PAXAMANIA II is nigh! (Banner By: HavocHQ) Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host. There were a smattering of news worthy events on the site worth buzzing over. Last weekend was the Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run where...
Creativity is a fickle thing. Professional creatives everywhere have experienced at least one dead-end during their careers. Writer’s block plagues even the most talented authors, painters’ blank faces mirror equally blank canvases, and musicians find themselves falling into the same old chord progressions time after time. Fickle as it may be, creativity can be tamed,...
The phrase “environmental storytelling” seems to have entered the games discourse so quietly we were never really given a solid definition of it. It has been treated as a matter of “I know it when I see it;” and we see it scrawled on walls, placed in scattered objects, and designed into the literal “environment”...
We liked the ruggedly beautiful deep-woods fire-watching sim Firewatch quite a bit. And as it turns out, so did quite a lot of other people. Publisher Panic recently revealed on its blog that the game sold roughly 500,000 full-priced copies in its first month of release, and that sales were strong enough that it was...
If you believe in the idea of games as vacation destinations from the real world, then they don’t come more idyllic than the Wyoming wilderness which provides the backdrop for Campo Santo’s first-person mystery Firewatch. If you haven’t spent time walking the tinder dry countryside, melancholically working out your personal issues while chatting to the...
Dr. Tracksuit is Ready to DECK Some Fools! Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host. A new month means that the ides of March are upon us, and that means inclement weather for most of us! Hopefully the...
Spoiler alert! This article presumes you’ve finished Firewatch, and directly references events from the end of the game. I love a lot of what Firewatch offers. Its environments, soundtrack, dialogue and animations are all superb. The game gets so much right that I can’t help but be disappointed by its overarching plot—specifically the middle-act, when Henry suspects...
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host this week! Despite us being halfway done with the truncated month of February the Giant Bomb community has still be up to plenty of interesting things. With most of our community...
Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show, our weekly livestreamed podcast. You can catch the show live on Tuesdays at 1 pm PDT on our Twitch channel, or after the fact at any of the links below. There was a lot to chat about this week, with the relaunch of the Overwatch beta alongside our...
Firewatch is a very good game, and a gorgeous one, too. And as TechnoBuffalo recently discovered, it contains a very cool (and, until now, hidden) feature that enables you to order hard copies of the photos you take with your in-game disposable camera from a fake photo development company called Fotodome. I’ve seen no mention...
