Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
There are a lot of weird mounts you can explore Eorzea with in Final Fantasy XIV. The weirdest often come from limited time collaborations between Square Enix’s MMO and other brands, such as the Mountain Dew-themed bird mount aptly named, Mountain Zu, ...
A Final Fantasy IV high-quality AI movie was recently shared online, and it's so good it could pass for an official adaptation. (Light spoilers for Final Fantasy IV will be found ahead. Avoid reading if you haven't experienced the first few hours of the game. The movie, which was created by the same user behind an earlier Final Fantasy VI AI movie, covers the events from the beginning of the game up until Cecil becomes a Paladin, giving viewers a look at some pretty accurate recreations of Cecil, Rosa, Kain, Rydia, Kain, Edward, Tellah, Yang, Palom and Porom. While it […]
In the wake of saving the universe from a time-ending calamity, the question that remains for the world of Final Fantasy XIV after the events of 2021’s Endwalker expansion is: How do we move on? This question sets up the quests immediately following En...
We already know that the HD-2D remake of Dragon Quest 3 is going to look amazing, and now we have some new information on what other improvements and additions the updated classic is getting. In a recent Famitsu article, Square Enix revealed a range of...
They say that fashion is the true endgame of Final Fantasy 14, and indeed, making your Warrior of Light as good-looking as possible is one of the most time-honored and beloved pastimes in Square Enix’s MMORPG. The recent graphics update the game receiv...
The Xbox 360 is one of the all-time great consoles that, among other things, spearheaded the ecosystem for indie games and digital downloads. That makes the closure of the Xbox 360 marketplace at the end of July all the more bittersweet, as the console...
There is a lot to do in Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix’s critically acclaimed MMORPG. Sure the latest expansion, Dawntrail, just added a ton of new locations and quests to explore in its continuation of the game’s sprawling main story, but wait until y...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or swore off gaming for the summer (understandable), you’re probably either playing Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC or Final Fantasy XIV’s new Dawntrail expansion, and we’ve got tons of tips for both. If yo...
July is here and so are its wonderfully (or not so wonderful) high temperatures. Here in the States, we just wrapped a holiday that feels…well, do I need to spell out how discordant and weird things are here right now? Probably not. Oh, hey, that’s rig...
It’s normal for an MMO’s peaks and valleys in player counts to correlate with expansion releases and the fallow years in between. So it isn’t surprising that Dawntrail, the new expansion to Final Fantasy 14, has brought up the player numbers for Square...
Legendary game designer Hironobu Sakaguchi was featured in a brief interview with Bloomberg, discussing the recent announcement that Square Enix will publish Fantasian: Neo Dimension (originally launched on Apple Arcade in April 2021) for PC and consoles. Sakaguchi worked at Square Enix for twenty years, creating the publisher's most lucrative and popular series: Final Fantasy. The game designer said he purposely kept his distance from Square Enix at first: I felt if I kept too close of a relationship, then it might actually affect how Square Enix treats Final Fantasy. Eventually, though, the publisher invited him back to do a […]
We all have that one game we love so much, we want to share with as many people as possible. Unless you’re a gatekeeper of the things that bring you joy, you’ve probably tried to get a friend, family member, partner, or stranger on the street to play a...
There are a lot of weird mounts you can explore Eorzea with in Final Fantasy XIV. The weirdest often come from limited time collaborations between Square Enix’s MMO and other brands, such as the Mountain Dew-themed bird mount aptly named, Mountain Zu, ...
A Final Fantasy IV high-quality AI movie was recently shared online, and it's so good it could pass for an official adaptation. (Light spoilers for Final Fantasy IV will be found ahead. Avoid reading if you haven't experienced the first few hours of the game. The movie, which was created by the same user behind an earlier Final Fantasy VI AI movie, covers the events from the beginning of the game up until Cecil becomes a Paladin, giving viewers a look at some pretty accurate recreations of Cecil, Rosa, Kain, Rydia, Kain, Edward, Tellah, Yang, Palom and Porom. While it […]
In the wake of saving the universe from a time-ending calamity, the question that remains for the world of Final Fantasy XIV after the events of 2021’s Endwalker expansion is: How do we move on? This question sets up the quests immediately following En...
We already know that the HD-2D remake of Dragon Quest 3 is going to look amazing, and now we have some new information on what other improvements and additions the updated classic is getting. In a recent Famitsu article, Square Enix revealed a range of...
They say that fashion is the true endgame of Final Fantasy 14, and indeed, making your Warrior of Light as good-looking as possible is one of the most time-honored and beloved pastimes in Square Enix’s MMORPG. The recent graphics update the game receiv...
The Xbox 360 is one of the all-time great consoles that, among other things, spearheaded the ecosystem for indie games and digital downloads. That makes the closure of the Xbox 360 marketplace at the end of July all the more bittersweet, as the console...
There is a lot to do in Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix’s critically acclaimed MMORPG. Sure the latest expansion, Dawntrail, just added a ton of new locations and quests to explore in its continuation of the game’s sprawling main story, but wait until y...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or swore off gaming for the summer (understandable), you’re probably either playing Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC or Final Fantasy XIV’s new Dawntrail expansion, and we’ve got tons of tips for both. If yo...
July is here and so are its wonderfully (or not so wonderful) high temperatures. Here in the States, we just wrapped a holiday that feels…well, do I need to spell out how discordant and weird things are here right now? Probably not. Oh, hey, that’s rig...
It’s normal for an MMO’s peaks and valleys in player counts to correlate with expansion releases and the fallow years in between. So it isn’t surprising that Dawntrail, the new expansion to Final Fantasy 14, has brought up the player numbers for Square...
Legendary game designer Hironobu Sakaguchi was featured in a brief interview with Bloomberg, discussing the recent announcement that Square Enix will publish Fantasian: Neo Dimension (originally launched on Apple Arcade in April 2021) for PC and consoles. Sakaguchi worked at Square Enix for twenty years, creating the publisher's most lucrative and popular series: Final Fantasy. The game designer said he purposely kept his distance from Square Enix at first: I felt if I kept too close of a relationship, then it might actually affect how Square Enix treats Final Fantasy. Eventually, though, the publisher invited him back to do a […]
We all have that one game we love so much, we want to share with as many people as possible. Unless you’re a gatekeeper of the things that bring you joy, you’ve probably tried to get a friend, family member, partner, or stranger on the street to play a...