February 13, 2025
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Final Fantasy 14 data sleuth gathers more info on the game’s script, finds Alphinaud is the king of yappers—though Wuk Lamat’s in the top 3 after just 1 expansion

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Data sleuth turn_a_blind_eye/Rise Narukami has just compiled some more information on Final Fantasy 14’s mammoth script—with the help of chronicler Eriyu, who started attempting to digitally bind the game’s thousands upon thousands of words back in May 2023, and has clearly made sterling progress since then. The results are interesting, to say the least. I…

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Ex-Annapurna Interactive Staff Reportedly Pick Up Private Division Portfolio Under New Studio

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Following last year’s walk-out. Last year saw the entire Annapurna Interactive workforce resign following a dispute with owner Megan Ellison. Four months on, Bloomberg has reported that the former staff members have formed a new company and have picked up the entire Private Division portfolio (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz). The as-yet-unnamed company reportedly acquired all games under…

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All Kell’s Fall organ puzzle codes in Destiny 2

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The Kell’s Fall organ puzzle is one of the more mysterious parts of Destiny 2‘s new exotic mission. You discover this elaborate piano not long after entering the Kell’s fortress, but you won’t be able to enter any melodies until you finish the mission and grab the Slayer’s Fang exotic. Once that’s done, you’ll be…

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‘It’s simply impossible to make a difficulty level that’s just right for all players’: How Final Fantasy 14’s lead battle designer has been playing a precarious balancing game for Dawntrail’s dungeons and raids

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While Final Fantasy 14 is often praised for its story, it’s the endgame where players spend most of their time. With dungeons, trials, savage raids, and more casual endeavours, FF14 has something for everyone. The latest expansion, Dawntrail, has the best endgame yet, and I wanted to know how the team fine-tunes the challenge across…

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The RTX 5090 might make triple-fan cards look light on cooling if these four-fan and five-fan versions from Gigabyte and MSI are anything to go by

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Undoubtedly the biggest news from CES 2025, at least for us PC gamers, has been the Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics cards. There’s a big jump up from the RTX 5080 to the RTX 5090, though—a $999 to $1,999 kind of jump—and we’re now seeing that all that apparent top-end grunt is pushing some AIB manufacturers…

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League of Legends’ new season trailer is basically an epilogue to Arcane with 6 new Fortiche champion redesigns in it—so if it’s not a preview of the upcoming Noxus show, I’ll eat my hat

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League of Legends is getting its first in-game season of 2025 soon and, as is Riot’s tradition, there’s a big and flashy new trailer with some gorgeous animation to accompany it. Namely, it has collaborated once again with Fortiche, the studio Riot threw $250 million at to make Arcane, a bet which I’m pretty happy…

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