Imran Khan

Imran Khan

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

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The Trials and Tribulations of Localizing Sega's Lost Judgment

When Judgment released in 2018, a lot of long-time fans of RGG Studio were surprised that the western localization had an English dub for the first time since the 2005 PlayStation 2 rele...

Dragon Ball: The Breakers Developers Are Candid About Their Obvious Influences

Last month, Bandai Namco announced the latest Dragon Ball game in their generally fighting-heavy portfolio for the series. Eschewing the usual genre choices this time around, The Bre...

Forspoken is Square Enix's Newest International Collaboration

Unveiled as Project Athia in 2020, the game we now know as Forspoken was a very exciting prospect from its initial reveal trailer. The debut showed a witch, later reve...

Which Yakuza Title Should You Start With?

The Yakuza series is at this point one of Sega’s shining stars in the Japanese company’s portfolio. The long-running series first began in 2005 and has continued over the years across mu...

12 Things to Know About Sifu

Every so often, there’s one of those games that just looks cooler every single time you see it. Each new trailer or preview has you nodding your head along and thinking “If this is what they’re showin...

The Mystery of the Real-Life Ryu

For decades, Street Fighter‘s Ryu has had one consistent characteristic: he wants to fight and then move on to the next battle. Ryu doesn’t care about money, he doesn’t care abo...

Valheim's Developers on Popularity, Polygons, and People

There’s no strict science to a game’s success. Every developer hopes their game will become the next viral sensation — on every Twitch stream, millions of sales in a matter of weeks, and concurrent pl...

Nier Replicant ver.1.224787139 Reminded Me Why We Tie Emotions to Video Games

I am never more frustrated than when tasked to assess something I love.

Project Triangle Strategy Demo Review

During yesterday’s Nintendo Direct, the creators of Octopath Traveler revealed the next game in their HD-2D series, Project Triangle Strategy (it’s a mouthful but a working title) for the Swi...

Stadia's Search Bar: A Review

A few days ago, Google announced that Stadia — their cloud-based online gaming service and web platform — would finally be getting a search bar. The internet was split. Half the people reacting were h...

We Asked a Zoologist to Risk Assess these Animal Crossing Combos

Throughout the years, Animal Crossing has brought together nearly 500 villagers from across the animal kingdom. The player’s sleepy little village hosts all sorts of different species up and...

Still Not Being Able to Build from Storage in Animal Crossing: A Review

Animal Crossing: New Horizons updates end on November 5, 2021 and you still can’t access your storage from your workbench.

How One Advance Wars Fan Accidentally Played the Remake Early

Just a few weeks ago, Nintendo made the rather abrupt decision to indefinitely delay their Advance Wars 1+2 remake for Switch, Re-Boot Camp. The platform holder stated that the delay...

Ghost of Tsushima Was a Sign to Release Like A Dragon: Ishin in the West

Editor’s note (9/27/2022): A minor change was made to the headline to more accurately reflect the intention behind the comments made by RGG Studio’s Masayoshi Yokoya...

Street Fighter 6 Developers Hired Black Consultants When Designing Kimberly

When Street Fighter 6’s newest challenger Kimberly was revealed, fans across the world celebrated with enthusiasm and joy that is characteristic of Kimberly herself. The ninja character...

No, Like A Dragon Was Not an RPG Because of an April Fool's Joke

In 2020, Sega released Yakuza: Like A Dragon in the west to critical acclaim and seeming financial success. The title was a soft reboot for the series, bringing in a new protagonist and...

Tales of Symphonia Remastered Will Only Be 30 FPS On All Consoles

Tales of Symphonia Remastered was officially announced at the Nintendo Direct earlier this week, bringing back one of the GameCube’s most beloved JRPGs to modern platforms. Characteristic of...

The Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is Named Tears of the Kingdom

As part of today’s Nintendo Direct, we finally got the latest news on what everyone has been calling Breath of the Wild 2 but Nintendo refused to name until now. Titled The Lege...

Nickelodeon Apparently Developing AAA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game

Everyone has that old media property that can hit the nostalgia button regardless of quality. It’s the thing that gets us to put on blinders, march on to the internet, and argue “Actually I think the...

Here's Everything You Missed From Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022

Slowly but surely, Geoff Keighley has taken over a number of the video game industry’s tentpole reveal events. Between Summer Game Fest and The Game Awards alone, Keighley produces two of the biggest...