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This week, Steven Strom, Fanbyte Guide Writer Collin MacGregor, News Writer Natalie Flores, and frequent contributor Ginny Woo all get in the car and go on a positively wild adventure with Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV. It’s a feature-length film that actually sets up and pays off several story beats from the game, and our co-hosts have a wide range of opinions about this one. That is, on its overall quality, on the women characters, on the outfits, and most of all, who absolutely has (or should have) hooked up with whom. 

Note: this episode has a content warning for sex and violence.

It's time to take to the streets... We've got ourselves a Streets of Rage 4 review hot off the sizzling sewer grates and ready for your ears! Editor at Large John Warren stops by to talk about the series' legacy (and music), and how well it's been translated into this new game. Fellow rager Steven Strom tags along to hold the game in a full nelson, while the duo blaze away at this beat 'em up revival. Join us!

This week on Fanwidth episode 62, John drops by to talk Final Fantasy. It turns out more than a couple Fanbyte editors have the series on the brain at the moment. That's not all, though, as merritt has gotten into Warframe and Danielle dips her toes into John Wick Hex now that it's out on PS4. Naturally, that's only half of the equation, as the Fanwidth crew goes completely on a tangent before things even begin. Wanna learn all kinds of things about the Addams Family? Because you're about to!

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is not a great movie. It’s probably not even a good movie. But it’s a fairly interesting film, at least for some of its bits of historic significance: it was supposed to launch a “digital actress” in Ming-Na Wen’s character, Dr. Aki Ross. It was stupidly expensive. It flopped so hard that the movie was both the first - and the last - Square Pictures picture.

Join John Warren, Steven Strom, Danielle Riendeau, and Fanbyte Weekend Writer Natalie Flores on an adventure unlike any other (for better or worse).

One note: Danielle’s audio was eaten by some particularly nasty spirits in this episode. We apologize for that, and the offending software has been fired.

Fanbyte Guides Editor Dillon Skiffington has returned to the world of Sera for another ride against the Locust. That's right! We're talking about a Gears of War game. Specifically, this is our review of Gears Tactics, the turn-based battle simulator set in the third-person shooter-verse. Set 12 years before the first game, it fills in some of the gaps still left by the main series. And in the process, it makes for a pretty fun tactics game, to boot!

This week on Fanwidth, your usual hosts are left to their own devices again. This inevitably leads to talk about fucking aliens, philosopher kings, and LiveJournal. But that's not all! I promise we actually talk about video games, and that all these topics are relevant to things like Final Fantasy VII Remake, DOOM Eternal, and XCOM: Chimera Squadron. Don't believe it? Listen in on Fanwidth episode 61 to find out for yourself!

In honor of the Kickstarter launch for Tapeworm, veteran game designer Edmund McMillen sat down with Features and Trending Editor merritt k to talk about the game, his aesthetic preferences, and living in these interesting times. 

The kickstarter for Tapeworm is available here.

There's no need to beat around the bush with this one! You can tell from the title that this bonus episode is all about Final Fantasy VII Remake. John and Steven, as well as special guests and Fanbyte writers Natalie Flores, Kenneth Shepard, and Collin MacGregor have all banded together to beat the latest project from Square Enix. And it sure is a doozy. The enormous game makes some enormously big decisions around the Final Fantasy VII plot. So we're here to discuss what's different, what's the same, what we loved, what we hated, and what we'd like to see in the next chapter of the project.

John, LB, Danielle, and Niki are joined by first timer and brand new staff guides writer for Fanbyte.com Collin MacGregor, who chats with us about the upcoming events in Animal Crossing and what everyone's been up to on their islands the past couple weeks.

Fanbyte Island Life is our Animal Crossing New Horizons podcast that airs on Thursdays when there's stuff to discuss! Sometimes we skip a week! What can we say?

For our second visit to The Lonely Island, intrepid co-hosts John Warren, Niki Grayson, merritt k, and Danielle Riendeau donned baseball caps and set off to the 80s in The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience. A Netflix comedy special/visual poem, the film is a thirty minute musical event starring Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer as Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire, the PED-toting, home run hitting “Bash Brothers” of the 1989 Oakland Athletics. It’s… a lot!