, you are successful the clear. If you privation to beryllium perfectly definite you are opting to support your username, nonstop a DM to chuck connected Discord oregon nonstop an email to [email protected]. Also, Chuck's telephone for assistance from a fewer weeks backis inactive up and applicable for each who whitethorn beryllium interested.

Finally, with the extremity of 2025 looming similar a proverbial Sword of Damocles, delight see helping Giant Bomb's aboriginal steps towards independency commencement with a bang by either sending successful immoderate enactment you tin connected Ko-Fi oregon re-upping your Premium. Not definite however to enactment the tract if you person a imperishable Premium Subscription? Do you person immoderate friends that similar gaming? Consider convincing them to make a Giant Bomb relationship and past gifting them a premium subscription for a year! That would bash truthful overmuch to inject caller beingness into the Giant Bomb tract and its beta arsenic good arsenic nonstop overmuch needed fiscal enactment to the staff.

Art

Jurassic Grubb Banner (By: Pickle_Giraffe)

I blasted Bluesky's sometimes incredibly unreliable timeline for causing maine to miss this AMAZING promo banner for Grubb's descent into the wacky satellite of Trespasser: Jurassic Park, but arsenic they say, amended precocious than never!

Zoom Out On Video Game Journalist Jeff (By: Wrighteous86)

The Jeff Grubb t-shirt meme from past week has mislaid immoderate steam, but Wrighteous86's publication this week was excessively bully to ignore. If you are inactive funny successful joining the fun, here's a nexus to Grubb showing disconnected his t-shirt with a transparent and much easier to edit front.

Bluesky

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Activities

The GB Album Club 097 - So Much for the Afterglow by Everclear (By: @unclejam23)

I judge I person been unfairly rebuffed by the Album of the Week Club.

This variation of the Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club is for So Much for the Afterglow by Everclear! What bash you marque of the group's modulation into popular and the mainstream? Do you hold with my proposition that the nine should portion Everclear portion listening to Everclear?

Herdling Is The 9th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4. Finish By October 1. Mark All Spoilers! (By: @bigsocrates)

Herdling by Okomotive is the latest crippled prime for the Giant Bomb Game of the Month Club! Without getting into spoilers, this week's speech is astir the game's attempts to graft a narration oregon consciousness of transportation with its mythical beasts. Do you deliberation it works?

Blogs

The History of Chunsoft's Sound Novels (By: @bowl-of-lentils)

An incredibly compelling heavy dive.

Many acknowledgment to bowl_of_lentils for posting their AMAZING video effort connected the past of Chunsoft's dependable novels connected the Giant Bomb forums! Give it a ticker if you don't cognize a ton astir Chunsoft's past earlier they became the Danganronpa company.

Indie Game of the Week 437: Discolored +

Supertember: Week 2 (By: @mento)

Moderator Mento has a caller "Indie Game of the Week" diagnostic and this 1 tackles Discolored! Despite not being a Myst fan, they stock wherefore they enjoyed this crippled contempt immoderate quibbles with however a fewer puzzles were presented.

Drought: The Bad of Super Mario Sunshine (By: @gamer_152)

Welcome to Coin Hell!

Last week, moderator Gamer_152 took the broadside of Super Mario Sunshine supporters, but this week they effort to place what makes the crippled truthful divisive and hated by those that despise it. For those of you with nightmares playing the Haunted House, Sandbird, oregon Manta Ray levels, this is simply a blog for you!

Tariffs Are Part Of It, But Let's Not Kid Ourselves. The Virtual Boy Pricing Is Mostly Nintendo Pulling A Nintendo (By: @zombiepie)

Now that the particulate has settled connected Nintendo's September Direct, moderator ZombiePie wants to get into wherefore they deliberation the lawsuit near them wildly uncomfortable astir the aboriginal of the institution and its pricing strategy. Are tariffs the lone crushed wherefore things are getting mode excessively expensive?

Discussion Threads

For The Second Time In 2025, Xbox Console Prices Are Going Up, But Only In The US (By: @zombiepie)

Who adjacent benefits from buying a caller Xbox console these days?

As the rubric present says, Microsoft has decided to summation prices connected console hardware a 2nd time, but the terms increases this clip volition lone interaction the US with them citing "changes successful the macroeconomic environment." Considering an Xbox Series X console is present $150 MORE than it was astatine launch, is this the eventual achromatic emblem waving from them?

Hades II Early Access Discussion (By: @atheistpreacher)

Hades II 1.0 releases successful little than 1 month! As the crippled nears the decorativeness line, what are your last impressions of the game's Early Access release? Is it bound to beryllium different Supergiant Games classic? Are determination immoderate pressing issues you truly deliberation request to beryllium squashed earlier the retail release?

The US Government And Nvidia Have Basically Bailed Out Intel. The Impact On PC Gaming Will Be Massive (By: @zombiepie)

Any pressing concerns astir Hades II arsenic its afloat merchandise nears the decorativeness line?

Intel has intelligibly fallen connected hard times arsenic the monolith faces a enactment conflict and issues with its caller foundries. Nonetheless, it's inactive shocking to perceive that the U.S. authorities AND Nvidia are fundamentally bailing them and x86 out. Do you person fears astir however this volition interaction gaming? Share away!

Are We In The Cycle Era Of Liking Things We Used To Hate? (By: @topcyclist)

What's the quickest you've gone from hating a crippled you played to liking it? Related, erstwhile did you archetypal spot the entreaty of "so atrocious it's good?" What was the archetypal atrocious movie oregon crippled that made recognize that watching and playing atrocious things tin sometimes beryllium fun?

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Admits That MAAAYBE Their Company-wide Layoffs & Return-to-Work Policy Have Lacked Empathy (By: @zombiepie)

Microsoft simply could not excavation up this week. Not 1 bit.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has seemingly admitted that maaaaaaaaaaaaybe their company-wide layoffs and return-to-work argumentation person lacked empathy. Obviously, I don't deliberation anyone connected the forums is buying it, but you tin stock your thoughts astir their statement.

Lists

My Top 10 N64 Games! + My Top 10 GameCube Games! (By: @kingofknights)

What are your N64 gaming highlights?

KingofKnights is simply a newcomer to Giant Bomb and arsenic their unofficial instauration to the community, they decided to whip up TWO lists detailing their favourite N64 and GameCube games, respectively. If you person immoderate thoughts astir what are the champion games connected either console, see making your ain database erstwhile you can!

Reviews

While it was a idiosyncratic favourite of Ryan Davis, TonyBlue87 makes the lawsuit wherefore you shouldn't really play this game.

@tonyblue87's No One Can Stop Mr. Domino reappraisal shares wherefore the crippled itself is simply a wholly miserable and atrocious video crippled acquisition adjacent if it was a recurring idiosyncratic favourite of Ryan Davis.

Wiki Of The Week

Indigo Prophecy

Did this crippled drawback your attraction astatine the time?

Say what you volition astir modern time David Cage, and indeed, determination is simply a batch to accidental astir the guy, but that doesn't alteration the information that Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit celebrated its 20th day this week. It's the crippled that solidified the template for what a Quantic Dream crippled would beryllium similar and you tin work each astir that and past immoderate connected our wiki leafage for the game.