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Detailed Class Info from Famitsu and 4Gamer

Posted By Corinth on March 11, 2010

The day of the FFXIV Beta Test Site opening is upon us.  Many people are anxiously awaiting a chance to play the alpha build and test out game play.  What better time than today for Square Enix to give us more detailed information about some of the classes people will be playing around with!  Both [...]

A Glimpse of the new Trailer and a Familiar Face

Posted By Fusionx on March 11, 2010

A couple weeks ago at VanaFest, attendees were lucky enough to get a showing of the latest CG video that was teased in screen shots with the last Final Fantasy XIV site update. 4Gamer has posted several images from the trailer on their website.

We also have our first look at what appears to be the [...]

This Week in the Magazines (and more!)

Posted By Corinth on October 10, 2009

Going between two languages, it is easy for things to get lost in translation. Not only that, but for Final Fantasy XIV, the sites for each region are also presented in entirely different ways. That means sometimes there can be pictures or text in one that doesn’t show up in the either.

At the moment, we have extensive text on the NA site about some of the beast families like Aldgoats and Antelopes. However, the Japanese site does not contain any additional text, just the pictures that were released to the Japanese media as well. For those in Japan, they have to get their information from the magazines released this weekend or one of the several gaming news websites like GAME Watch or 4gamer.

Let’s check out what was in the magazines that isn’t on the NA site as well as what things may have been lost along the way.

4Gamer Interview with Tanaka and Sundi (Part 2)

Posted By Corinth on August 22, 2009

This is Part 2 of our coverage of 4Gamer’s interview with Hiromichi Tanaka and Sage Sundi. In it, we learn about the battle system in FFXIV and get some more hints relating to character creation. (You can find part 1 here.)

How to play FFXIV
People attending gamescom had the chance to try out [...]

4Gamer Interview with Tanaka and Sundi (Part 1)

Posted By Corinth on August 22, 2009

One thing you can count on is that the Japanese press are given access and interviews even at foreign events. It could be a big event like E3 or a small event like Fan Festival for FFXI. The next website to publish their interview with Final Fantasy XIV Producer Hiromichi Tanaka and Global [...]

Japanese Media Covers Final Fantasy XIV at E3

Posted By Fusionx on June 4, 2009

Elmer over at ZAM has written up a summary from three popular Japanese news sources (GameWatch, 4Gamer, Famitsu) who all got the chance to sit down with Hiromichi Tanaka and Nobuaki Komoto after the Square Enix E3 press conference on Wednesday.
In the information given, Tanaka mentions that initially, they wanted to add a second door [...]