Final Fantasy XIV players love gathering and crafting (especially one I know. You know who you are), but until now they have been stuck in their rooms, or in their offices while pretending to work. Enter Final Fantasy XIV Online Go, the new companion app for the popular MMORPG. After installing the app, you’ll be
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Today Square Enix announced the release date of the upcoming update 4.25 for Final Fantasy XIV. The patch will hit the live servers on Tuesday, March 13th for PS4 and PC. This time around we also get some screenshots of the brand new area The Forbidden Land of Eureka Anemos. It’s an island that doesn’t
Today Square Enix revealed the dates and details of this year’s installment of the traditional Little Ladies’ Day seasonal event in Final Fantasy XIV. The event will bring back the “Songbirds” idol group that animated the previous events, so it’s probable that there will be plenty of shenanigans to be had. The event will run
Today Square Enix hosted a new Final Fantasy XIV Letter from the Producer Live from Sapporo, in the Japanese northern island of Hokkaido. Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida and Global Community Producer Toshio Murouchi Toshio Murouchi provided more information about the Forbidden Land of Eureka feature coming with update 4.25. Eureka is an unexplored and untamed land
Today Square Enix announced its financial results for the nine months ended on December 31st, 2017. As you can see in the table below, all numbers are firmly in the black and show a considerable boost to operating and ordinary income. A specific breakdown of results for the Digital Entertainment business, which is the segment
Today Square Enix released a sizable batch of screenshots and information about the upcoming update to Final Fantasy XIV, numbered 4.2 and titled “Rise of a New Sun“. We get to see a new relevant character from the main storyline, a Garlean named Asahi Sas Voltus. At the moment his role remains mysterious, but he
Today Square Enix hosted a new Final Fantasy XIV Letter from the Producer Live broadcast from its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. During the stream, Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida and Global Community Producer Toshio Murouchi talked about some of the upcoming changes included in update 4.2 and beyond. First of all, we learn that the
Today Square Enix hosted a press opening event for the “Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary Exhibition – Farewell Story Exhibition –” that will officially open to the public from January 22nd to February 28th at the Mori Art Center Gallery in the Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo. During the event, members of the Japanese press were
Final Fantasy XIV has continued to stay strong throughout the years with new content updates and expansions, and with a new year having just started, there definitely seems to be more on the way for players of the long-running MMORPG. In a post on the official FFXIV North American forums, producer and director Naoki Yoshida provided
Final Fantasy XIV is preparing to celebrate the New Year with its traditional Heavensturn event, which will grant players with the usual “Kabuto” samurai helmets that are given every year. Those are a great way to show just how much of a veteran you are, and if you can sport one of the original rabbit
Today Square Enix released a new batch of screenshots of Final Fantasy XIV’s update 4.2, which will be titled “Rise of a New Sun“. The screenshots let us take a look at the two new dungeons that will be implemented in the game. The first is Hell’s Lid, while the second is The Fractal Continuum hard mode. it’s worth mentioning
Today Square Enix released the first official batch of screenshots of Final Fantasy XIV update 4.2, titled “Rise of a New Sun“. The screenshots give us a glimpse into the story, that will bring the Warriors of Light and their scion friends back to Doma, as the post-war turmoil in Ala Mhigo is finally winding
Today, During the latest Letter from the Producer Live broadcast Final Fantasy XIV Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida and Global Community Producer Toshio Murouchi revealed many details and the first screenshots of the upcoming patch 4.2, titled “Rise of a New Sun“. The cover illustration for the update was also presented, drawn by Toshiyuki Itahana, mostly known
Every year, Final Fantasy XIV players around the world get into the Holiday mood with the traditional Starlight Celebration. The seasonal event is basically the game’s version of Christmas, with its own lore and legends that expand pretty much each year. This year’s celebration will begin on December 15th, and end on December 31st. As
The rise of Final Fantasy XIV is one of the most interesting stories happened in the MMORPG market in the past few years, with Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida and his team swinging around a sinking ship during the 1.0 era, and then navigating it in a difficult market all the way to the very
Earlier this month, we heard that the release of Final Fantasy XIV‘s latest expansion Stormblood led to an increase in paying subscribers, but we didn’t have much color on how significant that increase was. Enter Square Enix President and CEO Yosuke Matsuda, who commented during the latest quarterly conference call for investor, mentioning that not
Square Enix has never really published the number of active, paying subscribers of Final Fantasy XIV, only reporting registered users, which are over ten million as of the latest report. Yet, today’s financial results included an interesting piece of information: paying subscribers are on the rise thanks to the release of the Stormblood expansion. As a
As you may already know, upcoming update 4.1 to Final Fantasy XIV will include a new 24-man alliance raid titled “Return to Ivalice.” If the name was not enough for you, the raid will be written by Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy Tactics Director Yasumi Matsuno. Following the information released in the latest Letter
The dust has settled since the release of Final Fantasy XIV‘s latest expansion Stormblood, and it’s time to reconnect with Director Naoki Yoshida and hear directly from the Lion’s mouth how things are going at Square Enix. Alongside Yoshida-san, we also had a chat at Gamescom with Main Scenario Writer Natsuko Ishikawa, who is certainly a major
Square Enix release the transcript of its quarterly earnings conference call, and it included some interesting info about the performance of its games, including Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. President Yosuke Matsuda mentioned that sales of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age for PS4 have been “brisk” since the game’s
Today the organizers of PAX West in Seattle, announced the full schedule of panels that will grace the show, and there is a lot for gamers to enjoy. Destiny 2 game director Luke Smith will kick things off on Friday, September 1st, at 10:30 AM with his “Storytime” keynote, talking about his career from gaming journalism
Today Square Enix announced its livestream schedule for E3 2017, and there will be quite a lot of content to enjoy. The livestream will happen on the publisher’s own Twitch channel, and on its Square Enix Presents YouTube channel, and will include “developer interviews, announcements, gameplay sessions, and much more.” Featured are plenty of games