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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For a game that swears up and down that nobody in its universe is queer, how is it that every time I hang out with one of my male friends in Persona 5 Royal things just seem…gay?
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time developer Sanzaru Games has been bought by Facebook and Oculus. The studio was added to the VR company’s stable of studios yesterday, fresh off the launch of As...
Final Fantasy VII Remake is not a self-insert RPG, but that didn’t stop me from finding some of its very heteronormative scenarios and dialogue off-putting.
Folks, there are nights when I play Overwatch that I just want to play as the grumpy, gay granddad that is Soldier: 76 without it being a big to do. But I haven’t been able to do that lately an...
In retrospect, it makes perfect sense that I would be writing this, because one of the first decisions we see Hop, the rival trainer of Pokemon: Sword & Shield make is choosing the starte...
PAX South was this weekend, and it’s a refreshing event to go to because it focuses so heavily on the smaller games from smaller teams. While I was there I saw several games, but a handful of them stu...
In the midst of a reconstruction within the company, Starbreeze Studios AB says Payday 3 will be launching somewhere in the next three to four years.
Intelligent Systems, queerbaiting isn’t just mean-spirited, it’s also bad writing.
Persona 5’s postured values of fighting for those suffering injustice is just a platitude the game seldom practices. Anyone who’s played the game and its spin-offs knows that.
Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, the mobile spin-off of Nintendo’s town management series, appears to be following in the footsteps of Mario Kart Tour and adding subscriptions and exclus...
Mass Effect: Andromeda didn’t need to exist, but now that it does Bioware is at a crossroads.
It’s been a little over a month since Guilty Gear Strive showed Bridget coming to terms with her identity as a trans woman in the fighting game’s DLC, seemingly in an effort to inte...
If you have yet to hear “It’s Corn” by schmoyoho, which is a anthemic remix of a Recess Therapy conversation with a cool kid named Tariq who is a big fan of corn, I’m sorry that you haven’t felt the j...
In the latest This Week at Bungie blog post, the studio outlined some troubling trends in Destiny 2’s Crucible PVP mode, as well as some solutions it’s looking into in order to solve the...
The Destiny 2 community is rallying in support of a father looking to pay tribute to his child who passed away from cancer by changing their character’s armor to gold in honor of Childhood Ca...
Over the years, I’ve not usually dealt with too many bugs or progress-halting glitches in Naughty Dog games, but during my playtime of The Last of Us Part I, there was a repeatable...
High on Life, a shooter from Squanch Games coming to PC and Xbox on December 13, and while we’ve still only seen a few vertical slices, I’m not really feeling the vibe it’s going for, and I t...
Infamous PC gaming DRM company Denuvo by Irdeto, who makes anti-piracy software Denuvo, has developed a new product to fight against Switch piracy called Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection in an atte...
A Space for the Unbound developers Toge Productions and Mojiken Studio have accused publisher PQube Games of withholding money gained through a diversity fund meant to help underrepresented d...