FFXIV Patch 6.1 Has New Mounts and Minions, Like a Nier Pod and Nero Toy Car

During the latest Live Letter from Producer, Final Fantasy XIV creative director Naoki Yoshida showed off some of the new mounts and minions that players can acquire in Patch 6.1. The patch,...

FFXIV 6.1: First Look At Myths of the Realm Raid, Which Is Like An Endwalker Epilogue

During the latest Live Letter From the Producer, Final Fantasy XIV creative director and lead producer Naoki Yoshida gave us a tiny look at the first leg of the Alliance Raid for End...

The FFXIV Tank Raid Revolt is My New Favorite Party Finder Thing

I reckon most Final Fantasy XIV Party Finder tanks are sick of seeing Erichthonios. For those braving the role, Endwalker’s first Pandaemonium raid encounter often means navigat...

Happy 35th Birthday to the Sharp X68000!

In the American canon, 80s retro gaming is almost always associated with dedicated consoles like the NES and the Sega Genesis. But in Japan during that same period, home computers were huge. And if yo...

Variable Refresh Rate Coming to PS5 Soon, Says Sony

In a blog post announcing today’s system updates for the PS5 and PS4, Sony said that the oft-requested variable refresh rate (VRR) feature will be coming to the PS5 in the coming months. VRR allows us...

Genshin Impact Starts Double-Talent Book Event

If you’re intent on making your Genshin Impact characters as strong as they can possibly be, you’re going to need to level up your talents all the way. This can be difficult during norma...

Full FFXIV Patch 6.1 Live Letter is on April 1, Everything We Know So Far

The Final Fantasy XIV team has revealed the time and date for the next Live Letter From the Producer: Friday, April 1, 2022 at 4 a.m. PT / 7 a.m. ET<...

The FFXIV Team Originally Had No Idea What the Ascians Were Up To

At the end of an excellent story, it can feel like a creative team had everything planned out from the beginning. In reality, especially on long-form stories told over the course of many years, everyt...

Emet-Selch Remains Japan’s Favorite FFXIV Character

Back in 2020, NHK ran a huge poll for all things Final Fantasy. A total of 468,654 votes were cast on surveys asking players about their favorite games in the series, favor...

ICYMI: Everything From Today's Hogwarts Legacy State of Play

I’ll be straight with you: This is not a recap of Hogwarts Legacy, WB Games’ latest attempt at applying their Portkey Initiative to make more wizarding world games. After much discussion, nei...

Summerfall Studios Renames its Musical Adventure to Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

Summerfall Studios, the team led by ex-BioWare writer David Gaider and Beamdog alumni Liam Esler, has announced its musical adventure game Chorus is no longer called Chorus...

Nintendo Delays Advanced Wars 1+2 Boot Camp Indefinitely Due to 'Recent World Events'

Advanced Wars 1+2 Boot Camp is seeing another delay, but while the first one that happened at the end of last year was because the remasters needed “little more time for fine tuning,” th...

FFXIV Account Linking Causes Issues If Your Steam Name is Weird

Last month, Square Enix announced that players who enjoy FFXIV on PC via Steam would need to link to their Square Enix accounts. The move was made to “enhance account security” ac...

Quantic Dream Found Guilty in Ongoing Cases Regarding Workplace Harassment

Update, 3/8/2022: This article was originally published in 2019, and has since been updated to reflect actor Elliot Page’s gender identity, who came out as a trans man in 2020. 

Sony Announces State of Play Presentation Focusing on Japanese Publishers

Sony has announced a new State of Play presentation for tomorrow, March 9, at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern, and the show will have a particular focus on Japanese publishers.

FFXIV Lore Hounds, The Chronicles of Light Short Story Collection is Back

Final Fantasy XIV’s narrative extends to media outside of just the MMO’s main scenario questline, and Square Enix is reprinting a popular collection of its short stories that add to plot thre...

FFXIV Halts Automatic Housing Demolition, Again

Square Enix has decided to indefinitely postpone the automatic demolition of inactive estates in Final Fantasy XIV. The process was scheduled to go back into effect on March 9. Instead...

Valve Boss Gabe Newell Says His Son Got Him Into FFXIV

With 25 million registered players, Final Fantasy XIV continues to reach a wide variety of players. Even the father of Final Fantasy himself has been getting...

FFXIV Communities are Fundraising for Ukrainians in Need

In times of crisis, we see different communities band together and lend a hand in humanitarian efforts to aid those in need — gaming communities included. In light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine —...

FFXIV Composer Reflects on the “Culmination of a Musical Journey” in Endwalker

Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker wasn’t just the end of the narrative of Hydaelyn and Zodiark, it was also the end of an aural adventure. FFXIV sound director Mas...