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Final Fantasy Has A New Brand Manager
17.5.2021
For over a decade, Shinji Hashimoto was the brand director for Square Enix’s Final Fantasy. He has stepped down, and Kitase has become his successor last month.Read more
FFXIV Endwalker's Second New Job Is The Scythe-Wielding Reaper
15.5.2021
Revealed this evening during the Final Fantasy XIV Digital Fan Festival keynote, the melee damage-dealing Reaper will join the previously announced healing Sage as the second new job introduced in this fall’s Endwalker expansion. Read more
Lega Serie A to Commemorate Historic Coppa Italia Final With NFTs
8.5.2021
The governing body of the major professional soccer league in Italy, Lega Serie A, will release a special collection of NFTs in commemoration of Cup of Italy’s last match this year. The 2021 Coppa Italia Final is viewed as a historic event as Juventus and Atalanta prepare to clash for...
Shiny Final Fantasy XIV Player Wants To Become Even Brighter
8.5.2021
Like most online games, Final Fantasy XIV is what you make of it. You can dedicate yourself to hitting the level cap in every job, focus on completing tough raids on max difficulty, or simply cultivate a second life through role-playing with your friends. But Chungo Humongo, a level 80 Roegadyn...
Upgraded Yuffie Version Of Final Fantasy VII Remake Exclusive To PS5 For 'At Least' Six Months
7.5.2021
I still don’t have a PlayStation 5. If you are like the majority of human beings, you also probably do not, even after six months of futile longing. I say this not to rub it in your/my face, but to instead deliver further sobering news: If you played through Final Fantasy VII Remake on PS4 (like...
Sign-Ups Open For The Final Fantasy VII Battle Royale Closed Beta
7.5.2021
Mobile battle royale Final Fantasy VII The Last Soldier is looking for Android device users in the U.S. and Canada to play in the weeklong closed beta test for the game kicking off June 1. Who’s up for killing some generic Final Fantasy characters?Read more
2021 Coppa Italia Final is Sponsored by Crypto.com
7.5.2021
Announcing their coming together, Crypto.com and Lega Serie A declared their partnership for the 2021 Coppa Italia Final, which will be played on May 19 between the teams Atalanta and Juventus. This partnership has made Lega Serie A the first Football team that has signed an agreement with...
Mega Man Composer Manami Matsumae Doesn't Miss The 9-6 Grind
3.5.2021
Few game music composers have as iconic a resume as Manami Matsumae. Starting at Capcom in 1987, her first major project was scoring the original Rockman, the game we know as Mega Man. The Cutman theme? That’s Matsumae. And she was just getting started, soon jumping from the Famicom into Capcom’s...
Canadian firm files final prospectus for Bitcoin ETF
29.4.2021
Subject to regulatory approval, the asset manager should convert its Bitcoin trust to an ETF starting next week
Japanese Popstar Teams Up With Square Enix For Some Fancy CG
27.4.2021
Koichi Domoto, one half of the Japanese boy band Kinki Kids, has roped in Square Enix for his upcoming solo album Playful. Read more
MTI CEO and Wife Issued With Provisional Sequestration Order by South African High Court
27.4.2021
A South African High Court recently served Mirror Trading International (MTI)’s Johann and Nerina Steynberg with a provisional sequestration order. The court’s decision follows a successful court application by the five joint provisional liquidators of the now-defunct online bitcoin...
Today marks the 10-year anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto’s final message
26.4.2021
On April 26, 2011, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto allegedly left the nascent cryptocurrency community to work on other projects. Nobody has been able to track them down ever since
Decentralization is the final frontier for CBDCs
25.4.2021
Decentralized CBDCs will most likely pique the interest of the masses much more than their centralized counterparts
Disco Elysium Was Its Incredible Narrator's First Voice Acting Gig
23.4.2021
Narration plays a huge role in Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, the spiraling detective simulator that was recently updated for consoles. As such, one might expect the man chosen to lend his pipes to such a project to be some sort of master thespian, or at least a veteran voiceover artist. But...
8-Bit Theater Avoids Final Fantasy Copyrights With 20th Anniversary Script Book
21.4.2021
From 2001 to 2009, writer Brian Clevinger of Atomic Robo fame produced a hilarious webcomic called 8-Bit Theater, which follows the misadventures of a dysfunctional adventuring party. Unfortunately, that adventuring party is comprised of Final Fantasy game sprites, so Clevinger can’t reprint them...
Square Enix Launches A Photobook Service In Japan For Final Fantasy XIV
21.4.2021
If photo books are good enough to revive your digital pics, then surely the same goes for your life in Final Fantasy XIV.Read more
I’m Going To Miss You, Heavensward
20.4.2021
Last time on my journey Heavensward, I said it was too hard to level my fifty ‘leven jobs evenly, so I decided to focus on solo-leveling my healer. Turns out, I may have been a bit premature in that decision. See, what had happened was I belatedly realized I fit the level requirements to pick...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Latest Update Is Full of Dragons, Drama, and Drakengard References
19.4.2021
Last week Final Fantasy XIV released the first half of its final Shadowbringers update, entitled Death Unto Dawn, alongside the launch of its PS5 beta. This is the last major patch before the game’s highly anticipated Endwalker expansion, and it makes for an engaging and challenging burst...
Ode To The Bard Who Saved My FF14 Dungeon Run
15.4.2021
My journey through Heavensward has slowed down considerably. I have other games to play and review. And generally, the steam that powered this expansion leading up to The Vault encounter has petered out significantly. That’s not to say Heavensward’s sluggish back-end pacing wasn’t punctuated with...
Final Fantasy XIV Runs Like A Dream On The PS5
14.4.2021
If I weren’t holding a DualSense controller while playing the PlayStation 5 beta of Final Fantasy XIV I would think it was running on my gaming PC. Read more