Posted By Corinth on March 15, 2010
Did you enjoy all the new information this weekend? We had an official NA and JP site update and people on the forums have been sifting through the information and finding all sorts of interesting things. I know some people have been busy updating the wiki as well. Starting it all off though [...]
Posted By Corinth on March 12, 2010
Another day, another article. Today’s information is also courtesy of Famitsu. Along with the developer comments they had for the various classes, they also had a short one page interview with the three developers. Once again, let’s take a look at what Battle Director Atsushi Okada, Planner Sei Sato, and Planner Kenichi Iwao had to [...]
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.
Posted By Corinth on September 21, 2009
Now in Tokyo! Very tired but I can’t turn off the computer until I tell you some of the nifty things from this week in the magazines. For example…. where does the music for the trailer come from? Tanaka reveals the answer in the full length version of the interview done with Enterbrain’s Hamamura. And [...]
Posted By Corinth on September 17, 2009
We are now just one week away from Tokyo Game Show, the biggest video game expo of the year in Japan. A trailer will be shown in the Open Mega Theatre but we won’t know until the event starts whether it’s just an old one or not. Japanese fans are likely to feel slighted if [...]
Posted By Corinth on September 11, 2009
For this week’s issue, we’ll have two parts. Today, part 1 with the interesting little bits pulled from Weekly Famitsu.
The other day, Gahoo linked to an article on 1up.com featuring opinions on online gaming from three different Japanese game makers. What was available there was actually just a small portion of a big feature printed [...]
Posted By Corinth on September 6, 2009
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. [...]




