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John Warren Dec 18, 2018. 2 minute read
Fanbyte Game of the Year: Best Snack 2018
We made it, folks. 2018 is nearly over and 2019 is finally upon us — with all the illogical promise that each new year brings. To celebrate, we’re going over some of our favoritest games of this year, in an attempt to find some bright spots in these horrible times. And…
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John Warren Dec 17, 2018. 2 minute read
Fanbyte Game of the Year: Best Grind of 2018
The end of the year is finally here. We survived! In order to celebrate, the Fanbyte staff is going over all its favorite games — as well as things in games — from 2018. That’s right, it’s our Game of the Year 2018 coverage. Our current category, as you can probably tell from…
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John Warren Dec 17, 2018. 3 minute read
Fanbyte Game of the Year: Best Small Detail 2018
It’s the end of the year, which naturally means it’s time to choose our game of the year. We weren’t content with just picking one game for one category, though. Fanbyte has a whole week of Game of the Year 2018 winners and runners-up. Each day, we’ll feature a new set…
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John Warren Dec 14, 2018. 2 minute read
Fanbyte’s Game of the Year Week: How Does It Work?
Hey folks! Next week marks the start of our Game of the Year coverage. We’ve been preparing for this week for a while now, and in our conversations to decide Fanbyte’s end-of-year award winners, we’ve come up with some ground rules. Those include some major, possibly even divisive decisions we…
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Nerium Dec 10, 2018. 4 minute read
Ashen is Dark Souls for People Who Don’t Like Dark Souls
Fight. Die. Drop your experience points. Run back and pick them up. It’s all the elements that superficially add up to a Souls-like — a game heavily influenced by From Software’s Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls series. Even your light and heavy attacks map to the right shoulder buttons in Ashen, the…
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Steven T. Wright Dec 3, 2018. 5 minute read
MechWarrior 5 Is Building Giant Robots With Authenticity in Mind
When you’re designing a long-awaited follow-up to a beloved series that hasn’t had a new entry in over a decade, there can be a lot of external pressure to live up to fan expectations. With MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, Vancouver-based Piranha Games aims to bring the industrial stompy-robot fantasy of the…
READ MORE >John Warren Dec 3, 2018. 1 minute read
Parallels: Why Grand Theft Auto V’s Los Santos is Not Los Angeles
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Mitchell Weasel Nov 30, 2018. 5 minute read
How Streets of Rage 4 Will Update a Classic Formula
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John Warren Nov 27, 2018. 8 minute read
Final Fantasy IX: The Series High Point 18 Years Later
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Nico Deyo Nov 13, 2018. 5 minute read
Ashe Is Everything Wrong With Overwatch Hero Diversity
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Brittany Vincent Nov 9, 2018. 5 minute read
Technology Alone Couldn’t Save These Bizarre Retro Games
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Steven T. Wright Nov 9, 2018. 4 minute read
Deltarune Reminds Us About the Pitfalls of Spoiler Anxiety
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John Warren Nov 9, 2018. 6 minute read
Snapshot: Red Dead Redemption 2 Introduces the Swampland
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Kenneth Seward Jr. Oct 31, 2018. 6 minute read
Zombi Still Blurs the Lines Between Horror Games and Reality
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