Day: August 6, 2013

We may not see many Final Fantasy games make their way to PC (though, we are starting to get something of their back catalogue) but Square Enix are meeting us halfway and including content from previous games in the next iteration to grace our platform, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. One of the FATE […]

Every time I see a trailer for an RPG I can’t help but narrow my eyes and grumble that whoever it is on screen doing all that awesome stuff it isn’t me, just some generic ‘hero’ who doesn’t have the head I’m going to be staring at the back of for a few hundred hours. Evidently, […]

Reborn is the right word. Final Fantasy XIV has always been a difficult game; an MMO built for Final Fantasy fans and players, it was roundly kicked in the face by both critics and its community before being taken offline late last year. Square Enix promised to have a second try. That second try is […]

Each weekend of April will see groups of excited Final Fantasy fans will be lead through a closed beta of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. On show during the event are the forests around the city of Gridania and the addition of personal Chocobo mounts. I’m not au fair with the Final Fantasy games […]

Final Fantasy XIV may still only be in beta but that’s not stopping Square Enix from filling out the game’s site with details of the villains and beasts you’ll be battling. A packed bestiary’s been added to the site, telling the backstory and abilities of the beings which threaten Eorzea. They’ve also dropped descriptions of […]

In a new live Letter from the Producer video Q&A, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn producer Naoki Yoshida touches upon the differences between the Dragoon and Monk jobs in the game. Says Yoshida: Dragoon is your standard damage dealer. However, by attacking from behind or from the side of your enemy you will get […]

Completing the main story of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will get you to level 50, but things won’t end there, says the game’s producer, Naoki Yoshida. Since Final Fantasy XIV is an MMO, naturally, Square Enix have future updates planned. That said, even without the updates, there will still be things to do […]

One of the jobs in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is Summoner. Summoners have the ability to ability to summon primals such as Ifrit, Garuda and Titan in “Egi” form. Take a look at the three pet egi below, courtesy of the game’s official blog: Ifrit-Egi: Titan-Egi: Garuda-Egi: And here’s a shot of a […]

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn’s Scholars can summon pets, too. Well, “pets,” rather, since they’re actually fairies. Square Enix shared images of two of these fairies, Eos and Selene, on the game’s official blog this week:                              

If you hated the first installment of Final Fantasy XIV, you’re probably aware that the reworked version Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is being released later this month on August 27. (Or you’ve heard about the character creation benchmark yesterday and you’re now stoked to try the game out). If you’ve already owned an […]