So World of Warships is crossing over with Blue Archive. Why? What’s the connection between a mobile strategy gacha game and a naval battle game? Who knows. That isn’t important. This is the world we live in, wherein World of Warships will cross over with every possible other property as often as reasonably possible, and […]

Last year was a major milestone for Final Fantasy XIV, as it marked the 10-year anniversary for the relaunched game. So what do you do for the next year? Well, it should be obvious: You hold the 11-year anniversary event. And that’s just what the game is doing when the newest incarnation of The Rising […]

The first season of content for The First Descendant arrives soon, and it brings with it a new form of dungeon that’s sure to delight speedrunners in the form of Invasion dungeons. Hard-difficulty operations will offer players the choice of entering the “Invasion” form of the operation, which are all about clearing out enemies as […]

We’ve gone through a lot of different names for what are now being called Allied Societies in Final Fantasy XIV, but I think this one finally captures both what the idea is for these quests and the space that FFXIV has narratively staked out for these quests. It was one thing when it was Amalj’aa […]

Item sets in The Elder Scrolls Online are pretty important if you want to reach your maximum potential in the game, but the creation of these sets is a closely guarded secret. While one might think that posting an in-house interview with combat designer Nadav Pechthold would shine a light on these secrets, it cleverly […]

Final Fantasy XIV does not let me just have a normal horse mount. You can get elemental ponies from the old Extreme trials, there are special achievement horses, there are a couple of cash shop options, and so on. But just having a normal horse to ride is basically impossible, which becomes really weird when […]

The Deadman Armageddon event has ended in Old School RuneScape once again, and that means it’s time to announce the winners, right? Well… no. That means it’s time for the people behind the event to take a look at the event results. Of course, the developers are thrilled to see how many people took part […]

Your culverins and your long guns are going to be a little bit more lethal in Skull & Bones following the game’s most recent patch. Ubisoft’s full set of notes reveals that one of the major updates is a combat rebalance which boosts the per-shot damage of these guns, moves damage reduction from food to […]

Before I dive into this week’s column, I want to start things off by noting a weird aspect of storytelling that’s true in Final Fantasy XIV as much as anywhere else: Excellent execution where it counts more can be way more important than sub-par execution where it counts less. Every single FFXIV expansion, for example, […]

Giving up on things is usually presented as a direct negative, and for understandable reasons. We don’t like to think of giving up on our goals. But sometimes when it comes to MMOs we realize that, for example, we’re spending hours of our time to accomplish something we don’t actually care about for no actual […]

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Whenever I hear the title Fellowship, I think about that video about how cats are praised for fellowship, which reminds me of the fact that my own cats have separation anxiety from me when I run to the bathroom or go buy groceries. However, the game in question is not about cats but about distilling […]

It’s only a couple of weeks until Gamescom 2024 kicks off, and Final Fantasy XIV is getting quite a presence there. Obviously it will not be a preview of what’s coming in Dawntrail because the expansion is already out, but it will include a trial battle against Valigarmanda as well as a chance to play […]

Since the launch of World of Warcraft, players have been waiting for and longing to have housing. It still has not happened. The reasons given range from being adjacent to plausible to just feeling outright silly, but the details don’t particularly matter in context; what matters is that we’re still sitting here without housing in […]