Giant Bombcast

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! Listen to all the music featured in this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXlhzeWIuTHJI5uambgz2iHlkiRBK4-wG

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...

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!

Jan is back and sharing his adventures in Japan checking out Monster Hunter Wilds! We also chat about revisiting a couple other games from earlier in the year like Lorelai and the Laser Eyes, Vampire Survivors, Dragon Quest III HD-2D, and more! After that, the biggest stories from this past week along with your emails.

Tam's back in the hosting seat while Jan's on assignment to talk with Grubb about his newfound love of Disney, Mike about his continued love of Disney, and Shawn about the most Disney thing of all: Motorcycles. After that, plenty of games, news, and of course... EMAILS!

We're doing the Bombcast a bit early because this is gonna be a funky week! We chat about all of the nominations to come out of The Game Awards and a couple other news stories. We also chat about Black Ops 6, Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake, Diablo IV, and more games! Hope you have a great Deek Week.

The Bombcast is all rested up after the three day weekend to chat about enjoying Black Ops 6, Kingdom Hearts II in 2024, hanging out in Webfishing, the power of the PS5 Pro, and solving mysteries in Rise of the Golden Idol! We also recap the hottest news that's happening around gaming and read your lovely emails.

Tam's back in the hosting seat and joined by Grubb, Dan, and Mike to tell him all about Giant Bomb's wild Extra Life 2024 stream and give their updated thoughts on Black Ops 6, the latest Jackbox games, and Pokémon TCG Pocket. After that: News from Nintendo, PlayStation, and more, and YOUR emails!

This week we go back to the year 1991 with Black Ops 6 and Indie Horror game Fear the Spotlight, we chat about our brief time with Dragon Age: The Veilguard and the Monster Hunter Wilds Beta, as well as another Metaphor: ReFantazio check-in. We also recap the hottest and biggest news popping off like PlayStation shutting down Firewalk Studios, the developers behind Concord.

This week we crown the four games that are the SCARIEST! Is a creepy mansion and a dog bursting through the window enough to keep a game on Mt. Rushmore?

This week we've got a SPOILERCAST for Nintendo's Alarmo, a whole bunch of Steam Next Fest Demos like Star Vaders and Ballionaire, grappling rockets and clouds in Echo Point Nova, and punching dudes in Batman Arkham Shadow. We also recap the latest situation happening with the team behind Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, a grip of Nintendo Switch 2 stories, and many more! Visit https://bit.ly/GBXL...

We have ourselves a little party as Dan tells us all about Mario Party Jamboree, Grubb attacking and parrying the GOTY backlog with Nine Sols, jumping and gliding in Europa, examining holes in Silent Hill 2, and a couple more games as well! We also examine metaphors in Metaphor: ReFantazio and dive into all of the newest video game news!

Our friends Lex Luddy, Jessica Cogswell, and Michael Higham join Shawn and Jan to chat all about Metaphor: ReFantazio as they skate on swords and destabilize governments!

This week we select the all of the Gokus when given the Goku option in Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero, Mike and Jan gush over Metaphor: ReFantazio, Grubb hits the balls with Pinball Spire, and a handful of other games too! We also recap this week's top stories and the best emails! Dan's impression of Mike "Jimming the camera" at every innuendo: https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/original/153/1530215...