11/24/2015

Hot topics this week include airsoft, stuff in Jeff's garage, the new Bloodborne DLC, PlayStation 4 PlayStation 2 emulation, messing with the Steam Link and Controller, Xbox 360 memories, and more emails about synthetic weed than you ever thought possible.

Nov 24, '15

11/17/2015

Battlefront! Fallout! Tomb Raider! StarCraft! The games of holiday 2015 are upon us, but that doesn't keep us from other important topics like old Bruce Lee games, Nintendo's first post-Iwata Direct, the fate of System Shock, seafood pizza, a bunch of game-review reminiscing, and the things you shouldn't take home with you.

Nov 17, '15

11/10/2015

Fresh off of Extra Life, Chicago's favorite son swoops in to chat about the biggest games of the season, open-world quality assurance, 6 billion dollar acquisitions, forced eSports, questionable parenting tips, a whole bunch of business minutes, and the joys of brains 'n bone marrow.

Nov 10, '15

11/03/2015

Drew's back from Europe! Jeff's bummed about Need for Speed! Dan's a wrestling manager! Brad can't really talk about Tomb Raider! Questionable tax advice! The mystery of Half-Life 3! Applebee's vs. Chili's! IHOP vs. Waffle House! Sweet 'nade bro!

Nov 3, '15

10/27/2015

Between fall video games shipping and Sony holding press conferences, we almost missed this week's podcast! Luckily we rode our bears here from Paris to touch on all these topics, plus the quirks of Canadian money, the horrors of Bayou Billy, educational Second Life, and the fourth wave of ska.

Oct 27, '15

LA Podfest 2015 Edition

Live from Los Angeles, it's our show from the LA Podfest! Well, it was live when it happened. You'll just have to trust us.

Oct 21, '15

10/20/2015

A harrowing two-week journey without any video producers has begun, but we'll survive by recruiting one Matthew Rorie to chat about water-cooled laptops, nasty time capsules, NES memories, not much Halo (yet), the NX timeline (again), the wonders of arcade Punch-Out, and childhood plans to burgle the Toys 'R Us.

Oct 20, '15

10/13/2015

Danny O'Dwyer joins us as we uncover the 10 Hottest Spots in Lisbon and discuss our adventures in amateur level design, disappearing Darth Vader, the FOB rebalance, the saga of Finicky Larry, mods for the console version of Fallout 4, that New Xbox One Experience preview, and hey, did you know that there's a new Assassin's Creed game coming out next week? Weird, right? Here's a cow.

Oct 13, '15

10/06/2015

It's an indie-stravaganza this week with Undertale, The Beginner's Guide, Read Only Memories, and Indivisible, along with a little much-needed Tony Hawk catharsis, some now-outdated Far Cry speculation, thoughts on wrasslin' and Rock Band, and... yeah, OK, we only talked about Destiny a LITTLE bit.

Oct 6, '15

09/29/2015

Just as fall is starting to heat up, let's talk about all the games we HAVEN'T played yet! Like Tony Hawk 5! And Lego Dimensions! And Destin...yeah, no, we've been playing way too much of that. Anyway, whatever. Video games! They're back!

Sep 29, '15

09/22/2015

We've got some new podcasting equipment, and we talked directly into it for your listening enjoyment! Just in time for Destiny: The Taken King, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, Tokyo Game Show: Not Much Happened, Video Games: A Few Got Delayed, Emails: Who Comes Up With This Stuff, and Wrestling: Dan No Please Just Stop.

Sep 22, '15

09/15/2015

Should Drew buy a Wii U? What's the best emoji of 2015's freshman class? Just how good IS Super Mario Maker? Does Forza 6 still have cars? All these and other burning questions will be explored on this week's edition of... what's this podcast called again?

Sep 15, '15

09/08/2015

Roughly 75 percent of this podcast is about Metal Gear Solid V, but we somehow manage to sneak in a tidbit here and there about Marty O'Donnell and the future of Destiny, new PS4 firmware business, Dan's adventures in pants-buying, and the video game monarchy.

Sep 8, '15

09/01/2015

All anyone wants to do is play Metal Gear, but we also manage to squeeze in some chit-chat about Lara Croft Go, Mad Max, the HTC Vive, crowdfunded preorders, Christmas games, E40's 40s, and getting too old for PAX.

Sep 1, '15

08/25/2015

We talk about airplanes and drive-ins and video games and Metal Gear! Someone said "Sad Factory" and that was pretty funny! See you at PAX!

Aug 25, '15

08/18/2015

We've got thoughts on movies new and old, and by golly, you're gonna hear 'em. Also: video game tattoos, way too much Metal Gear, doping in electronic sports, and Dan's unexpected spiritual awakening. Don't forget to tip your server!

Aug 18, '15

08/11/2015

This week! Jeff's clicking sakuras, Brad visited Tacoma, Jason's sneaking in Galak-Z, and Dan's boldly going... somewhere. Also: WOW expansions, Mafia announcements, Time Magazine covers, Dr. Dre albums, a vigorous conversation about nuts, and your emails!

Aug 11, '15

08/04/2015

Hot off the presses, straight from the streets, we're here with the latest chatter about Microsoft's Gamescom showing, the savage spaceship abuses of Galak-Z, Rare's economy-sized 30-pack, the Konami surveillance state, and the weirdest changes to hit Destiny yet.

Aug 4, '15

07/28/2015

We console our sadness about the broken Street Fighter V beta by, um, talking a lot about Street Fighter, along with the new King's Quest, the end of Ouya, way more Rocket League, super healthy living, super unhealthy clicking, and the war of humans against pets.

Jul 28, '15

07/21/2015

When Brad's away, you'll get to play... a new episode of the Giant Bombcast, that is! Join Jeff, Dan, Drew, and Jason for another installment of the world's only video game podcast as we discuss Street Fighter V's post-release purchasing plans, Rising Thunder's potentially Easy Operation, Batman pre-patch patches, the unlikely return of Bases Loaded, and the Wisconsin's seedy underbelly.

Jul 20, '15

07/07/2015

Bellies full with deep-fried candy bars, we're ready to dig deep into the Nintendo PlayStation, weird Minecraft news, the dubious allure of Fallout Shelter, multiple weird Japanese fighting games, Nintendo's tough investor talk, hot pepper facts, and much more!

Jul 7, '15

06/30/2015

This week: a lot of PlayStation Vue gets vued, we all played Batman, dances get very expensive, Dan definitely shouldn't play with fireworks, and Driveclub will never, ever be spoken of again. All this, plus your emails!

Jun 30, '15

06/23/2015

We've dragged ourselves from the smoldering wreckage of E3 to wrap up some lingering topics from the show, including impressions of Horizon: Zero Dawn, Black Ops 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and MGS5, the incontinent effects of VR, that new Xbox One UI, finally playing No Man's Sky, and the mystery of Chicago game developers.

Jun 23, '15

E3 2015: Giant Bomb's Day 3 Live Broadcast

Given the way E3 2015 ended, we're not sure if it'll even be possible to have an E3 2016.

Jun 20, '15

E3 2015: Giant Bomb's Day 2 Live Broadcast

E3 continues to burn down Los Angeles as we bring in a big ol' range of people working on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Tony Hawk 5, Volume, Destiny, Below, Rock Band 4, and professional wrestling!

Jun 18, '15

E3 2015: Giant Bomb's Day 1 Live Broadcast

We collect a wicked assortment of guests and cover virtual reality, Microsoft's Hololens, Def Jam Icon, the number of explosions found in Just Cause 3, Halo 5's new warzone mode, playing soccer in a prison camp, how the heck the Xbox One is emulating 360 games, and way, way more.

Jun 17, '15

The Giant Bombcast E3 2015 Sealed Envelope Spectacular

We plow through all the remaining games Jeff saw at judges' week before launching into a bunch of predictions about what already happened at E3!

Jun 16, '15

06/09/2015

With E3 close on the horizon, Jeff starts spilling the beans on stuff like Fortnite and Metal Gear Solid 5, Fallout 4 makes itself known, the rebirth of Digital Eclipse turns a few heads, a long-overdue mattress update appears, then we all get knighted. See you in LA!

Jun 9, '15

06/02/2015

Hey, who splattered ink all over this podcast? We're diving deep into Splatoon, E3 sandwiches, XCOM with swords, impressions of Batman: Arkham Knight and Lego Dimensions, killer shadows, and the great Amiibo caper of 2015.

Jun 2, '15

05/26/2015

Straight out of the emergency backup recording shelter, we've cobbled together our thoughts on The Witcher 3, Mad Max (the game), Eurovision 2015, that Star Citizen leak, new-old Need for Speed, Dan's childhood machinations... and Destiny: House of Wolves.

May 26, '15

05/19/2015

Bay to Breakers may have scoured the landscape clean, but we were safely cowering in our suck buckets the whole time! Now we're back to go in-depth with The Witcher 3, ponder Mario & Luigi & Puzzle & Dragons, try to get excited about another Assassin's Creed, and ask Danny a bunch of Irish questions.

May 19, '15

05/12/2015

This week, it's Kirkhope vs. Wise! Sword vs. whip! Dan vs. figs! The Giant Bombcast is all about strife... and also dabbling with The Witcher 3, pondering the Desert Golf endgame, drinking in The Old Blood, cohabitating with Notch, and spending even more time thinking about Konami.

May 12, '15

05/05/2015

This week! We say later to Letterman, Drew gets back into Dirt 'n Destiny, Brad and Jeff cast their lot in the Great Composer Showdown 2015, Dan's never seen Law & Order. Westerado! Project CARS! Avalon mysteries! Billy Corgan! Nuclear missiles!

May 5, '15

04/28/2015

Vinny and Alex party-in-the-sky their way from New Yawk to San Francisco so we can chat about the Silent Hills that wasn't, Valve's paid-mod calamity, the fully formed Broken Age, the Telltale fast food tie-in, video game knockoffs, lady MCs, the future of Battletoads, and some very poorly considered emails.

Apr 28, '15

04/21/2015

Giant Bomb Action News is live on the scene with the latest on high-speed chases (onscreen and off), Star Wars of all kinds, Mortal Kombat hacks, Titan Souls, still more Bloodborne, celebrity governors, our expert E3 strategies, and the uncertain whereabouts of the nuclear football.

Apr 21, '15

04/14/2015

Mortal Monday may be over, but we're still here to talk about MK past and present, the martial absurdity of WMAC Masters, the return of (FMV) Guitar Hero, the travails of video game preservation, a crash course in Irish, the Oestreicher origin story, and some crotchety old-man opinions on movie theaters.

Apr 14, '15

04/07/2015

We interrupt your regularly scheduled video game podcast for a special report on DMX's latest legal troubles. Now back to way more Bloodborne chat, the latest direct from Nintendo, Drew's trip south of the border, the death of OnLive, and a belated elegy for Skate, already in progress.

Apr 7, '15

03/31/2015

What's the haps, daddy-o? This week the Giant Bombcast is spinning all the platters that matter, like that brand new hit record Axiom Verge, more Bloodborne, the Wrasslemania fallout, the mystery of Puzzle & Dragons, the modern Kickstarter landscape, and the big Zelda-shaped hole in our hearts.

Mar 31, '15

03/24/2015

Bloodborne is out, we've played a lot of it, and we'll now discuss it in excruciating detail! Also: Pillars of Eternity, The Handsome Collection, Nintendo on mobile, the Kojima future, eau de burgers, Rorie's frequent pee breaks, and tips for taming your monkey mind. Namaste.

Mar 23, '15