For many players, video games are a chance to escape from work. You hop into a game, sliding into a fantasy role as…
Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion, Shadowbringers, brought a sweeping storyline and tons of job adjustments that…
Shadowbringers, the latest expansion to Final Fantasy XIV, released two months ago, and I cannot begin to fathom the…
The soundtrack to Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers is now live for digital download on iTunes. Masayoshi Soken’s score offers some of this year’s most powerful moments, and it well worth grabbing if you’re a fan of Final Fantasy XIV or good music in general.
It’s Final Fantasy XIV patch day and it’s all about buffs! Ninjas are getting much needed love and Samurai attacks have tons of potency increases. Arcanist and Summoners have changes to how Ruin works too. You can read all the changes here.
To quote my 100% non-fictional friend Barret Wallace: “Planet’s dyin’, Cloud.” As our society feels closer and…
Bards gained the ability to play actual music in Final Fantasy XIV near the end of 2017 and have been annoying…
There are moments in online games when leadership and authority are thrust upon us. In group-based content, like the…
Games are full of deadly enemies from zombies to dragons, but most share one enemy in common: gravity. Pits, ledges,…
Life has been a little stressful lately. At first, that pushed me to turn to video games for escapism—something I’d…
It’s patch day for Final Fantasy XIV! The latest update adds a new difficult tier to the Eden series of raids and applies some welcome buffs to Monks and Astrologians. Also: hey, Scholars get Energy Drain so they can do something other than spam Broil!
For most of my life, I never quite understood escapism. I knew how powerful video games could be, how seductive and…
As I continue to lose myself in the world of Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion, writing guides on how new folks…
It’s been two weeks since Final Fantasy XIV’s Shadowbringers expansion launched. That’s been enough time to explore…
As Final Fantasy XIV’s new expansion “Shadowbringers” hits, I’ve seen a lot of curiosity from co-workers and friends…
Earlier today, my Kotaku coworker Heather Alexandra posted what I am sure was an amazing and insightful look at the…
It’s hard for any story to end well, and even harder when it’s set in the constantly changing world of an MMORPG.…
Running through a brand-new dungeon in an online game with random strangers is nerve-wracking. I worry I will screw…