The Community Spotlight 2025.09.27

Welcome to the latest variation of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, americium honored to beryllium your big arsenic we look backmost astatine the site-related quality and champion assemblage creations from the erstwhile week!

This biggest quality this week comes from a caller Giant Bomb Townhall connected the Giant Bomb Discord. After a hiatus, the Giant Bombathon is back! That's right, the Giant Bomb unit are readying to travel unneurotic successful the aforesaid country with a smattering of guests for your entertainment! This volition hap successful astir a period and beryllium a 24 hr stream.

What's the impetus for a caller Bombathon? Well, the unit person thought that the clip was ripe for a genuine effort to get radical signed up for Premium oregon an wide fundraiser for the site's future. If you privation to help, dispersed the connection and possibly adjacent inquire friends that you cognize that bask games oregon gaming to marque an relationship connected the tract truthful you tin acquisition them a premium subscription. For those of you with maxed retired Premium subs, there's ever the Ko-Fi page that allows you to spell supra and beyond the telephone of work portion helping to insure the aboriginal of the site.

When it comes to the Bombcast connected October 23rd, immoderate tech issues caused that signaling to spell backstage acknowledgment to Jan's powerfulness going retired mid-podcast. The occurrence had to beryllium edited to get to it to beryllium a implicit singular occurrence and that made publishing it connected assorted platforms harder and slower than normal. The occurrence should beryllium up now, but delight beryllium knowing if you announcement immoderate audio oregon video issues during it.

Last play marked the commencement of erstwhile Giant Bomb staffer Drew Scanlon's foundation effort to rise wealth towards the National MS Society. They precocious streamed connected Twitch with Vinny Caravella and person already raised OVER $64,000 towards their cause! If you missed their foundation stream, here's a nexus to the VOD.

Art

Updated Giant Bomb Blight Club Super Friends (By: @jearum)

It has been a portion since jearum updated their Super Friends banner creation for Blight Club and they yet got astir to including immoderate of the much caller seasons of the diagnostic connected their recurring Blight Club Super Friends banner art.

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Activities

Where are my Silksong fans?! Now is your clip to shine! Vote for Silksong!

Herdling Is The 9th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4. Finish By October 1. Mark All Spoilers!

UUGPGC Voting Thread For Cycle Starting October 1, 2025 (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?

More importantly, voting for the adjacent crippled prime is authoritative unfastened and determination are a TON of juicy nominees to ballot for this clip around! For each of you playing Hollow Knight: Silksong, the crippled is simply a nominee you tin ballot for with this circular of voting!

The GB Album Club 098 - Moon Hooch by Moon Hooch (By: @unclejam23)

The latest variation of the Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club is for Moon Hooch by Moon Hooch! Are immoderate of the fans oregon acquainted with their percussion- and saxophone-based music?

Blogs

Supertember: Week 3 +

Once again, Mento with games you've apt ne'er heard of before!

Indie Game of the Week 438: Moonlight Pulse (By: @mento)

Mega Man X, Ihatovo Monogatari, Ganbare Goemon 3, and Undake 30 Same Game: Mario Version grace this variation of Mento 's Supertember feature! Yup, it's clip to get weird this week with this variation of the feature!

Furthermore, for this variation of their "Indie Game of the Week" feature, mod Mento reviewed Moonlight Pulse by developer Seafloor Games! Read wherefore they deliberation the game's worldbuilding and level plan truly basal retired adjacent if its creation and accumulation values comes up short.

AEW All Out/WWE Wrestlepalooza Recap and Ratings (By: @bravobuster1200)

BravoBuster1200 returns to constitute astir their thoughts of AEW's ALL Out lawsuit arsenic good arsenic what it was similar attending WWE's Wrestlepalooza in-person! Which lawsuit did they bask more? You'll conscionable person to work to find out!

Look... this makes PERFECT consciousness successful context!

FMV Friday: Braveheart: The Interactive CD-ROM & Romeo + Juliet: The Interactive CD-ROM (By: @zombiepie)

Want to bask the weird and wacky satellite of interactive CD-ROMs from the 1990s? If so, moderator ZombiePie has a blog for you! They decided to cheque retired the long-forgotten interactive tie-in CDs for Braveheart and Romeo + Juliet and they truly are "something!"

Discussion Threads

Are you amazed to perceive EA mightiness beryllium successful fiscal trouble?

Reports Suggest EA Is In Talks To Go Private With Help From Jared Kushner And Saudi Arabia Investment Funds (By: @zombiepie)

Though it's not officially, it sounds similar Electronic Arts is nearing a leveraged buyout assisted by Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner to let the institution to spell private. What does it accidental astir the authorities of the video crippled manufacture that EA needs to spell private? Well, obviously, thing positive.

Forza Horizon 6 Teaser Is Here! (By: @gtxforza)

After months of rumors, Forza Horizon 6 has been confirmed and is so acceptable successful Japan! Are you excited for the crippled and this wide demanded mounting for Forza Horizon? Also, volition this beryllium the archetypal Forza crippled to motorboat multiplatform?

Anyone excited to yet bash immoderate thoroughfare racing successful Japan with Forza Horizon accumulation values?

Game of the Year 2025 Bombcast Hopes & Wishlist Discussion Thread (By: @cubbielover)

It's surely beryllium an "eventful" twelvemonth for Giant Bomb, but 1 happening ever has remained true: the tract volition ever person immoderate of the champion GOTY podcast contented connected the entirety of the internet. With the tract going independent, and the originative limits nary longer truthful limited, what are your hopes this twelvemonth from the site?

OD Looks Like A Game Kojima Is Using To Put All Of His Old PT Ideas Into (By: @zombiepie)

After years of vigor silence, Microsoft and Xbox yet had thing to stock astir Kojima's OD crippled task and it definite looks similar Kojima packed each of his ideas from PT/Silent Hills into a caller game! Is that a bully thing? Join the assemblage speech successful the thread!

Borderlands 4 Discussion Thread (By: @atheistpreacher)

The occurrence warfare astir Borderlands 4's show issues continues yet again. So, who's broadside are you on? Do you bargain Randy Pitchford's explanations oregon are you portion of the assemblage groundswell upset the crippled struggles to support its promised 60 FPS framerate?

Kojima gonna Kojima!

Lists

If you person suggestions, please, nonstop them to MooseyMcMan!

Capcom Games Where Messed Up Stuff Happens To The Protagonist's Hand. (By: @mooseymcman)

MooseyMcMan has a caller amusive database titled: "Capcom games wherever messed up worldly happens to the protagonist's hand." See what they person truthful acold and possibly driblet a remark with immoderate other examples. Do you deliberation Chris punching a boulder successful Resident Evil 5 counts?

Reviews

Is OG Metroid Prime inactive a crippled worthy playing today?

@djcube returned to Metroid Prime arsenic the merchandise of Metroid Prime 4 looms closer. Does the crippled that started it each inactive clasp up? They deliberation it definite does, but why? What bash they deliberation is the game's concealed sauce?

@djcube got astir to playing Alan Wake II and decided to constitute up a reappraisal for the game! Give it a work by clicking the nexus beneath and observe wherefore they loved it!

@djcube decided to footwear up Darkened Skye and shares successful their reappraisal discussing wherefore the crippled has mode much going for it than conscionable simply being an elaborate advergame for Skittles.

Wiki Of The Week

Do immoderate of you person memories of the Sly games? Share them successful the comments!

Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves

The franchise has been agelong dormant for reasons we won't get into, but precocious the 3rd introduction successful the Sly Cooper franchise, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, celebrated its 20th anniversary! I cognize galore of you person nostalgic memories playing the game, so, remainder assured our wiki leafage for the crippled is perfectly stellar!