Dragon Age Is Coming This Year… to Netflix

Everyone is waiting for Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. BioWare fans are hoping the new Dragon Age will put the developer back on top in terms of RPGs. It’s taking a while, however, and fans are hungry for anything. Well, what if I told you there was some Dragon Age coming this year? Sadly,…

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NEWS

Wordle of The Day Hints & Answer for Word 426: August 19, 2022

This is it! The Wordle of the day for August 19, 2022! This time around we’re solving Wordle 426. There’s nothing particularly special about this one in particular (at least as far as I can tell). But you might as well get excited, because it’s pretty much always fun to…

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GUIDES

With Netflix-Style Business Models, Comes Netflix-Style Release Lineups

On this week’s 99 Potions, filling in for John and Natalie are fellow Fanbyte RPG friends Mike Williams and merritt k to talk about all of the biggest headlines in July. So get ready for Pokemon drama, Mike’s impressive toy collection, Star Wars video games, the Netflix-ification of games via…

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PODCASTS

How Should Destiny 2 End?

Endings aren’t something we often talk about when it comes to live games. But everything ends, and presumably Destiny 2 will wrap up at some point before the heat death of the universe. Now, that’s going to involve a lot of angst over servers shutting down and other logistical issues, but today…

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Destiny 2 Ending

FEATURES

The Five Worst Dates in Dragon Age

Dragon Age is a series of three fantasy RPGs about sarcastic queer people saving the world, being miserable in a bad city, and militarizing the world’s largest religion, respectively. The games have pretty good plots, but the heart of the series is its core cast of characters and how they…

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LISTS

Bioware Hinting at Dragon Age Announcements in December

It’s been nearly a year since Bioware announced the next installment in the Dragon Age series at The Game Awards last December, but it looks like the studio is planning to break its silence next month. Today, November 3, is the ten year anniversary of Dragon Age: Origins, the game that started it…

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NEWS

Xenogears to Xenoblade: A 99 Potions Retrospective

Nerium, Imran and John are joined by our good friend Eric Van Allen to discuss Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and the series’ complex history. Find out how the studio was founded with a love for giant robots, the typical need to warn people about the embarrassing horny tropes, and how the…

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PODCASTS

Month of the Week: October 2005 in Games

On their Fire Emblem: Three Hopes spoilercast, my colleagues on 99 Potions brought up the concept of the “Month of the Year” in reference to October 2005. I was immediately smitten by this concept, and am now adapting it for a weekly format. In this first installment, I’m featuring that same month…

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October 2005 Month of the Week

FEATURES

Wordle of The Day Hints & Answer for Word 425: August 18, 2022

Welcome to the Wordle of the day for August 18, 2022! This time around we’re solving Wordle 425 and it might just be a doozy. That’s what we’re to help with, of course, so let’s get right to it with another set of Wordle hints and a Wordle answer. Don’t…

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GUIDES

Tokyo Joshi Pro’s Summer Sun Princess was a Coming of Age Show

By any measure, July 18th’s Summer Sun Princess was a landmark show for Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling. Not only was the crowd at Ota City Ward Gymnasium even larger than 2021’s Wrestle Princess II, it was noisier. Earlier in July, TJPW’s sister company, DDT, tested lifting pandemic-related cheering restrictions, and…

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WRESTLING

A Random Name Generator Brought Dragons to Dragon Age

Considering how integral a dragon became to Dragon Age: Origins’ story, it’s surprising to hear the game didn’t have a dragon in sight for much of its early development. It’s not usually a surprise to find out that larger portions of a game in its infancy look nothing like what actually…

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NEWS

The Glorious Possibilities of Dragon Age: The Live Service

Dragon Age 4 has finally been announced, but maybe not in the form fans wanted. A recent report on Bioware’s internal trainwreck says that the original game has been canned, and that the new plan for the game intends to weave in “live service” elements in the vein of Anthem.…

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