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(07/05/18 8:37pm)
Disclaimer: This review is of the Nintendo Switch version of the game and was played primarily in docked mode. This copy of the game was provided free of charge by the developer for review purposes.
(06/29/18 9:14pm)
Rob Hiassen.
(06/29/18 6:43pm)
By Tanner Kinney
(06/28/18 11:17pm)
by Tt Shinkan
The opinions and views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the opinion of Byte or Byte’s editorial board.
Ever since my freshman year of high school, I’ve always wanted to visit Nashville, Tennessee not because I love country music, but because I wanted to see and learn the history of what makes this city “Music City”. After five years of waiting, I was finally able to go, and my experience was nothing short of amazing. Not only did I learn a little bit about the history and evolution of country music, but I felt like I learned a lot about myself as a person as well. So with that short introduction, here’s what it’s like to experience the music culture of The Music City!
(06/24/18 7:00pm)
Disclaimer: This review is of the Nintendo Switch version of the game and was primarily played in docked mode.
(06/24/18 4:00pm)
Warning: This review may contain spoilers for this episode and previous episodes of My Hero Academia
(06/22/18 7:00pm)
The summer movie season has finally started for 2018. With it brings the usual summer blockbusters and superhero fare that has come to be expected. However, there can be some hidden gems among these movies, and Hotel Artemis is one of them. The directorial debut of Drew Pearce (who created the show No Heroics, and co-wrote the story for Iron Man 3), is a rather good one, aided by an excellent ensemble cast of talented actors.
(06/22/18 4:00pm)
Since opening for Justin Bieber’s “Purpose” tour and dropping his first hit song “White Iverson”, Post Malone has blown up in a big way. He went from clueless young kid in Los Angeles to headlining a sold-out nationwide tour. On June 6, he blessed the Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn with an incredible and versatile performance. He and Ty Dolla Sign took the venue by storm.
(06/21/18 9:30pm)
For those heist movie lovers, this film provides a good twist on a familiar franchise. Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock), leads a pack of women to pull off a large heist at the annual Met Gala. This film takes a fresh spin on the original Ocean’s movies that featured George Clooney. Ocean’s Eleven featured all-males and featured Danny’s love interest, played by Julia Roberts, as the only female in the casting. Heist-wise, it’s more complex however not entirely different. Danny attempts to steal cash from a popular casino in Las Vegas that is run by his arch nemesis, Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia). Although the film features a cast made up of women, it doesn’t provide that feel that the original movies had. This movie is still worth the peek and is a good symbol for women in the film industry today.
(06/22/18 6:00pm)
Justice Amick is a junior news journalism major and writes “Pencil Shavings" for The Daily News. Her views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Write to Justice at jramick@bsu.edu.
(06/13/18 10:55pm)
By Baylie Clevenger
The opinions and views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the opinion of Byte or Byte’s editorial board.
As a preface for this article, I would like to say that anyone who is sensitive to topics like assault, sexual assault, gun violence, suicide or bullying may not want to read on.
On May 18 the Netflix original “13 Reasons Why” made a comeback with season two. The show has been controversial from the first season and the newest one is no different. Social media is still buzzing with opinion after opinion about the show.
I have my opinions about the show as well, I fall somewhere in the middle. There were a lot of really great things about the show but also a lot of not so great things.
Beginning with what they did right, here’s a list of just a few: (Warning: anyone who has not watched this season and plans to should stop here because there WILL be spoilers.)
(06/09/18 10:31pm)
Disclaimer: This review is of the PC version and was conducted on a PC with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, i7, 8GBs of RAM.
(06/09/18 10:30am)
By Tanner Kinney
The opinions and views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the opinion of Byte or Byte’s editorial board.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Disney has control of the box office with every film it releases. If you want your film to succeed, and it has the same target audience as the next big Disney film, you move your release date. Whether it be animated films aimed towards families or their films aimed towards an older audience, Disney is a black hole, absorbing all ticket sales within a 10 movie radius. Despite claims that “superhero fatigue” will eventually hit Disney Marvel films, they are still going strong. It seems superhero fatigue is more just fatigue of terrible films, like Justice League.
Yet, the impossible seems to have happened. A big budget blockbuster film from a well-established franchise tanked in the box office. The winner of the big loser trophy is Solo: A Star Wars Story. A Star Wars film with a troubled production, that got released after two major titles in Avengers: Infinity War and Deadpool 2. Despite ranking first in its opening weekend, Solo bombed with only roughly 100 million dollars in domestic sales, and roughly 172 million dollars worldwide. Those numbers seem pretty good though, but with a 250 million dollar production budget that doesn’t even include marketing, which could easily add another 250 million onto it, Solo has quite a deficit to overcome. The questions: why did Solo fail? Is Disney Star Wars in trouble? And can Solo even have a chance to make its budget back? Let’s break out the calculators and see if Solo can win in the end. I don’t have a really good feeling about it.
Let me preface this by saying that I feel nothing about Star Wars. Despite writing about Star Wars twice previously, I was never a long time fan of the series. I think prequel memes are funny, even if they are a cynical fabrication by Disney executives to get people to love the prequels (even if it’s ironic love). I think the original trilogy is good. I even actually really like The Last Jedi, being one of the 46% of audience members on Rotten Tomatoes to give it a positive score. But Star Wars was never really my thing. I’m here for the numbers, and to see if it wasn’t Rian Johnson, but Hollywood hack Ron Howard who put Star Wars in a grave.
(06/08/18 12:27pm)
By Ian Roesler
WARNING: Major spoilers ahead for Solo: A Star Wars Story
The opinions and views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the opinion of Byte or Byte’s editorial board.
Solo isn’t the worst Star Wars movie; that honor falls upon The Star Wars Holiday Special, which is easily the worst thing to happen in the last two centuries.
So, this movie was a little controversial when it was announced. I wasn’t exactly looking forward to it. Regardless of how I initially felt I was planning on seeing it anyway. I’ve seen every movie up to this point, except the Holiday Special I and others felt that Han Solo is one of those characters that the less you know about him the better, like Boba Fett, who is also getting his own movie. The mystery is part of the appeal and Star Wars hasn’t had the best luck with prequels, but I thought this movie was good. Whereas the other movies would switch between a character or group of characters, such as in Empire it’ll flip between Luke on Dagobah and the others in Cloud City, this one is just Han Solo as the title would “exply” (a made-up word meaning the opposite of imply). It was more action and adventure-y than a standard Star Wars movie. It was constantly moving. The music was decent. John Powell did the music for this one. The action was great. I think there’s more positives than negatives. A big controversy about this movie was the cast.
So, if you’ve been living under a rock you probably heard about the casting controversy. They replaced an actor of a major character. Say what you will but I thought Joonas Suotamo did a great job as Chewbacca and I think he did a great job as him in The Last Jedi. You can’t blame Peter Mayhew for stepping down from the role. Thankfully they got new actors to play the younger versions of Han and Lando, instead of CGI-ing his face onto another actor like they did with Grand Moff Tarkin. That was odd and a creepy to say the least. Back to Solo, Alden Ehrenreich did an excellent job as Han Solo which is no easy task, I’m so glad they didn’t cgi a young Harrison Ford on him. Emilia Clarke plays Qi’ra, who is Han’s love interest and eventually becomes a gang leader. Woody Harrelson plays Tobias Beckett, he gets Solo and Chewie into the smuggler lifestyle. And finally, there’s Donald Glover who plays Lando Calrissian. Lando is easily the best character in this movie. Donald Glover just oozes charisma in this role. Ray Park reprises his role as Darth Maul for a brief cameo towards the end. There’s also a robot that might grate some people, as she’s like the embodiment of a social justice warrior for droids. This movie is the first in the franchise to not feature C-3PO or R2D2 in any capacity. Although I think I might have seen R2D2 in a cameo. Maybe. There’s also a main villain. He’s okay. He has a scarred face and is in charge of a large criminal empire. A human Jabba basically. Then there’s the tribal guy who’s set up as a villain but is revealed to be a good guy. So, let’s examine what the film did well, not so well, some possible complaints that others may have, and how it compares to Rogue One.
(06/06/18 7:00pm)
Warning: This review may contain spoilers for this episode and previous episodes of My Hero Academia
(06/06/18 4:00pm)
Disclaimer: This review was conducted on a launch PS4.
(06/05/18 9:14pm)
Disclaimer: This review is of the PC version and was conducted on a PC with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, i7, 8GBs of RAM.
(06/01/18 9:00pm)
Disclaimer: As of 5/25/18, Show Dogs has been re-edited to eliminate story elements that may have unintentionally acted in service towards helping groom children for molestation or pedophilia. This review reflects the original cut of the film which included these elements, and as such will stand to critique the film as it was originally intended for theaters before this controversy came to light.
(06/01/18 6:59pm)
The revival of Star Wars under Disney, led by producer Kathleen Kennedy, has been much more turbulent than expected. Despite the first two films, The Force Awakens and Rogue One, being overall solid action flicks, the two most recent films have left fans and critics at odds. The Last Jedi was a well-executed film that perhaps went too far in the direction of subverting expectations, which left critics content, but incited a rebellion among fans that has so far carried into the reception of their future products. The first of which is Solo: A Star Wars Story. Fortunately for Star Wars fans, Solo is a comfy blanket of nostalgia that doesn’t try to change too much of what they know. For anyone else, the film just blends too well into the crowd of run-of-the-mill action blockbusters to be worth noticing.
(05/27/18 7:00pm)
Warning: This review may contain spoilers for this episode and previous episodes of My Hero Academia