The Growing Community of FFXIV Roleplaying Venues

It’s 2:45 a.m. on a Monday morning, and I’m performing my weekly ritual: playing five different arrangements of “Despacito” in a row at closing time in a Final Fantasy XIV roleplaying bar. It’s a joke between myself and my friend Allison Brown, one of the owners of the Gin Ironic.…

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FEATURES

Fanbyte Evening News April 9, 2020

Here’s your audio roundup for this evening’s news! You can download this episode directly right here. Otherwise, check out the player above, or head to iTunes and Spotify. While you’re there, consider rating us or leaving a review. It helps. Seriously!

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PODCASTS

Mass Effect Deserves Better Than Rehashing Its Past

Let me preface this by saying everything that follows is based on speculation circulating online. It’s a frustrating position to be in to talk about these things, but from the looks of it, BioWare’s marketing of the next Mass Effect is thriving on being just hazy enough to say nothing…

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Google Stadia Launch Lineup Nearly Doubles Days Before Release

Google Stadia, the company’s new game streaming service, is about two days away from its release date, and the company is coming in at the eleventh hour to add ten more games to the launch lineup. Just last week an original list of 12 games was unveiled, 25% of which…

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NEWS

FFXIV Player Bands Are Bringing Concerts to Eorzea

Note: For privacy reasons, interviewees are referred to as either their FFXIV screen names or band names in this article. It’s a perfectly normal day in Gridania as you stroll through the dappled trees and over to the Lancer’s Guild, looking for the latest quest or just poking your head…

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I’m Adding Sonic to My Daily Rotation of Incorrect Heardle Guesses

This morning, I solved Final Fantasy XIV‘s new Heardle faster than I have for the last week; then promptly crushed my own confidence while trying Sonic Heardle. Yes, we’ve added another game to the daily Heardle rotation, y’all. Hearing the cries of Sonic likers everywhere, @LaughAndPeace11 on Twitter gifted us…

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YouTube Keeps Labeling Sonic Videos 'For Kids,' and Creators Suffer for It

NEWS

Square-Enix and Luminous Production Delay Forspoken to October

Square-Enix has announced Forspoken won’t be making its originally projected May release date, as the PC and PlayStation 5 action RPG has been delayed until October. News of this came through posts made on the game’s social channels, which announced a new release date of October 11. The Luminous Production team…

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Square-Enix and Luminous Production Delay Forspoken to October

NEWS

Astria Ascending Is at Its Most Beautiful When It Is Still

Astria Ascending is gorgeous to behold, with vibrant colors shining through its hand-drawn visuals that make it look like a moving painting. It’s not only eye-catching because of its visuals but because of the people behind it, helmed by Kazushige Nojima, the scenario writer behind Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and…

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A Fondness For Low Poly Graphics Formed A Beloved Community

When a bunch of extraordinarily blocky grapes from Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker went viral on Twitter at the end of last year, it wasn’t because people were being mean-spirited. In fact, when they were updated in Patch 6.01 to look slightly less like they could take an eye out, people…

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30 Musicians Unite to Remix the Mii Channel Theme, and It’s a Total Bop

There’s a very small chance you haven’t heard it: the famous Mii Channel theme. Whether it’s through your own Wii menu or through some random video on stan Twitter, its legacy is indisputable. And, in 2021, it still keeps on giving — with the latest version being a remix consisting…

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NEWS

Genshin Impact Was the Most Talked-About Game on Twitter in 2021

Every year, Twitter coalesces all the data and identifiable gaming discussion of the year and puts it in everyone’s favorite form: data. In 2021, it’s no galloping shock that a lot of social media conversation focused heavily multiplayer and live-service games. Not only do consistent patches and updates keep discussion…

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NEWS

The Linkshell – FFXIV News, Stories, Guides, and More

Keep up with everything happening around Final Fantasy XIV From the latest Live Letters and patch changes to in-game events and updates on what’s coming next, we have you covered.

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