[Game website] Square Enix’s outgoing president, Mr Yoichi Wada, apparently made his final appearance on the series of developer videos for Final Fantasy XIV Online: A Realm Reborn in the latest episode. Bad news aside, the Closed Beta phase…
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – Game is still on schedule
[Game website] After Yoichi Wada resigned as Square Enix’s president yesterday, fans of the online version of Final Fantasy title begun to worry about A Realm Reborn’s development progress. It is understandable, since the original Final Fantasy XIV was 1…
Square Enix – Yoichi Wada resigns as president as company begins reform
Yoichi Wada (below), who has been with Square Enix since April 2000, will be stepping down as president and replaced by the company’s CFO, Yosuke Matsuda, come June. Square Enix made this announcement along with news that an “extraordinary loss”…
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – Business model unrelated to success
[Game website] According to an interview at Penny Arcade with Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn‘s director, Naoki Yoshida, continued his defense of the monthly payment model being brought back for the game, despite the current market dominated by Free-to-Play titles.…
Luminous Studio – New tech demos get all hairy
After a couple of similar videos over the past few weeks, new ones were uploaded online by the Japanese media late last week. I presume all these were taken at a Square Enix tech event last November, where much was…
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – New trailer marks a new beginning
[Game website] We all knew how the initial Final Fantasy XIV version got slammed by gamers and websites all over the world, and subsequently witnessed the end of an era. Square Enix today released a new CG trailer, which continues where…
Concerto Gate – Final 2 servers announce closures
Originally scheduled to be published in English by GamesCampus, which was subsequently canceled in 2009 after a year of Closed Beta, the final 2 servers for the Square Enix-developed MMORPG have announced their closures. They are the home server of…
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – New beta roadmap released
[Game website] Together with the new trailer below, the new beta roadmap for Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn was released earlier today. Priority will be given to subscribers of the former version of the game, followed by…
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – Levequests and party combat preview
[Game website] Another week, another new Alpha footage for Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. This time, Square Enix is showcasing the game’s revamped levequests (another underwhelming feature in the original) and party combat system. There are 3 different types,…
Luminous Studio – New live edit videos impresses
We all have read about the upcoming Unreal Engine 4, and how it is going to take game graphics to the next level. In Japan, Square Enix is also brewing its own next-gen game engine, Luminous Studio. The trailer above,…
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – Sneak peek at gathering and crafting
Probably 1 of the most complained and worst features in the original Final Fantasy XIV Online, the gathering and crafting system is getting simplified in A Realm Reborn. I shall not further explain, as the video does really explain itself…
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – New video features quests & combat
Square Enix released yet another new trailer earlier, featuring quests and combat in the Alpha version of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Yes, combat is still the traditional point and click without active dodge, but the whole world looks…
Final Fantasy XIV – New Alpha video shows lush surroundings
[Game website] A couple months more before Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn enters Closed Beta, the official videos from the Alpha client are keeping the anticipation levels high. This time round, it is showing the lush woods surrounding the…
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – End of an Era
[Game website] Today marks the end of the original version of Final Fantasy XIV, which to some is deemed as a failure, while to others just an unpolished gem. No matter the feeling, most of us will be awaiting for the…