Eliot Lefebvre

The next patch for Final Fantasy XIV is on its way, and that means that players can start gawking at some of the additions on the patch preview site.

The trinity has been a truism of MMO design now for about as long as it wasn’t. I came up during the small times when if you mentioned an MMO

We’ve just started what may be the second major arc in Final Fantasy XIV … maybe. Like, the developers are understandably reluctant to commit to “and

It’s just about time for players to get together and go hunt some monsters once again because Monster Hunter Wilds is starting an open beta this week.

Well now, cowpokes, looks like you got one of them there trailers to check out if’n y’all fancy playin’ a fast gun in the Old West takin’ on all manner of eldritch horrors.

I’ve been thinking a fair bit about player archetypes lately, and that also means that I’ve been thinking about the variants within roles.

Someone said something in Final Fantasy XIV the other night that just stuck in my craw: “ FFXIV is kind of a niche title.” I suppose it’s vaguely

We’ve been talking for the past couple of Vague Patch Notes columns about the fact that MMOs are, as a genre, defined by having other people around that you cannot control.

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 Final Fantasy XIV’s next patch and… oh, Vana’diel March, my beloved.

We know that it’s getting colder for a lot of people this month into next, but we feel that we should point out that no one should be using a mobile phone as a heating device.