Kenneth Shepard

Kenneth Shepard

Kenneth is a Staff Writer at Fanbyte. He still periodically cries about the Mass Effect trilogy years after it concluded.

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Thank You Bioware For Giving My Gay Ass a Heart Icon to Flirt With

On episode 36 of 99 Potions, Fanbyte’s weekly RPG-centric podcast, our News Editor Imran Khan raised some valid concerns about Bioware’s implementation of a heart icon to indicate romantic interest wi...

Nintendo is Opening a Museum Showcasing its History by 2024

If you’ve ever wanted to see all of Nintendo’s long history collected in one place, the company is making that a reality in the form of a museum dedicated to its 130+ years.

Pokemon Pearl Mascot Palkia Has Fur, Apparently

There was a horrifying but also hilarious phenomenon that occurred when the first trailer for the Detective Pikachu movie came out: our collective realization that a lot of the Pokemon w...

Xbox Series X/S Framerate Boost Make Titanfall 2 Go Brrr

The Xbox Series X/S is capable of making old games run better when played on the new hardware. Part of that is increasing framerates on select games. That’s not something that can necessarily be appli...

Gnosia is a Frustrating Murder Mystery Mind Game Until Suddenly It's Not

Gnosia takes the human element out of a genre that thrives within it. Social deduction games like Werewolf and more recently Among Us are all about how good people are at lying an...

New Pokemon Snap Pushes Against Everything I Learned in Photojournalism Class

I haven’t taken a lot of photography classes in my day. But when I was getting my bachelor’s degree, I did take one class that put names to concepts I had always naturally understood when it came to t...

The Last of You

The following contains spoilers for The Last of Us Part II.

Mass Effect Andromeda: Annihilation Confronts the Series' Human Bias

The following will contain spoilers for the Mass Effect novel Mass Effect Andromeda: Annihilation.

I Would Die For Peony, Pokemon's New Himbo Dad and Gay Icon

The Pokemon series has always been great at endearing you to a character in a very brief amount of time. This is true of gym leaders you see for mere minutes of screentime, professors wh...

Legendary Pokemon Feel Less Special Than Ever in The Crown Tundra

Pokemon Sword and Shield’s “The Crown Tundra” DLC is good. Really good, honestly. It’s got some interesting new Legendary Pokemon, memorable characters who have rapidly ascended to the top of...

The Resident Evil Fan Artist Whose Work Was Used to Dupe the Internet

With Resident Evil Village out, protagonist Ethan Winters is on a lot of people’s minds. Unlike series’ mainstays Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine, Ethan has starred in two Resident Evil...

A Late Game Twist Complicates Assassin's Creed: Valhalla's Gay Representation

Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and I were getting along so well, but now I’m not sure how I should feel about the 90 hours I spent playing it. This is because a reveal in Ubisoft’s take on Norse my...

To Travis, The Previous Owner of My Copy of Pokemon White

I managed to track down an OLED Switch model this past week, and as such, had to move all my saved data from my old system to my shiny new one. My main concern was getting my files for the system’s va...

I'm Convinced the New Mass Effect Teaser Tells Us Nothing of Substance

In a short one minute and 44 seconds, the teaser for the next Mass Effect game hit on nearly every fear I had about the future of my favorite series. But the more I watch it, the more I’m tryin...

My Neglected Animal Crossing Island is Too Much of a Wasteland for the Island Tour Creator

Nintendo has released a pretty interesting tool for folks playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons to showcase their islands. The Island Tour Creator allows you to make what are essentially...

ICYMI: Pokemon Presents Revisits the Series' Past and Teases its Future

Nintendo and The Pokemon Company held another Pokemon Presents showcase this morning, and it actually gave us a pretty substantial look at how the two plan to celebrate the franchise’s 2...

Dragon Age's Shifting Perspectives Keep Undermining its Personal Stories

Yesterday, Bioware finally acknowledged the next Dragon Age game in a way that went beyond tweets for the first time in literal years. The developer diary wasn’t much, but it was enough to send...

Post Malone's Pokemon Concert Was a Great Music Video, Middling Live Show

After weeks of hyping it up, The Pokemon Company hosted a virtual Post Malone concert to celebrate the series’ 25th anniversary.

The Last of Us: Part II Illustrates How Queer Spaces Are Not a Monolith

Because of the nature of the internet, it can become very easy to feel like individuals speak for entire groups of people. It was something I was uncomfortable with early on when I started working on...

Cyberpunk 2077 Stream Highlights Night City, PC Specs, and Racial Stereotypes

CD Projekt Red held a third episode of Night City Wire, its dedicated Cyberpunk 2077 news stream today, and it was kind of loaded, to say the least.