this is shit is charming as hell, I definitely recommend the demo. it's on Steam now.

We're almost an hour in and we JUST started talking about games on the Bombcast! giantbomb.com/live/chat

DEVOPS IS HARD OKAY this was not me I am jk

and now, a Nightmare chart: Mobile Game Revenue vs Top Movie Box Office 2025 mobilegamer.biz/the-top-gros... www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2...

This one in particular I originally started because I was thinking about Horizon - the franchise crossed 40 million copies sold this past year, but in 'gamer' circles it's derided and I see "Why are they pushing this?" a lot. Well, because it ranks just outside the Top 50 Best Selling Franchises.

Best Selling Video Game Franchises All Time (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...) Obviously reported numbers are incredibly inconsistent

Top Grossing Mobile Games of 2025 (mobilegamer.biz/the-top-gros...) Messing around with bubble charts in Python with a desired side effect of improving games industry literacy.

Secondhand Lions is like if Big Fish was watchable

I got a pit in my stomach listening to and relating to some of these childhood stories, about being "addressed" in school as a problem that needed to be dealt with. Like people reading my mail out loud. cheers Plante, really great work here with some insightful sharing between you and Ed.

A month out from launch, we're releasing the BIG HOPS documentary about the game's 6 year journey. It covers Hop's origin, growing the team, navigating a tough design space, bringing it all together, getting dropped by our publisher, Kickstarting, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtee...

I'm finding out which of my possessions my wife hates because we're packing for a move, and she keeps bringing me my stuff and going "we're donating this right?"

And another, a red Peep, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from Earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him.

I just picked this up - seems right up my alley

A dev rejected a PR from a bot - the bot posted a blog (yes, a blog) complaining about anti-bot bias. Ars Technica (one of my favorite outlets - makes this very disappointing) reported on it, and the writer used an LLM, which fabricated a quote by the slandered dev. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

We are Out of Office tomorrow for the holiday - no streams. In the meantime, 1 like = 1 minute of extra blight Dan must endure.

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HOLY CRAP! Huge props to Colin Hemphill in the @giantbomb.bsky.social Discord for making an unofficial Blight Club fan site compiling facts, trivia, and other interesting tidbits about every single Blight Club series! Downright amazing stuff! Link: www.blightclub.games #giantbomb #blightclub

There are many things players say they care about that they don’t - like ludonarrative dissonance. It’s fun to criticize a game for having a kind protagonist… who is also a mass murderer. That does not mean players *actually* want to shoot less, or want asshole characters. (Anyway good read!!!)

I am so genuinely furious I spent the past few days trying to figure out why random users across the globe weren't able to download our audio files because the CDN domain was "enormousexplosive.com" - and some dipshit flagged it in the last week. The dumbest people are in charge.

Happy Friday the 13th! We've got some video game news for ya and we've got @jasonfanelli.com to help chat about the State of Play, SEGA updates, the Helldivers movie, and more! giantbomb.com/live/chat

in REANIMAL you solve environmental puzzles and escape from ... floppy grandpa Joe? youtu.be/RTQUPrAh-L4

good night

I am so genuinely furious I spent the past few days trying to figure out why random users across the globe weren't able to download our audio files because the CDN domain was "enormousexplosive.com" - and some dipshit flagged it in the last week. The dumbest people are in charge.

Premium peeps! Check out the general "Premium Podcasts" feed because Jan gives a peak behind the curtain as to how he goes about picking voicemails for the dump truck! giantbomb.com/podcasts/pre...

UK Silent Hill: Bit Foggy Innit

Konami be like

Anyone That Will Prosecute 2028

this was influential for me I will not elaborate

I've been cooking this for a minute and it's like 90% there. Still lots of data that needs to be organized into charts, but it's the foundations for something I think will be really fun to maintain. @tolkoto.com @grubb.wtf @danryckert.com @chucktowski.com www.blightclub.games

Imagine if someone was like "I made a new sport, my business model is that it will be as successful as the NBA"

This game lives in my head rent free. So happy to own it. STRONG cast with Tim Curry, Tony Jay, Tara Strong, Brad Garrett, Jennifer Hale.

PsychOdyssey informed how I steer development projects and manage a dev team. the insight here is just stupendous.

I edited this! I'm so sorry!

A New Giant Bomb Premium Show: 9 Lives First episode free, now, on YT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UabG...

Lancer Tactics Steam store page is live! Cheers to @wick.works congrats store.steampowered.com/app/4049810/...

you know what DID make wages budge in the US specifically? the deaths of 1.2 million during covid which disproportionately affected folks aged 65+ 😳

I'm mostly over the sticker shock of $70 games. A $60 locked price wasn't a tenable forever dream to hold onto - and I empathize more now with studios being able to keep up production and pay fair wages. But the real issue comes from the minimum wage and real wages of workers not budging in decades

happy mewgenics day to all who celebrate

I can't help but like Mario Tennis Fever, and yet: Walk to mission. Get barren cutscene where barely animating characters talk about something that doesn't matter. Game asks if you want to play tennis. You say yes. Load the tennis. giantbomb.com/reviews/mari...

Technically poor and hurried, devoid of the original's charm, and full of filler content and baffling changes, Yakuza Kiwami 3 is a 20/100, a 2/10, a one-star game. It's a seismic miss that left me questioning my love for the series. My review: www.gamerguides.com/yakuza-kiwam...

Guys, dont immediately jump ship. Complain on Discords forums. Spam their emails. Make noise. We'll never tackle the overlying problem if we just keep jumping ship. Discord is easy to bully out of doing shit. We've made them stop doing NFT shit. We can stop them taking ID's. :)

In one of the nerdiest Quick Looks we've ever done, @chucktowski.com sits down with Olive Perry @wick.works to play a round of Lancer Tactics, based on the Lancer TTRPG. Steam store page dropping soon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI-e...

I played the latest build of Lancer Tactics, based on the Lancer TTRPG, with the developer @wick.works ! youtu.be/aI-eBkUySFw?...

Gonna start calling Seance of Blake Manor a Knives Out-like

I know people are going to call this Super Bowl boring, but hear me out. It's really fun to watch the Patriots get absolutely dog-walked like this.