Jordan Mallory

Jordan Mallory

Jordan is a frog that lives in Texas and loves Girls Generation. He's also Senior Podcast Producer! Before that he wrote video game news for almost ten years at a lot of websites you've heard of, including this one.

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WoW Classic Server Queue Wait Times Crest 10 Hours on First Day

After years of waiting, World of Warcraft Classic is now live. This new/old version of Blizzard’s perennial MMORPG is permanently locked to version 1.12 of the game, which dates back to Augus...

6 Questions About This New Power Rangers Fighting Game

Alright, so while everybody was either watching the trailer for the new John Wick movie or the Mortal Kombat 11 gameplay reveal, Hasbro quietly announced a new sentai fighting game c...

Hearthstone Artwork Changes Are Not Censorship, Says Blizzard

Normally when a Hearthstone patch changes a handful cards, it’s on the numbers side of things. This card’s mana cost goes up or down, this card’s attack points are reduced, this card’s health...

4 Ways Gunpei Yokoi Changed Games Forever

In writing these daily lists for Fanbyte (it’s a great website, you should look it up), I spend a lot of time combing through Wikipedia looking for ideas. And whether I’m reading about the broader his...

How to Link Your Destiny 2 Account with Steam Before Shadowkeep

Bungie’s divorce from Activision Blizzard finalizes when Destiny 2‘s next big expansion, Shadowkeep, launches on October 1. The game is leaving Acti/Blizz’s Battle.net launcher for S...

8 Times Destiny 2 Deserved a Photo Mode

People have a lot of capital-O Opinions about Destiny 2, but almost everyone can agree that it’s a visually stunning video game. Bungie is famous for its sky boxes for a reason, and with each...

5 Puzzle Games to Play After Tetris Effect

Everyone seems to be in agreement that Tetris Effect totally rules, with our own review from Jordan Oloman (no relation) calling it “a visual therapy session that will invade your dreams.” Th...

Shuhei Yoshida to Helm New PlayStation Indie Cultivation Initiative

Shuhei Yoshida has stepped down from his position as the Head of Worldwide Studios at Sony Interactive Entertainment, in order to lead a “new initiative” at Sony “focused on celebrating external devel...

All 7 Tetris Blocks, Ranked

After a lifetime of suffering at the hands of certain blocks, and waiting frantically for the saving grace of certain other blocks, I’ve decided that it’s time to finally put each Tetris<...

2 Rare Video Game Consoles You've Probably Never Heard Of

You strike me as the kinda person that gets a lot of joy out of classic consoles. I bet you can spot a Turbografx-16 at a swap meet from a hundred yards. I bet you can tell whether an estate sale has...

Duke Nukem 3D Composer Sues Gearbox, Valve for Unlicensed Music Sales

Bobby Prince, a composer/sound designer responsible for many iconic early-90s midi jams, has filed a lawsuit against Gearbox Software, Gearbox Publishing, Valve Corporation, and Mr. Randy “Where’d I L...

Yo Check out These New Destiny 2 Armor Sets (And Balance Changes)

It’s September now, which seems impossible, but that’s what my landlord keeps telling me in her angry texts about the “missing” “”rent money,”” so here we are. Aside from being one step closer to the...

Overwatch 2's Overhauled Graphics Are Coming to OG Overwatch

Overwatch series director Jeff Kaplan has confirmed that Overwatch 2‘s enhanced visuals will also come to the original game, as part of Blizzard’s effort to maintain competitive pari...

Destiny 2's Messy Pursuits Tab Is Getting Fixed This Fall

In the first of many new “Director’s Cut” blog updates from the frontlines of Destiny 2’s development, Director Luke Smith shared today a brief glimpse at the future of objective tracking. Se...

Fortnite Holgraphic Tomato Head, Durrr Burger Head, & Giant Dumpling Head Locations

I’ve seen Fortnite Season 9 Battle Pass Weekly Challenges you people wouldn’t believe. A holographic tomato burning out the shoulder of Mega Mall. I watched 12-year-olds dance in the glimmer...

9 Video Game Frogs Worth Considering

What follows is a list of nine frogs from various video game properties, unrestricted by time, genre, or other arbitrary factors. These are simply nine frogs of exceptional merit, who are worthy of yo...

Fan Expansion Brings Sailor Moon and Friends to Slay the Spire

A fully-featured Sailor Moon expansion for indie deck-builder Slay the Spire is now available through the Steam Workshop, and y’all, this thing (heart chain) whips. Created by Steam users Ael...

Worst Possible Thing Happens to $60,000 Pokemon Card

An exceptionally rare Pokemon trading card has been lost in (or stolen from) the mail, according to Pokemon TCG Youtuber/aficionado smpratte. The card, “Trainer No. 3,” is one of the...

Every Dark Souls Boss, Ranked By Kissability

There are plenty of guides out there to tell you how to beat the many bosses of Dark Souls in the most efficient way possible, and everybody has an opinion about which one of those fights is...

10 Games That Must Be on the Turbografx-16 Mini

Sometimes, dear reader, dreams do come true. Earlier this week, Konami shocked everyone in the whole world (read: me) by announcing the Turbografx-16 mini, a microconsole version of Hudson So...