Kenneth Shepard

Kenneth Shepard

Kenneth is a Staff Writer at Fanbyte. He still periodically cries about the Mass Effect trilogy years after it concluded.

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The Final Boss Sequence in Balan Wonderworld Needs a Seizure Warning [UPDATE]

Balan Wonderworld, the debut game from Square-Enix subsidiary Balan Company led by Sega veteran Yuji Naka, is out tomorrow. But footage of the game is already surfacing online, which means th...

Despite Past Failures, Amazon is Opening a New Games Studio in Montreal

Amazon has announced it’s founding a new studio in its games division based in Montreal, adding a fourth studio to its stable of developers based in Seattle, San Diego, and Orange County.

Niantic Following Up Pokemon Go With a Pikmin AR Game

Pokemon Go has been doing well enough for Nintendo and Niantic over the past five years, so it makes sense that the companies would be teaming up for another project. But I am a little surpri...

Sony is Offering Ten More Free Games So People Will Stay The Heck Home

As we reach a full year of the coronavirus pandemic, Sony has once again reached into its bag of games and is offering 2016’s Ratchet & Clank to PlayStation owners as part of its Pla...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge Evokes the Franchise's '80s Heyday

Tribute Games and DotEmu have announced they’re working on a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game meant to be evocative of the series’ 1987 animated series.

Final Fantasy VII Remake is on PS Plus in March with a Big Caveat

Sony has announced that Final Fantasy VII Remake is headlining March’s free PlayStation Plus offerings. While that might sound exciting, given that Square-Enix just announced a new add-o...

The Next Iteration of PlayStation VR Will Incorporate DualSense Features

Sony has announced it’s working on a new virtual reality headset for the PlayStation 5, but it won’t be out this year.

A 'Prominent' Japanese Studio is Reportedly Making a Silent Hill Reboot

According to a report from VGC, Konami has approached a “prominent Japanese developer” about a Silent Hill reboot, and is planning on revealing the project sometime this summer.

Valve Politely Asks To Be Left Alone After Apple Subpoena

It’s been about six months since Epic Games and Apple began their legal dispute about Apple taking a cut of in-game purchases on iOS devices after Fortnite was pulled from the storefront. Sin...

The Mortal Kombat Movie Looks Like the Gross, Silly Fun You'd Expect

Nothing about the first trailer for the Mortal Kombat movie signals that it’s going to become an all-time great video game movie adaptation (the bar is low, I know), but nothing abo...

After Missing Launch, Marvel's Avengers is Coming to Next-Gen in March

Crystal Dynamics and Square-Enix have announced that Marvel’s Avengers‘ long-awaited next-gen upgrade will launch next month. The game will be available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series...

Sony Joins the ‘We Have Analog Drift and Also a Lawsuit’ Club

Looks like Sony is joining Nintendo in the “console manufacturers dealing with a class action lawsuit for analog stick drift” club, as Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith has filed against...

Season Developer Reportedly Plagued by Sexist, Toxic Work Environment [UPDATE]

Update: Following the original report, Scavengers Studio has released a statement by CEO Amélie Lamarche confirming that Darveau has been indefinitely suspended from his responsibilit...

I Don’t Know Pavé From Animal Crossing, but He Seems Like Gay Culture

Nintendo has announced the latest seasonal update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and altogether it looks a little bit lighter than past events the company has been rolling out over the pa...

Devil May Cry 5 Voice Actor Brad Venable Has Died at the Age of 43

Video game voice actor Brad Venable died yesterday, as confirmed by several members of the video game and anime voice acting community. Venable was most recently best known for his work as the Griffon...

No, a Straight Judy Romance Wasn’t Cut From Cyberpunk 2077

Unused voice lines are frequently found in the code of games that make it out onto store shelves, and can often raise questions about content that might have been cut or altered during the development...

UK Politicians Are Trying to Make it Illegal to Scalp Consoles in the Country

We’re about a month out from the launch of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, and a vast majority of people are still struggling to get their hands on the new consoles. Not only is it due to a gen...

Sony Isn't Honoring CD Projekt Red's Offer For Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds [UPDATE]

Update: CD Projekt Red revealed in a conference call that Cyberpunk 2077 won’t be getting special treatment when it comes to console manufacturers’ refund policies....

Cyberpunk 2077 Won't Circumvent Sony and Microsoft's Outdated Refund Policies

After Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red announced players who were having trouble running the game on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles could get refunds, Sony was denying every...

IO Interactive is Making a James Bond Game And That's About All We Know So Far

IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman series, has announced its next project, and it’s a licensed game that couldn’t be going to a more fitting team: James Bond.