Final Fantasy 14’s NA servers continue to struggle with DDoS attacks, likely due to a service provider’s wonky nodes

Final Fantasy 14’s North American servers have been hammered by DDoS attacks since the release of Patch 7.4—I’d know, I play on them—which has players starting to grind their teeth in frustration. Especially given the release of the latest Savage (high-difficulty) raid tier, and the race to world first that buoys it. Take a look…

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‘We did not want to be close to them’: The only game Arc Raiders wanted to avoid on release was predictably GTA 6, ‘I don’t think anyone wanted to be close to them’

The end of 2025 was absolutely stacked with brilliant games; we had Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hades 2, Battlefield 6, and, of course, Arc Raiders. There were almost too many great games to play them all, a problem that all studios releasing games at the time undoubtedly had to grapple with. Arc Raiders had the monumental…

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