Final Fantasy XIV update 3.3 went live today, bringing the Dragonsong War story to an end and adding new raids, dungeons and trials. My favourite part of the update is that little Recommended Gear button up there.

Step one: Watch what I do here. Step two: Avoid doing any of that.

Briefly: Final Fantasy XIV update 3.1 is live, bringing more story, dungeons, missions, hairstyles and a minion-powered strategy mini-game to the second (and gaining) most successful subscription-based MMORPG. Check out the full update notes here. See you in Eorzea!

Last night I fell asleep in my computer chair.

I'd love to be able to report this week that I've reached the new level cap and experienced some of the high-end content Final Fantasy XIV's first expansion has to offer, but first I need to figure out which version of my character I want to be.

It never fails. I teleport back to the Foundation area of the expansion's new city of Ishgard, it's nighttime, it's snowing and the most achingly bittersweet music plays.

Citing the widespread disappointment with performance and poor communication of system requirements, Square Enix has temporarily halted sales of the Final Fantasy XIV Mac client. Good call.

I'm trying to write my initial Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward expansion MMO log in such a way as to minimise my time away from Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward. This is a good sign.

Like thousands of other Final Fantasy XIV players I was awake at 5am Eastern on Friday morning to take my first steps into the game's first major expansion. Then I realised Heavensward wasn't quite like other MMO expansions.

All of this shiny new, far in the future Final Fantasy stuff from E3 2015 is great, but those of us with massively multiplayer leanings have more immediate concerns, like next week's launch of the first major expansion for Final Fantasy XIV.

Lacking anything better to do until the expansion pack arrives in June, the Final Fantasy XIV dev team transformed one of the game's biggest boss battles into a fighting game I'd play in a heartbeat.

After spending the better part of 2014 exploring other MMO avenues, in 2015 I'm getting back into Final Fantasy XIV, just in time for the massive two-part pre-expansion patch 2.5, "Before the Fall".

At the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2014 in Tokyo today, Square-Enix showed off the new race, raid, and jobs previously hinted at back in October when Final Fantasy XIV's upcoming Heavensward expansion was announced.