You Love to See It Episode 7 – Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Way back in 2016, The Lonely Island fueled mockumentary Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping became a true commercial flop. Even so, the musical comedy received fairly strong reviews and became near and dear to at least one Fanbyte editor’s heart. Niki, merritt, and Danielle work together to parse what worked…

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PODCASTS

Steven Strom’s Game of the Year 2020 List

2020 was full of a lot of awful shit I don’t want to talk about anymore. I’m going to shout out some great games instead! As is so often the case, video games have helped distract and instruct me through times good and bad. A few stood out in particular,…

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Steven Strom Game of the Year 2020

FEATURES

12/26/2021 – Biggest Stories of 2021, Hades Wins a Hugo & More

John looks back at the biggest stories of 2021 in the last episode of Thanks for the Knowledge of the year. NFTs & blockchain were a huge story, but was it the most impactful of the year? Tune in to find out.Also, Hades wins a Hugo and Final Fantasy 7…

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Purple Gatherers’ Scrip

Purple Gatherers’ Scrip is one of the primary currencies in Final Fantasy XIV. With each patch, this type of Scrip is used to purchase premium crafting materials to craft the best items. You can acquire Purple Gatherers’ Scrip through two primary methods: Custom Deliveries and Rarefied Collectables. If you’re wondering…

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Purple Crafters’ Scrip

Purple Crafters’ Scrip is one of the primary currencies in Final Fantasy XIV. With each patch, this type of Scrip is used to purchase premium crafting materials to craft the best items. You can acquire Purple Crafters’ Scrip through two primary methods: Custom Deliveries and Rarefied Collectables. If you’re wondering…

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John Warren’s Game of the Year 2020 List

I played a lot of games this year, which doesn’t sound like a huge accomplishment for someone who works at Video Game Website, but my role really changed at the tail end of 2019 and I wasn’t sure how much time I’d have. Still, you’ll notice that a lot of…

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Eastern Socialite’s Gloves

The FFXIV Eastern Socialite’s Gloves are a pair of a Level 1 hand armor (which you can probably tell since they’re literally called gloves). They come as part of the Eastern Socialite’s Attire set: an optional purchase available on the Final Fantasy XIV real money store. The set as a…

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152: Friendship Kingdom

Dillon, John and Steven attempt to navigate two of merritt's most fiendish games yet, which involve two of the most terrifying things known to man: 90s video game ads, and the human heart. (Also hey, the voice audio is a little jank on this one but everything else is normal!…

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Morning Stack: It Feels Good to Beat a Game… I Mean REALLY Beat One

Etrian Odyssey is one of those series lost to the Nintendo DS. The portable (and its 3D successor) led to some wonderful, unique, charming ideas — such as drawing your own dungeon maps in real time on the bottom screen while a JRPG party explored up top. That defining feature…

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Forspoken is Square Enix’s Newest International Collaboration

Unveiled as Project Athia in 2020, the game we now know as Forspoken was a very exciting prospect from its initial reveal trailer. The debut showed a witch, later revealed to be played by actress Ella Balinska, jumping and dashing over vast deserted and wasted land, but little else. Square Enix has drip-fed content…

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I Need Call Me Under, the 1950s Underwater Mystery With Hot Queer Romances

More than ever, under quarantine I need to play games with cute people I can romance. Whether it’s enduring death in Hades for a crumb of attention from Megaera or replaying Dragon Age 2 to kiss Fenris for the umpteenth time, I’m out (in?) here trying to live vicariously since…

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NEWS

ICYMI: Here’s Everything from PlayStation’s June 2022 State of Play

A new State of Play, PlayStation’s semi-occasional game information streaming event, was broadcast today. The series has traditionally been fairly low-key, but sometimes features major announcements like the Resident Evil 3 Remake or the reintroduction of Final Fantasy VII Remake and…other, non-remake things. This time, Sony emphasized that the show would…

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