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Does This Lady Love Final Fantasy XI More Than You?

Emiri Kato doesn’t just play Final Fantasy XI, she lives there.


July 13, 2011
PlayStation

Square Enix Wants To Bring Old MMO To The PS Vita (Wait, What?)

Never one to shy away from porting a game, Square Enix talked about doing just that in the latest issue of Japanese game mag Famitsu. The choice, this time is rather odd.


March 23, 2011
PC

Final Fantasy XI And Final Fantasy XIV Going Back Online

Due to the power concerns that arose after March 11′s earthquake, the servers for Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI were taken offline. The servers for both games will be back online on March 25. To make up for the outage, FFXI players won’t be charged for the April billing cycle. Final Fantasy XIV will continue to be free to play. [via PlayOnline]


March 14, 2011
In Real Life

Power Concerns After Japan Quake Take Down Final Fantasy Servers

At 6 p.m. EST/3 p.m. PST, servers for Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI will be taken offline for at least one week as Square-Enix cooperates with a Japanese power company’s request to conserve power while it restores services severely damaged by Thursday’s monster earthquake.


November 15, 2010
News

Do You Take This Avatar To Be Your Wife?

By day, 27-year-old Paul Turner was a computer programmer. By night, he played Final Fantasy XI as a Hume, hanging out with a Tarutaru named Branwen. Paul left his girlfriend for that Tarutaru and married the woman behind the avatar.


October 27, 2010

Translating Final Fantasy XI To Life

The other day, I mentioned to my friend of 10 years that I was doing research on massively multiplayer online role-playing games (“MMORPGs”) for one of my game design jobs. I said that it was especially difficult to understand what people were talking about on online forums, given that I’d never played an MMORPG for more than an hour of my life.


June 4, 2010
News

Final Fantasy XI Accounts Compromised

May 31 seemed like just another Square Enix monthly update to its Final Fantasy XI online game registration server system. It wasn’t.


May 21, 2010
In Real Life

Guilt And Gaming The Morning After

The sun rises around 6 am and that’s when it starts to come full force. 

Something about the hazy pink morning light strikes the perfect chord of misery.  The mouse in my hand is a palmful of guilt, guilt, guilt, and my fingers clatter on the keys like the legs of a spider.


March 18, 2010
In Real Life

Return Of The Pee Bottle Guy (And Fishy TV Reporting)

In early January, a Japanese news program did a piece on “netoge haijin” or “online game invalids”. A follow-up to that report has appeared, and some believe the segment is fake.


March 9, 2010
News

Don’t Expect World Of Warcraft On Video Game Consoles, Ever

World of Warcraft, the world’s most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, is available on the PC and on the Mac. It is not available on home consoles like the PS3 and the Xbox 360. And it probably won’t be.