Choo-Choo Charles is My New Sleep Paralysis Demon

If you asked me what I’m most afraid of in the world before this year’s Day of the Devs presentation, I would’ve probably told you “death” and “all my teeth falling out.” But now, thanks to Choo-Choo Charles, I now have a new fear: a living train that looks like the…

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Choo-Choo Charles is My New Sleep Paralysis Demon

NEWS

‘The Lodge’ Review: All in the Family

It’s a strange time to be a movie fan. Many of the year’s most anticipated features have been either delayed or released early on home media, leaving us to look out for the newest VOD releases. There’s no shortage of movies on streaming to check out, and ironically, one of…

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REVIEWS

Call Me By Your Name: AEW Recap and Review

I don’t want to spend too much space on the page adding to the discourse of the mostly imaginary Wednesday Night War. Starting next week, AEW Dynamite will run on Wednesdays with no direct competition from NXT, which is less significant than a lot of people are making it out…

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WRESTLING

How Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II Made The Force Interesting

In the walled city of Iziz the caged beasts howl songs about their own matted fur into air that tastes like violence. Men stand alongside those cages, some dreaming of a home outside the walls. A nervous soldier watches from a distance, unconsciously fingering the trigger of his blaster. He’s…

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FEATURES

The Fancies 2021: The Big Fanbyte Game of the Year 2021 Roundup

We finally did it. We killed another year — 2021 this time — and now laugh and dance on its atemporal corpse. Its reign of tyranny is over and now we feast… on some very good video games. Specifically, we’re taking a look at Fanbyte Game of the Year 2021…

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FEATURES

FFXIV Crystalline Conflict PVP Guide — 14 Tips You Need to Know to Win

If you’ve played other competitive team-based multiplayer games like Overwatch or Team Fortress 2, then you’re probably familiar with the core concept of Crystalline Conflict. This is the new PVP mode for Final Fantasy XIV introduced in the recent Patch 6.1 update. While we’ve seen push-the-payload style of modes in other games,…

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GUIDES

The Charmed Reboot Reimagines “Evil” Women

Lorena Bobbitt. Monica Lewinsky. Tonya Harding. In the wake of mainstream attention to (some) women’s pain in the post-#MeToo era, these demonized and misunderstood women from the recent past have been re-examined with a more empathetic and sympathetic lens in documentaries, feature films and op-eds. But the roots of the…

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FEATURES

Fanfyte VCR 2: A Good Use of Cargo Pants

LB Hunktears and Colette Arrand are back with another episode to talk about the 1994 FMW No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Dynamite Pool Elimination Death Match. You know, where everyone rode a dinghy to get to the ring because it was in the middle of an enormous swimming pool. Colette…

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WRESTLING

Dragon Warrior Monsters Made Catching ’em All Horrifying

The story is a simple one. A girl is kidnapped in the middle of the night. A monster arrives to tell her brother that the only way to get her back is to follow him. Transported to a magical tree kingdom, the boy is informed that if he ever wants…

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FEATURES

Turbografx-16 Mini Delayed ‘Until Further Notice’ Due to Coronavirus

Konami’s Turbografx-16 mini throwback microconsole, as well as its European and Japanese siblings, the Core Grafx mini and PC Engine mini, have been delayed indefinitely due to manufacturing issues caused by the ongoing spread of the coronavirus, aka COVID-19. The microconsole, which I could have sworn came out sometime last…

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NEWS

You Love to Scream It 1: Belzebuth 

This episode has a content warning for discussion of terrorism and child death. You’re probably familiar with You Love To See It, our movie and TV rewatch podcast. Well, enough of us love horror — and watch so much of it — that there’s room for extra episodes, and this…

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PODCASTS

Valley gives you super-legs– and lets you do a LOT of jumping

The next game from Blue Isle Studios is a momentum-focused platformer game with a focus on exploration-- and jumping really really high.

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