Welcome to the newest version of the Large Bomb Neighborhood 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 earlier week.
Whereas there have been some adjustments right here and there to that first sentence, I would like you to guess how lengthy I’ve been saying that to all of you. I pose that thought train as a result of this week marks the tenth anniversary of the Neighborhood Highlight turning into a entrance web page article. This week additionally marks 15 years since @marino and I turned moderators. Whereas issues have positively modified in these ten years, and the scope and sequence of the Highlight has morphed in response to the shifting priorities of the positioning and employees, it’s nonetheless right here gracing you each Saturday morning.
It is onerous for me to think about everybody who deserves a hardy thanks with this anniversary. First, I wish to thank @rorie for being the primary individual to suggest making the Neighborhood Highlight an formally sanctioned characteristic. I additionally wish to thank @marino for modifying this and @mento for his assist making this throughout the early days. To each employees member or visitor that rolled into the feedback the previous ten years, whether or not it’s Dave Snider, Mike Minotti, Jeff Grubb, Abby, Jess, Lexi, and lots of extra, I wish to thanks as properly. That you simply took the time to provide this characteristic a learn, even in passing, meant the world to me. To all of you which have been studying this characteristic, whether or not it’s each blue moon or each week the minute it goes up; you too have made this journey utterly price it.
I began doing the Neighborhood Highlight as a stickied thread throughout the early days of Large Bomb earlier than shifting it to my private weblog on Large Bomb after years of tinkering. There are such a lot of group members that helped me make this characteristic higher throughout these experimental days which are unlikely to see this put up, but when one way or the other you do, I would like you to know the way vital you had been. I can rely on possibly one hand these of you who can keep in mind the likes of @claude, @hamz, @sweep, @systech, @kush, and @mb, however they too performed main roles in retaining me motivated to rise up within the morning to make the Highlight. We could be getting older and our passions in life could or might not be altering, however that does not change the truth that we had enjoyable and all of us helped one another turn out to be the folks we’re at present.
Alright, onto some extra technical information. Final week, lots of you reported that you weren’t in a position to make use of the video participant on the positioning and @dtoast has relayed to me and the Large Bomb Discord {that a} repair was certainly deployed and the video participant is engaged on his finish in addition to for the entire engineers. Nonetheless, a handful of individuals are saying that issues aren’t working for them, even after they allow their Efficiency Cookies and alter browsers. Provided that the employees aren’t capable of replicate the problems some customers are having, if you’re nonetheless having points with the video participant, please @ Dtoast on this thread and he’ll attempt to examine your points individually. If you’re Discord, he’s open to folks DMing him with their particular points.
Video publishing on the positioning and on the podcast RSS feeds was barely delayed as a consequence of Jan and firm being out for the Nintendo occasion. I do know it isn’t essentially the most handy, however every part from yesterday and the remainder of the week going up Friday morning is the most effective everybody might do and your understanding is appreciated. If you happen to really feel like one thing continues to be lacking, be at liberty to go to the Large Bomb Discord and report the lacking program or podcast within the Web site-Tech-Points channel.
In additional optimistic information, in response to everybody having Nintendo on their thoughts, Large Bomb has determined to “unlock” ALL of Steal My Sunshine on YouTube! If you wish to re-live PEAK Dan and Large Bomb East, click on the hyperlink to search out the useful playlist with each single episode in chronological order, and with out the necessity for a Large Bomb premium subscription.
Weekly Record of Programming & Streams
Large Bomb Energy Block Programming
- Tomodachi Life Setting Information for Nintendo’s Social Media | GameBreaking Information 03/31/25
- BAZR: Tremendous Mario 64 nevertheless it’s Balatro | GB Kidz
- OverGrubb | 02 | Blight Membership
- Large Bombcast 884: Yassified Villains
- Large Bomb Talks Over Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Change 2 – 4.2.2025
- The whole lot Introduced on the Nintendo Change 2 Direct | GameBreaking Information 04/02/25
- Large Bomb Breaks Down All of the Nintendo Change 2 Direct Information
- inZOI | Large Bomb Performs
- Nintendo Change 2’s $450 Value Possible Influenced By Tariffs, Consultants Say | GameBreaking Information 4/02/25The 2025 Large Bomb Neighborhood Endurance Run
- Voicemail Dump Truck 155 | Shiba In You.mp3
- Change 2 Value Possible To Enhance As Nintendo Pulls US Preorders | GameBreaking Information 04/04/25
- Change 2 Occasion Report | Large Bombcast 884: REVENGEANCE
- POWER BLOCK 3/31/25 COMPLETE VOD | GameBreaking Information, GBKidz, and MONDAY BLIGHT CLUB!
- POWER BLOCK 4/01/25 COMPLETE VOD| Large Bombcast 884
- POWER BLOCK 4/02/25 COMPLETE VOD | GameBreaking Information, Nintendo Change 2 Direct Information Breakdown, inZOI Let’s Play
- POWER BLOCK 4/03/25 COMPLETE VOD | SWITCH 2 HANDS-ON, South of Midnight Overview, Verdansk In Warzone
- POWER BLOCK 4/03/25 COMPLETE VOD | GameBreaking Information, BCR, Unprofessional Fridays, GameSpot After Darkish
GameSpot Programming
The 2025 Large Bomb Neighborhood Endurance Run Charity Drive!
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Artwork
My Neighbor Tolkoto (By: @jearum)
With folks emulating Muazaki’s artwork on social media in all of the improper methods, jearum determined to make a Large Bomb x My Neighbor Totoro film poster that refreshingly did not use AI and is straight away extra spectacular because of this. Remember to thank them for his or her nice work when you might have time.
Video
DAN OF THE 99 MACHINES – (COMPLETE Season 6) – An Animated Large Bomb Blight Membership Sequence +
E.T. PHONE HOLE – (Season 7 FINALE) – An Animated Large Bomb Blight Membership Sequence (By: Pickle Giraffe)
So with Blight Membership shifting in its scheduled air time, Pickle_Giraffe wasn’t capable of publish a brand new episode of their Animated Blight Membership collection. So, I am going to merely encourage everybody to take a look at the 2 works they revealed final week once more! The primary is a video that compiles all of their episodes associated to Dan’s struggles with Drake of the 99 Dragons right into a single video and the second offers the riveting “finale” of Blight Membership’s examination of E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial. Give each a watch and remember to thank Pickle_Giraffe for all of their onerous work.
Actions
Atomfall Is The 4th Sport Of UUGPGC 12 months 4! End By Might 1! Mark All Spoilers +
Avowed Is The Third Sport Of UUGPGC 12 months 4! End By April 1! Spoilers Open! (By: @bigsocrates)
Hey, everybody! The Sport Go Sport Membership is retaining it hip and fashionable with its newest choose as this month it’s going to have a look at Atomfall! Have any of you given Revolt’s newest recreation a shot? Are you sick and bored with how usually it’s good to use the metallic detector? Share away over right here!
Additionally, with the beginning of a brand new month, which means the earlier Sport Go Sport Membership choose, Avowed, has opened up its dialogue thread to SPOILERS! The place do you stand on how the sport ends and if the sport total is an efficient or dangerous narrative outing from Obsidian?
The GB Album Membership 084 – Low by David Bowie (Cycle Finale) (By: @unclejam23)
The newest season of the Large Bomb Album Membership is ending with a BANGER! This choose is Low by David Bowie! In case you have ideas about this album or wish to be part of the enjoyable, remark right here. Additionally, what’s your favourite period of David Bowie or your favourite character of his?
Blogs
Indie Sport of the Week 414: Dredge (By: @mento)
It is the beginning of a brand new month so which means moderator Mento has a brand new weblog discussing their favourite video games and anime from the final month! Give it a learn for some anime and online game suggestions!
Likewise, Mento has one other version of their “Indie Sport of the Week” and this one checked out their pretty huge hit, Dredge! Had been you a fan of the sport and its ship-based exploration? Did the sport make your GOTy record a couple of years again? If that’s the case, share why on their weblog!
The Sport That Deserves Nightdive Remaster Therapy (By: @melodicvirus)
Do online-only or F2P video games deserve the remaster/remake remedy? MelodicVirus makes use of Brink for instance of a multiplayer-focused recreation of that sort that seeks to learn from the present remaster tradition.
Positive, I Guess I Can Play Nothing However Unhealthy & Questionable FMV Video games For Charity For Extra Than Twenty Hours (By: @zombiepie)
ZombiePie, that is ME, has huge plans for the Large Bomb Neighborhood Endurance Run Charity Drive! That is proper, they’re taking part in nothing however the worst FMV video video games from the 90s! If you wish to see Jeff Goldblum hamming it up in Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland, learn this on when it’s good to tune in.
This Weekend I Am DOOMed (For The Youngsters!) (By: @ford_dent)
Ford_Dent can be going to be streaming for the Large Bomb Neighborhood Endurance Run! For his or her charity stream they are going to be streaming an countless provide of DOOM together with a marathon run with SIGIL and SIGIL II! Assist them out right here!
Dialogue Threads
Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Change 2 Presentation Dialogue Thread (By: @bigsocrates)
What does everybody take into consideration the Change 2 now that point has handed for the reason that Nintendo Direct? How about that value? With Nintendo main the cost about upping the common value of {hardware} and video games, do you are worried the interest is getting too costly?
Did Anybody Catch A Good April Idiot’s Joke Right now? (2025) (By: @topcyclist)
Did any of you really catch a enjoyable gag for this April Idiot’s Day? The place there any pretend gaming or gaming-related announcement on this very big day that made you smile? In an period the place AI seemingly can pull information from parody and gag articles and current them as factual, is it even accountable to take part within the occasion?
Nintendo Is Delaying Pre-orders In The Us For Change 2, Most likely Elevating Value. (By: @bigsocrates)
So… tariffs. Nintendo has signaled that new tariffs by the Trump administration will influence folks’s means to pre-order the Change 2. Nonetheless, past simply the Change 2 most, if not all, of the gaming trade is more likely to be impacted negatively by these tariffs.
What Varieties Of Driving/Racing Video games Would You Like To See On The Ps 6 And The Subsequent Xbox Console? (By: @gtxforza)
Driving and racing video games have all the time been in style instruments to showcase new consoles at launch, so, what are you anticipating from the style when time comes for Sony and Microsoft to showcase their new {hardware}? Are you anticipating mainline Gran Turismo and Forza titles? Are you anticipating third-party builders to have racing video games for each console ecosystems?
State of the Web site: March 2025 (By: @dtoast)
As soon as once more, in case you missed it final week, there is a new “State of the Web site” put up by Dtoast that shares updates in regards to the state of the video participant and bug fixes and website enhancements which are deliberate between now and the top of this month. Nearly all of what they should share this time round is optimistic information so give it a learn and share what else you need the positioning to do sooner or later.
Lists
15 Of My Favourite Change Video games (By: @bowl-of-lentils)
With the console nearing the top of its lifespan, bowloflentils wrote a enjoyable record taking a look at their fifteen Nintendo Change video games! Which video games made the lower? Click on the hyperlink to search out out! Additionally, take into account making your personal record when you might have time!
Higher Half Of A Decade Golf equipment (By: @infantpipoc)
We could be nearer than you assume to the most important console producers introducing new {hardware}. So, infantpipoc re-reviewed each recreation platform that had a lifespan for greater than 5 years.
Wiki Of The Week
It is sort of the BioWare recreation that point forgot, however Jade Empire is nearing its twentieth anniversary. There are some who will let you know that they’d fortunately help a Jade Empire 2 and you will get a way of why by testing our pretty spectacular wiki web page for the sport.
