GAMES
Nicholas Grayson Jun 1, 2022. 2 minute read
Ranking the New Scarlet & Violet Pokemon by How Tasty They Look
The Pokemon Company released a new trailer for the upcoming Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, the next entries in the mainline games. With the locale for this title moving to the majestic vistas of Spain and Portugal, there are a lot of new opportunities for Pokemon designs. There have been Pokemon…
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Nicholas Grayson Mar 9, 2022. 2 minute read
38 Video Game Name Ideas for the Folks at Square Enix
Square Enix Sony hosted a State of Play today, which was conveniently timed right after eight more women came forward as part of a harassment lawsuit against the company, and also right after they announced that they were stopping sales of all of their games, hardware, and services in Russia in…
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Nerium Feb 23, 2022. 6 minute read
Elden Ring Puts Rubber Stamped Open World Games to Shame
I never know how much time I have. Previous From Software games feature parades of NPCs — representatives of worlds twisting in on themselves, literally and figuratively — in hidden alcoves and corners of safety. My ability to push on that world, by slaying giants and cracking frosted-shut gates, might…
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Imran Khan Dec 26, 2021. 18 minute read
The Fancies 2021: Some of Imran’s Top Games of the Year
I don’t think we have enough appreciation for how weird 2021 has been for video games — or really anything. That anything came out this year is a small miracle; that enough really good things came out this year to fill a list, much less the list of 50 games…
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Mike Williams Dec 26, 2021. 7 minute read
The Fancies 2021: The Cool Mike’s Top 10 Games of the Year
Have I been at Fanbyte long enough to do one of these? It was a tumultuous year for me professionally, and that’s extended into the games that I had a chance to play. I went from reviewing most of the biggest games at USgamer to leaning toward hardware and apps…
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lb hunktears Dec 24, 2021. 7 minute read
The Fancies 2021: LB Hunktears’ Games of the Year
Game of the Year, Period, 2021: Wildermyth The reason Wildermyth is my game of the year is pretty simple: it does nothing I don’t like. It’s beautifully balanced. Tonally, it’s the perfect fantasy adventure game — the stakes feel high, but not stressfully so. Sad things happen, and they feel…
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Josh Brown Dec 17, 2021. 2 minute read
A Squid Game Inspired Mode is Coming to PUBG Mobile
Surprising nobody after that whole Among Us mode teased earlier in the year, next week, PUBG Mobile will welcome a mode that’s clearly inspired by Netflix’s latest mega-hit show, the Korean thriller Squid Game — specifically the deadly game of Red Light, Green Light featured in its first episode. Technically…
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TRENDING
Josh Brown Dec 17, 2021. 3 minute read
Your Next Device Might Not Play PUBG Mobile
Mobile technology is going from strength to strength. Compare the games on the original iPhone to the ones you play on your modern Apple device today: they’re leaps and bounds more graphically impressive and technologically sophisticated. So imagine what would have to go wrong for your next device to not…
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NEWS
Jordan Mallory Mar 26, 2019. 3 minute read
3 Things I Should Buy Before the New Analogue Mega Sg
Hoooooooooooooooooo boy. Okay. Y’all heard about the Analogue Mega Sg? It’s a new console capable of playing almost every pre-Saturn game ever released for a Sega platform, in 1080p and with even higher audio fidelity than the YM2612 chip in the original model 1 Genesis. Unlike those abysmal plug-and-play crimes from…
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LISTS
Ian Stokes Mar 26, 2019. 5 minute read
Generation Zero Review: Cooperative Crouching Simulator
Generation Zero is an ambitious attempt to fuse the popular multiplayer survival genre with a more traditional story-driven campaign. Throwing out the player-versus-player component of its contemporaries, Generation Zero instead encourages cooperation. And, set in rural Sweden during the 1980s, the game further asks a simple but intriguing question – what if Sweden, but invaded by robots? Sadly,…
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