I’ve always considered myself a fan of Warriors games. One of my earliest reviews for this site was actually Samurai Warriors: Spirit of Sanada back in 2017 and I’ve poured hundreds of hours into the various Warriors spin-off games… and yet somehow I’ve never played an actual full fledged Dynasty Warriors before. So of course
And once again, we find ourselves at the end of a year. Time to toss out the old calendar, pop a bottle of the sparkling beverage of your choice, and make some resolutions that you’ll inevitably drop within a month. But hey, I swear I’m totally going to start going to the gym once the
Yarrrr. I don’t know if it’s come out before, but I’m definitely a big pirate buff, both IRL and in media and games. Enough that I’ve spent…. way too much on my pirate garb and developing a pirate persona. And somewhat frustratingly, video games and pirates don’t cross paths as often as I’d like. Thus,
Over this past year, I’ve done a fair bit of coverage for Mechwarrior 5: Clans. As someone who enjoyed the earlier games and the Battletech arcade pods back in the day, I was of course excited. So when they dropped some DLC, of course I had to check it out. I expected to check out the new modes, drum up a little hype, nothing much. Things… weren’t quite as simple as I’d planned.
We're hanging out with Lythi to talk about the recent race to world first in Final Fantasy XIV!
With the events of Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail now but a memory, Patch 7.1 Crossroads arrives to continue the story of Tural and Alexandria, while introducing tales from an altogether different world, Vana’diel with a brand new Alliance Raid. With the absence of a MSQ based trial, we’ve combined other combat elements into a new
If there’s a franchise that needs no introduction (but I’m gonna blather on about them anyway), it’s Power Rangers. Originally the brainchild of Haim Saban, he aimed at making an American adaptation of Toei’s Super Sentai series after finding himself exposed to a random episode of Choudenshi Bioman while in Japan back in the ’80s.
From where I’m sitting, there can never be enough good action games to play. In recent years especially, it’s felt as though the months were marked by a consistent stream of stylish, challenging games that rewarded mechanical skill and scratch that itch for self improvement. Volgarr the Viking II and Kill Knight were two such
It's patchin' time! -Oh, wait, no, we did that already. It's reviewin' time! We're sitting down with our review of Patch 7.1!
Fun little fact about me for you all – I’m something of a collector of cowboy boots. Just a random thing that started a few years back. But it’s starting to look like I may end up becoming a collector of gaming headsets, because I’ve been sent yet another one for you to check out!
Sometimes, it’s hard for me to know which parts of a game that don’t totally land in a preview are a result of the game still being in an early state and which parts are just conceptual issues. There are a lot of games that go into early access when they are more or less
Back in 2001 (oof, that hurt to write), the Wario Land series made a bit of a formula shift in Wario Land 4. Without getting too deep in the weeds about it, it mixed up some core mechanics in an effort to distinguish itself from the first three games in the series. Because of the
Around the time of the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest in China back in August, it was revealed that a mobile game using the name of the critically acclaimed MMO was in the works. At the time, the game was titled Final Fantasy XIV: Crystal World and other than the fact that it was being
Yuweyawata Field Station is a Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Side Quest dungeon. It's available at level 100 as part of the quest In Search of the Past. It can be completed via the duty finder and was part of the Patch 7.1 Expert Duty Roulette.
Spoiler warning: This guide contains information from the FFXIV Dawntrail Patch 7.1 Echoes of Vana’diel Storyline!!! Jeuno: The First Walk is the first 24-man raid in Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail. It’s available at level 100 as part of the quest An Otherworldly Encounter. It can be completed via the duty finder.
Tune in as we talk about our initial impressions about Patch 7.1!
Believe it or not, it’s been four decades since series creator Alexey Pajitnov put together the concept for one of the gaming’s greatest franchises. It’s not just a cornerstone of the gaming community at large, it’s an institution at this point. Many a gamer, casual or otherwise, has gleefully fired up some version of the
Today, Square Enix released a new interview with Final Fantasy XI composers Nobuo Uematsu, Naoshi Mizuta, and Kumi Tanioka on the “We Are Vana’diel” website. The interview, which is the first of two parts, discusses how the music team for Square Enix’s first MMO was formed, and goes into questions regarding specific songs such as
Tune in as we get caught up with all of the info released for Patch 7.1!
Picture this scenario – you’re trying to relax after a long day, so you go to your streaming service of choice and open up the anime section. You see some old classics, like Naruto or One Piece, but once you scroll past the first couple recommendations, you being to notice a pattern even just within