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We're still not into the period of time in which we'll learn about patch 5.3 for Final Fantasy XIV. Indeed, there's a lot of life left...

All right! So this is not actually the column topic that I announced last week, but in my defense, I legitimately did not know...

All right, so it's time to insert that Tyler the Creator tweet here because this is going to be something I'm talking about a...

There's not really question in most people's minds about the fact that there's going to be another Final Fantasy XIV expansion. There doesn't need to...

The funny thing about big Final Fantasy XIV patches these days is that because the smaller material gets a bit more spread out, we...

All right, here's the deal. Every time we get a new patch, I wind up finding that I have two of these columns' worth...

Odd as it might be to say, I don't really have a lot more to say just yet about tomorrow's patch for Final Fantasy...

For a lot of people, patch 5.1 felt sort of like a breather. Obviously, it had a bunch of new stuff in it, but...

So long ago I can't remember when, interviews with Naoki Yoshida had him talking about Final Fantasy XIV getting addon functionality. To his credit (as...

I think we can all agree that the explanation given for where the name "gunblade" comes from in Final Fantasy XIV is very silly,...

This column, in part, is in honor of a random party member who had never realized that the currency you're picking up in dungeons...

There's lots of lore to unpack in Final Fantasy XIV. Seriously, I could write a lot about it because the game sets up lots of...

All right, let's be totally clear about something that... feels like it should already be obvious, but seems to not be. The Garlean Empire...

Sometimes it's just not terribly interesting to do a year-in-review column for a game, and the fact of the matter is that this is...

I did actually sit down for the most recent live letter, which was only halfway intentional. It's not like I didn't want to hear...

Here we are. The newest Final Fantasy XIV patch is as much a proof of concept as the original Blue Mage launch was, showing how...

There are eight crafting classes in Final Fantasy XIV, and in all likelihood we're always going to have eight crafting classes at this point....

The funny thing about Blue Mage in Final Fantasy XIV right now is that the only people still really mad about it are... the...

Ah, the grand world of the known unknowns! We're only one patch into this particular expansion, but there's still plenty of stuff to speculate...

The biggest thing that disappointed me about the Ishgard restoration in Final Fantasy XIV was when it was clarified pretty early on that we...