Victoria's been writing about games for over eight years, including small former tenures with Polygon and Fanbyte. She mostly spends time in FFXIV, head-deep in roleplay campaigns or stubbornly playing Black Mage through high-end raids. Former obsessions include Dota 2 and The Secret World (also mostly roleplaying). Come visit their estate: Diabolos (Crystal DC), Goblet, Ward 4, Plot 28.
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Smite 2 has announced that its next beta stage will make the god-themed MOBA free to play and open to all players starting on Tuesday, January 14.
Tavernlight has announced a full mobile client for Ravendawn and will be testing its Android version next week.
A new government notice lists media and technology corporation Tencent as a 'Chinese Military company'
The mobile-friendly ARPG unveiled its upcoming additions and changes for its new season, "Arcana," in a preview stream and patch notes.
The devs say this is to consolidate the economy just before the game's latest DLC is released.
The monthly newsletter has come out, covering December 2024 and with little previews into the future of the game.
In a fresh end-of-year progress update, the Skyblivion team refreshed their promised 2025 release date and showed off the nearly-finished world.
The official Square Enix survey for the MMORPG game was given to players who are currently or formerly subscribed to Square's 2002 MMORPG.
Steven Sharif comments on Narc's inflammatory video.
Naoki Yoshida gives his usual status check for the near future and year to come--plus a teaser for the themes we'll be seeing in future updates.
The second of the Story Blog series has dropped, and it's pretty dire for magic users--all under a mysterious blue light in the sky that players have noticed.
Cloud Imperium's turmoil finally hits the top of the ladder as it looks to achieve Squadron 42 and Star Citizen's commerial launches.
Star Trek Online is bringing back its big Red Alert event, meaning all Red Alerts are returning to the game for two weeks, starting on New Year's Eve.
Final Fantasy 14 has announced its annual New Year event, Heavensturn, including the dates and a prize that is extremely not the Great Serpent of Ronka.
With a tumutulous year behind FFXIV, our columnist Victoria looks behind, and ahead, at the bumps and tumbles the MMORPG took.