Giant Bomb shows and podcasts

The Giant Bombcast

The site's flagship podcast, The Giant Bombcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Brad Shoemaker that releases every Tuesday. The podcast focuses on games being played, gaming news and events, and listener e-mails.

The Giant Beastcast

The Giant Beastcast comes out of Giant Bomb's New York office, and features Vinny Caravella along with regulars Alex Navarro and Jeff Bakalar. It also features a rotating fourth chair. The podcast is primarily focused on the major news stories of the week. Austin Walker had also been a regular on the show starting with Episode 1, though left Giant Bomb in June 2016 after accepting a new job to run VICE.com's video game site.

Bombin' the A.M. With Scoops and the Wolf!

Now defunct, Bombin' the A.M. was Giant Bomb's first morning podcast as well as the first regular video podcast. Hosted by former employee Patrick Klepek ("Scoops") and featuring Alex Navarro ("the Wolf"), the show was primarily centered on the latest gaming news and featured a variety of different journalists and other industry figures, including Cara Ellison, Jim Sterling, and Jenn Frank. The last regular episode aired on December 19, 2014, with a special ending podcast coming on December 30, 2014 when Patrick Klepek revealed his departure from the site.

Box Office Bomb

Hosted by Matthew Rorie and featuring Alex Navarro, this is Giant Bomb's movie-based podcast.

The Powerbombcast

Hosted by Alex Navarro and featuring a panel including Jeff Gerstmann, Dan Ryckert, Jared Rea, and Giancarlo Varanini, this is Giant Bomb's wrestling-based podcast.

Alt+F1

Hosted by Drew Scanlon and featuring Danny O'Dwyer, this is Giant Bomb's Formula 1 podcast.

Danswers

Hosted by Danny O'Dwyer and featuring Dan Ryckert (as well as a guest on most weeks), this is Giant Bomb's life advice podcast.

Bomb After Reading

Hosted by Drew Scanlon and featuring Dan Ryckert, Mary Kish, and Chris Watters, this was Giant Bomb's book podcast. Currently has one episode, focused on Sphere.

Film & 40's

Featuring Drew Scanlon and Dan Ryckert, this was the title of a movie commentary podcast. Currently has three episodes, focusing on Rocky IV, The Hunt for Red October and Commando

Quick Looks

The site regularly posts Quick Looks, which are videos that show unedited gameplay footage of a single game, featuring commentary from staff members.

Unfinished

Similar to Quick Looks, but only featuring games that are not complete.

Endurance Run

Full game playthroughs, posted every weekday. There have been four games covered by Endurance Runs: Persona 4, Deadly Premonition (which featured two playthroughs), Chrono Trigger and Shenmue.

Encyclopedia Bombastica

In-depth looks at older games that the staff have a great deal of knowledge about.

Mailbag

Giant Bomb regularly gets sent packages and mail from their fans, and will record themselves opening them.

The Old Games Show

Hosted by Jeff Gerstmann, this is a show that airs every other Wednesday and focuses on older games, primarily ones that the staff feel some degree of nostalgia about.

TANG

Hosted by Ryan Davis, TANG (This Ain't No Game) was a weekly series in 2009 in which Davis would review movies based on video games.

Unprofessional Fridays

Normally hosted by Jeff Gerstmann, this is a weekly feature that started in early 2013 where the staff and occasional guests play an assortment of different games.

Breaking Brad

Brad Shoemaker (along with collaborators, including Vinny Caravella in the past, Jason Oestreicher currently, and others) attempting to play through challenging segments of games, or difficult games in their entirety. Games have included Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, Volgarr the Viking, Devil May Cry, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (only the mile high club level on veteran), and Geometry Wars 2.

Demo Derby

Dan Ryckert, Drew Scanlon, and later Jeff Gerstmann playing through old demo discs without knowing the contents beforehand.

VinnyVania

Vinny Caravella playing through the main Castlevania series.

Metal Gear Scanlon

Drew Scanlon playing through the Metal Gear Solid franchise for the first time, with assistance from Dan Ryckert.