Imran Khan

Imran Khan

Imran is Fanbyte's News Editor and owns too many gaming t-shirts.

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Overwatch is Trash: Some Wisdom from Guilty Gear EVO Champ UMISHO

This year, EVO — the world’s largest fighting game tournament — did not end with Street Fighter as it traditionally does. Instead, seemingly due to the incredibly high number of contesta...

The Curious Case of Nier Automata's Newly Discovered Church

On July 25, a reddit user that goes by the moniker of sadfutago accidentally blew up the Nier: Automata community.

The Wild Story Behind Nintendo's Unannounced 1-2 Switch Sequel

In March 2017, Nintendo released 1-2 Switch, one of the Switch’s two first-party titles to launch alongside the hardware. While it wasn’t exactly critical competition for The Legend...

How the Hell is Street Fighter 6 Leaking This Much?

While Street Fighter 6 was officially announced a few months ago, we did not really get any details or footage beyond an initial teaser of a very wide Ryu. Yesterday’s State of Play — wh...

The Unfortunate Super Mario Sunshine Summer Games Done Quick Run

Summer Games Done Quick, an annual video gaming charity drive that raises money while people play video games very quickly, is not an event that runs like clockwork. The people that make it happen wor...

I Don't Really Understand What Sonic Frontiers Wants to Be

When I was younger, I would play all these inventive, creative, revolutionary video games and then run up to my room, open a notebook full of graph paper that I was ostensibly to use for science class...

Babylon's Fall Developers Adjusting Graphics Based on Feedback

I genuinely do not know what fascination I have with Babylon’s Fall. As a fan of PlatinumGames, to the point where several games in their portfolio are among my favorite titles of all ti...

How a Clip From Stray Got Me Banned From Twitter

I am currently on vacation. It’s been nice, I get to sleep in a lot, no one asks for my opinion on video game news (besides No. 3 Games Journalist Jeff Grubb), and I get to just play games rather than...

Bungie Unequivocally Comes Out For Not Losing Abortion Rights

Man, the world kinda sucks.

Elon Musk's Elden Ring Build is Unsurprisingly Half-Baked as Hell

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, prospective owner of Twitter, and social media man-child has been in the news a lot lately. One of those reasons is a report that he allegedly paid an employee $250,000 in hus...

The Hopeful Beginning and Abrupt Shuttering of Funomena

In a 2020 Game Developers Conference Q&A, Funomena CEO Robin Hunicke advised, “We need to be okay with being less productive and more caring to one another. If we don’t do that, we’ll never get th...

Babylon's Fall is So Messy It's Almost Cynical

How do bad video games get made?

Cuphead Does Not Get Drunk If You Pour Alcohol Into His Head & Other Thoughts

I beat the Cuphead: Delicious Last Course demo at Summer Games Fest. I had time between appointments, so I sat down on the strangely-deep couches in front of the demo station an...

What Your Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Starter Choice Says About You

With the announcement of Pokemon’s ninth generation, Game Freak also revealed a brand new set of starting Pokemon to begin your journey with. Starter Pokemon tend to become the most iconic mo...

I'm Not Irrational for Believing Pokemon Should Be Better

It’s a little hard to quantify exactly how toxic the Pokemon discourse has gotten in the last four years. Despite the games breaking sales records with each new title, there’s been an ever-lo...

Elden Ring Quests Added in Updates You May Have Missed

A lot of players have voraciously consumed Elden Ring content since its release in February, but did you realize that not every NPC quest was available at that time? In the recent balanc...

Some Details From the Unannounced Resident Evil 4 Remake

The remake for Resident Evil 4 has not been officially announced. If you’re someone whose sole criteria for believing game information hinges on the fact that nothing is confirmed, then...

EVO 2022's Most Compelling Narrative Was iDom's Street Fighter Insurgency

One of the most attractive things about competitive sports, both organized and otherwise, is the idea of compelling narratives that build up and play out over time. There’s a larger context to an even...

I Am Already Fatigued By Regional Pokemon Variants

On some level, the idea of new Pokemon generations is inherently untenable. Every few years, they introduce a brand new region, new gyms, new characters, and of course another set of Pok...

ICYMI: Everything from Today's PlayStation Showcase

We’re coming up close to a year since the PlayStation 5 launched and the gaming giant has held a number of cards close to their chest since the console’s reveal last summer. There have been some occas...