Month: February 2025

The best Final Fantasy games are often regarded for their layered characters and stories, but that will not be Final Fantasy XV’s legacy. Save for a few minor arcs and some impressive cutscenes, the story of the deposed Prince Noctis and his three bodyguards ultimately leaves little room for its stars to evolve and earn your affection. But finishing Final Fantasy XV’s story prepares you for difficult trials tucked away in Eos, the game’s imposing and bountiful open world. Its best quests and treasures extend well beyond the needs of Noctis’ fight, and it’s these pursuits that make you appreciate your brothers in arms, and Final Fantasy XV in the long run.

We first meet Noctis and his crew en route to the prince’s wedding; a political marriage to his childhood friend designed to unite their families’ opposing nations. Shortly afterwards, Noctis receives news that his fiance’s father ordered an invasion of Noctis’s home city, killing his father–King Regis–and claiming stewardship of a powerful crystal. In an effort to retake the throne and restore balance to the world, Noctis must locate ancestral weapons scattered in lost tombs across Eos, battle hundreds of mon…

Author George R.R. Martin has once again provided an update on the next A Song of Ice and Fire book, The Winds of Winter, and no one should be surprised that the book still is not finished.

Posting on his blog, Martin said that in 2023, when he visited his publishers from Harper Collins Voyager in London, people assumed the book was nearly done and that an announcement about its release was coming. But that’s not how this works, Martin said.

He pointed out that when he travels the world for his various speaking engagements and appearances, he schedules time with his publishers, editors, and agents to have face-to-face sitdowns purely to maintain and build these relationships. Communicating over Zoom and email is all well and good, but when Martin travels, he likes to sit down and chat.

“When I travel, if I have a day or two to catch up with one of my editors or agents, I jump on it. Every time I travel to NYC, I get together with my literary agents, and my editors at Bantam and Tor.. along with old friends, family, and the like Come from Sports betting site VPbet . That’s true everywhere I go. If I…