The Community Highlight 2024.05.18

Welcome to the most popular version of the Giant Bomb Community Highlight! I, @zombiepie am once again honored to be your host as we look back at the top wrestling-related news and best community creations from the past week.

Dan certainly made the rounds last week! First, Dan appeared on AEW Games’ All Elite Arcade podcast with Adam Cole and Evil Uno! If you enjoy wrestling talk combined with gaming talk, this is an enjoyable listen. Likewise, Dan joined The MinnMax Show podcast while they were recording and the results were hilarious. Additionally, Kai Cenat gifted 50 subscriptions to Dan’s chat while he was streaming Elden Ring.

Additionally relaxing, it has been a whole year since Shawn McDowell aka @turboshawn joined the crew! If it’s possible you’ll almost definitely well perhaps also earn no longer finished so already, please, abet in mind sending him your thanks and congratulations over on Twitter! Here’s to 1 other luscious year.

Do you want to hear a story that’s sure to bring a smile to your face? Over on Twitter, a Quan-Chi fan account shared delightful .gifs of Mike Minotti’s Quan Chi cosplay. To say that they fell in love with Mike-Chi would be an understatement.

In the end, we now have some important news regarding the status of the on-site video player. Dylan has indicated that a serious update is coming for the video player and the people responsible for this update are quite confident about this update. While it’s certainly anxious to hope to wait, Dylan did say they’d let everyone know when this update happens.

Top Stories Tamfitronics Massive Bomb’s NOT-E3 2024 Data

E3 is uninteresting and buried, but that does not mean that Massive Bomb @ Nite is also uninteresting. In fact, this year Massive Bomb might actually have the most ambitious GamingEventInJune plans it has ever had, which you can learn all about here!

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  The Now not-E3 2024 Time Zone Chart – Many thanks to @marino for one more time making a handy timezone chart for the total massive conferences and streaming events accurate via Now not-E3 2024. The chart has been up in the past TODAY to consist of two extra showcases!

• Massive Bomb @ Nite LIVE! – Appropriate after Summer Game Fest on Sunday June ninth at 8 PM (PDT), Massive Bomb will be doing GB@Nite live in person at The Bellwether in Los Angeles. Regular tickets are $40.
• Special Show For Premium Participants! – For those of you with an active Premium Subscription, you may also have the opportunity to obtain a “VIP Kit.” The benefits of this kit include being guaranteed to sit in the front three rows, early entry into the theater, and being able to attend a standard Q&A panel. To get the details on how to obtain this premium kit, go to the Giant Bomb Discord and check the “Q-and-A-Questions” section of the Premium area

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Shotgun Superfly – A Sharp Massive Bomb Blight Membership Series (S.3 Ep.2) (By: Pickle Giraffe)

Grubb has been making progress with John Romero’s Daikatana and that means Pickle Giraffe had plenty of material to work with for a brand new version of Massive Bomb Blight Membership Sharp! Did you want to learn about Grubb pogoing with a gun? Well, this is the video for you!

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Grub Lied To The Cooperheads! (By: KONE)

The people getting upset about Grubb quotes taken out of context continue to amuse me. The same cannot be said about Grubb. Knowing this, Kone decided to have some fun with this work of Photoshop goodness.

Dark Echo (1989) dir. Tim Burton (By: @Pickle_Giraffe)

Man, Dark Echo was a fundamental pre-Avengers superhero film. I remember dressing up as Dark Echo for two Halloweens in a row. He was that important to me as a child and I’m gratified Pickle Giraffe agrees with me.

Mike’s Indignant About Mountain Dew (By: @turboshawn)

I actually have a sneaking suspicion that Mike and Shawn will likely be a little bit into the Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail x Mountain Dew collaboration. The reason I think that’s because Shawn made this goofy artwork in response to the announcement.

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My Friend Peppa Pig Is The 10th Game Of UUGPGC Year 3! Designate Spoilers. Built By May 20+

Unsanctioned Unofficial Game Shuffle Game Membership Balloting Thread For Cycle Beginning Would possibly perhaps well perhaps well 20 2024 (By: @bigsocrates)

My Friend Peppa Pig is the 10th game chosen for the third season of the Giant Bomb Game Pass Game Club! Is this the “best” family-friendly game on Game Pass? What other kids’ video games do you feel are gems on Game Pass? Discuss HERE!

This round of voting for the next pick for the Giant Bomb Community Game Pass Game Club is ABSOLUTELY STACKED! Not only are No More Heroes III and Botany Manor nominees, but Little Kitty Big City and Chants of Sennaar are as well!

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What’s the Greatest Video Game: Metroid 2 (By: @imunbeatable80)

Metroid II: Return of Samus is one of the more unusual entries in the Metroid franchise, but does it still hold up? That’s the question imunbeatable80 tries to answer with the most popular version of their “What’s the Greatest Video Game” feature. Can you find any answers? Join in on their blog as you get started!

The Remastered Version Of PO’ed Costing $20 Is Proof We Have Strayed Too Far From The Light Of God +

All These Years Later I Do Not Realize Why Killzone 2 Became So Beloved. And I Abhor The DS3!(By: @bigsocrates)

Nightdive Studios launched PO’ed: Definitive Edition! Is the $20 price too high? Do any of you out there feel nostalgia for the original release of PO’ed? Is this the first certain sign of Atari’s influence on Nightdive?

bigsocrates also decided to give Killzone 2 a try and wrote an essay questioning why the game was so beloved in the first place? Was it the graphics? The console wars at an all-time high? Or reviewer bias?

Thirsty Thirteen Plus One On A 2nd Tour Of The Underworld (By: @infantpipoc)

What if you tried to acquire an anime adaptation of Hades and Hades II by Supergiant Games? Who would you cast to voice even the smallest roles? Well, these are the questions infantpipoc attempts to answer on their blog!

Anyway, Here’s WonderSwan (Part Four) +

Indie Game of the Week 370: Tangle Tower (By: @mento)

Moderator Mento takes you through another wonderful tour of the WonderSwan! If you know every minute about this largely forgotten retro handheld, and its lovingly-made Final Fantasy port, give their most popular blog a read!

Likewise, Mento has a brand new model of their “Indie Game of the Week” feature and this one looks to be at the murder-thriller point-and-click adventure game, Tangle Tower!

All Saturn Games In Order: Mid-1996 Round-Up (By: @borgmaster)

If you agree with issues are having a learn about bleak for the Xbox at the unusual time, abet in mind the Saturn‘s struggles in 1996! borgmaster opinions what would be basically the most depressing and dire year a on-line sport console has ever endured!

Hi-Fi Bustle, Tango, And the Cruelty of the Games Industry (By: @mooseymcman)

MooseyMcMan penned an essay/review on Hi-Fi Bustle praising its vivid world, fluid mechanics, and various solid of characters and why the news this week completely breaks their coronary heart. Give it a read and piece your solutions!

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After Microsoft Shut Down Four Studios A Week Ago, Microsoft-owned Activision Begins A New Studio With AAA Ambitions (By: @zombiepie)

A week after Microsoft closed down four studios, Microsoft’s Activision announced the formation of a brand new studio in Poland with AAA game aspirations. What’s occurring with the Xbox division? Why all these mixed messages?

Must Run-based Games Allow RNG To Save You In A Literally Unwinnable Position? (By: @bigsocrates)

Using Balatro as a case study, bigsocrates opened a discussion about whether all skill-based video games must offer a winnable scenario or if that expectation is unreasonable given games and genres that rely on RNG. What do you agree with?

Phoenix Labs, Studio Behind Dauntless & Fae Farm, Lays Off 100 Workers And Cancels Game Weeks From Launch (By: @zombiepie)

Phoenix Labs announced a large wave of layoffs and canceled several game projects. Have you played Dauntless and Fae Farm? Additionally, did you hear about a blockchain company acquiring them a year ago?

Did Anyone Play Shipwreckers! (By: @sombre)

Does anybody remember Shipwreckers! for the PS1? sombre isn’t alone in saying they played a ton of the game when it was on a demo disc, but did anybody ever get around to playing the full game? If so, drop a line in this thread!

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Roguelikes I Love (By: @megalowho)

The style normally ends in of us rolling their eyes, nonetheless megalowho whipped up a checklist of their popular roguelikes and because it’s possible you’ll almost definitely well perhaps also scrutinize, they love a minute bit bit of every thing! Enact it’s possible you’ll almost definitely well perhaps also earn any popular rougelikes?

The Platinum Wind-down Twenty Twenty-four (By: @infantpipoc)

infantpipoc originally set out to explore how “Verified” Vanquish actually is on the Steam Deck, and that evolved into a retrospective on PlatinumGames’ output throughout the 2010s. Read what they consider to be the most entertaining titles from the studio during that decade.

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@pauljeremiah‘s Cuphead (PlayStation 4) review not only praises the game’s art, but also explains why they enjoyed playing the game and goes on to analyze it as a triumph of level design.

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John Romero

With how powerful of a blast Grubb is having with John Romero’s Daikatana why not earn this week’s Highlight highlight the person, the account, the fable: John Romero himself?!

Regardless, John Romero has had a long and storied profession within the online sport swap and our wiki web page for him will get the job finished when it comes to communicating that time. If you search any gaps, in fact feel free to edit the web page!