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Does This Lady Love Final Fantasy XI More Than You?

7:00PM October 20, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

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


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

7:00PM July 13, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

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. More »


PC

Final Fantasy XI And Final Fantasy XIV Going Back Online

5:20PM March 23, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

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]


In Real Life

Power Concerns After Japan Quake Take Down Final Fantasy Servers

2:50AM March 14, 2011 | Owen Good

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. More »


News

Do You Take This Avatar To Be Your Wife?

11:00PM November 15, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

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. More »


Translating Final Fantasy XI To Life

7:20AM October 27, 2010 | Tim Rogers

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. More »


News

Final Fantasy XI Accounts Compromised

11:00PM June 4, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

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


In Real Life

Guilt And Gaming The Morning After

1:00PM May 21, 2010 | lauren orsini

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. More »


In Real Life

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

6:00PM March 18, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

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. More »


News

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

6:30PM March 9, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

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. More »