Giant Bombcast

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Giant Bomb discusses the latest video game news and new releases, taste-test questionable beverages, and get wildly off-topic in this weekly podcast.

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Giant Bombcast 617: Bathtub...

01.14.2020

We welcome Brad back as we discuss Sony skipping out on E3, Nintendo's upcoming theme park, the Epic Games Store, what Wattam is, and much more on this week's Giant Bombcast!

Giant Bombcast episodes:

01.14.2020 Giant Bombcast 617: Bathtub Full of Food We welcome Brad back as we discuss Sony skipping out on E3, Nintendo's upcoming theme park, the Epic Games Store, what Wattam is, and much more on this week's Giant Bombcast!
01.07.2020 Giant Bombcast 616: Sonic's Wife We're back from the holidays! Come along as we recount our activities during the break, new console logos, CES news, the anatomy of an echidna, and much more!
12.31.2019 Giant Bombcast 615: Favorite Crime The white smoke has cleared and revealed another episode of the GIANT BOMBCAST! We discuss the upcoming game releases of 2020, video game themed classes, and our favorite crimes!
12.27.2019 Giant Bombcast Game of the Year 2019: Day Five Deliberations The final day is here! Many games will enter, but only 10 can leave. Which one will reign supreme?
12.26.2019 Giant Bombcast Game of the Year 2019: Day Four Deliberations The list is done, the time for casual talk is through. Time to dole out awards, including Best Story, Best Music, Best Style, and Cool Multiplayer Thing!
12.25.2019 Giant Bombcast Game of the Year 2019: Day Three Deliberations It's time to soldier through the end of this list of 2019's most notable games. No game will be forgotten! Only awards remain!
12.24.2019 Giant Bombcast Game of the Year 2019: Day Two Deliberations Our second day of discussions takes us deep into our list of 2019's most important games and the impressions they left on us.
12.23.2019 Giant Bombcast Game of the Year 2019: Day One Deliberations The imminent end of 2019 means only one thing: it's time for us to sit in a room and talk through all the games that mattered to us this year.
12.17.2019 Giant Bombcast 614: The Sonic Bible Surprises are around every corner! We talk about the newly announced Xbox Series X, the Game Awards, 2019's Capcom Cup, the origin of planet Mobius, and much much more!
12.10.2019 Giant Bombcast 613: The Universal Sauce The year may be winding down, but game announcements aren't! We go through Sony's State of Play and the new Switch indies, speculate about a new BioShock, pitch the future of Darkstalkers, evaluate Juggalo gangs, and get a crash course ...
12.03.2019 Giant Bombcast 612: Two Two Tacos This week we're joined by a very special guest: you! Join us for a whole bunch of e- and voice mails as we entertain your thoughts on fast-food ordering, Death Stranding spreadsheets, puffy jackets, and other topics of the day.
11.26.2019 Giant Bombcast 611: "jedi council pink floyd" This week we run down a bunch of our GOTY backlog prep, get deep-ish into Disco Elysium, discuss the Half-Life: Alyx trailer, ponder the future of Tony Hawk (again), take a Star Wars minute, and get hyped for more Resi.
11.19.2019 Giant Bombcast 610: #Piñexit Google Stadia, Pokemon Sword & Shield, Jedi: Fallen Order, a new Half-Life (?!), a new Mass Effect (?!?), "Anthem Next," Ring Fit Adventure, X019: this podcast is practically bursting at the seams!
11.12.2019 Giant Bombcast 609: Terry Bogard 2020 This week we're trucking right along with Death Stranding, Luigi's Mansion 3, and The Outer Worlds, plus a lot of ruminating on new consoles, the best 3DS games, a ranking of fruit, Limp Bizkit survival strategies, and a quick Sonic ...
11.05.2019 Giant Bombcast 608: OK DOOMer The Death Stranding embargo is up, and unsurprisingly it's hard to talk about much else, but we also get deep into a Blizzcon recap with thoughts on Diablo IV and Overwatch 2, Luigi's Mansion 3, Switch Lite sales figures, Hideo ...
10.29.2019 Giant Bombcast 607: The Wang Chung Zone This week: EA's (back) on Steam, Death Stranding comes to PC, a COD: MW report, some Blizzcon speculation, details on our Extra Life plans, and more of the worst (best) songs of the '80s, as chosen by you!
10.22.2019 Giant Bombcast 606: PlayStation Vita 2 This week we're bowled over by The Outer Worlds, Jan talks Digimon puberty, the Analogue Pocket looks super slick, Blizzard attracts the ire of Congress, and we... hate the '80s?
10.15.2019 Giant Bombcast 605: Baby's First Earthquake Instead of all the embargoed games we can't talk about, this week we get into MiSTer updates, Gabe's missing minigun, a bit of Final Fantasy reminiscing, speculation about new-console load times, soda beer, more bad (?) '80s songs, and the ...
10.08.2019 Giant Bombcast 604: I'll Battle Pass! Gaaaaames! Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, Trine 4, Indivisible, Concrete Genie, and the new Yooka-Laylee are out this week, plus the latest on PlayStation 5, Red Dead 2 PC, and Blizzard's Hearthstone e-sports controversy.
10.01.2019 Giant Bombcast 603: Call of Tuesday Video games! Ghost Recon Breakpoint, The Last of Us Part II, Code Vein, The Surge 2, Card of Darkness, Call of Duty Mobile, Untitled Goose Game, Outer Wilds... Surely we talk about stuff besides games this week too. Probably.
09.24.2019 Giant Bombcast 602: Easy Chicken A zillion games came out last week and we're here to talk about like 12 of them! Let's check in on Apple Arcade's lineup, Link's Awakening, and Borderlands 3. Then let's get into the news... is Valve going to have ...
09.17.2019 Giant Bombcast 601: Chief Daedra Officer This week: We're all playing (and talking about) Borderlands 3, Jeff spent some time with Apple Arcade, E3 2020 gets influential, Billy Mitchell gets litigious, and we get the inside scoop on QVC promotions and open-source car-hacking.
09.10.2019 Giant Bombcast 600: Big Game Pass This week we dig into Gears the Fifth, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, new Monster Hunter and PvZ, the weirdest Nintendo Direct, Apple's Arcade, car firmware updates, and the curious case of the Borderlands reviews.
09.03.2019 Giant Bombcast 599: Podcasts Are for Vampires Some old friends show up in the studio to talk about playing the Avengers game, the greatness of Control, merging Destiny characters, new iterations of old arguments, and the week's fraught events in the game industry.
08.27.2019 Giant Bombcast 598: The Tank, the Healer, and the Damage-Dealer Noclip's Danny O'Dwyer lands in the studio on his way to PAX to get deep into Control, Outer Wilds, and Creature in the Well, ponder Tom Holland's age-appropriateness, speculate about new-console launch lineups, and discuss at length the noble cockroach.
08.20.2019 Giant Bombcast 597: Watering a Plastic Succulent GameSpot's Lucy James and Tamoor Hussain stop by to discuss coming to America, third-person peeing, all the news out of Gamescom, being grumpy about Overwatch, and a textbook example of conflict resolution.
08.13.2019 Giant Bombcast 596: Math Amphetamine Games are approaching! But before the Fall releases start, we take a little more time with Fire Emblem, check out Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and RAD, talk loot box developments, talk through more than one weird concert report, and take another ...
08.06.2019 Giant Bombcast 595: It's Always the Cute Monks GameSpot's Kallie Plagge and Michael Higham drop by with more on Fire Emblem and Wolfenstein, an on-the-scene EVO 2019 report, a word on the events of the weekend, and our ever-popular segment, foodmails.
07.30.2019 Giant Bombcast 594: Tea Leads to Intimacy This week world traveler Drew Scanlon lands in the studio to talk about the new Fire Emblem, the new Wolfenstein, multiplayer solitaire, air traffic role-playing, revitalizing Star Fox, tragic data loss, and cooking with soda.
07.23.2019 Giant Bombcast 593: Bad Gamer Dads Noted gamer dad Will Smith drops by to talk about Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Dota Underlords, drifting Joy Cons, Tom DeLonge's alien fetish, computer cabinets, toads in the hole, and Odin's favorite household objects.
07.16.2019 Giant Bombcast 592: Extra Ribcage Edition The Switch Lite is the big story of the week, but we also touch on Dragon Quest Builders 2, SolSeraph, and FFXIV, get deep into the future of Capcom fighting, contemplate cinematic fatalities, argue about pigs in blankets, and get ...
07.09.2019 Giant Bombcast 591: WOLF MERLIN WOLF The Bombcast is back with field reports from Super Mario Maker 2, Teppen, and Apex Legends Season 2. Then we wade back into the ever-growing auto chess swamp, ask if Nintendo is falling behind the competition, and, in what must ...
07.02.2019 Giant Bombcast 590: Ice Cube Is Our Coworker This week's hot topics include Mario Maker 2, CEO, console tariffs, the PUBG "universe," the Black Ops 4 that could have been, a variety of chicken/waffle configurations, Barenaked pinball, and the origin of inverted castles.
06.25.2019 Giant Bombcast 589: The Homie Protocol This week we break, uh, protocol by starting with a gigantic pile of your emails, before moving on to Bloodstained, Samurai Shodown, Shang Tsung, more Auto Chess of various flavors, and the news of the day.
06.18.2019 Giant Bombcast 588: Tingle Gave Me His Dowser! This week we do some post-E3 housekeeping and run down our favorite moments of the show, gush at length about Cadence of Hyrule, express bafflement at all this automatic chess, and take a ton of your emails!
06.13.2019 Giant Bomb @ Nite - Live From E3 2019: Nite 3 This is it folks, the final Nite of the show.
06.12.2019 Giant Bombcast Giant Bomb @ Nite - Live From E3 2019: Nite 2 The mayhem continues on Nite 2 of E3.
06.11.2019 Giant Bomb @ Nite - Live From E3 2019: Nite 1 Nite 1 is here!
06.11.2019 Giant Bombcast 587: Tac-Yak We rip open the annual E3 sealed envelope to discuss all the games from judges' week like Doom Eternal, Wolfenstein Youngblood, The Outer Worlds, and more. Plus: a rundown of our schedule at the show and another round of our ...
06.04.2019 Giant Bombcast 586: Functional Shang Tsung! Our last show before E3 sees us digging through a mountain of news, leaks, and rumors in advance of the show, connecting to Death Stranding, speculating about the scent of the Xbox, and pondering the slow, slow nature of the ...
05.28.2019 Giant Bombcast 585: The Hentai Highway Before E3 arrives, we spend a little more time dipping into the games of the day like Void Bastards, Mortal Kombat 11, and Dauntless, saying farewell to the Ouya, pondering decade-old buffalo sauce, and digging into that hot new fantasy ...
05.21.2019 Giant Bombcast 584: Bend It Like Blevins We all ponder lucrative careers as Fortnite players and/or makeup influencers before instead discussing the ESA's turmoil and the future of E3, additional time with Rage 2, Oculus Quest, more Mario Maker, and the fate of Jean-Luc Cougar.
05.14.2019 Giant Bombcast 583: "Under the Top!" This week we dive into Rage 2's vaguely pink wasteland, Mordhau's medieval kombat, loot box legislation, Tetris downloads, the new Ghost Recon, the old Final Fantasy, that jerk Bulbasaur, and what makes a hoodie a hoodie.
05.07.2019 Giant Bombcast 582: It's 4:20 Somewhere! It's a little slow on the new games dropping front but we talk about Ben and Jan's trip to the movies, what's legal in Denver, Xbox's Community Standards, the Video Game Hall of Fame, and more!
04.30.2019 Giant Bombcast 581: Six on the Face MK11 continues to dominate the office, but we also mix in Forager, the latest spate of video game labor issues, Mario styli, cartridge fetishism, controller evolution, Steven Tyler's knife, and... that trailer.
04.23.2019 Giant Bombcast 580: Where Is Kidd Thunder? We've really got Mortal Kombat on the brain this week, but we also make time for Steamworld Quest, Iron Man VR, the latest pre-E3 console news, strangers in hotel rooms, influencer influencers, and the mysterious case of the flying crab.
04.16.2019 Giant Bombcast 579: BATS NOT BALLS Sony details the next PlayStation out of nowhere and it isn't even the most contentious topic of the week! Respawn's Star Wars, Janina Gavankar's Horizon leak, genuine Sanwa parts: this podcast has it all.
04.09.2019 Giant Bombcast 578: Chrome-Ass GameCube After the requisite Wrestlemania wrap-up, we drive dangerously, test our falconry skills, hit max level in D.C., go to MiSTer school, ponder the Smurf reproductive system, and listen to one very special Soundcloud.
04.02.2019 Giant Bombcast 577: Google Doggie Kruger With PAX in the rearview mirror, we get serious about E3 speculation and the future of game consoles and streaming, then even more serious about Power Rangers, then even MORE serious about owning a Dig Dug machine.
03.26.2019 Giant Bombcast 576: I Sometimes Play the Switch This week we die more than twice in Sekiro, pop back into The Division 2, and play more of BaBa Is You. We also share stories about Jan's time on a farm, whether or not Jason's eye is fine, and ...

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Giant Bombcast episodes:

Giant Bombcast 617: Bathtub Full of Food

Giant Bombcast 616: Sonic's Wife

Giant Bombcast 615: Favorite Crime

Giant Bombcast Game of the Year 2019: Day Five Deliberations

Giant Bombcast Game of the Year 2019: Day Four Deliberations

Giant Bombcast Game of the Year 2019: Day Three Deliberations

Giant Bombcast Game of the Year 2019: Day Two Deliberations

Giant Bombcast Game of the Year 2019: Day One Deliberations

Giant Bombcast 614: The Sonic Bible

Giant Bombcast 613: The Universal Sauce

Giant Bombcast 612: Two Two Tacos

Giant Bombcast 611: "jedi council pink floyd"

Giant Bombcast 610: #Piñexit

Giant Bombcast 609: Terry Bogard 2020

Giant Bombcast 608: OK DOOMer

Giant Bombcast 607: The Wang Chung Zone

Giant Bombcast 606: PlayStation Vita 2

Giant Bombcast 605: Baby's First Earthquake

Giant Bombcast 604: I'll Battle Pass!

Giant Bombcast 603: Call of Tuesday

Giant Bombcast 602: Easy Chicken

Giant Bombcast 601: Chief Daedra Officer

Giant Bombcast 600: Big Game Pass

Giant Bombcast 599: Podcasts Are for Vampires

Giant Bombcast 598: The Tank, the Healer, and the Damage-Dealer

Giant Bombcast 597: Watering a Plastic Succulent

Giant Bombcast 596: Math Amphetamine

Giant Bombcast 595: It's Always the Cute Monks

Giant Bombcast 594: Tea Leads to Intimacy

Giant Bombcast 593: Bad Gamer Dads

Giant Bombcast 592: Extra Ribcage Edition

Giant Bombcast 591: WOLF MERLIN WOLF

Giant Bombcast 590: Ice Cube Is Our Coworker

Giant Bombcast 589: The Homie Protocol

Giant Bombcast 588: Tingle Gave Me His Dowser!

Giant Bomb @ Nite - Live From E3 2019: Nite 3

Giant Bombcast Giant Bomb @ Nite - Live From E3 2019: Nite 2

Giant Bomb @ Nite - Live From E3 2019: Nite 1

Giant Bombcast 587: Tac-Yak

Giant Bombcast 586: Functional Shang Tsung!

Giant Bombcast 585: The Hentai Highway

Giant Bombcast 584: Bend It Like Blevins

Giant Bombcast 583: "Under the Top!"

Giant Bombcast 582: It's 4:20 Somewhere!

Giant Bombcast 581: Six on the Face

Giant Bombcast 580: Where Is Kidd Thunder?

Giant Bombcast 579: BATS NOT BALLS

Giant Bombcast 578: Chrome-Ass GameCube

Giant Bombcast 577: Google Doggie Kruger

Giant Bombcast 576: I Sometimes Play the Switch

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