Game On: Latest in Gaming News, Reviews & Industry Buzz
- New Giant Bomb merch: four shirt designs and a tote, with NickToilet's timelapse of the Spoon Heaven shirt creation.
- Community art highlights: jearum's nostalgia pieces and rejected shirt, plus Pickle_Giraffe's Blight Club Season 7 compilation.
- Community activities: GB Album Club returns with Wet From Birth; Monster Train 2 chosen for Game of the Month.
- Blogs and threads dissect Not E3, Sony and Summer Game Fest coverage, Game OVA pieces, and GB@Nite reactions.
Welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host as we look back at the site and staff-related news and best community creations!
This week provided the staff with some much-needed R&R after they absolutely killed it during Not-E3 2025! Now, I know during some of the livestreams that Giant Bomb aired during this time many people experienced audio issues and buffering. While I have included the whole unedited versions of the night streams, Jan and company recommend you find the slightly edited segmented videos on YouTube of Giant Bomb @ Nite as they are likely to be slightly better listening experiences. Regardless, here’s everything Giant Bomb aired during that highly eventful weekend to make everyone’s life a little bit easier.
Giant Bomb’s Not-E3 2025 Livestreams
Giant Bomb @ Nite By Segments
In other news, don’t forget that THERE’S STILL NEW GIANT BOMB MERCH TO BUY IN THE STORE! The new merchandise this week includes four new shirt designs as well as a tote bag! NickToilet over on Bsky ever posted a timelapse of them making the Spoon Heaven shirt design.
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 certainly busy this week. I honestly don’t know where to start whether it be their nostalgia tingling imaginations of the staff being on a classic LucasArts code wheel or Jan as a unit in Final Fantasy Tactics. Then you have the rejected shirt design they found from years ago as well as them continuing their tradition of designing the Giant Bomb staff as characters in Peanuts with their very family-friendly hat.
Rascal Garden + Chuck At Giant Bomb @ Nite + Danny & Gregg Make A Porno + Jeff Grubb: The Professional (By: Pickle_Giraffe)
Pickle_Giraffe also was busy this week working on their highly anticipated reboot of Blight Club Animated as well as having a go at making art involving all of their favorite moments from Giant Bomb @ Nite. As to be expected, everything they made is bound to make you smile or laugh.
Gallery
Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/kone.bsky.social/post/3lrgpp5y5rk2q
https://bsky.app/profile/kone.bsky.social/post/3lr23m6n6ss2p
https://bsky.app/profile/gbnonsense.bsky.social/post/3lr24ikl7dc2e
https://bsky.app/profile/conradical.bsky.social/post/3lr33tpoqgs2s
https://bsky.app/profile/marinov1.bsky.social/post/3lriwmxt7fc2m
https://bsky.app/profile/creakylegs.lol/post/3lrdwhwgnmc2k
Videos
BLINK & YOU’LL MISS IT! – (COMPLETE Season 7) – An Animated Giant Bomb Blight Club Series (By: PICKLE_GIRAFFE)
Pickle_Giraffe’s classic Giant Bomb Blight Club Animated series will be back with new episodes soon! Until then, here’s a video with every single episode of “Season 7” of their animated-based efforts! Be careful, because if you blink you might miss it!
Activities
The GB Album Club 085 – Wet From Birth by The Faint (By: @unclejam23)
The Giant Bomb Album of the Week Community Club is BACK BAYBEE! To start this cycle, the group is listening to Wet From Birth by The Faint! Show your love over here if you love or hate this album or feel free to just drop a comment with you appreciation of the group continuing on!
Monster Train 2 Is The 6th Game Of UUGPGC Year 4! Finish By July 1! Mark All Spoilers!(By: @bigsocrates)
Are you in the mood for some card-based ACTION?! Because the next game pick for the Giant Bomb Game of the Month Club is Monster Train 2! Do you have any deck strategies and do you have any advice on how to beat some of the bosses?
Blogs
Not E3 2025: Sony + Not E3 2025: Summer Game Fest Keynote (By: @gamer_152)
Moderator Gamer152’s deep examination of Not-E3 2025 continues with a blog about Geoff Keighley’s marquee event, Summer Game Fest! With this blog they try to get to the bottom of a key question others have been wondering about: Why did this edition of SGF feel so off? They also wrote about what they thought of Sony’s June 2025 State of Play and why it gave them moderate confidence about the future of Sony.
Game OVA Season 4: Episode 1 — Zillion + Indie Game of the Week 423: Fearmonium (By: @mento)
It’s time to delve into the weird and wacky anime OVA to video game pipeline with moderator Mento and this week they looked at a personal favorite of Jeff Gerstmann: Zillion! Nostalgia aside, is there any creative merit to anything associated with the Zillion IP?
Additionally, for this edition of their “Indie Game of the Week” feature, Mento played and reviewed Fearmonium! Is this horror-themed and clown-based Metroidvania any 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 many ways now was a terrible time to get into the Evil Dead series, especially Evil Dead-based video games! This blog shares their highly detailed review 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)
Are we in the middle of a shift where all driving games become open world? It sure feels like it and Giant Bomb’s resident racing game enthusiast, GTxForza, is here to talk to you about how that feels like a certainty and whether it is something 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 time to talk about a recurring punchline in games and music: nu-metal. In this blog I wonder when we all decided to use nu-metal as a venerable target as a genre we collectively agreed was “bad” and if that is all fair to the nu-metal artists that graced the genre and its fans.
Discussion Threads
GB@Nite Was Incredible (By: @ben_h)
Did you enjoy Giant Bomb’s GB@Nite and Not-E3 2025 content this year? Did seeing Jeff Gerstmann as a guest on the couch get you excited? If so, head on over to THIS THREAD on the forums to share your appreciations for all of the staff and guests that made it a special event!
The Absences At The Xbox Games Showcase 2025 Were Maybe The Most Notable Part Of A Fiiiiiiiine Conference? (By: @zombiepie)
What is your overall grade or assessment of the 2025 Xbox Games Summer Showcase? Were there any highlights? What about the absences of Halo, Gears of War, Perfect Dark or Fable at the event? Was that weird or surprising?
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Was At One Point An Online Live-Service Title (By: @michaelenger)
Jason Schreier’s report about Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s production paint a bleak picture about the future of BioWare. Between the Mass Effect and Dragon Age teams not getting along and EA yanking the Veilguard team’s chain multiple times, what do you make of the state of BioWare?
Your Wishlist For The Fire Emblem Franchise On Nintendo Switch 2? (By: @gtxforza)
A Switch 2 Fire Emblem game has rumored for a while but what do you actually want to see from the series in the future? Do you want a remake of an older title or a completely new adventure? Also, what changes to the gameplay do you still want to see?
Did SGF Give You Hope For The Future Of Video Games? (By: @treethan)
Now that it’s over, did Not-E3 2025 give you some optimism about the future of games? Share how you assess the big and small conferences this year and if any of them instilled positivity about the future of the industry in you.
Where And Why Do You Use Your Portable Console (Switch/Steam Deck)? (By: @atheistpreacher)
For those of you with a Steam Deck or even a Switch 2, where do you find yourself playing them the most? Likewise, for people that undock their Switch, where does it happen the most?
Looking For Idle Games While Working (By: @tsuyuri57)
Do any of you have recent idle game suggestions or maybe new mobile games that rock? The author of this thread needs something that is engaging and can’t exactly bring a Switch to work so any mobile-based games would be greatly appreciated.
Lists
Gone, But Not Forgotten: Games Are Only Dead When You Stop Talking About Them (By: @inklimb)
Inspired by the rebirth of the Giant Bomb audience, Inklimb made a small list as their first true interaction with the site since they joined and started lurking for several years. Some gaming memories they will never forget, but can never have again and this list looks at games they either can never play again or just aren’t what they once were.
Wiki Of The Week
It’s widely considered the game that put Battlefield on the map of being accepted by the mainstream as a titan in the online multiplayer shooter field, but Battlefield 2 is nearing its 20th anniversary. With that in mind, give our in-depth wiki on the game to better understand its enduring legacy. Also, yes, we have a page to Strike At Karkand itself.
Read the full article on the original site
