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Final Fantasy 14 is filled with plenty of sidequests to allow you to delve even deeper into adventures found in Eorzea. Sidequests are the way to open up new dungeons, trials, instanced areas, raids, aether currents, and more. Additionally, it’s often with sidequests that players find some of the best storylines, humor, and rewards. We’ve picked out ten of the best sidequests with rather awesome rewards, such as emotes, minions, and gear that is perfect for glamor fanatics....

Fans of both MMOs and Final Fantasy most likely have heard and at some point played Final Fantasy 14 and its expansions. As expected from a Final Fantasy MMO, this Square Enix RPG has fan-favorite signatures such as the iconic Job System, memorable characters, captivating storylines, and an outstanding soundtrack. Overall, fans consider FF14one of the best things to have come out of both Square Enix and the MMO space. However, with one reboot, three expansions, and a fourth expansion underway, how would fans rate FF14’s many iterations?...

I’m a good little Eorzean. My Warrior of Light in Final Fantasy 14 does her daily chores without a complaint. It’s a hefty to-do list when juggling a full-time job and other adult responsibilities, but I’m aiming to finish leveling all of my jobs. I have a loose order to things, I knock out the fun and easy ones first, like PVP, Trial, and Normal Raid roulettes. I hop into Leveling Roulette on whatever class it is I’m trying to learn at the moment, then will finally grit my teeth and wrap up Alliance Raids....

Final Fantasy X features one of the strongest ensemble casts of any traditional JRPG. Each character has their own clearly defined arc and inner emotional world, while still embodying a familiar and reassuring archetype. As the main character, Tidus is a beautiful melding of a fun-loving, happy-go-lucky, hero-to-be, and sad boy with a troubled backstory. This is why it’s so hilariously ironic that the most popular meme to come out of this game involves him laughing through his pain....

Fans of Final Fantasy XIV can now get all of the game’s expansion pack for the online RPG for just $12. Final Fantasy has been around since the late-80s and has amassed a huge catalog of games during that time. These games have been released on just about every platform - NES to Xbox One and PS4 - plus a few mobile games, sub sequels, and spin-offs here and there. Final Fantasy has grown from a 2D battler to having some of the most notable 3D graphics and animations in the gaming world today....

Composer Marty O’Donnell is best known for his work on the Halo series and Destiny. Given just how memorable O’Donnell’s scores have been for gamers and with the composer having been an integral part of Bungie for over a decade, it was quite a shock for everyone when Bungie fired him in April of last year. While Bungie’s official statement on O’Donnell’s termination noted that his work had left an “indelible mark” on fans of their games, and that he had made “unforgettable sounds and soundtracks”, the composer tweeted that they had fired him “without cause”, seeming to suggest that the split was less than amicable....

[UPDATE] We have our winners! Mike Hoyle Manpreet Singh Matharoo JMC McGinn “Red” Chris Randant If you didn’t win, you can still check out the free version of System Mechanic featuring 7 award-winning tools at iolo’s website. Thanks for entering and for reading Game Rant! A little more than nine months ago, I had the opportunity to review iolo’s PC tuneup software, System Mechanic 10.5. This automated all-in-one software tool focuses on streamlining PC processes and minimizing redundancies that could affect a PC’s performance and speed by repairing routine issues with little to no work on the part of the user....

Marty O’Donnell, the composer behind the music of Halo and Destiny, is part of the studio making the PlayStation VR game Golem, for which he has a new musical project. O’Donnell’s project is called Echoes of the First Dreamer and it’s a musical prequel to the upcoming game Golem, which is in development for PlayStation VR by Highwire Games. The Kickstarter project is being headed by Marty O’Donnell, the veteran video game composer known for creating Halo’s iconic Gregorian chant theme and the collection of music found in Destiny....

About a couple of days ago, Epic Games showed fans it’s ready to embrace the Halloween season in Fortnite Battle Royale by placing decorations all over game’s map, including ghosts, webs, and giant spiders. Now, it looks as if the developer is preparing to offer players some new Halloween-themed cosmetics soon, as a datamine of Update 6.01’s game files have uncovered a handful of fresh skins, gliders, pickackes, and more....

Here is where you can find all the characters that sell intel. It’s the last season of Fortnite’s Chapter 2 Season 5. Week 15 challenges have already been released and it’s time to get them done so you can get those final levels you need and finish the battle pass at once. Depending on which NPC you’re talking to, they will have different possible interactions. There are some characters you can hire, some will even sell you a rare item, others will upgrade your weapons, and there are even characters that will sell you intel....

Fortnite will eventually be available on Android, however, players won’t be able to download it via the Google Play store. Fortnite is just about everywhere you turn right now. The phenomenon’s developers, Epic Games, have ensured that the game is accessible to pretty much everyone by gradually making it available across as many platforms as possible. If you have a PlayStation 4, an Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, a PC, or even just an iPhone, you can be a part of Fortnite....

While core gamers and PlayStation fans may only care about major announcements and exclusives like Final Fantasy 16 and God of War 2, sometimes other priorities need to be met, too. Priorities like ensuring the most-popular free-to-play games of the current generation will also be supported on PS5. Sony did that today, announcing that Fortnite is now reconfirmed to be available to download and play on PS5 starting on the console’s launch day....

Epic Games has big plans for the Fortnite Battle Royale eSports scene, having announced that the first season of tournaments it holds for the game will offer $100 million in total prize funds. A major part of this is the Fall Skirmish tournament which has a prize fund of $10 million. The tournament officially kicked off on September 21, however, the event is already mired in controversy. The first week of the Fall Skirmish tournament involved duos, with the particular team of NateHill and FunkBomb having been caught cheating....

In Fortnite Battle Royale’s most recent patch, Update 6.21, Epic Games decided to tweak the gameplay a bit by having 25% of explosive damage penetrate through structures and the environment in the free-to-play multiplayer sandbox survival shooter. As it turns out, this wound up displeasing a lot of the game’s fan base, so now the developer has decided to announce its decision to revert the aforementioned changes. As seen in the pair of tweets below, Epic Games wanted to give Fortnite fans a heads up earlier this morning that it would be releasing a hotfix today in order to reign in the explosive damage so that structures still provide some form of protection against any given blast....

Future War Cult has won Destiny 2’s Faction Rally this past week, marking the first time in the game’s history that the faction managed to pull ahead of its competition. The Faction Rally is an event that happens once every few weeks in Destiny 2, and provides players an opportunity to pledge to their faction of choice and play the game in order to further their chosen faction’s influence in the competition....

Welcome to another edition of the Game Ranter Banter. Five writers take a few minutes out of their busy schedules to give their opinions on some of the most compelling and controversial recent news stories of the game industry. This week, we discuss Microsoft’s dedication to Master Chief, the new free-to-play option in World of Warcraft, Sony’s surprising online pass, the new DLC for DC Universe Online, and a surprising port of a very popular PC game....

GameStop CEO George Sherman is out, according to a press release from the company. Sherman will be gone by July 31 or soon if GameStop has any luck finding his successor. “The Board’s Strategic Planning and Capital Allocation Committee is leading a search to identify Chief Executive Officer candidates with the capabilities and experience to help accelerate the next phase of the company’s transformation,” noted GameStop in its release, referring to recent plans to pivot towards e-commerce and sell PC-gaming related hardware....

There’s an ongoing trend in Genshin Impact right now where each newly introduced character is being made more powerful than the last (or most of the others). Such was the case with the Xiao, Ganyu, and Hu Tao trifecta; this has effectively introduced some form of power creep to the game or something that made older characters a bit obsolete in terms of damage or usefulness. The result is that many of the developer’s previous creations have trouble keeping up with the current META dictated by these characters....

The world of Teyvat is packed with monsters in Genshin Impact. While some of these monsters are smaller encounters, there are a select few that are considered bosses within the game. There are currently ten boss enemies, all of which give out a unique elemental ascension item that players will need to finish raising the level of their character to 90. Players should expect to fight bosses regularly, and depending on their team, they may find themselves stuck fighting the same enemy several times a week....

Update 1.1, the first major game update for MiHoYo’s surprise hit RPG Genshin Impact, will be arriving November 13. A number of new features will be added with Update 1.1, including new characters, a new zone to explore, bug fixes, and a reputation system that will give players additional opportunities to earn rewards as they explore the vast world of Teyvat. Also receiving an overhaul in Genshin Impact’s Update 1.1 will be the Resin system, which has received a bit of criticism from players because it tends to bottleneck their ability to progress through endgame content....