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Is Madden NFL 21 worth your time and money? How successful are EA's new experimental modes? What was the name of your first pet? Find out all this and more in our dank review podcast featuring resident footballsmen John and Niki! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danielle, merritt, Niki and Steven are back for a slightly shorter, but no-less enthralling installment of Fanwidth, the/a Fanbyte podcast. This week, merritt defines the modern family, Danielle suffers cognitive dissonance re: punches, Steven goes back, back to the past, and Niki learns how to scrape Ford servers for pictures of the 2021 Ford Bronco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danielle, Steven, merritt and Niki are here to cure what ails ya, so long as what ails ya is a lack of four buds talking about carbs, doing BJJ in the woods, Del the Funky Homosapien, and the recent beta test for Square's Marvel's Avengers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

merritt is out this week, so Fanbyte Editorial Intern Ren joins Danielle, Steven and Niki to talk about Halo Infinite's delay, forming equidistant opinions,. the stress dreams we've been having, and whether or not the roof of your mouth is supposed to be wet. Oh, and content warning for spiders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Niki is still playing with his dog instead of working, so this week Steven, merritt and Danielle are joined by Fanbyte Editor at Large John Warren to discuss Tekken 7, Blaseball, Fight Crab, Fae Tactics, Warframe, the now-defunct Star Wars extended universe, and the legacy of Braxas, son of Grinch and E.T. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Niki has boneitis this week, so merritt, Danielle and Steven are left to their own devices. Did you know that Danielle used to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle? Did you know that losing your vagina bones eventually leads to death? These two revelations are unrelated, but you should still listen to find out how we get from Point A to Point B. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John, Ren, Niki and merritt discuss all the ring-shaped announcements from today's Xbox Games Showcase, including a Warthog's worth of Halo Infinite details, the increasingly strong value proposition of Xbox Games Pass, Rare's new anti-Monster Hunter thing, and Tetris Effect multiplayer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danielle, merritt, Steven and Niki are back to talk about the latest fake baseball esports, the greatest game consoles to feature telephone-style number pad controllers, and the surprisingly vast world of illegal online coloring book pages. Also: Ghost of Tsushima and Paper Mario: The Origami King! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Danielle, Steven, merritt and Niki return to the helm of Fanbyte's flagship podcast to discuss British sci-fi, imported robot-based reality television series, Minecraft sales numbers, Grand Thefts Auto 4 and 5, the Limited Edition Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Jeep Wrangler, Peter Moore, the 2021 Ford Bronco, the merits (no relation) of participating in the Twitter Discourse™, and maybe even a couple of contemporary video games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Fanwidth (The Fanbyte Podcast), Steven ruins their whole life by trying to finish Divinity: Original Sin 2, Niki gets owned by a hyper-capitalist shoe app, Ren is under siege by both Raiden and Raiden, and Danielle witnesses and honest-to-God miracle. We also get a deep dive into Niki and Ren's most recent (and most tilted) excursion into the Silver ranks of Valorant. Listener beware, you're in for a scare! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ready for a nice, smooth week of podcast discussion as the crew jumps straight into dental hygiene. Okay, so maybe we don't talk about games right away this week, but we get to them eventually! And the results are awfully fun and friendly as the crew dives deep on Fuser: the new DJ rhythm game from Harmonix. Is it the best music game the gang has ever played? Quite possibly. Listen and find out why! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We skip right to the good stuff by going heavy on games this week! The usual gang goes deep on Griftlands, Valorant, Clubhouse Games, The Last of Us Part II, and Divinity: Original Sin 2! Plus stick around for some lighter chat about the Game Boy Advance (again) and some quick hits in the form of Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children and Invisible, Inc. This is a totally normal episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Fanwidth crew celebrates an important milestone Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The time has come! Kenneth, Natalie, and Collin are back together again to talk about the very harrowing journey each of them took through the world of The Last of Us 2. Join our hosts as they get just ridiculously emotional about the post-apocalypse (and the characters that inhabit it). Be warned: there will be spoilers. Though you should probably be able to tell that from the title... If you're cool with that, let's mosey on over and get ready to cry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amplitude — known for Endless Space, Endless Dungeon, and Endless Legend — are trying their hand at the Civilization formula with the upcoming 4x strategy game Humankind. Join Dillon (who just got hands on time with a preview build) and Danielle (who has a latent strategy game itch) as they discuss the game’s tweaks — including a very cool fame mechanic and the ability to meld different aspects of cultures into your own society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your regularly scheduled hosts have returned to regale you with stories of their time in school. Going back a bit further than that, the gang talks about the olden days of portable gaming (we will never forget the Game Boy Micro). And eventually there's even an itty bitty dollop of current video game talk! Get ready to learn as merritt, Steven, Niki, and Danielle take you to class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We can't talk much about the story of The Last of Us Part II, but that isn't going to stop us from giving you the best review possible. That's why we brought the very best reviewers possible: Natalie Flores, Collin MacGregor, and Kenneth Shepard. The gang of queer critics has a lot to say about the often violent, sometimes touching game (despite a downright oppressive embargo). It seems there's a lot more to this Naughty Dog sequel than the marketing and leaks would have you believe! And everyone who's beaten it is very happy with the end result. Don't worry about spoilers on this one! We literally aren't allowed to include them. But tune in soon for a full spoilercast that discusses the game up and down. For now, enjoy our review of The Last of Us Part II with as much as we can possibly cram into 80 minutes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Niki, Steven, and John dive into everything we saw today at Sony's PS5 reveal event Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, horror film superfans Danielle Riendeau, merritt k, and Collin McGregor are joined by once-and-future You Love to See It co-host Dillon Skiffington in watching Shudder exclusive Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. A dense, well-paced piece that takes a deep dive on black folks in the horror genre, peppered with interviews by scholars, directors, writers and actors, it’s an instructive, highly watchable, and important piece. It’s currently streaming for free on the Shudder platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined this week by the special and wonderful Reviews Editor of US Gamer, Mike Williams, with the scoop on Skyrim! Well, he's really here to talk about The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor expansion. The new add-on brings us back to Skyrim, though, as we battle vampires and get a major lesson in Khajiit biology. I promise you're not expecting what you're about to find out. Plus, Niki has sandwich talk and wants to talk to John about Valorant. Steven finally brings up an extended overview of Monster Train, while the whole gang talks about games with long "lead-up" times. Sometimes we love 'em, sometimes we hate 'em, but none of us have time for them. But you can make time for episode 67 of Fanwidth, the Fanbyte podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices