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Final Fantasy XIV launched over a decade ago. Yeah, you read that right. The live-service epic was first released for PC and PlayStation 3 in August 2013. Despite initial teases of an Xbox 360 version many moons ago, Xbox console owners have been left out in the cold. That decade-plus drought finally ends soon. Square Enix confirmed that the Final Fantasy XIV open beta heads to Xbox Series X|S on February 21. Image via Destructoid Phil Spencer hit the stage at the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Fest in July to announce the Xbox…

Kiss kiss, it’s February — or close enough, at least. That means Final Fantasy XIV is wrapping up January’s festivities and moving on to the next big thing with its 2024 Valentine-themed celebrations, Valentione’s Day. More importantly, did you see the new emote? Starting on February 7, 2024, at 12 am PST (until February 21), you can begin the FFXIV Valentione’s Day seasonal event and add the Love Heart emote to your collection. Dote, my once go-to emote for greeting friends, is now out. Love Heart is in. It probably…

A live-action TV series based on is no longer happening. The project is now dead, according to Dinesh Shamdasani, the co-founder of Hivemind, one of the production companies involved."We took around a fantastic pilot script by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton along with a multi-season plan they built with our show runners but got rejected across the board," Shamdasani , as spotted by Eurogamer. "The size and scale needed to do it right proved too much for anyone to want to risk."Amazon, which spent a billion dollars on a…

If you thought the idea of a live-action Final Fantasy XIV series sounded like a massive undertaking, you’d be right. One of the executive producers, Dinesh Shamdasani of Hivemind Entertainment, recently confirmed that the project has been canceled.  When asked about the status of the live-action Final Fantasy XIV on Twitter, Shamdasani straight up said it’s “dead.” While they had a “fantastic pilot script” by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton (Winter’s Knight) and a multi-season plan, everything was rejected. According to…

Final Fantasy XIV has spurred plenty of memes over the years, though none seem to be as beloved to the community as the low-poly Grapes of Endwalker. Now, in Patch 6.55, you can have your own low-poly Grape tribute through a new lamppost furnishing.   Where did the low-poly grape meme come from? For a time after the initial release of Endwalker in December 2021, the grapes found in Labyrinthos became a source of player amusement because of their low-poly, blocky appearance. Although these grapes were soon updated, and…

The Maiden’s Rhapsody is returning to Final Fantasy XIV for the fifth time on January 22, and once again, players have a chance to get their hands on some pretty sweet glamor pieces. The Maiden’s Rhapsody is an FFXIV event celebrating the final chapter of FFXI, Rhapsodies of Vana’diel. With the theme of the upcoming Dawntrail Alliance Raid series being “Echoes of Vana’diel”, it makes sense to bring this event back for a fifth time this year, despite the fact that its last previous appearance was only in 2022. During the…

As soon as Final Fantasy XIV‘s new Pictomancer job was revealed during Tokyo Fan Festival, Eorzeans across social media immediately utilized their own artistic talents to honor the game’s next magic user. No announcement would be complete without its fair share of memes, so here’s a few of the finest we’ve found. For those out of the loop, Pictomancer is the second job announced for FFXIV‘s upcoming Dawntrail expansion. Seemingly based on Final Fantasy 6‘s Relm Arrowny, the new footage of the game showed how the…

After being revealed at the Las Vegas Final Fantasy Fest in July, and then detailed at the London Fan Fest in October, the Final Fantasy XVI crossover event is scheduled to hit the popular MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV in Early April. We’ve known the event was in the works for a while now, but this is the first time we’re seeing an actual release timeframe. The event will launch with the current expansion, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, ahead of the release of the new one Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail.…

Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail launches with two new jobs, and the Final Fantasy VI-inspired Pictomancer joins Viper this summer as the second DPS addition. If you were hoping to discover when exactly during Fan Fest, sorry — you’ll have to wait a bit. However, FFXIV Patch 6.55 launches this month, on January 16. During this year’s Tokyo Fan Festival, director and producer Naoki Yoshida took to the stage to show off Dawntrail’s Dawntrailer in its entirety. The new, lengthier footage features Krile joining the Scions as…

Showing just how much the development team cares for and supports their players in times of crisis, Final Fantasy XIV has temporarily suspended the auto-demolition of player housing on Japanese Servers after a massive magnitude 7.6 Earthquake that hit the Noto Peninsula on January 1. In a post uploaded to the Lodestone on January 4, developers acknowledged the tragedy and said their “hearts go out to those who were effected” by the natural disaster, which has left over 100 dead and many more still missing. The team…