SPIDER-MAN

Dylan Roth Dec 17, 2021. 8 minute read

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Review: Greatest Hits

The Spider-Man film franchise has the dubious distinction of having been rebooted twice in the space of a decade. The first Spider-Man trilogy, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire, launched in 2002 and defined the superhero film genre for a generation. The hasty 2012 Amazing Spider-Man relaunch led…

Imran Khan Nov 4, 2021. 1 minute read

Avengers Will Finally Bring Spider-Man to the Game Over a Year After Announcement

Over a year ago, Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix announced that they will be supplying extra content for the PlayStation versions of Marvel’s Avengers in the form of an entirely additional and unique superhero, Spider-Man. The decision was controversial, but became even more quixotic as the game failed to garner…

Sean Aitchison Oct 9, 2020. 5 minute read

Why Superhero Video Games Need to Ditch “Realism”

Video game developer David Cage has stated that he thinks video games cannot tell emotional, meaningful stories and cannot otherwise be praiseworthy unless the characters have the highest number of polygons and look as close to reality as possible. Unfortunately, his views on realism are not unique, with other developers…

Jordan Mallory May 8, 2020. Less than a minute

Spider-Verse 2’s New October 7, 2022 Release Date: A Review

John Warren Apr 24, 2020. Less than a minute

Fanbyte Evening News April 24, 2020

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Jordan Mallory Sep 27, 2019. 3 minute read

Just Kidding, Spider-Man Is Back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Disney and Sony have been able to find common ground in their mutual desire to make butt-loads of cash off Spider-Man, today announcing a renewed partnership that returns the webslinger to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you’ll recall, Peter’s participation in non-Sony pictures was placed in purgatory last month, when…

John Warren Aug 21, 2019. Less than a minute

Late Lunch August 21, 2019: Born to Uncle Buck

Andrew tells the story of how he was born to Uncle Buck. Then, some Mortal Combat 11 talk and what’s the ding dang deal with Spider-Man! Late Lunch is Fanbyte’s live video podcast that airs every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 1pm PST on twitch.tv/fanbyte. We’ll put the VODs up on the site…

Jordan Mallory Aug 20, 2019. 2 minute read

Spider-Man Sony Disney Deal Implodes, Webcrawler out of the MCU

Sony and Disney have been unable to reach an agreement over the rights to Spider-Man’s existence on the silver screen, ending Marvel Studios and president Kevin Feige’s involvement with the franchise, according to Deadline. This means that future Spider-Man films, even if they star the universally beloved Tom Holland as…

Fanbyte Staff Jul 31, 2019. Less than a minute

Late Lunch July 31, 2019: David Cage’s Spider-Man

Niki and John have a lot to say (strangely) about Fortnite, which probably pleases Andrew. Also Madden 20 and a very cursed idea Niki has for a new David Cage title. Late Lunch is Fanbyte’s live video podcast that airs every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 1pm PST on twitch.tv/fanbyte. We’ll put…

John Warren Mar 28, 2019. Less than a minute

Weird Spider-Men That Should Be in the Spider-Verse Sequel

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the best Spider-Man movie ever. That’s my take. It’s the right take, to be clear, but it’s also my personal take. I won’t spoil the film but as any superhero franchise can tell you, there are sequel possibilities abound. Increasingly confident and very good video…