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Let me get this out of the way to begin with. I have a backlog problem. I’m notorious among the Fanbyte team since I’m still trying to work my way through 2017 gems like Prey, Hellblade, Nier: Aut...
Pokemon is renowned for many things, from its creepy and charming animalia and enchanted car keys to what seems to be a functional post-scarcity society. However, the cults of personality that...
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...
Remember that part in Dragon Ball: Evolution when Justin Chatwin’s Goku Dukes-of-Hazzard-slid across the roof of a car using his absurdly strong hair? This moment is only one among the m...
In May of 1999, Smash Mouth released a single that would go on to change the world. That single was “All Star.”
See takes place in the distant future, centuries after a deadly virus decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Jason Momoa stars as Baba Voss — the father of twins born with the...
Some Pokémon are basically animals. And then there are those like Mewtwo, who is basically an intellectual peer of philosophers like Sophocles, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. In the world of Pokémon, Mew...
Roaming the Appalachian wasteland, Mr Fuzzy in tow, Diechan132 cuts an unusual figure. It’s not every day, for instance, that you see a person taking a 500-pound yao guai out for a walk like they’re a...
Earlier this year, Autumn Burchett rocked the Magic: the Gathering world by winning the first-ever Mythic Championship. Using a risky but powerful Mono-Blue deck, they beat out Yoshihiko Ikaw...
I had no foreknowledge or expectations when I started watching The Promised Neverland. The show seems heartwarming at first, opening on a peaceful orphanage filled with smiling children that ge...
Video games love vore. This fact has seemingly gone without mention for decades but the evidence is everywhere. Why have there been so many levels in games that put the player inside of another’s body...
Over the years following its successful rebirth, Final Fantasy 14 has turned its adventurers into more than just battle-hardened brawlers destined to beat up all kinds of godlike...
Long before the yee haw agenda took over and cowboys stampeded back into style in the fashion world, Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe made creative use of Western film tropes to craft...
“Peak oil” is the theory that there is a maximum production rate for oil, a limit we will hit as natural reserves becomes more scarce and the effort to drain them increases. With 2019’s Joker,...
For the last four decades Star Wars has been caught between the children who’ve loved it since its days as an unexpected sci-fi sensation and the adults into whom they’ve grown. From “the prequ...
Mortal Kombat 11 is out, and it’s a pretty fun game, if I do say so myself. But there seems to be a strange controversy around certain aspects of this latest entry in the series — namely...
If you’d only ever watched the animated series, it would be easy to believe that the core theme of Pokemon is friendship. However, the games offer a very different story to that of Ash a...
Ogre Battle 64 begins with the player character breaking up with his boyfriend before graduating from military school, where the pope gives him a tarot reading. From there, Quest’s Nintendo 64...
Capcom has been hitting it out of the park recently: the series-revitalizing Resident Evil 7 became their fifth-best selling game ever, the Resident Evil 2 remake has been getting dazzli...
This week, the stars and scouts go dark on another mobile game: Sailor Moon Drops, the title released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the juggernaut magical girl franchise. Released in Jap...