Welcome to the newest version of the Big Bomb Group Highlight! I, @zombiepie, am as soon as once more honored to be your host as we glance again on the site-related information and finest group creations from the previous week!
Nicely, this week probably the most important information merchandise value discussing is not precisely probably the most stunning one. This week marked the beginning of the brand new effort for Big Bomb to share and host cross-collaboration content material with different websites, specifically, GameSpot. Many because of the likes of Tom Caswell and others for his or her time and all the arduous work they did this week.
As Dan put it finest on the Big Bombcast 879 and chucktowski transcribed to a Reddit put up, every little thing that’s being completed to be complimentary to Big Bomb’s present programming schedule. The present programming that you’re having fun with proper now is not being cancelled and the hope is to simply have longer blocks of uninterrupted streaming content material. Additionally, Big Bomb getting cross-posted on GameSpot has already proven to be extremely assistive in getting the phrase out concerning the nice stuff being completed by the workers with most editions of Sport Mess Morning netting 1000’s of additional views on their account.
The workers plans to have a greater and extra public streaming schedule and the one actual “change” is that Sport Mess Mornings is altering names and this can be a change Grubb desires. An instance of what’s deliberate for the primary full week of that is:
Monday 03/03/25 streams:
- Sport Mess Mornings – Midday ET, 9 AM PT
- GBKidz with Shawn and Niki
- Dan’s Block
Now, I do know what a number of you is perhaps apprehensive about and it’s a worry I even have expressed within the conferences I’ve had with our Fandom rep. With extra programming and streams, the difficulty of accessibility turns into an even bigger drawback. This is what I can promise proper now, and I will want your assist every so often, I can promise to offer you a bulleted checklist of every little thing that aired on the Highlight, however I would like a few of you to drop hyperlinks to the VODs after they end. Like most of you, I am not on the web watching streams every single day. Nonetheless, this is my first obtained at this and if I missed one thing, drop a remark and I will probably be blissful to edit it in.
Weekly Listing of Programming & Streams
There’s a brand new State of the Website article up in your studying pleasure! Give it a learn and see what great things is occurring with the location proper now and what’s deliberate for the longer term. The excellent news is that this one is sort of fully constructive about plans and the way forward for the location.
Lastly, a brand new batch of individuals are commenting that premium podcasts are nonetheless not showing within the right feeds or in any respect. If that features you, drop a remark within the State of the Website article I linked above and dtoast will get again to you what individuals are telling him and if he has a ticket for that particular podcast episode or not.
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Video
OH, NO! EMPATHY! – (Season 7 Episode 2) – An Animated Big Bomb Blight Membership Sequence (By: Pickle Giraffe)
Jeff Grubb’s misadventures with Blues Brothers 2000 proceed with a brand new episode of Blight Membership Animated! Empathy? Who wants that when you may have multi-colored keys and platforming that’s full bullcrap! You missed the Soul Practice, so welcome to the Ache Practice, can I take your order?
Actions
The GB Album Membership 080 – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill (By: @unclejam23)
It is time to speak about a musical traditional with this version of the Big Bomb Album of the Week Membership! This week the group is trying out The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill! Is that this nonetheless one of many biggest works of hip-hop and neo soul? What different works in these genres do you advocate?
Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess Is The Second Sport Of UUGPGC Yr 4! Spoilers OPEN!(By: @bigsocrates)
The Big Bomb Sport Go Sport Membership has formally opened its dialogue for Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess to SPOILERS! Whereas most critiques praised its fast and trendy gameplay and colourful artwork fashion, what do you make of its story and conclusion? Share away within the thread linked above!
Blogs
Indie Sport of the Week 409: Teslagrad 2 +
Kobayashi Mario Goes Hawaiian (Half Three – The Bonus Set) +
Mento’s Month: February ’25 (By: @mento)
Mento additionally has a brand new version of their “Indie Sport of the Week” function and this episode checks out Teslagrad 2! Learn what they give thought to its 2D Norse aesthetic and puzzle platforming-based gameplay!
Talking of Mento’s initiatives, they wrapped up their Retro Achievement evaluate of Tremendous Mario Sunshine with a have a look at its “Bonus” subset of glitch tech, punishingly high-level play, and different goofs and surprises.
And eventually, with the tip of a month Mento has their anticipated month-to-month wrap-up put up through which they share the video games they performed and anime they watched and what video games and exhibits they advocate you and I try when doable!
In Honor Of Dan Beating Drake of the 99 Dragons, I Performed Every part From Idol FX (Half I: Gast, An Admirable Begin) (By: @zombiepie)
I do not learn about you, however Dan’s time with Drake of the 99 Dragons continues to be top-of-the-line pick-me-ups of 2025. In honor of his sacrifice, I made a decision to play each sport ever made by Idol FX AB, the makers of Drake of the 99 Dragons and began with their first sport, Gast!
What’s Subsequent For AAA Video games? (By: @meteora3255)
meteora3255 talks about reconciling the core battle with AAA video games like Monster Hunter Wilds and Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii being their most anticipated titles of 2025 and but, AAA video games are the supply of many of the layoffs within the trade.
All 3DO Video games (Kinda) In Order: 1994 (Half 12) (By: @borgmaster)
borgmaster is again with a weblog trying on the video games that launched on the 3DO in chronological launch order! This week options the likes of Area Shuttle (1994), Star Management II, Tremendous Wing Commander, The Unimaginable Machine, and The Misplaced Information of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel!
Ideas On My Time With Ender Lilies And Its Sequel, Ender Magnolia (By: @atheistpreacher)
AtheistPreacher has been enjoying a LOT of Ender Magnolia: Bloom within the Mist and shares their full ideas about it and the way they really feel about its tackle the Metroidvania template and what hiccups they assume maintain again the sport.
Dialogue Threads
Monster Hunter Wilds (By: @atheistpreacher)
Are you locked into the Monster Hunter Wilds hype cycle? For individuals trying ahead to it, what was the primary sport within the sequence that obtained you hooked? Additionally, what do you make of Wilds’ emphasis on storytelling? Are any of you skeptical of the franchise nonetheless? What concerning the sequence rubs you the fallacious method?
WB Video games Is Closing Monolith Productions, Participant First Video games, and WB San Diego; Cancels Marvel Lady Sport (By: @zombiepie)
Individuals are nonetheless reeling from the studio closures by WB Video games which incorporates the closure of Monolith Productions and the cancellation of their Marvel Lady sport. It is gut-wrenching information to listen to, however is all of it that stunning contemplating Warner Bros. has been making an attempt to get out of video games for years?
Episode The place Dan Does not Perceive Severance? (By: @corn)
Hey, Big Bomb followers! There is a little bit of a debate on some Dan Ryckert lore on the boards that wants YOUR HELP to settle! Which podcast and episode began the “Dan did not get Severance” meme or recurring bit? If in case you have an concept, drop a remark within the thread.
I Forgot That PS5 Professional Was A Factor (By: @nocall)
It sounds just like the PS5 Professional is not promoting all that properly, or is it? What do you assume had been Sony’s expectations and do you assume the Professional SKU met them? Additionally, was this factor all the time destined for failure the minute it was introduced? Share your solutions to these questions within the thread above.
Lists
“Keighley’s” Checks And How They Have been Cashed In Throughout “His Reveals” (By: @infantpipoc)
Some time again infantpipoc determined to take a seat again and re-review each version of the Sport Awards as hosted by Geoff Keighley. With this checklist they determined to have a look at each incarnation of his awards occasion and see if they might determine the largest “test” Keighley was in a position to money.
Video games of the Yr 2024 (By: @winsol)
As soon as once more, now we have a belated GOTY 2024 checklist, however this time from winsol! Give it a learn and see what video games rocked your yr and all the time do not forget that I am blissful to showcase any GOTY lists, no matter whenever you make them.
Video games That Want To Be Ported To The Change (By: @galamoth)
As we draw nearer to the launch of the Change 2, Galamoth makes use of their newest checklist to annotate the video games they nonetheless can not help however be shocked had been by no means ported to the OG Change that they hope both come out on it will definitely or at the very least grace the Change 2.
Critiques
@sbc515 did a mini-Contra evaluate retrospective this week with an assessments of Contra on the NES, Tremendous C on the NES, and Contra III: The Alien Wars on the SNES! Learn any of their critiques to find the place they assume Contra actually grew to become Contra!
@infantpipoc‘s Transistor evaluate seems at how the sport holds up when performed fully on a Steam Deck! Additionally, they share why they assume it’s a trendy “traditional” attributable to its seamless gameplay and riveting story and narrative construction.
Wiki Of The Week
Satan Could Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening
Man, are able to have fun Satan Could Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening’s twentieth birthday? I certain am not and I may even bear in mind watching the video evaluate for this one on X-Play when G4 was nonetheless a factor! Regardless, give our wiki web page for the sport a learn to find why it is considered as one of many biggest course corrections in online game historical past!