RMT discussion. Lack of news… that’s about it. Shadax, Snowshadow No official news for over a month RSS Feeds added to FFXI Official Website Sage Sundi talks about RMT at CESA Developer Conference Extra Life lock in seats now available!
1up.com published an article entitled: “The Future of Online Gaming in Japan: The people behind FFXIV and Phantasy Star Online weigh in.” Despite the seeming popularity in Japan of Final Fantasy XI, and surely of Final Fantasy XIV, the article details why overall online gaming in Japan is less popular than in the United States
We are still days away from the next issue of Famitsu, but Ryumihyoh from the forums has uncovered some leaked information from a Japanese website by an unknown translator. Take this all with a grain of salt until we get actual scans and translations, but at least some of the information is interesting, and all
Have you seen the pictures that came out this week? Thanks to information released through Weekly Famitsu and Famitsu Online, we now have pictures of three more monsters that will feel the business end of our swords in Final Fantasy XIV. Players of FFXI are familiar with Puks and Opo-opos, despite major changes in appearance.
A lot of facts have been released about the land of Eorzea that we will all occupy in the near future, and while eventually we will almost certainly see some official images from Square Enix, right now the best we can do is piece together what we do know and engage in some Cartography 101.
Gamestrailer.com has released a two-part video interview with Tanaka and Sundi. Not a whole lot of new information here, but always nice to get some video shots of the game and Tanaka and Sundi themselves. They are able to deny some speculations and confirm that there will be no PvP nor voice chat at launch
Tanaka Bling, Credit Crunch, Token Hacks, and more! Raxanu, Derzerb, Paulbunion, Annex Vana’diel Collection 2 in Japan Player’s Collection name tag being worn by Tanaka SE sending out e-mails for 3D secure Token holders getting hacked
And so it begins. There is less than a month left until Tokyo Game Show. Different game companies are slowly starting to release what they will be showing at the event this year before the official TGS website can beat them to the punch. Today, Square Enix opened their special Tokyo Game Show 2009 website
VG247 released five mini-articles over the past 24 hours, each identifying one fact they gleaned from their interview with Tanaka at Gamescom (basically they published one “article” per quote). Most of the information is already known, so we’ll just highlight the facts/quotes: FFXIV will have a monthly subscription model (link) Tanaka was very pleased Nobuo
Last month we learned that Final Fantasy XIV would be the cover title for this month’s issue of Famitsu WaveDVD magazine. Despite not having anything from the recent gamescom, the DVD contains over 12 minutes of footage for FFXIV. Most of it is between Producer Hiromichi Tanaka and Enterbrain CEO Hirokazu Hamamura. A few comments
Every MMO game has a a variety of different content. Some is aimed at beginners, while some is designed for the most experienced of players. However apart from beginning and end game content, there are some parts of the game that are designed to be used by any player, no matter what their experience level.
These big game shows are a lot like Christmas. You get a bunch of really good stuff all at once but there is something of a let down after it’s all over. However, sometimes there are still little treats that come in the mail a bit late. Once again, Dengeki has delayed the online
On episode 2 of Aetheryte Radio we cover Gamescom 2009! We talk about the playable alpha build of Final Fantasy XIV at the show, discuss the new action battle system and what we currently know about the Guildleve system. We also would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their feedback on the
New PFA pics, Colonels, Email, and more! Zemmy – Ifrit New PFA character concepts by Polish Tamales!
Another day another Gamescom interview report. This one is from the Playstation blog. Not much new in this one except some hints at beta timing from Tanaka. PSB: Are you still planning a spring 2010 beta? Tanaka: We can’t really say any certain timing, because the launch is planned to release is 2010. So that
One Last Continue, an alternative gaming news site, has posted their interview with Hiromichi Tanaka and Sage Sundi. There are some interesting tidbits not found in other interviews so make sure you visit their site and read through it. Interview highlights: The game was built for the PC first and then ported to PS3 The
Hello everybody! I hardly have any new information, but I decided to give you a report of most of my Gamescom experience and go into detail when it comes to FFXIV. I’m not a native English speaker, but I still hope you have a decent read. Grab a snack because I’m not going to skip
Gamescom is over but the information and interviews are still coming out. We’ve seen interviews from sites like Famitsu and 4Gamer. Dengeki has not published their interview but chances are they are leaving it for Dengeki PlayStation magazine. Now we have a joint interview done by Thayos from ZAM and Chris Morell from PlayStation Blog.
Last week during Gamescom in Cologne, Germany we got our very first look at Final Fantasy XIV as Square Enix revealed a playable version of the game’s alpha build. During the event, several images were released showing off the new user interface. We’ve gone ahead and translated the images so that those of you who
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