Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 1 Review: “Kobayashi Maru”

When Star Trek: Discovery debuted in 2017, it was a dark, violent prequel series with a serious case of Game of Thrones envy. The show has been reshaped and retooled over three seasons, shedding its original tone and setting in favor of a far-flung, optimistic future centuries beyond the rest…

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Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 4 Recap: “The Last of the Starks”

Since its first moments, Game of Thrones has been a show about the nastiest depths of human pettiness, the worst failures of those who lead lives circumscribed by duty. It’s a show about the ways in which the personal lives of the powerful crush and reshape the world around them, a…

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Game of Thrones Recap – Season 6 Episode 3: Oathbreaker

All I ask in return are whispers.

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Death’s Door Tells a Tragic Tale of Limitless Life

I don’t think I can do this. In one of the final battles, I’m forced to use every piece of equipment in my pockets in a desperate attempt to match the pace of this boss, and I’m failing. It’s a lot to manage at once!  He’s summoned up an arsenal…

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3 Video Games Like Our Flag Means Death

If you happen to like period romantic comedies about pirates, you’ve probably already heard of HBO’s Our Flag Means Death. The show stars Flight of Conchords‘ Rhys Darby and ubiquitous director and actor Taika Waititi as the real-life pirates Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard. Bonnet, both in the history books and in…

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FEATURES

The Callisto Protocol Makes You Feel Bad For the Dead Space Remake

We got a glimpse at The Callisto Protocol back during June’s State of Play event and Summer Game Fest is here to give us a smidge more gore. Striking Distance is comprised of many folks who worked on the original Dead Space and it’s clear that they’re not straying too far…

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The Best Indie Games You Didn’t Play in 2020

There were a lot of great indie games in 2020, and many have already been covered at Fanbyte: Umurangi Generation, Signs of the Sojourner, Noita, and Paradise Killer, to name a few. But if you’re looking for something you might have missed, I have some titles for you. A few…

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The Life is Strange Comics Probe Life After Arcadia Bay… and Challenge Our Choices

Warning: this article contains spoilers for Life is Strange and the first compiled volume of the Life is Strange comics (Issues #1-4). When given the choice at the end of the original Life is Strange to either save the town of Arcadia Bay from an impending storm or save Chloe’s…

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World’s End Club, From Danganronpa and Zero Escape Leads, is Coming to Apple Arcade

World’s End Club (previously known as Death March Club), is a collaboration between Danganronpa writer Kazutaka Kodaka and Zero Escape director Kotaro Uchikoshi, and surprisingly, it’s coming out on the Apple Arcade on September 4. The game is the second project from Too Kyo Games, which Kodaka and Uchikoshi formed after leaving Danganronpa and Zero Escape developer…

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Twin Peaks Returns to Virtual Reality

David Lynch and Mark Frost were decades ahead of their time with the creepy appointment TV epic Twin Peaks, taking us to a world that was equal parts soap opera, murder mystery, and cheese dream. The recent final season took things even further off the rails, raising as many questions…

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We Need to Change the Way We Talk About Chris Benoit

Chris Benoit is one of the best wrestlers of all time. Chris Benoit also murdered his wife, Nancy, and his son, Daniel, before hanging himself over a three day period in June 2007. Leaving aside the issue of individual taste, the former statement is widely held to be true and…

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