kula shakerz 2002-07-06 0 comments
Square has recently made a announcement on their financial predictions for this year. The blotched FFXI launch set their profits back 80-100 million yen, or around 600,000-800,000$ US. In addition to the PC release in Japan before the year's end, and the North American release, Square said that the launch problems would not hinder their profits in the coming term....
kula shakerz 2002-07-02 0 comments
Square will shut down the Final Fantasy XI servers today July the 2nd from 9-11 am. This is done to increase the amount of times players will encounter rare monsters. The servers will also be shut down on July the 9th, this time the servers will be upgraded to a new version of the game, there will be new quests...
kula shakerz 2002-06-30 0 comments
Square has announced that they will be including a few extras in the domestic version of Kingdom Hearts. Namely, the extras are a new, harder difficulty setting and a couple new bosses. No details have been revealed on which new characters the bosses might be, but we'll keep checking and report as soon as we learn something.
kula shakerz 2002-06-29 0 comments
Koichi Ise, a member of Square's Network Engineering Department, announced that Final Fantasy XI now has over 90,000 registered users, with a record of 55,000 users on the servers at one time. Though the FFXI’s launch met difficulties, the glaring problems have been resolved; as Square strives on to reach its goals of 250,000 registered users worldwide.
kula shakerz 2002-06-23 0 comments
Welcome to Square Insider! The site has finally opened after weeks of planning and programming. I wanted to make a simple but cool looking design that was easy on the eye and I think I have succeeded pretty well. Some of you may remember Final Gamers (http://www.finalgamers.net), this is the same site. It had the same staff and the same...
kula shakerz 2002-06-22 0 comments
Square has already announced that they will be release a DVD guide to the Final Fantasy series. Now they will release a revised edition of Final Fantasy Complete Works, the two-book set detailing the first six Final Fantasy games. The books was first released back in 1997, the second book included a PlayStation disc with an encyclopedia of FF enemies,...
kula shakerz 2002-06-20 0 comments
Square has just bought Quest, the company responsible for the Ogre Battle series. This comes as a little surprise following the earlier acquisition of the OB series rights by Square. The move represents a homecoming for the games creator Yasumi Matsuno was a former Square staff member. Matsuno wrote and directed the first two games in the series before leaving...
kula shakerz 2002-06-18 0 comments
As reported earlier the PC version of Final Fantasy is starting the beta testing. Square has released the system requirements you have to meet in order to be able to run Final Fantasy Xi on your PC. The system requirements are high so you should have a pretty new computer in order to fully enjoy the game. Final Fantasy XI...
kula shakerz 2002-06-18 0 comments
Below you'll see something that looks like the logo from square's upcoming game Final Fantasy XII. If this one is real then this would be the first image released from Final Fantasy XII. Final Fantasy XII is scheduled for release in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, late 2003. Some rumors suggest that it will either be released on two DVDs,...
kula shakerz 2002-06-17 0 comments
Square has announced that they will begin the beta testing if the PC version of Final Fantasy XI. This will be starting on Tuesday, June 18th. The beta testers will be playing on a different server from the PlayStation 2 gamers. The game will still have the mail, chat, and messanger services run through the PS2 servers. When the game...
kula shakerz 2002-06-16 0 comments
Gamefront has reported that certain PlayStation 2 models are incompatible with Final Fantasy XI. Final Fantasy XI has already had massive problems during its Japanese launch so this isnt what they had hoped for. The game refuses to play on certain PS2 models. Instead of booting, the system simply prints an error message and quits loading. If you're having this...
kula shakerz 2002-06-13 0 comments
Reported by Japanese journal site Mainichi Interactive, Square CEO Youichi Wada expressed retaliation against remarks made by Nintendo in their Analysts meeting on June 6th. On Nintendo's remarks that Final Fantasy XI did not sell well being an online game, Square president Youichi commented that the income structure and market size of online games are different, and cannot be compared...
kula shakerz 2002-06-11 0 comments
With Final Fantasy XI recently released in Japan and a PC version scheduled to follow this year, Square have now been moving forward in production to the next game in the acclaimed series, Final Fantasy XII. While no new information has surfaced on the details of the game, Square has stated that the game is expected to be released next...
kula shakerz 2002-06-11 0 comments
Last week was the first week in many that a Square game did not reside in the Top 10. Since the release of Kingdom Hearts, not a week had gone by without at least one Square game in the Top 10. However, a rush of new titles, and naturally declining demand, has forced Square games like Kingdom Hearts and Final...
kula shakerz 2002-06-09 0 comments
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's new sitting president, recently intimated some harsh sentiments regarding Square's first foray into the realm of online RPGs with Final Fantasy XI. Iwata proclaimed the game an outright failure for being unable to attain the initial sales Square expected and criticized Square's management of its online servers. He pointedly commented that new Final Fantasy games have typically...