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How Kingdom Hearts Reframed Darkness

Kingdom Hearts, as a saga, lends itself to a lot of ridicule: the Disney presence adds a sometimes heavy-handed element of slapstick in the action, the mentions of “light” “darkness!” “keyblade...

Did Trying to Beat Super Smash Bros Kill Power Stone?

If you had a Dreamcast, you owned Power Stone. It’s as simple as that. Capcom’s 1999 arcade port presented players with a range of whimsical characters and set them loose in 3D arenas un...

Jorge Luis Borges's New and Improved Pokémon Type System

It is a truth universally unacknowledged that Pokémon types are incomprehensible bullshit, to the degree that it would be easier to develop an entirely new system than to fix it. The taxonomy is a mes...

Gears of War Has Secretly Always Been a Horror Franchise

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky… It’s another FangByte article! Welcome to our autumnal crop of Halloween themed Fanbyte fun (that we like to call FangByte). Each day...

Zombi Still Blurs the Lines Between Horror Games and Reality

I remember it like it was yesterday. I’m sitting on the floor of my friend’s darkened bedroom, lit only by the glow of his TV. I continued to manipulate the game’s protagonist, unaware of how tig...

Is It Too Late (Or Too Early) to Get Back Into Destiny 2?

Destiny 2 isn’t just a game at this point. Like many, many other activities we used to think of as games, it’s more like a hobby. A live service, a forever game: whatever you wa...

Jumanji 4 is Absolutely Going to Be Fortnite

In a world of unlikely franchises, the success of Jumanji stands out as especially bizarre. The original children’s book about animals escaping from a board game was first adapted into a ’90s m...

Who Builds Video Game Wikis?

The first time I played Stardew Valley, I made it one whole in-game day before needing to look something up. I wanted to buy some seeds with my tiny starting allowance, but couldn’t figure out...

E3 2019: Dragon Quest Builders 2 Hands-On Preview

The original Dragon Quest Builders was a surprising success. The game managed to blend the charm and style of the classic RPGs with… Minecraft. The two flavors had no reason to work...

Supergiant Games' Greg Kasavin Talks Death and Consequences in Hades

“Ugh, I want a rematch now,” my character mutters as he emerges from a mystical pool of blood. He’s just arrived back at the lowest chamber of the underworld. Again. I couldn’t agree with him m...

Remember When Keanu Reeves Played Hamlet? Slings & Arrows Remembers

Everyone’s favorite dog-loving, Matrix-thwarting, time-traveling movie star Keanu Reeves is back in the press thanks to John Wick 3. He’s been especially talkative this go ‘round, reminding us...

John Wick is a Modern Fairy Tale

How Rune Factory 4 Got Gendered Avatars Right

For as long as I’ve been playing video games, I’ve loved farming sims and visual novels more than any other genre. Series like Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons are a good mix of the thi...

The Wet and Wild History of American Nintendo Cartoons

Video games and animation have had an interesting relationship over the years. In Japan, video games commonly lead to anime series and vice versa, with some of the most popular anime series starting o...

The Good Omens Miniseries is Definitely a Fanfic I Read in 2006

Just about every Good Omens fan has a story about a copy (or two) that was lent out and never returned as a point of pride. And the book’s struggle to make it to adaptation are nearly as legend...

Hardcoded Has the Trans Representation We Need in Adult Games

Warning: This article contains sexually explicit images.

Fallout 76 Has Its Very Own Happy Home Academy

Ever since Fallout 76 first released in beta, controversy has never been far away. From self-deleting game files to nylon bags and accessible dev rooms, the game quickly became the internet’s p...

Is It Too Late to Get Into FF14? Well, It's Complicated...

FF14 (a.k.a. Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn) is absolutely fantastic. It’s tied with Final Fantasy IX as my personal pick for the best game in the series, and easily my fa...

SARAZANMAI Imagines a Better Future for Queer Love Stories

“Is it love or desire?” This question winds its way through SARAZANMAI, the most recent work of famed anime director Kunihiko Ikuhara (Revolutionary Girl Utena). On its most basic level,...