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Tom Morello worked on a song for Final Fantasy 14's latest raid tier after finding out the game's composer was a huge Rage Against the Machine fan
By Justin Wagner published
News They rally 'round the Black Mage, with a pocket full of spells.

I've been roleplaying in MMORPGs like WoW for 16 years, it's the reason I'm here writing this headline—and there's never been a better time to try it out yourself
By Harvey Randall published
PEOPLE PRACTICE Go be cringe in World of Warcraft, it's good for the soul.

FF14's Yoshi-P reveals why he's finally lifting glamour restrictions—he's got his own preferences, but it's 'no longer the time to force them on players'
By Harvey Randall published
News Playing dress-up.

Ex-Square Enix suit says you can whine all you like, but 'Gen Z loves AI slop' and everyone and their grandma is already using it
By Joshua Wolens published
News "The upcoming generation of gamers are Bane in Dark Knight Rises saying 'You merely adopted the slop, I was born in it.'"

FF14 director Naoki Yoshida has big plans for the MMO after Dawntrail's roughspots—hinting at A Realm Reborn-style overhaul
By Harvey Randall published
News If you throw another moon at me, I'm gonna lose it.

In defense of tab-targeting: MMO devs have been trying to put dodge rolls in their games for 10+ years to avoid WoW, and it's never worked
By Harvey Randall published
ON MY TAB Only difference is, we still need a new game to prove 'em wrong.

Larian publishing director balks at Square Enix's push to replace QA workers with AI: 'The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid … They are a massively advantageous vibe check'
By Justin Wagner published
News AI's growing role in gamedev continues to polarize.

New World proved that the hunger for a modern MMO is clearly there—but the only studios with enough cash to make them are too shareholder-brained to try
By Harvey Randall published
MAD WORLD You can't become a titan if you never get time to grow.

Final Fantasy 14's voice actor for beloved catboy G'raha Tia gets crowned sexiest man alive, entirely vindicating my taste in fictional men
By Harvey Randall published
News We stay winning.

Square Enix, Bandai, and other Japanese studios demand OpenAI stop using their content without permission, drop a not-too-subtle hint about legal trouble if it doesn't
By Andy Chalk published
news Japan's Content Overseas Distribution Association has noticed that an awful lot of what comes out of Sora 2 "closely resembles Japanese content or images."
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