The Plucky Squire is the Coolest Game I Saw This Week

One of the best parts of going through such a busy time in this industry is being able to share reactions with a bunch of unbelievably smart, kind, and talented people like the ones on our staff. I loved talking to Diego Arguello and Paul Tamayo this week for Thanks…

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NEWS

FFXIV Tips Guide – 48 Things The Game Doesn’t Tell You

FFXIV tips aren’t terribly tough to write. The game is full to bursting with things the makers of Final Fantasy simply don’t want to tell you. It’d be hard not to let a few things fall through the cracks after years of continuous development, of course, which is why we’re…

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GUIDES

A Brief History of Creeps In Professional Wrestling

[Content Warning on this piece for discussion of sexual violence and trauma.] Over the last two weeks, wrestling has been confronted with a problem that, frankly, too many people within and without the industry have known was coming for some time. When #MeToo began spreading at a pace faster than…

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WRESTLING

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

Revisiting Midsommar in 2022: Still a Folk Horror Masterpiece

We were honored this week by the presence of Stacie Ponder (aka Finalgrrl!) — co-host of the Gaylords of Darkness podcast — for our discussion of Midsommar. We are doing “Join Us June” all month on You Love to See It (our movie podcast!), watching movies about cults in some…

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TV/FILM

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 Fūnk-é Joseph and podcast producer Paul Tamayo, to check…

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NEWS

What Are the Best Wines for Pregnant Women?

Much like Yom Kippur, this week’s episode of Friends Reunion is a time for penance and atonement. The Fanbyte Thinktank (currently consisting of Head of Large John Warren, Brand Editor+ Niki Grayson, and Social Editor+ LB Hunktears) has said a lot of things over the last rolling calendar year, most of…

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PODCASTS

You Love to See It Reviews Mission: Impossible (1996) | The Podcast Transcript

Payday May continues on You Love to See It, and we’re taking things back to the beginning once again with 1996’s Brian De Palma-directed Mission Impossible. It’s the first in a series that started it all for one Tom Cruise and his perverted obsession with making each subsequent film an…

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PODCASTS