Welcome to a jam-packed edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight brought to you by the wonderful year of 2023! Your host, as usual, is @zombiepie! After a short break to give everyone plenty of time to enjoy the holidays and the 2022 GOTY staff lists on the site, I'm glad to help usher you into a new year with plenty of community-created goodies.
This edition of the Spotlight is genuinely packed to the gills. So, I'm not going to waste your time this week. All I ask is that to hundreds or thousands of you that read or use this feature, please consider checking out at least one or two of the community-made lists or blogs on the site and tell the author "thank you" or "good job." Let's try to start 2023 on as positive a note as possible.
News
This week was a slow one for Giant Bomb and that's due to a handful of unforeseen circumstances. First, Dan caught COVID and his infection was an especially bad case with him needing to be off camera while recovering. The hope is that all of the normal programs will return during the week of 1/8/2023, which includes the return of Grubsy. Arcade Pit also needed to take a break last week due to unexpected issues.
If you are a part of the Giant Bomb Discord and are a premium member, find the comment from Bakalar about Fandom looking to conduct interviews by "Giant Bomb Superfans." Fandom wants YOU to tell them what you'd like to see on the site and why you still enjoy what's going on here.
Finally, as mentioned during UPF and as part of Jess' Twitter thread commemorating her first full year as a Giant Bomb employee, she's officially engaged with her partner. Feel free to wish the two of them the best in their adventures together.
Community GOTY 2022 Content
Community GOTY 2022 Lists
- Best of 2022 (By: @marino)
- My 2022 Games of the Year (By: @themathlete)
- 2022 And I Have A Top Ten List For YOU (By: @yoshifan)
- Top 10 Of 2022 (By: @dialthedude)
- I'm Keeping Track Of Every Game I Played In 2022 (By: @niflhe)
- 2022 Oldish Games I Played This Year (And Elden Ring) (By: @mikachops)
- Game of the Year 2022 (By: @redhorsespirit)
- Fakey's 2022 Games of the Year (By: @fakekisser)
- GOTY 2022 (By: @majormitch)
- 2022 Top 5 (By: @fobwashed)
- Best Games of 2022 (By: @av_gamer)
- 2022 Best Old Games (By: @shami_sansi)
- GOTY 2022 (By: @beachthunder)
- DAYS OFF GAMING GOTY 2022 (By: @ilythium)
- ArbitraryWater's Favorite Games of 2022 (Which Didn't Come Out In 2022) (By: @arbitrarywater)
- Game of the Year 2022 (By: @gravitypenguin)
- Games I Finished In 2022 (By: @ssj4raditz)
- My Top 10 of 2022 (By: @forcecommander)
- Sgt Sphynx's GotY List for 2022 (By: @sgtsphynx)
- Top 10 Of 2022 (By: @mrcropes)
- Top 8 Games (That I Played) In 2022 (By: @totalpatoot)
Community GOTY Blogs
Jeff Presents His Own Games of His Year 2022 (By: @jeffrud)
jeffrud finally got around to making a 2022 GOTY blog on Giant Bomb, but it doesn't just name his ten favorite games from the year. It also names a handful of superlatives and the worst game he played last year as well.
The 2022 Moosies Video Game Awards (By: @mooseymcman)
MooseyMcMan takes to Giant Bomb to hand out their 2022 Moosies Video Game Awards! Give it a read and see what their top ten was and which games took special commendations like "Best old game to play whilst listening to podcasts."