Have You Ever Watched an Angemon Take a Dump?

On this week’s episode of Channel F (the Fanbyte Video Game Game Show™), Pokemon are pushed to the proverbial periphery as we finally do our due diligence (with respect to Digimon). (You can also listen on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!) Sweet little baby Jordo (Senior Podcast Producer), who…

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PODCASTS

Enter the Gungeon review

You definitely want to check out this Gungeon.

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Pathologic and the Morality of Illness

Early on in Ice-Pick Lodge’s 2019 release Pathologic 2, your character, Artemy Burakh, dreams of his childhood home by a pair of railroad tracks. In each room of the house, there’s a crowd of familiar-looking people, but they each blink out of existence, replaced by black-suited, white-masked Tragedians, frozen in…

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FEATURES

Tennis Anime ‘Stars Align’ is Brilliant, Inclusive, and Tragically Unfinished

Stars Align is the indie darling of the most recent anime season: a slice-of-life sports drama about a middle school tennis club that quickly gained attention for focusing on issues rarely discussed in such a grounded setting — particularly its inclusion of two sensitively written trans characters (one nonbinary, one…

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Hard West Review

Hard West blends cowboys and demons in an xcom-like package.

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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

Hyper Scape Invite Guide – How to Invite Friends & Make a Squad

Hyper Scape is the latest battle royale game wading into the very competitive genre. This battle royale game is all about movement and unique abilities that will give you an edge in a fight. Currently only available to select individuals or those who earn a copy via Twitch Drops, the…

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GUIDES

Monster Hunter World Behemoth Guide

The toughest beast in Monster Hunter: World isn’t actually from the Monster Hunter… world. Behemoth is a crossover creature introduced to World in update 5.0, in collaboration with the (excellent) MMO Final Fantasy XIV. It carries many of that game’s dungeon mechanics with it, as well—including the ability to tank…

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GUIDES

For Honor review

For Honor is complex and interesting-- but it won't bother helping you discover that depth.

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Racist Star Wars Fans Attack, But Lucasfilm Finally Says Something About It

Star Wars takes place in a galaxy far, far away, but for some reason, it keeps causing trouble here at home. In this case, the trouble began last Friday with the two-episode premiere of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+. The series details some of the adventures of the title character, played once…

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FEATURES

No Crossover Event Will Ever Top Def Jam: Fight for NY

“The most ambitious crossover event of all-time.” The claim was so ubiquitous in the marketing for Marvel’s The Avengers: Infinity War that it has since become a meme. Of course, there has always been a rich history of crossovers in the history of TV, movies, and video games, but in…

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FEATURES

Game of Thrones Recap – Season 6 Episode 8: No One

That's the worst joke I've ever heard.

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TV/FILM