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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Wordle Changes May 9 Word of the Day From 'Fetus' Due to Current Events

If you’ve somehow avoided the word-guessing phenomenon of Wordle over the past few months, the game gives players a new word to guess letter by letter each day, and the daily word h...

Ubisoft Has Delayed the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake Indefinitely

Ubisoft had announced the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake would be launching in just under a month on March 18. Which you would assume means the game was nearing the end...

PAX Responds After Event Enforcer Dies After Contracting COVID-19

Dawn Wood, an enforcer at PAX East 2022 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center last week, has died after contracting COVID-19.

Why Twitter Artists Keep Drawing Sonic Characters Walking into Stores

If your Twitter feed is at all video games or character art adjacent, there’s a pretty high probability you’ve seen art of Sonic the Hedgehog characters walking into various stores...

Square Enix Sells Good Studios to Focus on Blockchain, AI, and the Cloud

Square Enix has announced it’s signed a deal to sell off both Crystal Dynamics and Eidos to Embracer Group, as well as their associated IP. Because after years of mismanaging and scapegoating some of...

PAX East Vendor Reports Positive COVID Tests, Helps Public Track Exposures

PAX East 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts has had its first known case of a COVID-19 exposure during the event.

Amy Hennig is Getting a Second Chance at a Star Wars Game, and Good For Her

Skydance New Media has announced it’s collaborating with Lucasfilm Games for a new Star Wars project. This means Skydance New Media President and former Uncharted writer Am...

Activision-Blizzard to Promote US-Based QA Workers to Full-Time Staff Following Strike, Union Efforts [UPDATE]

Activision-Blizzard is converting all of its contract QA workers into full-time employees with rates starting at $20 per hour.

It Turns Out Attacking Younglings Saves Time in LEGO Star Wars

If you were watching Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith back in 2005 and saw Anakin Skywalker kill a bunch of Younglings and thought, “that should be replicable in a video game,” ...

Summerfall Studios Renames its Musical Adventure to Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

Summerfall Studios, the team led by ex-BioWare writer David Gaider and Beamdog alumni Liam Esler, has announced its musical adventure game Chorus is no longer called Chorus...

Nintendo Delays Advanced Wars 1+2 Boot Camp Indefinitely Due to 'Recent World Events'

Advanced Wars 1+2 Boot Camp is seeing another delay, but while the first one that happened at the end of last year was because the remasters needed “little more time for fine tuning,” th...

Quantic Dream Found Guilty in Ongoing Cases Regarding Workplace Harassment

Update, 3/8/2022: This article was originally published in 2019, and has since been updated to reflect actor Elliot Page’s gender identity, who came out as a trans man in 2020. 

Sony Announces State of Play Presentation Focusing on Japanese Publishers

Sony has announced a new State of Play presentation for tomorrow, March 9, at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern, and the show will have a particular focus on Japanese publishers.

Pokemon Legends: Arceus Has a Modern Bedroom Asset in its Code and I Have Questions

The following contains spoilers for Pokemon Legends: Arceus.

A Glitch is Preventing Pokemon Legends: Arceus Players From Completing the Pokedex [UPDATE]

Pokemon Legends: Arceus players beware, some players are running into a glitch in the post-game that makes it impossible to complete the Pokedex without trading with a friend.

An Unpacking Clone Has Been Delisted from Storefronts After Devs Put it on Blast

Within the same day, two indie games were subject to their game’s likeness being used by someone else. Outerverse’s assets were used in an NFT scam, and Unpacking was...

Bobby Kotick Reportedly a Piece of Shit [UPDATE]

The Wall Street Journal has posted an extensive report about Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, specifically how he has, to some extent, been involved with or aware of various cases of harassment a...

Microsoft to Acquire Activision-Blizzard Amidst Ongoing Workplace Culture Scandal [UPDATE]

In the midst of Activision-Blizzard’s ongoing legal trouble following a California lawsuit for harassment and discrimination in its workplace culture, Microsoft is buying the Call of Duty

Pokemon is Telling Darker Stories to Reach Its Maturing Fans, Just Not in Games

Pokemon is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. All that time and history means your audience that was once trading and battling with Pokemon Red & Blue is now people...

Nintendo Says the Switch Is at the “Mid-Point” of Its Lifecycle

Just earlier this year we were dealing with rumors of an updated Switch model that would run all its games better, but now that we know that isn’t happening right now, it’s raised questions about just...