Kentaro Miura, the creator of significantly influential series Berserk, passed away at age 54, it was recently announced. And soon after the news hit, Final Fantasy XIV players who were fans and influenced by his work took to their own serv...

[Update: The pre-patch is now live, and you can begin the process of transferring your characters between each classic game. This is what your launcher will look like going forward. There's an option for "Burning Crusade Classic" as well as...

I'm officially in the "log in and do my weeklies" phase of World of Warcraft. Look, the past year hasn't been easy on anyone, especially game developers. But right now World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has a severe content drought, a...

Somehow, someway, Final Fantasy XIV keeps getting better over time. It's not typical that an MMO holds in terms of quality for this long, but XIV is hitting yet another stride with the move to PS5, and the next expansion, Endwalke...

[Update: Blizzard has announced that character clone pricing has been "updated" and "course corrected," and as such it will now be priced at $15. Community manager Kaivax passed over the info, stating: "This service – providing a play...

World of Warcraft updates have been exceedingly slow, and although it's obvious why, a lot of other MMOs are picking up the slack. Shadowlands has slowed to a crawl in recent months, as we wait for the next big content patch to drop. T...

[Update: Daisy has also been unlocked via the million dollar stretch goal. Just head here to redeem her for free. You have until August 1, 2021 to claim the rewards for this initiative.] Look into the eyes of that monkey. He totally wa...

Amazon Game Studios' ambitious MMO set within the Lord of the Rings universe has hit the bricks, following failed negotiations between Amazon and its development partner's new owner, Tencent. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the pr...

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is going to be a tri-platform game again. Well, it kind of already is now! The PS5 beta just launched and everyone who owns the full version of the PS4 edition has access If you own a PS5, get in on this an...

Following Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn since 2013 has been a trip. I saw it launch on PS4 for the first time nearly a year after it arrived on PC and PS3, and I saw it die on PS3 for the last day when Square Enix decided to sunset supp...

Publisher Bethesda Softworks has announced that the next-gen console edition of The Elder Scrolls Online will launch on June 8, offering an enhanced edition of the fantasy MMO for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S players. This new edition will be of...

It's time to enter a new era of World of Warcraft Classic. The best era of World of Warcraft. Flame shield, up! Although Wrath of the Lich King is arguably the most popular bit of World of Warcraft history, Burning Crusa...

Final Fantasy XI was a powerhouse of an MMO. Forged in 2002, it lived on for ages, reminding people that World of Warcraft wasn't the only game in town, following the era of Ultima Online and Everquest. It also broke ground as a console-fir...

[Update: As an extra bonus, Square Enix has uploaded a music video for Blinding Indigo from The Primals, the theme song of the Leviathan raid boss in the Shadowbringers expansion. It, like the Endwalker theme, is also is...

Final Fantasy XIV is still alive and well, even if we might be in a semi-drought as we wait for the new expansion to hit. The main hardcore raid phase has been completed, and now we're awaiting patch 5.5, which will add in the third an...

So in 2020, Blizzard announced that folks were able to vote on a new free mount that would be added for everyone who owned World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. The time has come to claim it. As a reminder, The Wandering Ancient, based on the cla...

Square Enix has announced that it has taken steps to ban the accounts of over 5000 Final Fantasy XIV players, after the publisher discovered evidence that the owners of said accounts were engaged in real-money trading (RMT) and other "illic...

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn has been killing it for nearly eight years straight. The "Realm Reborn" bit of the moniker was a battle cry, as Square Enix truly allowed this game to be rebuilt from the ground up and live on for many year...

I could probably play Final Fantasy XIV indefinitely. Not every update is created equal, and there are times where the game can feel like it's not as thrilling. But every time an update does hit, the whole playerbase collectively ...

This moment has been a long time coming for Destructoid readers. For years we've mused on our favorite expansions and moments in World of Warcraft history. While Wrath of the Lich King took the top spot as the most-favored expansion, B...

World of Warcraft proper was not left out of the BlizzCon 2021 news cycle, as Shadowlands is still trucking. Well, I might add! I still play it weekly, and it looks like I'm going to have a lot more to do soon when the "Chains of ...

In today's contest you can win a MapleStory M physical prize pack! It's physical prize time! I love giving away actual, tangible objects for people to get their hands on. And today, we've got a prize pack full of useful objects! MapleStory ...

Back in November of 2019, Phil Spencer declared that Microsoft was going to bring Final Fantasy XIV to the Xbox platform. It was a nice decree, and if it really could interface with PC and PS4 (now PS5 too), it would mean even mor...

Amazon has a shaky track record for its home-grown games initiative, but maybe there's hope yet for New World.  Underline maybe. Not that surprisingly, the MMO's spring 2021 launch won't pan out – it's been delayed to August 31 t...

Square Enix just can't help themselves when it comes to adapting Final Fantasy games into anime. It's kind of amazing actually, that there's extra stuff to uncover (particularly with the FFXV shorts, which were arguably more coherent than s...