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The anniversary fiction for Final Fantasy XIV is as much of a tradition as the actual in-game event for the rising, and this year is...

My name is Nieve Vinther. I am 28 years old and was born in the wake of the Second War of the Dark Portal....

Another year has passed, and that means it's time to celebrate the anniversary of Final Fantasy XIV once again with the annual return of...

You probably don't spend a lot of time thinking about the work that goes into making big trees in your favorite MMO. It's enough...

For those of you not familiar with the deep lore behind Dungeons & Dragons, Neverwinter is here to fill you in with everything you want...

We understand that some people would prefer not to be spoiled about the newest developments in World of Warcraft, especially as the latest patch...

If you want your Final Fantasy XIV bunny to have a lore-appropriate name, you are going to have to guess. A post on the...

Mechagon is a heretofore unexplored part of Gnomish lore in World of Warcraft, having not been mentioned before its inclusion in the game with...

Oh dang. I had expected to learn some new things about Shadowbringers this week, maybe the lyrics to the theme song (what I hear doesn't appear...

It seems a little odd that The Division 2 sends us down to Washington, DC when our actual main antagonist heads right back to...

Players eagerly anticipating new things to hunt and new places to hunt them will no doubt be glued to the monitor for the latest Monster...

Most of the active storytelling you're going to get in Crowfall is going to be done and explained by the premise of the game itself;...

Sometimes a statement can be both the right and wrong thing to say at the same time, and if you're thinking that sounds like...

Sometimes you just can't get an NPC to shut up in a video game. Sometimes you can't get multiple NPCs to shut up. And...

So now we've gotten the ending. And... gosh, sometimes these patches really do not merit splitting up, which is kind of the case for Final Fantasy...

The point of the various time-limited worlds in Crowfall is, in part, that players are fighting for victory in the remnants of dying worlds. These...

We know that the third expansion of Final Fantasy XIV is sending us into the Light-suffused First, a chance for us to do our best...

Here we are at long last. If you're anything like me, you've been looking forward to this event since Final Fantasy XIV first delivered...

The hour fast approaches to conclude the Stormblood story and lead into Shadowbringers in Final Fantasy XIV. Unfortunately for fans eagerly awaiting this conclusion, that hour does...

Good news, Baptiste fans, the new healer is going to be deployed to Overwatch's live servers within the next couple of weeks according to the...