Why Did Night Trap Get a Better Re-Release Than Super Mario 64?

In 2020, I stumbled upon Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition on the PlayStation Store, completely unaware that I would soon adore it. I knew of the original game’s notoriety as one of the primary subjects of the 1993 United States Congressional Hearings on video game violence, and I knew it…

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It’s All Bloat Down Here: IT Chapter 2 Drags Itself Across the Finish Line

There’s exactly one good scene in the second part of Andrés Muschietti’s sprawling adaptation of Stephen King’s even more sprawling horror novel IT. A firefly leads a young girl with a prominent winestain birthmark on her cheek under the bleachers at a baseball game. The titular creature (Bill Skarsgård) awaits…

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REVIEWS

Will Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Actually Do the Thing?

I almost can’t believe Steven, Imran, Natalie, and I have talked about RPGs for one hundred episodes on our podcast, 99 Potions. That’s a lot of chitchat and analysis about falling in love war criminals, the fleeting but delicious crumbs we get from our favorite publishers, and the systems that…

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The Top 5 Ruined Soviet Bunkers in Video Games

If I start browsing mid grade horror movies on any streaming service and pick one just because it “sounds interesting,” it’s probably because I spot some old Soviet-era bunkers in the trailer; that’s how I came to enjoy such B features as Ragnarok (not to be confused with Thor: Ragnarok)…

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Ghost Recon: Breakpoint Tips Guide – 8 Things the Game Doesn’t Tell You

Okay. The title of this guide isn’t entirely accurate. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint does mention some of the stuff I’m about to explain. The problem is that Breakpoint also tries to go over about 400 different gameplay systems at once (sometimes poorly) in its opening few hours. It’s easy to miss some vital…

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GUIDES

5 NFTs WWE Should Mint to Claim the Throne of Worst Company Ever

Non-fungible tokens—or NFTs for the sake of not gagging on the language of the digital carny—are the talk of the collectables market at the moment. I won’t pretend to understand the intricacies of what is, on the surface, a pyramid scheme that bilks the many for the profit of the…

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The New ‘Final Girls’ of Horror Embrace their Dark, Delicious Lives

They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky… It’s another FangByte article! Welcome to our autumnal crop of Halloween themed Fanbyte fun (that we like to call FangByte). Each day on the week of Halloween, we’ll have more pieces dealing with creepy, crawly topics across games and other pop culture. Make…

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FanFyte’s Best of the Month: November 2021

We’re a bit into December now—dogs are wearing sweaters, people are arguing about whether nor not egg nog is good (it’s good!), and sites like ours are gearing up for a barrage of end of the year retrospective articles. We have plenty of those forthcoming, covering a wide spread of…

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WWE’s History of Illegal Immigration Storylines and Stereotyping Mexican Talent

After failing to bridge Andrade from NXT to WWE World Champion, with his departure to AEW in the rear-view, it was time to revisit WWE’s track record with luchador talent Three world champions have represented Mexico in WWE history. Only Rey Mysterio did so without an illegal immigration storyline. Eddie…

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My Brother, My Cousin, and Me: WWE Clash of Champions Recap & Review

On Sunday afternoon, WWE announced that Nikki Cross, Shayna Baszler, and Nia Jax hadn’t been cleared to compete at the Clash of Champions pay-per-view. In 2020 speak, that likely means they were exposed to COVID-19 in some fashion, which is frightening! Hopefully all three women are doing okay. With the…

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The increasingly complex world of cheating in videogames

Cheating used to be something between a player and their computer. As games change, cheating changes... and so do its effects.

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BAKI is “Guys Being Dudes”: The Anime

Editor’s Note: This piece was written collaboratively by Eric McAdams and Thomas Loughney. “I want to taste defeat.”  This is the mantra spoken by five death row inmates at the beginning of Netflix’s BAKI, the second anime adaptation of Keisuke Itagaki’s manga Baki the Grappler. Instead of retreading the origins…

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