The Community Spotlight 2025.05.03

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Everyone, this each sucks. There's nary different mode to enactment it. I don't cognize what the aboriginal volition clasp for Giant Bomb. I honestly don't. I tin archer you wherever you tin enactment the radical who are decidedly not present anymore and summarize publically disposable information. Nonetheless, this is 1 of the astir hard editions of the Spotlight I person ever written. I anticipation you each recognize that the gaps successful my reporting oregon errors I marque from present connected retired are not malicious attempts to screen things up oregon redirect the community's contiguous anger. I conscionable don't cognize everything; successful immoderate cases, I cognize conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic you do.

Regarding the authorities and presumption of the staff, we inactive don't person a implicit picture. Grubb has formally announced he is nary longer an employee and Mike Minotti has stated that he volition nary longer beryllium contributing to immoderate Giant Bomb content. However, helium wishes emotion to everyone who is inactive moving present and astatine GameSpot. TurboShawn has announced Fandom is nary longer employing him and has a Venmo and PayPal relationship for people consenting to enactment them. Niki besides has links for enactment here. Beyond that, everything other is simply a monolithic question mark.

Speaking of supporting the radical who made the past 3 years of this tract special, Tosshi and others from the Giant Bomb Discord person created an incredibly adjuvant Staff enactment list. This spreadsheet provides the ways you tin proceed to travel and enactment the radical you person enjoyed watching connected this site.

Episode 888 of the Giant Bombcast is not coming back. As Grubb explained, adjacent earlier helium announced helium was nary longer leaving Giant Bomb, the determination to propulsion the occurrence was not made by the Giant Bomb staff, but not bringing the occurrence backmost was their call. While Grubb has confirmed that portion helium volition nary longer beryllium a portion of Giant Bomb, helium inactive has friends moving present and volition debar talking astir Fandom successful the future. So, if you bash question him out, beryllium compassionate and understanding.

The Giant Bomb Discord is present an unofficial level and has formally disconnected from the tract and Fandom. You are inactive much than invited to join, and for the foreseeable future, Dtoast volition beryllium determination to resoluteness immoderate site-related oregon lawsuit work issues.

Some of you person pointed retired that the Giant Bomb Wiki is unavailable for editing. The wiki is not unopen down but is alternatively "locked down." Fandom triggered this to forestall vandalism. The connection I got erstwhile I asked is that this is little astir the assemblage gathering a request and much connected to a presently chartless timeline.

Those seeking subscription refunds oregon wanting to cancel their subscriptions wholly can nonstop successful a enactment ticket, and Dtoast volition get to your petition arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.

Concerning the forums and the pinned connection astir the site's future, I volition beryllium arsenic transparent arsenic possible. The Moderation Team and I person deleted a fewer egregious posts calling for unit connected people. That and jokes astir doxing person nary spot and person adjacent been condemned by the erstwhile unit impacted by everything. These comments indispensable not beryllium repeated oregon encouraged successful immoderate capableness and volition not beryllium tolerated nether immoderate circumstances. Nonetheless, venting and expressing choler and vexation is much than acceptable. In fact, Fandom's assemblage squad has affirmed that's portion of the intent of the thread.

If determination is thing much you tin bash that whitethorn hopefully supply immoderate catharsis, Dtoast has told maine to accidental that you each are invited to usage the support summons system to stock however you consciousness arsenic agelong arsenic it is done without threats of violence. I know; the past happening you privation to bash is enactment wrong a Fandom-based system. However, if you tin find it wrong you to stock your wounded and anger, I cognize immoderate radical are consenting to usage and contiguous your words arsenic signs that things could person and should person been done differently.

On a idiosyncratic note, astatine the commencement of this period Marino and I excitedly announced that we had reached a milestone with the Community Spotlight. It was the 10th day of the Community Spotlight gracing the beforehand page. However, unless thing changes, this volition apt beryllium it for me. There whitethorn travel a time erstwhile Giant Bomb and its assemblage warrant a caller Community Spotlight feature, but successful each likelihood, idiosyncratic other volition request to carnivore the load of carrying that torch and keeping it alive.

Additionally, it does look odd, and possibly to immoderate of you crass, to aerial the primitively scheduled contented for this variation of the Spotlight alongside a cautiously crafted solemnisation of the champion works successful the site's history. However, immoderate radical rolled into this week hoping for the champion and shared things they had been moving connected for perchance weeks. To deprive them of 1 past accidental to get immoderate radiance connected the tract conscionable felt wrong. As I said elsewhere, Giant Bomb is and was a location for millions of people. Some radical person travel to the quality aboriginal than others, and determination whitethorn beryllium countless much who volition scope the site's existent authorities successful owed time. Let's recognize that things volition get to others astatine antithetic rates, and that volition necessitate repetition, patience, and kindness toward those assemblage members.

Nevertheless, if this genuinely is the past clip I pen a Community Spotlight, let's spell retired with a bang! After spending countless hours moving connected this variation of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight, I cognize determination are apt a fistful of stones I forgot to turn. If you tin deliberation of one, driblet a comment! I'd emotion to revel successful the memories with you.

Giant Bomb Meme Origins

Special Note: If determination is 1 happening I deliberation we tin each hold on, it is that Giant Bomb's enduring bequest volition proceed to beryllium felt successful each of the memes they person generated implicit the years! To assistance those of you successful trying to way down immoderate of Giant Bomb's astir "viral" moments present is simply a abbreviated primer of sorts! Though retired of date, see checking retired sparky_buzzsaw's database looking astatine adjacent much Giant Bomb memes.

Blinking White Guy Origin Source: Unprofessional Fridays: 12/06/2013 [Clip]
Bigger Origin: Meme Origin: Mario Party Party 7 [Clip]
NEVER! Origin: Giant Bombcast E3 2009 Day One [Clip]
Nobody Wins Origin: Mario Party Party 3 [Clip]
Let's Watch A Pro Origin: Ravaged: Giant Bomb Quick Look [Clip]
Sheik Zanzibar Origin: Holiday Specialtacular 2016: Hitsmas[Clip]
Nintendo Switch Cartridges Taste Bad Origin: Unprofessional Fridays: 02/24/2017 [Clip]
China Don't Care Origin: Giant Bombcast 09-11-2012[Clip]
YOU. ARE. EL. DORADOOO. / Inca People Origin: CD-I Don't Know About These Games, Man [Clip]
DMX Goomba Origin: Unprofessional Fridays: 08/21/2015 [Clip]
Rider Meet Horse, Horse Meet Rider Origin: Quick Look: Motion Sports [Clip]
No nary no, don't shingle the baby! Origin: Whiskey Media: Happy Hour 11/19/10 [Clip]
Knife vs Bat Debate Origin: Giant Bombcast 06-26-2012 [Clip]

Giant Bomb Fan Artists, A Highlight Of Their Works, And Where To Find Them

Special Note: I person tried my champion to effort and nexus to ways to enactment the artists listed beneath and supply you with a bully consciousness of what they made for this community. Some person since walked distant from making art, others person determination connected from Giant Bomb entirely, but galore are so inactive artists and person ways you tin enactment them. I cognize these are trying times, but if you person immoderate means to assistance them, delight do.

Buzz_Clik/Cal Skuthorpe Giant Bomb Portfolio (By: @buzz_clik)

Buzz_Clik was 1 of the archetypal artists to get into making instrumentality creation inspired by Giant Bomb. Their works were truthful bully they yet graced much than a fewer Giant Bomb garment designs. Fun communicative astir the past representation here, which is 1 their winning banners for E3 2010. buzz_clik was really apt astir to get a cleanable expanse with the banner contention that twelvemonth so, successful an effort to person immoderate "fairness" MB/Mike and I did a protestation ballot for the Microsoft E3 2010 banner contention and the effect was 1 of the astir "notorious" winning banners taking it.

Editor's Note from Marino: We changed the rules the pursuing twelvemonth truthful that 1 idiosyncratic could lone triumph 1 banner spot successful a fixed year. Buzz_clik was excessively good.

Alister Cat's Personal Image Gallery (By: @alistercat)

AlisterCat has made a fistful of amusive works implicit the years, but possibly their astir "iconic" publication was an enduring viral fake Hardcore Dave t-shirt design. While the URL has agelong since expired and doesn't exist, you could marque your ain versions of the Hardcore Dave plan with your ain quotes and it was an endlessly hilarious assemblage exercise.

Jea_Rum's Ko-Fi Account&Commission Posting Thread (By: @jearum)

It feels similar jearum needs nary introduction, arsenic galore of their designs and works person been recurring fixtures connected the Giant Bomb store and connected the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight. Nevertheless, I bash deliberation it is important to constituent retired that they are taking commissions and if you privation a idiosyncratic oregon Giant Bomb related memento, jearum is you idiosyncratic to crook to!

Kone's Image Gallery (By: @kone)

I person often called Kone the "Master of Photoshop" and it is hard not to spot why. The originative ways helium has mashed the Giant Bomb unit successful a assortment of humorous scenarios person been a perpetual delight. However, don't slumber connected their "traditional" works and 3D designs arsenic well. As you tin spot below, they are an incredibly talented creator with genuinely astonishing talents.

Steve Kim/Fobwashed Instagram (By: @fobwashed)

I cannot hide to notation Steve's astonishing GOTY 2024 list wherein they imagined the Giant Bomb logo successful the benignant of 5 video crippled fonts. Over the years, they person proven they are a multi-talented creator who has communicated Giant Bomb's galore eras done a assortment of mediums. I tin besides attest that should you ever scope retired to them, they volition ever respond with kindness and positivity.

Lizzy Dawson's Portfolio Of Fan Art (By: @morehandclaps)

Over connected Bluesky, Lizzy Dawson has posted an incredibly touching compilation of each the ways she has drawn the Giant Bomb unit implicit the years. Her 2nd enactment successful the assemblage beneath remains my favourite instrumentality creation involving Jess to this day.

Persona 4: The Golden Duder Project (GB Crew As P4 Characters) (By: @mleelunsford)

Formerly known arsenic SuperNormalStep, MLeeLunsford is the writer down 1 of the astir sustained and longest-lasting works of Giant Bomb instrumentality art. Their Persona 4: The Golden Duder Project has envisioned decades worthy of Giant Bomb staffers arsenic characters from Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 and the avatars they person created person allowed others, particularly connected the video-making front, to creatively enactment retired their favourite Giant Bomb moments.

Aurahack's Patreon (By: aurahack)

aurahack has since gone connected to go an established and respected creator successful the crippled manufacture and creation assemblage overall. However, I would beryllium remiss to notation that they developed their creator chops by making immoderate of the astir beauteous works of Giant Bomb instrumentality art. They were a recurring victor of the E3 banner contention and arsenic Marino knows, their Giant Bomb trading cards from backmost successful the time were incredibly touching.

Face15's Personal Gallery (By: @face15)

A sanction that galore of you person possibly person forgotten, but Face15 won Giant Bomb's E3 banner contention connected 4 antithetic occasions. They besides dabbled with making posters and crippled covers based connected Giant Bomb. Nonetheless, they are apt champion known for the archetypal representation successful this gallery. A enactment I would hazard to telephone the azygous top E3 banner the contention ever generated.

Kat Smith/TurboToaster's Ko-Fi Account (By: @turbo_toaster)

For those of you that bash retrieve the aboriginal days of Giant Bomb, you whitethorn callback TurboToaster and their works of creation dominating the site's long-defunct quest system. Here are immoderate of the works of theirs I person managed to find and see sending them a connected Ko-Fi.

Giant Bomb Nighthawks Poster (By: Sam Filstrup)

It whitethorn look unusual to showcase an creator who is chiefly attached to conscionable 1 enactment of Giant Bomb themed art, but successful Sam Filstrup's case, the information that he's the creator of 1 of the astir good known posters successful each of Giant Bomb, I deliberation we tin each hold to fto that slide. The Giant Bomb Nighthawks poster proved that it wasn't conscionable t-shirts that the assemblage wanted, and the information remains that it opened up the floodgates to aboriginal projects and merch. That unsocial makes it 1 of the astir "important" things to grace the site's merchandise store.

Humanity's Art Archive (By: @humanity)

Humanity is simply a different creator that has since gone connected to prosecute things large and awesome and they started retired present connected our humble forums. As you tin spot below, their painterly benignant made for immoderate astonishing posters, particularly erstwhile it came to the PAX Rumble.

B0nd07's Image Gallery (By: @b0nd07)

B0nd07 has been down astir each banner for the aged TNT diagnostic during the Whiskey Media days and a fistful of winning E3 banners arsenic well. They besides created a amusive "Seal of Approval" for the Moderation Team and did authoritative artwork for Flight Club and Alex's Blue Bombin' feature.

Pickle Giraffe's Patreon (By: pickle_giraffe)

And yet we extremity with 1 of the astir caller radical to propulsion their chapeau into the ringing of making works of creation for Giant Bomb! Pickle_Giraffe's benignant made for immoderate astonishing animated videos but they besides had their manus successful making posters and instrumentality arts arsenic good that are conscionable arsenic memorable arsenic their animated renditions of Blight Club.

Bluesky

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https://bsky.app/profile/aurahack.bsky.social/post/3lo7gp4fxnc2e

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https://bsky.app/profile/transsalamander.bsky.social/post/3lo5swwjaxk2x

https://bsky.app/profile/foxkidsclub.bsky.social/post/3lo5oy4mfx22j

https://bsky.app/profile/trbucket.bsky.social/post/3lo5l6pjb4s22

https://bsky.app/profile/picklegiraffe.bsky.social/post/3lo5iggj6fc2r

https://bsky.app/profile/christilton.bsky.social/post/3lo5hes7vcc2s

https://bsky.app/profile/wadjeteyegames.bsky.social/post/3lo5hibhpec2l

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Videos Throughout The Ages

Best of Giant Bomb 1 - Origins HD Remix + fire (By: Derek Stone/@turboman)

TurboMan deserves each the recognition successful the satellite successful helping to popularize Giant Bomb connected YouTube and elsewhere.

Derek/TurboMan's video bid admittedly taps retired astatine a definite epoch of Giant Bomb, but the constituent remains that his "Best of Giant Bomb" bid inactive stands arsenic the top primer connected the astir hilarious and iconic moments successful Giant Bomb's agelong history. Also, we can't hide his different amusive video efforts similar however helium highlighted Vinny's infamous "Firebolt" infinitesimal during the Shenmue Endurance Run.

Giant Bomb TV Show Intro Thingy (By: Manascrew)

An unusual video for possibly those of you that are new, but a forgotten euphony video that marked a fewer firsts. "My Heart Belongs to Giant Bomb" has been utilized by a assortment unit and community, sometimes lovingly and sometimes ironically, to item large milestones and events successful the site's life.

Giant Bombstep (Giant Bomb Remixed) +

Small Business Man (Giant Bomb Remixed) (By: The Hamster Alliance)

Still possibly the champion mode ads person ever been utilized successful a podcast.

Hamst3r was an aboriginal video and music-making Giant Bomb instrumentality who made amusive remixes of Giant Bomb moments arsenic good arsenic promos and promotional worldly to assistance enactment the site's Extra Life efforts. Many acknowledgment to him for doing that and champion wishes each around.

Oculus Rift successful the Bedroom - GiantBomb Animated +

Long Knives And Sharp Bats - GiantBomb Animated Mini (By: Jack Saint)

Crazy to deliberation astir Jack's humble YouTube root story.

It is inactive benignant of bonkers to deliberation that Jack Saint got their commencement connected YouTube making silly animated Giant Bomb videos, but it is true. Here are what I see the 2 astir good known ones and without a doubt, if you privation to ticker them each they are inactive determination adjacent though Jack's absorption has shifted.

Giant Bomb: The worst feeling successful the world (By: AChimpKnockinAbout)

Definitely a amusive video that uses Source Filmmaker to recreate the large "Poop Gambit" treatment during a present past Bombcast.

Giant Bomb Animated 001: Resident Evil 2 (By: vizualb)

vizualb's animated Giant Bomb bid usually tried to recreate speedy Giant Bomb moments, but their incredibly cute creation benignant decidedly made immoderate of the moments they picked each the much hilarious. Over connected bsky, their member issued a immense thanks to the Giant Bomb assemblage for the memories.

[GB Animated] Raise Your Hand (By: Axel Hunter)

Maybe 1 of my favourite styles of a Giant Bomb Animated feature.

This is possibly 1 of my favourite idiosyncratic Giant Beastcast moments animated perfectly. Vinny pretending to beryllium a big connected Seasame Street, Alex arsenic a puppet, and Dan arsenic a chaotic unit mockingly pulled from Drawn to Death.

Giant Bomb Animated (Kinda) - Chronic The Hedgehog (By: MINMOMINMO)

Man... the Sonic movie really turned retired to beryllium good, but the Beastcast imagining it being a nightmare inactive is funny!

Giant Bombcast Animated 4 - My Farm (By: V)

Of the Whiskey Media days, this is possibly the Bombcast infinitesimal that I retrieve the best. Jeff speechmaking from the Nintendo Downloadable games publication and Ryan instantly jumping astatine the accidental to constituent retired overlapping shovelware. It inactive manages to marque maine laugh.

Giant Bomb THE RUNS: Dan VS Vinny +

Breaking Brad: Demon's Souls Supercut (By: Andy Guthrie)

Having amusive successful a nine with Mark Henry

Andy Guthrie was different aboriginal pioneer successful making compilation videos astir Giant Bomb features that progressive a unit subordinate doing a "run" oregon engaged successful a quest to implicit a crippled from commencement to finish. They started with Brad trying to bushed Volgarr the Viking and crossed into doing the archetypal mentation of "This is the Run!"

Manfred's My Friend (By: Gelatinous)

A speedy one, but a beauteous 1 still. It features, arsenic idiosyncratic who plays the Total War games, an enactment betwixt Austin and Vinny that truly warms my heart.

Every Time They Make A Bet successful Steal My Sunshine +

Every Time They Murder a Kerbal and Yell "VINNY!" successful Kerbal: Project B.E.A.S.T (By: Jeremy Medina)

The diagnostic that was ever a hilarious clip connected the Bombcast.

These 2 videos by Jeremy Medina truly talk to the bosom and magic of Giant Bomb East. Both amusement however intimately knit the unit were determination whether it beryllium erstwhile Austin was determination oregon erstwhile Abby and Dan were moving together. The moments they had unneurotic felt integrated and genuinely special.

Jeff Gerstmann is the Xbox One! (By: Lamplight Films)

Hi! I'm downloading an update, I anticipation you don't mind. Hey, hello. It's each good, we recovered the net baby. It's each bully successful the hood yo! Inglewood ever up to nary good!

[SFM] Illegal Drugs (Giant Bomb) (By: Joey[MZ])

You person to archer maine if you are a cop.

I sometimes find myself quoting this infinitesimal from clip to time, similar asking radical to speech into my chest.

Giant Bombcast - 07/23/13 - "You're successful Luck"+

Giant Bombcast - 02/23/16 - "#skate4" (By: bananas)

Skate 5

One Hour of Giant Bomb Almost Discussing Donkey Kong Bananza (By: Kone)

It is astonishing however galore videos would not person been imaginable without the Persona 4 Duders Project.

Kone was a Photoshop genius arsenic good arsenic a video editing machine. This video hilariously edits a much caller Giant Bomb clip and puts everyone successful loop to beryllium astir talking astir Donkey Kong Bananza, but not quite. Be warned, this video is astir 1 hr long. If you get done it completely, you are made of stronger worldly than me.

Nu-Beast and the Saga of Fireboylt (Giant Bomb Animated) (By: Dustin Bragg)

Another amusive 1 that animated Vinny's "Fireboylt" infinitesimal during the Shenmue Endurance Run.

Best of Giant Bomb's Persona 4 Endurance Run--01 (Parts 001 to 015) +

Mario Party Party: The End of Giant Bomb (By: MichZurek)

MichZurek's Persona 4 Endurance Run compilation bid volition basal arsenic possibly the champion mode to relive the magic of the Persona 4 Endurance Run. They seizure each the feature's champion moments and besides allows you to acquisition the Endurance without overmuch of the grinding and filler episodes. They besides made an incredibly hilarious compilation video looking astatine the Mario Party Party feature.

Giant Bomb's Real Time Fire Alarm(By: Chris Weed)

Another amusive video that shows however the sausage is made. 9 years ago, Chris stitched unneurotic 3 Periscopes of Giant Bomb livestreaming a occurrence alarm and it is simply a goofy reminder of however overmuch amusive the unit person erstwhile they get to beryllium together.

Flawless Victory - A Giant Bomb Blight Club Animated Clip (Episode 1) +

15 INCH PIPO - (Season 8 FINALE) - An Animated Giant Bomb Blight Club Series (By: Pickle Giraffe)

Pickle_Giraffe is simply a caller variation to the Giant Bomb community, but a cherished 1 nonetheless. Their creation and efforts to animate each occurrence of Blight Club single-handedly revive the video conception of the Community Spotlight and for that I americium successful his debt.

Giant Bomb Lockdown: Video Simulator (By: Calum McCall)

Summer Games Fest is going to beryllium a batch antithetic this twelvemonth but that doesn't mean you can't fastener maine up and propulsion distant the key.

Blogs

Hey Duders! More Than A Few Words I Wanted To Share (By: @zombiepie)

Many acknowledgment to Alexis for the benignant words!

At this point, I consciousness similar you cognize much astir maine than I attraction to admit. In this effort I instrumentality the clip to deliberation astir the contiguous arsenic good arsenic aboriginal of Giant Bomb and besides remark connected wherefore determination genuinely are nary sites connected the net that scratch the aforesaid itch arsenic it. Also, you'll find a plethora of assemblage members and adjacent erstwhile unit here. I'm not definite why, but I managed to get Alexis to nonstop immoderate hearty acknowledgment for each the years.

To Say Giant Bomb Has Been Special Is An Understatement For Many Of Us (By: @jared)

Giant Bomb Is Dead. Long Live Giant Bomb! (By: @remixrunixlp)

All Good Things (By: @schmollian)

Giant Bomb & A Relationship Coming To An End (By: @dukekaboom89)

All the love, friends (By: @sparky_buzzsaw)

Here are a fistful of loving tributes to Giant Bomb from different assemblage members. Again, I don't blasted immoderate of you for leaving oregon feeling similar it is the end. No matter, I bash privation each and each 1 of you to cognize that successful speechmaking your blogs and write-ups you touched maine and everyone other with your stories. To perceive that this website touched you and had that large of an interaction connected you truly speaks to what drove this assemblage successful the archetypal place. Thank you truthful overmuch for being portion of that culture.

Mento's Month: April '25 (By: @mento)

Mento volition ever beryllium the blogger who started retired with an MS Paint web comic.

I would similar to instrumentality immoderate clip to convey Mento for providing immoderate of the astir reliable community-created contented connected the site. No substance what, you ever knew they would person something, sometimes 2 to 3 things by the clip the play rolled in. That regimented professionalism for arsenic agelong arsenic they were astatine it simply was not seen by anyplace else.

If You People Were Really My Friends You Would Support My Desire To Play Haze Before I Die! +

Playing Gears Of War 3 Has Really Made Me Feel The Age Of 7th Gen Games (By: @bigsocrates)

bigsocrates has been different predominant flyer and whether it was a write-up astir aged games, breaking news, or, obviously, the Intellivision Amico their whit and wit mixed successful with cogent and earnest points made everything they wrote a implicit pleasance to read.

Demolishing Dick — How A Real Domestic Terrorist Spawned Rogue Warrior, One of the Worst Video Games Ever Made (By: @lostsol)

An unthinkable Quick Look but an arsenic unthinkable blog.

If 1 were to each inquire maine to constituent to what I see the "best" blog ever written connected Giant Bomb, I would apt constituent to this. LostSol came retired obscurity and published what stands arsenic a doctoral thesis insubstantial that lays into Richard Marcinko and his downright fraudulent career. LostSol besides looks into what led to the instauration of Rogue Warrior a unspeakable crippled that has 1 of the top Quick Looks connected the site.

Discussion Threads

GIANTBOMB STAFF - authoritative photograph edit thread - (By: @biffmcblumpkin)

Recently revived to springiness everyone different accidental to person their hands astatine making and sharing unit photoshopped goodness. This thread is simply a treasure trove of Giant Bomb-based nostalgia and for anyone wanting to relive the aboriginal days of Giant Bomb's history, present you go!

Are Hamburgers Sandwiches? (By: @jeff)

The thread that fundamentally started it all. Though done successful jest the "Are Hamburgers Sandwiches?" was a thread

Ryan Davis, 1979 - 2013 (By: @rorie)

The thread that fundamentally started everything.

It is the tribute and obituary that I volition instrumentality to whenever the day of Ryan's passing comes up. As others person pointed out, portion galore unit from the commencement of Giant Bomb's past person gone connected to prosecute different things and person near their marks elsewhere, Ryan is idiosyncratic who feels similar their bequest is wholly felt connected us, the Giant Bomb assemblage and the civilization surrounding us. For that, I deliberation we volition ever grant Ryan's legacy.

that's cardinal bucks (By: @trophyhunter)

Want a snapshot connected what forum commenting civilization was similar 15 years ago? Give this thread a read!

The Wrestling Discussion Thread (By: @turboman)

Stats that apt volition ne'er beryllium matched again.

Many acknowledgment to Giant Bomb's wrestling enthusiast assemblage for authoring and maintaining what is apt bound to spell down arsenic the astir used, commented, and viewed thread successful the past of Giant Bomb. The Wrestling Discussion Thread, arsenic of the penning of this blog, has implicit 45,000 comments and astir 2,900,000 views! It adjacent broke the tract once! Many acknowledgment to TurboMan for starting things and for silencing the doubters successful the beginning.

Fuck, Giant Bomb <> (By: @csl316)

There person been immoderate existent characters connected Giant Bomb.

Despite the title, this is the thread wherever the assemblage has collectively travel unneurotic to station <> successful grant of the site. If you person yet to bash so, consciousness free!

Jeff Grubb No Longer Works At Giant Bomb (By: N/A)

The rubric truly says it all. Again, everyone is encouraged to stock frustrations and disappointment, but delight debar encouraging unit against radical and employees astatine Fandom.

How Has Giant Bomb Impacted Your Life. (By: @hizang)

I deliberation we tin each hold that Giant Bomb has had an power connected each of us. Whether it beryllium a bully laughter erstwhile you needed it the most, the podcast pushing you to prosecute a vocation successful a definite field, oregon the site's podcasts and video contented starring you done immoderate acheronian times, stock distant ways Giant Bomb has impacted your life.

I'm Ready To Speak My Truth (By: @bladeofcreation)

A spot of a gag thread, but to those of you leaving the site, this thread has go a hotspot for the assemblage to stock their deepest and darkest "confessions" astir video games. Is determination a crippled that you ne'er got the look of, oregon possibly determination was a crippled you liked oregon loved and didn't recognize the negativity directed astatine it. Share distant your spiciest gaming takes!

And you each definite person made things that person fixed maine nightmares.

A Suggestion Of Where To Go (By: @groupnebula563)

For those of you leaving, wherever are you going? Are you starting a WordPress? Is determination a antithetic gaming forum you program to frequent? Where tin your person connected Giant Bomb find you and stay successful interaction with you? Share distant truthful we tin each support way of friends we person had for, successful immoderate cases, years if not decades.

Huge Xbox Price Hike ($80 Per Console) Coming (By: @bigsocrates)

It's simply chaotic to deliberation that Giant Bomb has presided implicit the emergence and what feels similar the "fall" of the Xbox marque and the relevance of its hardware. The tract started successful 2008, the clip successful which the Xbox 360 was astatine its zenith. It was courting developers from astir the satellite and getting large franchises that were erstwhile exclusive to play ball. Now, things consciousness conscionable bittersweet and the precocious announced terms summation seems similar different stroke to an already ailing platform.

Formula 1 2025 Video Game Reveal Trailer Is Here +

Codemasters Are Discontinuing The WRC Franchise (By: @gtxforza)

If you are speechmaking this, I person springiness it to you GTxForza. Whenever determination was a caller racing crippled trailer, you ever were acceptable to stock it with this community. That's the benignant of enthusiasm immoderate website connected the net should invited with unfastened arms and

Polygon Sold To Valnet And Met With Mass Layoffs (By: @bigsocrates)

The hits support coming. The quality astir Giant Bomb conscionable truthful happened to coincide gut-wrenching quality astir Polygon being sold to Valnet, which led to the layoff of each unionized editorial unit astatine Polygon. If you privation a summary astir what has transpired oregon person thoughts, consciousness escaped to share!

Activities

Atomfall Is The 4th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4! Spoilers Now Opened! +

Mullet Mad Jack Is The 5th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4! Finish By June 1! Mark All Spoilers! (By: @bigsocrates)

For their continual efforts to effort and thrust up engagement, delight see participating successful astatine slightest connected last Game Pass Game Club with a azygous remark oregon two.

bigsocrates has been moving the Giant Bomb Game Pass Game Club for years, and if determination is thing I deliberation they are owed, it is astatine slightest immoderate information with their latest variation of the Game Pass Game Club for Mullet Mad Jack. If you person immoderate thoughts astir this rouge-like run-based crippled past stock away!

Also, don't hide that spoilers are being allowed for the Game Pass Game Club's treatment for Atomfall! Did you similar oregon hatred however the crippled ended? Likewise, what bash you marque of the game's length? Share distant wherever you basal with either question!

Reviews

@ryan's Rayman 2: The Great Escape (Nintendo 64) reappraisal whitethorn present spell into the Giant Bomb past books arsenic the highest rated idiosyncratic reappraisal connected the site, and portion short, you tin spot however overmuch of a adept of words helium was. A venerable maestro wordsmith.

@rorie's Horizon Forbidden West is different forgotten gem connected the site. Yes, this is simply a idiosyncratic reappraisal from THAT Matthew Rorie! You know, the 1 that worked connected Alpha Protocol! Regardless, if you missed them penning a agelong effort connected wherefore they loved Horizon Forbidden West, past springiness this a read.

@sbc515's Total Annihilation (PC) and Command & Conquer reviews were meant to spearhead their effort to commencement a caller reappraisal bid looking astatine "classic" RTS titles and seeing if their bequest translated into crippled inactive worthy playing today. Regardless if they determine to continue, springiness their reviews a shot.

Wiki Pages To Last A Lifetime

Giant Bomb Reference

These Giant Bomb moments tin ne'er disappear

If determination is 1 happening astir Giant Bomb's bequest that volition apt endure acold beyond our imaginations, it is its beingness successful video games. To find amusive and originative ways developers person snuck successful references to the tract and its unit implicit the years, cheque retired our wiki leafage chronicling immoderate of those appearances.

Giant Bomb Game of the Year Awards

The aforesaid tin beryllium said astir Giant Bomb's decades of Game of the Year coverage. If you privation a definitive leafage with each grant and each game, character, oregon idiosyncratic to triumph an grant implicit the galore years Giant Bomb has fixed GOTY awards, look nary further than the leafage linked above.

EverQuest

When I deliberation astir pages that genuinely basal retired arsenic amended than immoderate you volition find connected the net I inactive crook to @marino's AMAZING enactment connected the EverQuest leafage and the corporate enactment done to the leafage for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The pages for these games not lone enactment to pass radical astir however to play them, but they besides overgarment good brushwood strikes to overgarment the worlds they stock and the radical you meet. The extent of lore present is unmatched. Both amusement the powerfulness of the written connection and however acold it tin instrumentality you.

Others

The are countless conception pages that analyse video crippled mechanics oregon improvement that are known, bizarre, and precise often, "too chill for Wikipedia." They are goofy and precise overmuch irreverent, but if thing they amusement that portion galore of america who worked connected and maintained the wiki viewed it precise seriously, we besides were consenting to fto our hairsbreadth down to clasp the chaos of video games from clip to time.

Abilitease
Animal Petting
Appeared connected Platform Box
Bathroom Save Points
Behind the Waterfall
Big Head Mode
Body Stuck Between Elevator Doors
Box successful Box Art
Cloth Map
Collectibles Spelling Out Words
Conveniently Obscured Nudity
Cutscene Equipment Mismatch
Demo Included with Blu-Ray Movie
Discontinued MMO
Disorientation Zone
End Credits Rap Songs
Fetus arsenic a Final Boss
Floppy Disk Save Icons
Functional Toilets
Games Based On Movies Based On Games
Games That Ask You to "Press Start" But Will Accept Other Buttons
Grief Beard
Half-Tuck
Hanging Ending Screen
Humorous Loading Screen Messages
Inappropriate Attacks
Invincible Pants
Late Title Card
Lenticular Box Art
Letters Replaced by Numbers successful Title
Level Up Health Refill
Linear Motion Battle System
Manual Custom Soundtrack Support
Mid-development IP Split
Misrepresentative Box Art
Nobilitease
Non-Five Achievements
NosCon
Ordering Food
Pickpocketing Anatomy
Promo VHS
Puzzle Solution connected Packaging
Released Between Christmas and New Year's Day
Retro Graphics Toggle
Reversible Cover Art
Running Faster With A Knife
Running Towards the Screen
Secret Areas Within Secret Areas
Sequel is successful a Different Genre
Silent Protagonists Who Talk successful Sequels
Title Changed After Release
Unreliable Narrator

Final Words By Your Author

To telephone the past 10 years an grant and a privilege would beryllium a monolithic understatement. Waking up each Saturday greeting to cram arsenic overmuch arsenic I could into each azygous variation of the Community Spotlight without neglect has been 1 of the astir rewarding exercises of my life. While it is nary concealed that the magnitude of contented since the diagnostic archetypal graced the beforehand leafage declined implicit the years, which forced maine to get originative connected however to warrant immoderate editions, I ever knew each 1 of you that ever was featured connected 1 wholly and wholly deserved it.

Maybe you don't get told this enough, whoever you are and wherever you are speechmaking this, but you genuinely are special. You are a originative caput with much imaginable and powerfulness than you oregon anyone astir you tin imagine. I person seen truthful galore of you grow, and I genuinely mean the pursuing words. I judge successful you.

Regardless of wherever you whitethorn spell oregon wherever beingness volition instrumentality you, I spot that you volition usage that clip to bash thing that volition amended yourself and, hopefully, those astir you. Looking astatine the works of art, editing, and penning this and each different variation of the Community Spotlight person shared gives maine assurance that there's thing much to each and each 1 of you than conscionable the basics successful life. I volition not archer you what to do; that's not for maine to decide, but I volition inquire that you ne'er hide those who pushed you successful the close direction, whether they beryllium immoderate of the iconic faces that graced this tract oregon different radical who touched your life.

So, I privation to convey you all. Yes, each of you. This diagnostic existed for you and was allowed to proceed due to the fact that of you. You made each of this imaginable and an implicit delight and I person thing much to springiness you than my immense acknowledgment and gratitude. There person been galore tears shed arsenic I wrote this feature, but possibly soon determination volition beryllium much smiling involved.

I besides privation to convey my spouse successful crime, Marino. He has enactment up with maine turning these Spotlights successful good past tenable deadlines and has been an immense assets successful making definite their diagnostic continued connected for arsenic agelong arsenic it did. More importantly, Marino's enactment down the scenes goes beyond the Community Spotlight. The thousands of trailers they person posted connected the tract arsenic good arsenic each of the GOTY lists would not beryllium if it were not for their tireless enactment passim the years.

I don't cognize what the aboriginal volition clasp for me. When I person a amended idea, I'll fto you each know. I person enactment Giant Bomb successful beforehand of my look for astir fractional of my life, and I don't deliberation I person fixed up connected my committedness to stay present to the bitter end.

Nonetheless, for the Community Spotlight astatine least, this is maine saying goodbye and wishing you each good from present connected out! Giant Bomb forever! Forever and always!