Kenneth Shepard

Kenneth Shepard

Kenneth is a Staff Writer at Fanbyte. He still periodically cries about the Mass Effect trilogy years after it concluded.

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A Game Set in the Quiet Place Universe is Coming Next Year

Upon learning that a video game based on the 2018 horror movie A Quiet Place is in development, I realized I was surprised the movie hadn’t really done anything in that space yet. Not in...

Aeon Must Die Launches Soon but Nobody Seems Happy About It [UPDATE]

Aeon Must Die, a beat-em-up by Limestone Games, is coming to PC and consoles tomorrow, October 14. Since the game’s reveal last year during a PlayStation State of Play presentation, it’s also...

Animal Crossing New Horizons is Getting Two Updates, One Free, One Paid

Nintendo held an Animal Crossing New Horizons presentation today, detailing future content plans for the game and giving us a sense of what to expect in the next stage of the game’s life...

Battlefield 2042 Open Beta Gets Dates and Details for Next Week

Battlefield 2042’s open beta has a date, as well as a lengthy breakdown of what to expect when the test run goes live from October 6 to October 9 next month. The first two days will be only o...

Dragon Age: Inquisition's Best Romance Was its Least Popular

Dorian Pavus is my favorite character in the Dragon Age series. He’s my beau in BioWare’s fantasy world, and I hope he gets to play some kind of role in the next game, even if it lo...

Sony Reportedly Packaging Crunchyroll in PlayStation Plus After Acquisition

Sony bought Crunchyroll for $1 billion and apparently has plans to incorporate the anime streaming service into other areas of its business. That’s PlayStation Plus, specifically.

Activision-Blizzard Shareholder Criticizes 'Inadequate' Response to Workplace Culture Lawsuit

It wasn’t surprising, but it was a weird moment of cognitive dissonance when Activision-Blizzard investors came off the news that the company is the subject of a lawsuit for sexist workplace culture,...

Activision-Blizzard Employees Call for Honesty, Resignation After Harassment Lawsuit

Last week, Activision-Blizzard became the subject of a lawsuit claiming the company had allowed sexism and harassment to permeate through its ranks. The stories noted in the suit were vile, and some o...

Netflix Reportedly Developing a Live-Action Pokemon Series

While the prospect of a sequel to the Detective Pikachu movie seems less and less likely, it sounds like a different live-action Pokemon project is in the works: a Netflix...

Don't Worry Sony, I Don't Know How a PS5 is Supposed to Stand Either

I’ve had my PlayStation 5 since launch day back in November, and I’ve decided to keep mine standing upright with my current setup. Both because that’s how it best fits and because the system actually...

Microsoft Wants to Revisit Killer Instinct with the "Right Team"

The Killer Instinct series hasn’t been locked away in a vault lately, but Head of Xbox Phil Spencer is talking about it like it is. The fighting game franchise was rebooted as an Xbox On...

Prince of Persia Sands of Time Remake Skips E3, Gets 2022 Release Window

Ubisoft has already announced most of its showcase at its Ubisoft Forward stream as part of E3 and Summer Game Fest. But there were a few mentions of “surprises” that would be coming out of the presen...

They Put the Motherfucking Normandy in No Man's Sky

Commander Shepard’s ship, the SSV Normandy SR-1, now exists within No Man’s Sky, and I’m just enough of a fucking nerd to be already considering jumping back into Hello Games’ open universe g...

Commander Shepard's Stamina: A Review

Sony Backtracks on Plans to Shut Down PS3 and Vita Stores

At the end of last month, Sony confirmed reports that it would be shutting down the PlayStation Store for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation Portable later in 2021. After being dragg...

New Report Paints Sony As Risk-Averse and Stifling Developers for the Hits

A new story from Bloomberg has shed some light on the current situation surrounding Sony’s first-party philosophy, and it sounds like the company is so dedicated to playing the hits that its studios a...

Deathloop Delayed Once More into September

Deathloop, Arkane’s time loop shooter, has been delayed once again. This time until September 14.

Pac-Man 99 Brings a Battle Royale Take on the Original Game to Nintendo Switch Online Users

Pac-Man 99, a battle royale spin on the classic Namco maze game, looks like a brutal blast. With its interesting approach to make the game competitive, it looks like it’ll be a fun game for f...

E3 Returns in 2021 as Yet Another Digital Video Game Announcement Stream

After cancelling things last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, E3 is making its return in 2021 as a digital event, though it’s hard to be excited about it considering it’s happening in the same mo...

No Man's Sky's Expeditions Update is All About Exploring the Galaxy Together

The No Man’s Sky machine just doesn’t seem to stop, does it? Hello Games has announced a new expansion for its procedurally generated space exploration game just a little over a mon...