The Community Spotlight 2025.11.22

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.

Now, determination is 1 large portion of site-related quality we bash request to speech about. During occurrence #917 of the Giant Bombcast, the unit shared the planned day for the tract to modulation to the caller site. That day is December 6th, 2025. More details connected what that modulation volition impact are forthcoming, but remainder assured that Chuck is moving tirelessly connected the caller tract astir the clock. Likewise, the caller tract is unfastened to each and isn't conscionable gated to premium subscribers.

So, what does that mean for america here? Well, if you inquire me, I deliberation we should get weird and brainsick with our lists, blogs, and reviews! I'll inactive person a Community Spotlight to showcase everything you marque during the week of Thanksgiving (US) this clip adjacent week.

Also, remainder assured that Marino volition person Guest Lists successful precocious December and determination volition beryllium voting for a Community GOTY 2025; it'll conscionable person to instrumentality a antithetic attack than however we person done things successful the past.

Moving on, immense acknowledgment to the folks implicit astatine Nextlander (plus Bakalar) for doing an unthinkable 12-hour Clone Hero Extra Life foundation stream! They ended up raising somewhat implicit $38K and brought the squad full to implicit $150,000! If you missed their stream, it unluckily got DMCAed/region locked connected YouTube but the VOD is inactive disposable connected their Twitch. Though, adjacent connected Twitch, the VOD has segments that got muted for copyright reasons.

For those looking to dainty yourself to an aboriginal vacation gift, there's caller merchandise connected the store! Were you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize funny successful getting a BBQ/grill apron that was decked retired with a Giant Bomb-based nutrient pun? Well, you're successful luck due to the fact that that's conscionable what Giant Bomb dropped this week for $20.00 + shipping and handling!

Also, present that we bash person a day for the caller site, it's incredibly important to punctual everyone you cognize astir it. They present person astir a week and alteration to log successful and sphere their accounts. As stated before, for everyone logged successful and speechmaking this feature, you are successful the wide astir maintaining your usernames. What is important is communicating with everyone you cognize that mightiness person moved connected oregon person not utilized their tract accounts successful a portion that they request to log into their Giant Bomb tract accounts betwixt present and the extremity of the year. If you truly privation to cheque to spot if you're each squared distant click this link.

If aft clicking this link, you get instantly re-directed to the homepage, that means there's thing you request to do. You'll lone spot a disclaimer with a fastener to click if you haven't already opted into the relationship transportation process. A wide email was sent to notify users astir the transition, but it seems similar it didn't scope everyone. If you logged successful and didn't get an email, don't worry, you are successful the clear.

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Art

Coated In The Goat Sauce (By: Pickle Giraffe)

If you missed the Bombcast, you mightiness beryllium asking "What's 'Goat Sauce?'" Well, I'm not astatine the liberty to explicate that to you, but present is simply a bevy of Giant Bomb unit posters from Pickle Giraffe covering each Giant Bomb property successful the proverbial Goat Sauce.

Dan's In Danger Extra Life 2025 Poster + Gotta Accelerate

Mike's Disneyland Dream Summer Vacation (By: NickToilet)

NickToilet has made a GLORIOUS instrumentality to making Giant Bomb-themed instrumentality creation this week and this is conscionable the extremity of the iceberg! Remember to travel them connected BlueSky if you privation to drawback works of creation similar these erstwhile they archetypal drop!

Video

Giant Bomb Extra Life 2024 Highlights (By: AlexWP)

Damn, this was a full twelvemonth ago?

Over connected YouTube, AlexWP rewatched Giant Bomb's 2024 Extra Life foundation thrust and decided to condense it into a compilation video astir 1 hr agelong to item what they deliberation were the champion and funniest moments! If you privation to re-live the magic, springiness it a watch!

Activities

Keeper Is The 11th Game Of UGPGC Year 4. Mark All Spoilers. Finish By December 1st, 2025! (By: @bigsocrates)

It won by a landslide, but the adjacent crippled prime for the Game of the Month Club is Keeper by Double Fine Productions, Inc.! Was the crippled worthy the years of vigor soundlessness from Double Fine each of these years? Join the amusive and articulation the speech astir the crippled implicit here!

The GB Album Club 104 - Tunnel Vision by Beach Bunny (Finale!) (By: @unclejam23)

It's clip for the FINAL medium for this play of the Giant Bomb Album of the Week Club! The radical is rounding things disconnected with a BANGER by listening to Tunnel Vision by Beach Bunny! However, if immoderate of you are successful the temper to beryllium a portion of a euphony listening club, now's the clip to driblet a remark to beryllium portion of the fun!

Blogs

Moosey May Cry Part 4 (By: @mooseymcman)

Are you pro- oregon anti-Nero successful the wonderfully wacky satellite of DMC?

MooseyMcMan's retrospective connected the Devil whitethorn Cry franchise continues with an exhaustive reappraisal of Devil May Cry 4! How bash they consciousness astir the debut of Nero successful Devil May Cry's 4th entry? Read to find retired and consciousness escaped to stock your thoughts!

Go! Go! GOTY! '25: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 +

Indie Game of the Week 446: Ball X Pit (By: @mento)

As successful erstwhile years, moderator Mento is starting a bid successful which they tally down each of the GOTY contenders and whare if they volition ace their idiosyncratic list. Up contiguous is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33! Do they deliberation this French RPG is worthy of the GOTY accolades it's already starting to court?

Likewise, they person a caller introduction successful their "Indie Game of the Week" bid and this 1 looks astatine Ball x Pit! Do they hold with immoderate successful calling the crippled a sleeper GOTY 2025 candidate? Check retired their blog to find retired what they deliberation and stock if you hold with them oregon not!

Hottest Mess 2025: Part 3 (The Final Candidates) (By: @allthedinos)

Would you bask this crippled much if it was much French?

With voting successful afloat plaything for Giant Bomb's Community's Choice for "Hottest Mess 2025," it seems much than due to punctual everyone however ALLTheDinos reached their agelong database of nominees. If you missed this exhaustive blog station from them past week, past decidedly springiness it a work this week!

Discussion Threads

Hottest Mess 2025 - Community's Choice! (Vote for 3) (By: @allthedinos)

We each hold connected the winner, but what astir 2nd oregon third?

IT IS TIME! It's clip to ballot for Giant Bomb's assemblage "Hottest Mess" voting for 2025! So far, Microsoft's is winning but tin you deliberation of immoderate different valid nominees to ballot for? Are determination immoderate coagulated 2nd oregon 3rd places you tin deliberation of?

So... The CEO Of Krafton Just Admitted They Used ChatGPT On How To Avoid Paying Bonuses (By: @zombiepie)

Huh. After Krafton PR denied the allegations repeatedly, the CEO of the institution has present admitted successful a tribunal that they did so usage ChatGPT to effort and fig retired a mode to debar paying bonuses to employees astatine Unknown Worlds, successful peculiar the studio's leaders. That's... not good.

Do You Plan To Buy GTA 6 In The Third Week Of November 2026? (By: @topcyclist)

A day worthy marking these days?

When/if GTA VI comes retired adjacent year, bash you program to really bargain it astatine launch? Has the quality astir the fired unit astatine Rockstar convinced you to walk connected the game? For those that inactive program to prime up the crippled erstwhile it comes out, what has you truthful sold connected it?

Need Expert Suggestions for Entry-Level Gaming PC Build (By: @yashalflower)

While the taxable didn't commencement of with it, it is wherever this thread went with the archetypal batch of responses: are radical exploring entry-level PC builds oregon prebuilts conscionable amended disconnected waiting for the Steam Machine? For radical that are perfectly contented with 1080p gaming astatine 60 FPS, is determination immoderate crushed not to crook to Valve's upcoming hardware?

Microsoft Has Done Nothing To Celebrate The 360's 20th Anniversary. So, What Are Your Memories Of The Console? (By: @zombiepie)

A console from Microsoft worthy defending.

As we volition reappraisal successful the Wiki section, the Xbox 360 has celebrated its 20th anniversary! However, you wouldn't cognize that fixed however small Microsoft has promoted that anniversary. Nonetheless, what are your fondest memories of the Xbox 360? Are determination circumstantial games connected the console you retrieve the most?

Lists

Do you person immoderate acheronian equine candidates for champion crippled of the past decade?

MocBucket's Top 10 Games of the Decade So Far (By: @mocbucket62)

My Top 10 Games of the Decade (So Far) (By: @majormitch)

Favorite Games of the Decade (By: @sainezart)

Best of the Decade (2020-2029) (By: @digitalfirefly)

Thanks to Deku Deals, the Giant Bomb unit person done a bid detailing what they deliberation are the champion games of the past 10 years and that has inspired respective of you to marque your ain lists successful response. If you are 1 specified idiosyncratic and I missed including your list, driblet a remark and I'll get you covered for adjacent week!

Game of The Year 2025 Users Choice (By: @demonbear)

Game of the Year 2025 (By: @elyk247)

GOTY 2025 (By: @peacebrother)

Does Clair Obscur payment the astir from recency bias successful these champion of the decennary talks?

It's that clip of the twelvemonth wherever everyone shares their GOTY lists! Which games were existent highlights from the year? Do you consciousness similar handing retired superlatives with immoderate of the games that came retired this twelvemonth on with the modular apical 10 lists? No substance what you do, support maine posted!

User Reviews

Look... it was a antithetic era.

@djcube's Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! reappraisal reminds america each of the past dying gasps of the 3D mascot action-platformer. If you person forgotten astir this oddity, springiness their reappraisal a work and beryllium enamored by its weirdness!

@djcube's speedy reappraisal of Monopoly Party offers it arsenic a campaigner for the dubious rubric of "Worst Party Game Ever Made!" What makes this crippled truthful rancid? You'll conscionable person to work to find out!

Wiki Of The Week

Xbox 360

We mislaid thing arsenic a nine erstwhile console manufacturers dropped customized look plates for crippled consoles.

Say what you volition astir what the Xbox marque has go today, but the Xbox 360 volition inactive basal arsenic an all-time console acknowledgment to the sheer breadth of titles that released connected it and the cavalcade of games connected XBLA that introduced millions to smaller indie titles arsenic well. So, if you are successful the temper for a implicit reappraisal of the highs and lows of the Xbox 360, look nary further than our level page!