Steven’s Top 10 Games of the Year – 2019 Edition

2019 marked the first, full year of Fanbyte. It was also my first, full year as a full-time employee of literally anything. After nine years as a freelancer (some of which was spent juggling multiple part-time jobs) I finally found a place where I belong. The team seems to agree,…

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FEATURES

‘F9: The Fast Saga’ Review: The Time is Now

After two years of delays, the ninth core installment of the Fast & Furious franchise has finally hit American movie theaters. F9: The Fast Saga welcomes back Justin Lin, the director who shepherded the series through its growing pains and delivered some of its best installments along the way. His…

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REVIEWS

Ignore Doom 3 at Your Own Peril

In 2016 Doom was back with bright colors, cartoonish demons, gore, speed and violence. Players and critics alike hailed it as the long-awaited return of a series that lost its identity with its previous game, Doom 3 (2004). But Doom 3 is a real Doom episode: it explores lesser known…

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FEATURES

Oh, Big Boys: WWE Royal Rumble Recap and Review

Surprise returns! Port-a-potty spots! The strap! An outdated transphobic joke! This show had everything and more. A very solid Rumble delivered us two unsurprising, but not undeserved, winners, and a great new GIF of Brock Lesnar making a 😮 face. Sheamus vs Shorty G (Kickoff) Sheamus starting off the preshow…

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Does the Gaming Industry Miss Having E3 Around?

In this week’s episode of Spawn on Me, host Kahlief Adams shares his thoughts about his favorite and most anticipated games from Summer Game Fest. He also digs into the conversation around whether E3 still has a space to flourish in the current gaming coverage climate. (You can also listen…

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PODCASTS

Every Fighting Game Movie Ever Made, Ranked From Worst to Best

The story portion of fighting games has rapidly evolved over the years. What started with a simple framing device — often a tournament of the world’s finest — has grown into cinematic epics like last month’s Mortal Kombat 11. But video games aren’t the only place where these stories unfold. With the release of MK11, I…

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LISTS

Intimate Space: The State of Queerness in Mass Effect

In Mass Effect’s vision of the far-flung future, humanity has integrated into a galactic society. Long gone are the otherings and dissension of modern-day Earth, as humans take their place in the stars beyond. At least, that’s the future it posits on the surface. In practice? Mass Effect is an…

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FEATURES

Dragon’s Dogma 2 is Going to Find Massive Success in a Post Elden Ring World

This week’s episode of Thanks for the Knowledge features an amazing roundtable discussion about Overwatch 2 with resident expert Kenneth Shepard and lapsed player Mike Williams. I thought the discussion did a great job of explaining exactly why you might be excited about the new information Blizzard just dropped and…

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NEWS

The Playdate Invokes a Better Bygone Era of Handhelds

The Playdate is an irresistible little thing more of us at Fanbyte have gotten our mitts on in the past few weeks. For this week’s Thanks for the Knowledge podcast, I sat down with two proponents of the device, featured contributor FÅ«nk-é Joseph and podcast producer Paul Tamayo, to check…

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NEWS