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.

Category: Japanese Press
Tags: 4Gamer, Aldgoat, Classes, Dengeki, Famitsu, Magazines, Official Website, Speculation

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 [...]

Category: Japanese Press
Tags: Famitsu, Hiromichi Tanaka, Interviews, Magazines, Nobuaki Komoto

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 [...]

Category: Japanese Press
Tags: alpha, Dengeki, Hiromichi Tanaka, Interviews, Magazines, Nobuaki Komoto, Tokyo Game Show, ZAM

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 [...]

Category: Japanese Press
Tags: Famitsu, Interviews, Magazines, Nobuaki Komoto

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.  [...]

Category: Japanese Press
Tags: Dengeki, Famitsu, Gamescom, Guildleve system, Magazines, ZAM

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 [...]

Category: Japanese Press
Tags: Famitsu, Hiromichi Tanaka, Interviews, Magazines, Nobuaki Komoto, Video, ZAM

It’s been a couple days since the magazines were released and a few more still since the first leaked pictures began to float around the internet. Have you had a chance to look at them?
I mean really look at them?
Weekly Famitsu got the exclusive interview with Hiromichi Tanaka and Nobuaki Komoto. They had [...]

Category: Japanese Press, News
Tags: Dengeki, Interviews, Magazines, Q&A, Speculation