Giant Bombcast

WE HAVE ASSEMBLED IN PERSON to discuss some more categories like "Please Stop", "Most Disappointing", "Best Moment/Sequence", and to crown the real GAME OF THE YEAR!

We're back after a long week in Los Angeles! We recap our time during The Game Awards and then GB Live, as well as our misecellaneous shenanigans around Los Angles, and also we squeeze in talking about video games! We also bit adieu to E3 as it is officially announced as gone!

We brought the couch back to Los Angeles to chat with all of our friends in and around the industry before The Game Awards pops off! *edited out the breaks and tried to clean up the audio!
00:00 - Segment 1 - Couch: Jake Baldino, Lucy James, Emma Fyffe | Back Row: Tamoor Hussain, Michael Higham
45:43 - Segment 2 - Couch: Alyssa Mercante, Jen Glennon, Brittani Johnson, Steve Saylor | Back Row: Shawn Kittelson, John Drake
01:24:18 - Segment 3 - Couch: Jake Steinberg, Kahlief Adams, Parris Lillly | Back Row: Graham Reid, Dalibor Dimovski
02:09:58 - Segment 4 - Couch: Shannon Liao, Ben Starr, Rebb Ford, Harris Foster | Back Row: Xalavier Nelson, Rayme Vinson
02:52:33 - Segment 5 - Couch: Ash Thukral, David Kim, Alexa Bowers, Andrejs Klavins | Back Row: Seth Rosen, Alexander Dracott
03:38:36 - BONUS Remedy Segment - Couch: Jeff Bakalar, Sam Lake, Kyle Rowley, Ilkka Villi | Back Row: Lucy James, Tamoor Hussain
03:56:29 - Segment 6 - Mary Kish and The Fuckos #gbatnite #giantbomb #thegameawards

We're all together IN PERSON for DAY 3 of the Game of the Year! Today we begin the whittling process to get to the TOP 20 Games of the Year to start the voting process. Do the knives come out? What harsh cuts need to be made? What games will make it to the Silver Spoon?

SCREW IT! WE'LL DO IT LIVE! Join us as we continue down the journey of Game of the Year 2023.

The whole crew is mostly here to chat about seven more categories:

• BEST PIKMIN
• Bloodborne Presents OLD GAME OF THE YEAR
• Psi-Ops Presents BEST DUDE-TOSSING - BEST MULTIPLAYER
• Soulja Boy Presents Best Game For People Who Drink Beer And Get Drunk or Smoke Weed and Get High and who macrodose to deal with the pain of everyday life
• MOST B-GAME
• Cheesecake Factory Presents PETER MOLYNEUX MEMORIAL (he’s fine) AWARD FOR MOST IDEAS

THE FIFTH SEASON OF THE YEAR IS UPON US, GAME OF THE YEAR SEASON! We got the whole gang here to chat about 7 CATEGORIES to kick off Day 1 of deliberations.

Those categories are:

• Cheesecake Factory’s Ben Starr Presents BEST DEBUT (characters, studio, IP, etc)
• JEFF BAKALAR’S BEST RUNNING AROUND (the spirit of moving)
• BEST 2022 GAME WE DIDN’T TALK ABOUT
• BEST ALAN WAKE CHARACTER
• BEST GAME YOU BOUNCED OFF OF
• BEST NEW HARDWARE
• BEST GAME MECHANIC

We'll be back this coming Tuesday for Day 2 of deliberations and 7 more categories!

Right before we get to Game of the Year this week we continue the mad dash to play all the games! Bailey joins us this week as we talk about Venba, El Paso Elsewhere, finishing Jusant, trying our hardest to continue through Alan Wake 2 and Baldur's Gate 3! We're a little light on the news this week but we chat about Sony's class action lawsuit, Killer Instinct getting a new Anniversary Edition, and Bethesda replying to negative Steam reviews.


Only a few tickets are left for the Giant Bomb GOTY Finale:
https://www.ticketmaster.com/giant-bomb-los-angeles-california-12-09-2023/event/09005F6FEAF94234

New stuff in the store as well!https://store.giantbomb.com/

It's a short week because of the holidays in the states! We wrangled everyone to share what we were all thankful for this year. Hope you're having a restful time if you got the time off, but if not, Happy Thursday!

Make sure to defrost your turkies! This week we chat about the Lenovo Legion Go, Persona 5 Tactica, Super Mario RPG, and Chants of Sennaar! We also talk about the Switch 2 not having DLSS, Pokemon never going extinct, and more!

If you missed out on tickets to the Giant Bomb Game of the Year LIVE, we've switched up venues and have more on sale: https://www.ticketmaster.com/giant-bomb-los-angeles-california-12-09-2023/event/09005F6FEAF94234

Jan, Bakalar, Tam, and Bailey are here for REVENGEANCE! This week Jan talks about a couple other games that he's churning through, Tam talks puzzles in Puzzmo, and we hear about hot takes on watermelons!

This week's hot topic: THE GAME AWARDS! We have an extended chat about the state of the show, the industry as a whole, and our thoughts on what'll win at the TGAs!