With Endwalker releasing on May 31, 2025, Final Fantasy XIV received its fourth expansion and the official conclusion to one of its biggest storylines. With a record player count, the now award-winning MMO is flying high. So is now a good time to start Final Fantasy XIV if you’ve been putting it off? The simple answer is, yes, it’s a fantastic time to start Final Fantasy XIV. After being initially released to poor reception in 2010, Final Fantasy XIV re-released in 2013 with Final Fantasy XIV 2....

Read update UPDATE: 2025-07-19 17:00 EST BY Craig Donaldson X is back online again.Musk claimsthe outage was caused by a “massive cyberattack against X.” UPDATE: 2025-08-10 11:30 EST BY Craig Donaldson X is offline again. It appears to be experiencing intermittent outages. UPDATE: 2025-08-20 11AM EST BY Craig Donaldson X appears to be back online for many users after experiencing an outage. You can read the original story below: If you’ve been trying touse X(formerly Twitter) today but have been having issues, you’re not alone....

Jack Ryan has been a hit forAmazon Video. It’s based around Tom Clancy’s best-known protagonist, Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst who finds himself pulled from his desk job and thrust into the action.A reluctant hero, Jack Ryan often protests that he’s an analyst rather than a field agent and that lends Ryan a vulnerable charm and fits the political leaning of Clancy’s thrillers; Ryan is smarter than he is strong and that has always made him a popular character....

Given all the exploit releases and jailbreak tool updates, it’s been one heck of a week in the jailbreak community. If you’re looking for new and exciting ways to customize your jailbroken handset, then you’ve come to the right place. Thisjailbreak tweakroundup will recap all the releases pushed through Cydia this week, starting with our favorites and ending with an outline of the rest afterward. Our favorite releases this week CellDia – FREE CellDiatransforms the look and feel of the Cydia app to make it easier to discern information about tweaks at a glance....

Famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities is saying that Apple is abandoning Touch ID, which he thinks will be superseded by Face ID on all iPhone models coming next year. Just a few days ago, the analyst said that iPhone X’s TrueDepth camera and 3D facial recognitionhave convincedAndroid makers that depth sensing is the way to go. That’s where the industry is headed as fingerprint scanning is becoming increasingly boring....

Hot off the heels of a rather juicy updatelaunched over this past weekend, theZebrapackage manager is out with another update this Monday evening, this time bringing it up to version 1.1.25. Albeit not a massive update, this is a noteworthy update for Zebra in that it incorporates a rather user-friendly feature or two that just might excite its fan base. The full change log below: – Fixes an issue on jailbreaks based on the Telesphoreo distro (iOS 9....

If you had told me years ago that the franchise that I’ve held near and dear to me for so long was going to turn into a turn-based RPG, I would have laughed and gone back to delivering the smackdown in Kamurocho. However, after seeing how well the slapstick side of the formerly titled Yakuza franchise works in this fashion, I was intrigued if Ryu Ga Gotoku could make magic again....

Dave the Diver was a splash hit in 2023 with its gameplay that felt as endless as the ocean. Players catch fish in roguelike underwater segments, prepare a sushi diner menu and serve as one of its waiters, collect trading cards based on each kind of available fish, participate in seahorse racing, run a seaweed farm and fish farm, and much more. It wasn’t wrong to describe Dave the Diver as the “Yakuza” or “Like a Dragon” of roguelikes thanks to its almost unending number of minigames....

Lost Ark details its upcoming plans for the next 4 months of 2023. They look at new classes, QoL, and more. Lost Ark 2023 Content Roadmap Discusses New Classes and Raids Welcome back to Arkesia, heroes! Amazon Games and Smilegate RPG have just recently revealed their plans for Lost Ark’s western release this 2023. They detail some of the major bits of content and updates in the upcoming months. However, do remember that this is a high-level look at the major updates....

Member the games you used to play? We member. The basement at the Hardcore Gamer office has a section known as the Crust Room, with an old grey couch and a big old CRT TV. All the classic systems are down there collecting dust, so in an effort to improve the cleanliness of our work space, we dust off these old consoles every so often and put an old game through its paces, just to make sure everything stays in working order....

Back in January, the mobile homebrew community suffered a major blow when several DMCA exemptions expired. Among them was a rule that madeunlockingcellphones legal, effectivelymaking the practice illegalhere in the United States. But it may not be that way for long. A new bill just landed in the House of Representatives called The Unlocking Technology Act of 2013, which, among other things, would make the process ofunlockingyour cellphone unequivocally legal…...

Having merged some of its departments with Oppoearlier this year, OnePlus has revealed a little more detail on what this combined Oppo/OnePlus company will look like. And a big part of that vision is a unified OS. From 2022, OnePlus will launch phones running the first version of a combined ColorOS/OxygenOS software that’s basedon Android 12. What that means specifically is that the next flagship OnePlus phone - likely the OnePlus 10 launching next year - will run a software that’s built on a codebase that takes the best of OxygenOS and ColorOS....

If you want to be a better climber in PEAK, check out this guide for some helpful tips that will make you more efficient. Climbing is, of course, the core mechanic in PEAK. Everything in the game revolves around this one aspect, and despite looking quite simple on paper, it has many intricacies and nuances, mixed with various controls and tools for different things. Thus, for someone who’s never played a title like this before, even the simplest things might seem a little confusing....