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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Wisdom of Nym: Good aim and bad for Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail predictions
We're approaching the end of the year, and that means once again looking at my prediction history for the year, which remains at around...
End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMORPGs going into 2025
One of the biggest factors when choosing a potential MMO to enjoy is how "healthy" it is. In other words, is the online game...
Wisdom of Nym: The myth of Final Fantasy XIV’s budget
Let's put this front and center just to start things off because I'm annoyed: Final Fantasy XIV is not a game that is single-handedly...
Final Fantasy XIV’s first post-Dawntrail content update, Crossroads, is officially live
"Our journey will never end" is a lyrical refrain from a few songs in Final Fantasy XIV, and that proves to be true once...
Wisdom of Nym: Things I want from Final Fantasy XIV that I fully expect to never get
The fact that I want something in Final Fantasy XIV does not make it a good idea. There are dropped threads that the game...
Wisdom of Nym: The key takeaways from Final Fantasy XIV’s Crossroads live letter
I haven't exactly been shy about mentioning that 2024 has been a terrible year for me, but then I look at the trailer for...
The MOP Up: Torchlight Infinite invites you to step into a painting
Torchlight Infinite's sixth season, The Frozen Canvas, arrived with a new character and a mechanic centered around painting and canvases: "As these paintings are...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Crossroads patch brings new story, raid content, and quality-of-life November 12
Today saw another Live Letter broadcast from Final Fantasy XIV, which was once again all about the MMORPG's first post-Dawntrail content update, Crossroads, along...
Perfect Ten: 2024’s MMO soundtrack themes ranked from worst to best
Try not to whip your head around all suspicious-like to check out the past 10 months, but 2024 has been a bonanza for MMO...
Wisdom of Nym: The dark side of role quests in Final Fantasy XIV
I haven't been shy talking about liking the role quests that are currently available in Dawntrail. Indeed, I think that Final Fantasy XIV has...
One Shots: Come into my lair, sweetling
As we creep toward Halloween, our crack One Shots photojournalists were on the ground in various games grabbing us first-hand demonstrations of the season's...
Wisdom of Nym: Is Final Fantasy XIV finally fixing its housing problem?
It was a tiny, incidental line in Final Fantasy XIV's live letter. The sort of thing that you could easily miss, especially since it's...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV v1.0 is gone – except when we’re told to think about it
In Final Fantasy XIV's version 1.0, the Coral Tower was not home to the Marauder's Guild. The Marauder's Guild was, in fact, located in...
Massively Overthinking: When the big five MMORPGs have five big expansions in the same year
By the time you're reading this article, Black Desert's Land of the Morning Light Seoul has officially launched on PC, and it marks an...
One Shots: The concert that ended the world
Poor Ragnaros. This World of Warcraft dude's been trying to live up to his namesake by trying to destroy the world for the past...
Final Fantasy XIV outlines plans for further graphical adjustments in future patches
One of the things that Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail brought to the table was a series of graphical updates that improved character models, textures,...
Final Fantasy XIV’s next Letter from the Producer will be on September 28
The release of Dawntrail is increasingly in the rear view for Final Fantasy XIV players, and that prompts a natural curiosity about the first...
Wisdom of Nym: Let’s talk about Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail’s key artifact
Yes, I'm having a bit of fun in the title here. Obviously there is one main artifact that serves at a major plot element...
