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WoW’s Wrath Of The Lich King Expansion Is Now A Board Game
21.7.2021
Pandemic is a classic board game from publisher Z-Man in which players work together to stop the spread of rampaging viruses. World of Warcraft’s Wrath of the Lich King expansion is about stopping the Lich King’s Scourge from rampaging across the continent of Northrend. They’re basically the same...
Final Fantasy XIV Director Apologizes For Overloaded Servers
20.7.2021
Final Fantasy XIV server congestion has been a huge problem for the player base as of late, and you probably won’t be surprised to find out the culprits are, in part, difficulties introduced by the covid-19 pandemic.Read more
New FFXIV Update Will Now Kick Idle Players, And That Kinda Sucks
20.7.2021
Final Fantasy XIV is suffering from success. There’s been a recent explosion in active users driving up queue times and flooding the FFXIV subreddit with daily threads complaining about said queue times. Square Enix is working on the problem but in the meantime, the latest patch, deployed during...
WoW Disappointment, Plus Twitch, Start Mass Exodus Into Final Fantasy XIV
13.7.2021
Final Fantasy XIV is having its best month ever.Read more
Final Fantasy XIV Is So Popular Even The Digital Version Sold Out
12.7.2021
Final Fantasy XIV, the popular MMO about trying to find an apartment in San Francisco, is flying off shelves—digitally. Right now, when you pop onto the Square Enix store, you’ll likely run into a roadblock trying to buy a download code for the game.Read more
FFXIV Artists Used Their Free Time To Get Bunny Boys Into The Game
7.6.2021
When Final Fantasy XIV introduced female-only Viera and male-only Hrothgar as playable races for its Shadowbringers expansion, fans were not happy. It turns out the game’s graphics team weren’t happy either, so they worked in their free time between patches to get male rabbits and female bestial...
I'm Waiting For World Of Warcraft's Dark Portal To Open All Over Again
1.6.2021
Fine, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic. I’ll sit with dozens of other players in the Blasted Lands, waiting for the glowing green portal to open at 6 p.m. Eastern time. I will weather this plodding déjà vu but know this: There’s no way in hell I’m leveling a Blood Elf or Draenei...
BlizzCon Is Skipping 2021 Due To Continuing Covid-19 Concerns
26.5.2021
Citing the complicated nature of coordinating a live event for thousands of people, evolving California in-person event guidelines, and the fluctuating status of the global covid-19 pandemic, Blizzard has announced BlizzCon will be skipping another year. Read more
Grab Thy Guitar Cuz Final Fantasy XIV Update 5.55 Is Live
25.5.2021
Today’s release of update 5.55 for Final Fantasy XIV delivers the second part of the final main story quest before the Endwalker expansion, adds additional story for the YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse quest line, and marks the official launch of the PS5 version of the game. Most importantly, the update...
Shiny Final Fantasy XIV Player Wants To Become Even Brighter
8.5.2021
Like most online games, Final Fantasy XIV is what you make of it. You can dedicate yourself to hitting the level cap in every job, focus on completing tough raids on max difficulty, or simply cultivate a second life through role-playing with your friends. But Chungo Humongo, a level 80 Roegadyn...
Square Enix Launches A Photobook Service In Japan For Final Fantasy XIV
21.4.2021
If photo books are good enough to revive your digital pics, then surely the same goes for your life in Final Fantasy XIV.Read more
Eight Years Later, Players Find A Hidden Weapon In Guild Wars
15.4.2021
Players in Guild Wars found an eight-year-old Easter egg this week after a former developer on the game offered some hints and teases to help move people in the right direction.Read more
Final Fantasy XIV Runs Like A Dream On The PS5
14.4.2021
If I weren’t holding a DualSense controller while playing the PlayStation 5 beta of Final Fantasy XIV I would think it was running on my gaming PC. Read more
You Can Now Only Buy 60 Days Of Game Time In World Of Warcraft
26.3.2021
Yesterday Blizzard announced they would be removing the 30, 90, and 180-day game time purchase options from World of Warcraft, leaving only the 60-day option. Read more
The WoW Classic Burning Crusade Beta Is Live, If You're Into That Sort Of Thing
24.3.2021
Look I don’t know why folks are excited to replay Blizzard’s first attempt at a World of Warcraft expansion, with its endless walking and “kill x of y” quests, but if you’ve opted-in for the World of Warcraft Classic Burning Crusade beta, now’s your time. Read more
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Is Even More Heartbreaking In French
22.3.2021
I do not speak a lick of French, and yet the first thing I did upon (finally) unlocking Heavensward, Final Fantasy XIV’s first expansion, was switch to French audio. It was a recommendation of a dear friend who’s further into her first journey through FF14 than I am. Neck-deep in Heavensward’s main...
World Of Warcraft's First Player-Voted Mount Is A Big Ol' Tree You Can Get For Free
10.3.2021
Last year Blizzard held a poll to determine what sort of ride World of Warcraft players wanted as a special community mount. We chose the Wandering Ancient, and now that choice has borne fruit, or in this case, a whole damn tree, free now for everyone who owns the Shadowlands expansion. Read more
These Final Fantasy XIV Characters Ain’t Sh*t
4.3.2021
Last night, I finished the true ending of A Realm Reborn and made it, at long last, to Heavensward. This means yes, I saw the event that was basically FF14’s equivalent of the Red Wedding (refresh your memory here), Instead of discussing my feelings regarding what the absolute flying fuck I just...
How To Build An Unstoppable Party In Bravely Default 2
26.2.2021
Bravely Default 2, out now for Nintendo Switch, is both a lot like and not at all like many other JRPGs you’ve played. For starters, combat is defined by the Brave/Default system, which allows you to shake up the turn order in battles for strategic gain. But the main big wrinkle is the...
Report: Chat Logs Reveal Pervasive Racism In Top World of Warcraft Raiding Guilds
25.2.2021
Two raiding guilds in the upper tiers of World of Warcraft’s North American ladder, Clout Gang and Instant Dollars, have come under fire for using racial and homophobic slurs. First reported by PC Gamer, an Imgur album containing screenshots of Clout Gang’s Discord and in-game chats was posted...