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Michael Hassall
Michael Hassall
After giving up a "real" job in Marketing in 2019, Michael started working as esports, gaming, and entertainment journalist and hasn't looked back. He lives in the UK, but wishes he lived in Eorzea, having spent 5,000 hours there. When not dutifully grinding Tomestones and being designated furniture crafter for his FC, he enjoys travel to warm places, cold drinks, light reading, and heavy metal.
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Allied Seals are an uncommon currency in Final Fantasy XIV that are rewarded for killing specific mobs in the overworld, dungeons, FATEs, and other locations. But with just a few Seals for each...
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In Final Fantasy XIV, one of the most common and readily available types of Tomestones are Allagan Tomestones of Poetics. Tomestones of Poetics are a legacy tomestone currency used for content...
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As anyone who's ever deliberately dropped a tank buster on a party member can tell you, any instance in Final Fantasy XIV is a player versus player (PvP) zone if you try hard enough. That’s cer...
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Taito, the toymaker and arcade operator, has revealed their latest Final Fantasy XIV-themed prize, and it has a very menacing aura. Plush toys are an adorable showcase of your fandom, and it’s...
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The Final Fantasy XIV Cloud Data Center Stress Test starts on Nov. 21, and while we’ve already detailed the steps needed to join it, I think the reality of the Stress Test is finally setti...
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Final Fantasy XIV continues its run of award nominations for yet another year, as it scoops two nods at the Game Awards 2023, this time for Best Ongoing Game and Best Community Support. The nom...
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In Final Fantasy XIV Patch 6.51, Aloalo Island, a new Variant and Criterion Dungeon was added, and along with it, several highly sought after mounts. Among them was the fearsome Quaqua mount, a...
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Final Fantasy XIV is going down for maintenance to implement some hot fixes between Nov. 13 and Nov. 14. A shorter, standard maintenance, as explained and announced in the recent blog post, is...
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For many, the Final Fantasy XIV x Fall Guys event, Blunderville, isn’t easy. In fact, it’s considered borderline Savage-tier content by a large majority of the community.
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Square Enix takes real money trading (RMT) for in-game items in Final Fantasy XIV pretty seriously, as their weekly posts about ban waves show. But allegedly, some of FFXIV’s t...
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At Final Fantasy XIV’s Fan Festival in London, Dawntrail’s 24-person Alliance Raid was revealed to be a crossover with the OG Final Fantasy MMO, Final Fantasy XI. With this...
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Prepare yourself for scares as it’s spooky season in Final Fantasy XIV with the start of the All Saints’ Wake 2023 event. The Halloween-themed content began on Oct. 27 and will run until Nov. 2...
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In Final Fantasy XIV patch 6.25, players got their first taste of Variant Dungeons as The Sil’dihn Subterrane was released for all to plunder. One of the most sought after mounts to come from t...
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The Final Fantasy XIV Callback Campaign has returned once more, as per a blog post on the FFXIV Lodestone. From Nov. 8, 3:00am EST, until Dec. 14, 3:00am EST, you’ll be able to invite yo...
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It’s November, and while many Final Fantasy XIV players are struggling to decide whether to brave Aloalo Island to secure every path, or grind out their Island Sanctuary, Roegadyn players are m...
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On Monday, Oct. 30, vocalist Susan Calloway, a prominent performer of FFXIV music, faced allegations of transphobia and Islamophobia due to likes and replies on her Twitter/X account....
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While Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker’s patch cycle is slowly coming to an end, there’s still one more piece of super hard content left, and that’s Another Aloalo Island (Savage). The most challen...
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Glamour and mounts are nice, but sometimes the best rewards in Final Fantasy XIV are emotes, especially when they can make you look as smug as the Humble Triumph emote. With a tilted head, fing...
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Statice, the notorious fairy with a gun from Aloalo Island, immediately garnered attention among the Final Fantasy XIV community when first revealed because of her design, the fact she had a mo...
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Statice is the infamous fairy with a gun that appears as a boss in Final Fantasy XIV’s Aloalo Island Variant and Criterion Dungeons. But the Spectral Statice is also one of the most unique moun...