Giant Bombcast

We end the week talking about The Thing Remastered and where games could have deviated, the insanity that is the whole YuGiOh franchise, some more thoughts on Monster Hunter Wilds, and Men's YuGiOh as well!

This week we're hunting monsters in Monster Hunter Wilds, checking out a whole bunch of demos from the Steam Next Fest, Driving is Hard, and going back to skating in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2. We also chat about the very real rumblings now of a Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 game coming out, news revolving around WB Games selling off or shutting down some studios, Assassin's Creed Shadows leaks, and more!

This week we continue to gush about Avowed, chat a bit more about Split Fiction, Mike describes his time with Elden Ring Nightreign and going back to Maniac Mansion, and Grubb takes us to the Aloha state with Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. We also recap a bit of Nintendo news, Ubisoft's strategy moving forward, and much more!

Grubb, Dan, Tam, and Niki assemble to discuss their time with Avowed and the upcoming Split Fiction! They're joined by Aftermath's Nathan Grayson, who also discusses his new book about Twitch, Stream Big! Pre-order Stream Big here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Stream-Big/Nathan-Grayson/9781982156763

This week Grubb breaks down for us whether you at home need an RTX 5080, how Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is sitting with us, a bit of the Monster Hunter Wilds BETA, and some Tales of Graces F Remastered. We also chat about what could pop up at tomorrow's State of Play, Patapon marching its way back to PlayStation, GTA 6 is on track for Fall 2025, and more stories!

The whole gang is here ready to chat about Civilization 7, Grubb hitting up Grim Fandango for the first time, Jan navigating space in Citizen Sleeper 2, Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders, and a bit of Eternal Strands as well. We also cover a grip of Nintendo Switch 2 news, shakeups at PlayStation leadership, how tariffs could affect the games industry, and a bunch more stories and emails.

Finally 2024's Game of the Year season hass ended! Today part of the crew gets together to listen to some tunes and crown Best Video Game Music of 2024!

Jan's out on assignment, so Grubb is joined by co-captain Shawn, slamma jamma Mike, and an injured Dan to talk about retro gaming, Indiana Jones, Ninja Gaiden, and more! After that, news of the week and your emails! (What IS Coworker...?)

We got the whole gang together to draft our own lists for Fantasy Critic 2025!

The Nintendo Switch 2 is real and so is this podcast! We chat about Pokemon Cards, going back to Star Wars Outlaws, Blade Chimera, the greatness of Bowser's Fury and tripping out in Soundself. We also chat about all the details we know of the Switch 2, Sony cancelling games, Marvel Snap getting taken down, and even more!

While new releases are a bit slow we chat about Red Dead Redemption 2, Airborne Empire, Parking Garage Rally Circuit, and the fan-made Sonic Galactic. We also cover all of the newest Switch 2 rumblings abound as well as some trademarks and patents in the works. The question is also raised of whether more people know about Metal Gear or Persona!

We recap 2024's Fantasy Critic Draft and see the major winners and losers of last year! We also find time to chat about Rolling Stones' Top 50 Games of all time.

We're back with the podcast in the new year! We talk about what we did during the holiday break and all the degreaser we accidentally consumed. We also chat about a whole slew of games that occupied our time, the few bits of news that popped off, and even all of your emails!

THIS IS IT. THE WHITE SMOKE IS COMING OUT OF THE STUDIO! We go back to our roots as we throw math out the window and get down and dirty to determine our Top 10 and Giant Bomb's GAME OF THE YEAR!

Welcome to Day 3 of Game of the Year! We have a whole new slate of cateogries to discuss. Today we cover Best New Character, Best Compilation or Collection, Funniest Game, Horizon Presents Game That's Most Not For Us, Hitman Presents Game That's Most for Us, and Minigame of the Year! It's the episode right before we determine Giant Bomb's Top 10!

Game of the Year continues to roll on! We have a whole new slew of categories today including: Best Button, Best Input, Best Hitting, Best Game We Streamed, Best Depressing Game, and Best Moment or Sequence! We also manage to sneak in a Secret Santa drawing where nothing goes wrong!

Right after the Game Awards, we huddled together to record our own award show! We start our Game of the Year season with a bunch of categories such as: Best Hole, Best Walkin' Around, Best Old Game, Best Bot in Astro Bot, Best Map, and Most Satisfying Thing!

We brought the couch to hang out with our friends the night before The Game Awards 2024! We chat about being in and out of the industry, pizza, and what we're expecting from the big show! Segment 1: Karen Han, Brian David Gilbert, Elyse Willems, James Willems, Emma Fyffe, and Ify Nwadiwe Segment 2: Danny Peña, Riana Manuel Peña, Briana White, Robbie Daymond, Jordan Minor, and Gabe Durham, Eric Van Alen Segment 3 - WARFRAME 1999: Ben Starr, Neil Newbon, Amelia Tyler, Melissa Medina, Elsie Lovelock, Trieve Blackwood-Cambridge, Keving Afghani, Alpha Takahashi Segment 4: Rebb Ford, Wout van Halderen, Celia Bee, Parris Lilly, Jurge Cruz-Alvarez Segment 5: John Drake, Mary Kish, Michael Higham, Harris Foster, Alix Wilton Regan, Ronnell Crawford Segment 6: Shawn McDowell, Mike Monitti, Dan Ryckert, Jeff Bakalar, Lucy James, Tamoor Hussain, Niki Grayson, Jan Ochoa

We're back from The Game Awards and a week away in Los Angeles to recap GB@Nite, the Countdown to TGAs, and other miscellaneous shenanigans we had together! We also find some time to talk about all of the announcements from last week and your emails!

We got together before we're actually all together in Los Angeles to chat about Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Marvel Rivals, and a handful of other games. We also chat about more Switch rumors resurfacing, LEGO Fortnite updates, and even more news until the Game Awards dominates the news cycle later this week!