The EU SquareEnix store has an interesting promotion going on for the holidays. The SquareEnix Christmas Surprise is a mystery package filled with a value of over £50 of gifts for the super low price of only £4.99. The catch? it is truly a surprise, the only known fact is that it's a package of four games. Which games? No...
Last time we talked about Final Fantasy XIV, we showed you a video featuring some of the upcoming changes in the upcoming Version 2.1 patch. Today, SquareEnix has released the version's patch notes that get into an insane amount of detail. We won't cover it all here, but you'll find info on PvP, new dungeons & quests, changes to character...
kula shakerz 2013-12-14 2 comments
Last weeks VGX show was bad. Very bad. But before the show they took a look at the upcoming Thief game. In this 15 minute video Daniel Kayser from GameTrailers talks to Stéphane Roy about gameplay mechanics and customization and Steven Gallagher about Garrett's story. The video also includes a bunch of new gameplay footage. Thief is coming to PlayStation...
Brendan 2013-12-10 2 comments
November marked the eleventh anniversary of Final Fantasy XI's original Japanese launch and Square Enix has announced an all new Return Home to Vana'Diel Campaign! All former players will have their accounts reactivated automatically for free between Tuesday, December 10 and Monday December 23 2013. In addition to that, players will be able to digitally download the latest version of...
Xin 2013-12-07 0 comments
It's no big secret that Final Fantasy XIV has had one of the strangest rides in gaming. FFXIV 1.0 was a disaster, but from it's ashes rose the wonderful Version 2.0, A Realm Reborn, which has been a rousing success for SquareEnix. On December 17th, FFXIV will see it's first major content update in Patch 2.1, dubbed A Realm Awoken,...
I don't have Steam, because I have a terrible computer that can't run anything. So the info below will instead come from SQIN member dada (aka grahf // editor's note: go back to this name). Final Fantasy VIII is now on Steam, with some decent visual enhancements. It still uses the same assets, but it's rendered at a much higher...
kula shakerz 2010-03-01 0 comments
At Vanafest 2010 in Tokyo, Hiromichi Tanaka, the lead developer of Final Fantasy XI, announced that game will get three new high level battle area additions this year: Vision of Abyssea, Scars of Abyssea, and Heroes of Abyssea. Vision of Abyssea will be the first release, this summer. The other two are not yet dated. All will cost $9.99 and...