Fanbyte Staff Dec 31, 2021. 9 minute read
The Fancies 2021: The Big Fanbyte Game of the Year 2021 Roundup
READ MORE >Geoffrey D. Wessel Dec 30, 2021. 7 minute read
Dragon’s Fire: How Shingo Takagi Salvaged New Japan’s 2021
READ MORE >Joseph Anthony Montecillo Dec 30, 2021. 6 minute read
Bryan Danielson’s Wrestler of the Year Case Needs Daniel Bryan
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Avery Adams Dec 30, 2021. 8 minute read
Katsuhiko Nakajima’s Vulnerability Makes Him the Best Wrestler of 2021
READ MORE >Dylan Roth Dec 30, 2021. 8 minute read
Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 7 “…But to Connect” Review
READ MORE >Nerium Dec 30, 2021. 9 minute read
The Fancies 2021: Steven Strom’s Game of the Year List
READ MORE >Fūnk-é Joseph Dec 30, 2021. 17 minute read
The Fancies 2021: Fūnk-é’s Games of the Year 2021
READ MORE >Aditya Naik Dec 29, 2021. Less than a minute
The Linkshell – FFXIV Guides
Become experts with our guides no matter how you play We have guides on how to play Jobs optimally and run dungeons, raids, and trials. But there’s so much more to the game than combat! We’ll help you be the best Warriors of Light possible.
READ MORE >Aditya Naik Dec 29, 2021. Less than a minute
The Linkshell – FFXIV Featured Stories
Stories about our journey with Final Fantasy XIV We’re putting our thoughts and feelings on FFXIV into words and covering what’s happening in the community with our featured stories.
READ MORE >Aditya Naik Dec 29, 2021. Less than a minute
The Linkshell – FFXIV News, Stories, Guides, and More
Keep up with everything happening around Final Fantasy XIV From the latest Live Letters and patch changes to in-game events and updates on what’s coming next, we have you covered.
READ MORE >Joseph Anthony Montecillo Dec 29, 2021. 5 minute read
Don’t Overlook Mio Momono For Wrestler of the Year
I don’t claim to be an expert on joshi. Along with lucha libre, it’s one of the bigger blind spots in my wrestling fandom, so I do what I can to try to actively seek it out. This year especially, I made a much greater effort than before to seek…
READ MORE >Colette Arrand Dec 29, 2021. 9 minute read
In Failure, Eddie Kingston Is the Wrestler of the Year
I have abandoned a half dozen attempts at writing about Eddie Kingston. In theory, I gave myself an easy assignment. Eddie Kingston was the best wrestler of 2021. He was the best in the ring. He was the best on the microphone. I know those things are true, but I’m…
READ MORE >Steven Nguyen Scaife Dec 29, 2021. 7 minute read
‘Red Rocket’ Review: Donuts to Dollars
Like a lot of characters in director/co-writer Sean Baker’s ballooning Rolodex of marginalized Americana, Mikey Saber (Simon Rex) in Red Rocket is very much down and out. We first see him with bruises on his face, sleeping on the bus ride to his hometown of Texas City. NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” plays…
READ MORE >Josh Petrofsky Dec 29, 2021. 6 minute read
In Its Variety, 2021 Was Jon Moxley’s Best In-Ring Year Yet
Jon Moxley has been on top of the pro wrestling world for the last three years. After putting AEW on his back as world champion through the bulk of 2020 and carrying the new promotion through the Daily’s Place era, the Purveyor of Violence got to focus on himself in…
READ MORE >Colette Arrand Dec 29, 2021. 8 minute read
The Fancies 2021: Colette Arrand’s Top Wrestling Games
Unless we’re looking at AEW Casino and AEW Elite GM as full-fledged wrestling games, 2021’s default wrestling game of the year was Retrosoft Studio’s RetroMania Wrestling, a classic arcade game evoking the beloved WWF WrestleFest coin-0p that I did not play on account of its roster not appealing to me beyond the Road Warriors…
READ MORE >John Warren Dec 29, 2021. 8 minute read
The Fancies 2021: John Warren’s Top 10 Games of the Year
In a year I promised myself I’d play more Final Fantasy XIV to prepare for Endwalker, I ended up playing everything besides the best MMO on the market today. It’s not that XIV isn’t great, nor that I don’t want to see it to its magnificent conclusion. It’s more that…
READ MORE >John Warren Dec 28, 2021. 2 minute read
John Madden, Legendary Coach and Video Game Pioneer, Dead at 85
John Madden, the namesake of EA Sports’ massively successful Madden NFL franchise, has died at the age of 85. The news comes from an NFL press release this afternoon stating his passing this morning was “unexpected.” Before providing his name to the longest running sports game series in the world,…
READ MORE >Imran Khan Dec 28, 2021. 1 minute read
Riot Games Settles Sexual Harassment Lawsuit With Still-Inadequate $100 Million Dollar Fund
While Riot Games is far from the first video game company to find itself outed for frat-like work culture and sexual harassment, it’s probably not unfair to say that it was one of the biggest eye-opening examples for a lot of casual observers. An exposé on the company in 2018…
READ MORE >Belle Magee Dec 28, 2021. 6 minute read
DDT Pro-Wrestling’s Tokyo Dome Cup Was 2021’s Best Match
As a professional wrestling company, DDT has long since transcended the a reputation built on quietly traded .avi files and hastily summarized show results. Though the company has always maintained a steady amount of buzz online and in Japan, it’s within the last three years that it has taken off…
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