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Square Enix has finally commented on a release time frame for Final Fantasy XIV's PlayStation 3 version. PS3 owners are going to have to wait a bit to play, as a closed beta test for the console version will not be held until October or November 2012. The actual retail version of the game...

Final Fantasy XIV Team Laying Groundwork For Job System By Ishaan . September 6, 2011 . 12:01pm Final Fantasy XIV producer, Naoki Yoshida, is back with another “Letter from the Producer” column, where he provides a look at one of the new airships in the game: Airships, as previously...

Final Fantasy XV and Dragon Quest X have yet to be shown to the public. But Famitsu decided to jump ahead a few numbers for some interviews it held with Square Enix's production staff for company feature that appeared in Weekly Famitsu a couple of weeks back. The magazine asked a few producers...

Despite the rocky launch of the PC version, the PlayStation 3 version of Final Fantasy XIV is far from cancelled. An interview with producer Naoki Yoshida, published by the official Final Fantasy XIV community team, confirms that the PS3 version of the game will come. “Of course,” said...

While the PC version of Final Fantasy XIV undergoes extensive improvements, we’ve heard very little news regarding the PS3 version of Square Enix’s mmorpg. In the May 2011 issue of the Japanese publication, Dengeki PlayStation magazine, director Naoki Yoshida spoke very briefly about FFXIV...

Now that patch 1.17 for Final Fantasy XIV is out, it’s time for 1.18. Producer, Naoki Yoshida, recently put up a forum post detailing some of the additions and improvements you can hope to see in future Final Fantasy XIV updates, using a handy tracking chart. You can skim through that at the...

Final Fantasy XIV producer, Naoki Yoshida, was recently interviewed by Gamasutra regarding the future of the game and how Square Enix were interpreting user feedback to make changes to it. During the interview, Yoshida touched upon the differences in feedback from players in Japan, Europe and...

Square Enix’s Naoki Yoshida has gently criticised the publisher for not stepping in earlier to avoid the train wreck of Final Fantasy XIV’s launch. “Seeing it from, well, being on another project, you could see that they were having a very hard time,” the newly incumbent FFXIV producer told...

Current Final Fantasy XIV producer-cum-director, Naoki Yoshida, took over the post in December 2010, as part of a major shake-up to the game’s entire development team. A fan of games such as Diablo, Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot, Yoshida compares MMORPGs to theme parks. Following the...

Newly incumbent Final Fantasy XIV producer Naoki Yoshida has kicked off 2011 with an open letter to fans (and detractors) of Square Enix’s beleaguered MMO, promising some radical work on the game. Yoshida referenced last year’s sudden shake up of the game’s development team in the wake of...

Square Enix is working on a brand new and original Final Fantasy game for DS that will be released in Japan this autumn. Japanese magazine Weekly Jump got the jump on the announcement, according to a translation by IGN - spoiling a Square Enix teaser site countdown that now ticks on in vain...