Guilty Gear -Strive- Mashes the Practice Button in My Brain

From its opening moments, Guilty Gear -Strive- sweeps you up with complex battle systems, vibrantly smooth animations, and a cast of absurd, memorable combatants that make every match an unpredictable pageant of extraordinary abilities. Even when my first online opponents sauced on me with fancy combo-extending Roman Cancels and no…

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REVIEWS

WCW Legend Glacier: A Review

Look—it is easy to dunk on WCW. Inactive since 2001, its many, many mistakes have fueled a cottage industry of books, podcasts, YouTube videos, and other forms of monetized snark. Glacier, otherwise known as Ray Lloyd, is frequently a target of said snark, as his gimmick and the microuniverse WCW…

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Genshin Impact Sea Ganoderma Patch 2.5 Guide – Ganoderma Locations & Uses

If you’re experienced with Genshin Impact, chances are you already know exactly why you’re looking for Sea Ganoderma. For those of you who don’t, it’s one of the many materials you need to collect in order to make your characters stronger and stronger. Used in Kazuha’s and Yae Miko’s ascension,…

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ICYMI: Here’s Everything Shown at the Xbox Extended Showcase

Because Hot Game Summer cannot simply end when it was supposed to, Xbox had a second “extended” showcase today following its original presentation on Sunday. If you missed this extended show and want to watch it, here’s the archived stream. For everyone else, check out recap below: Forza Horizon 5 After…

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NEWS

Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Big Patch Ahead of Return to PlayStation Store

If you hadn’t heard, Cyberpunk 2077 is coming back to the PlayStation Store next week after being delisted following its bug-ridden launch. Sony said it fully expects anyone playing on a base PlayStation 4 will still run into technical issues and recommends anyone looking to download Cyberpunk 2077 do so on…

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Sony is Looking for PS5 Owners to Test Out Upcoming Features

If you’re one of the lucky few who has managed to track down as PlayStation 5 since the console launched in November, Sony is letting folks sign up to test upcoming system features before they launch. In a post on the PlayStation Blog, Senior Vice President of PlayStation Platform Experience…

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The Pokemon Unite MOBA is Coming to Switch Next Month, Mobile Later

It’s been a minute since we heard from Pokemon Unite, the Pokemon MOBA announced almost a year ago today. But Nintendo has announced the game is actually coming out on Switch pretty soon. Next month, to be precise. The news was accompanied by a cinematic trailer starring two competing Pokemon teams taking…

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NEWS

Tales of Arise Seeks to Evolve Itself Rather than Reboot

As far as anthology JRPG series go, the Tales of games had a lot of connective tissue. While they differed in art style, story details, and tweaks to the overall battle system, they were largely recognizable as a specific kind of JRPG unto itself. It may have been formulaic, but you…

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REVIEWS

Genshin Impact Starconch Guide – Starconch Locations & Uses

If you’re experienced with Genshin Impact, chances are you already know exactly why you’re looking for Starconch on the beaches of Teyvat. For those of you who don’t, it’s one of the many materials you need to collect in order to make your characters stronger and stronger. Used in Tartaglia’s…

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GUIDES

Episode 25: Fūnk-é Joseph

Fūnk-é Joseph, Fanbyte Featured Contributor, trips while walking through The Vineyard and falls into The K-Hole. During their stay, merritt and Fūnk-é discuss the rapidly accelerating passage of time, the unobtainable allure of nostalgia, the ego death spiral of social media, and more. Fanbyte Podcast Network (We do other podcasts too!)…

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I Hope Danganronpa Doesn’t Miss the Point of Danganronpa

Danganronpa is one of my favorite series in video games. But I don’t want another game set within its world because I like when things end, and Danganronpa has ended pretty definitively twice by this point. But we’re getting a new game when the series finally comes to Switch later…

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I Unironically Love Getting My Ass Kicked in Guilty Gear Strive

I love fighting games. Street Fighter II was one of the first arcade games I ever played, and from flagship series like Soul Calibur and Marvel vs. Capcom to forgotten titles like Bloody Roar and Doomsday Warrior, I’ve always been attracted to the colorful character designs and over-the-top action of the genre. That said, I’m not very good at them. I’ve never…

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