Posted by Zidane007nl on 23 July 2015, 23:07 - 0 comments
Square Enix has recently announced their biggest line-up ever for Gamescom 2015 that will take place in Cologne, Germany from 5 to 9 August. Square Enix has 1,100 square meters of booth space featuring more than 200 hands-on stations for gamers eager to try out Square Enix’s upcoming releases. Their main booth is located in hall 9: B31/B41.
The following games are present:
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - Live theatre demonstrations (in German) in the Square Enix cinema;
Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below - playable;
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavenward - MMO fans are called to arms at the Final Fantasy XIV: Battle Arena (hall 9, C51), where gamers face-off against all the powerful primals (Ravana and Bismarck) featured in the game in order to win attractive prizes. Returning to comment on the Final Fantasy XIV action live are the experienced ESL commentators Mori, Hendrik and A1m.
Final Fantasy XV - Big stage of the booth. Visitors will be treated to a number of exciting stage presentations with many well-known guests and new insights into the much-awaited game – a few select fans will even get the chance to play Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae v2.0 at the booth.
Final Fantasy Type-0 HD - playable PC version;
Hitman- Live theatre demonstrations (in German) in the Square Enix cinema;
Hitman Go - playable;
Just Cause 3 - playable;
Life is Strange - playable;
Lara Croft: Relic Run - playable.
More information regarding the Final Fantasy XV stage schedule and more new announcements and reveals at Gamescom 2015 will be released in the coming weeks.
Posted by Zidane007nl on 6 July 2015, 17:37 - 0 comments
Square Enix has temporary halted the sales of the Mac version of Final Fantasy XIV due to various technical issues with the version as well as poor communication before the launch. For customers who already bought the game Square Enix is offering a refund.
The Mac version of was released on 23 June, together with the first expansion Heavensward. But soon after the released the Mac version suffered from serious problems making the game unplayable.
On the official forum Naoki Yoshida, producer and director of Final Fantasy XIV, apologies and said that the issues were mostly caused by the middleware that is being used to convert DirectX to OpenGL. The biggest reason that they used middleware are the development costs.
With regards to our decision to use middleware rather than having native OpenGL, the biggest reason behind this choice was development cost. As I mentioned earlier, very few games are sold for Mac systems, and the prevailing opinion is that the majority of Mac users aren’t interested in games. This results in an extremely high risk for development.
Posted by Zidane007nl on 16 June 2015, 23:02 - 0 comments
During Square Enix's E3 2015 press conference they've announced that Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness will be released in North America and Europe. Also a new trailer was revealed showing gameplay footage of the game.
Square Enix is also trying to make it more game-like than movie-like by replacing some static cutscenes with dynamic ones. The above video was captured at 30 fps, but Square Enix said that the finished game will be running at 60 fps.
Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness will hit North America and Europe somewhere in 2016 and Japan in Winter 2015.
Posted by Zidane007nl on 16 June 2015, 22:03 - 0 comments
After years of rumours that were hyping up during E3 this year they are true. During Sony's E3 2015 press conference the remake of Final Fantasy VII has been announced with a trailer. The remake will first be released on PlayStation 4. It's unknown if it will be released on other platforms.
Posted by Zidane007nl on 15 June 2015, 18:35 - 0 comments
The past weekend Square Enix has released a hype video teasing their line-up for E3 2015 taking place this week. Games that will be present on E3 are Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward, Just Cause 3, Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below (why such a long title?) and Life is Strange.
There are also some surprises coming up, so the rumour hype can start again! It was earlier announced that Final Fantasy XV will not be present on E3, but on gamescom.
Square Enix's first E3 press conference will take place on Tuesday 16 June at 10:00 PT / 13:00 ET / 18:00 BST / 19:00 CEST.
Posted by Zidane007nl on 4 June 2015, 23:24 - 0 comments
During Active Time Report page 6.0, that was streamed this afternoon, Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata announced that Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae 2.0 patch will be available for download in the West next Tuesday 9 June.
This patch will feature graphical enhancements, more interactions and improvements to the framerate. These are a couple of reasons that the release of this patch was delayed several weeks. Japan will receive the patch tomorrow.
If you couldn't make it, here's the full Active Time Report page 6.0 episode.
Posted by Zidane007nl on 31 May 2015, 23:18 - 0 comments
Recently it was announced by Square Enix on Twitter that version 2.0 of was delayed till the start of June. More recently they've announced the time when the next Active Time Report will be streamed.
What will be shown during Active Time Report Page 6.0 has not been said, but likely we might get a look at some of the improvements of version 2.0 of Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae.
The stream can be viewed here and will go live on 4 June at 22:00 hours JST. That's 09:00 EST / 06:00 PST in the United States and 15:00 CEST in most countries in Europe.
Posted by Zidane007nl on 12 May 2015, 23:56 - 0 comments
Recently Square Enix announced that they will release Final Fantasy IV: The After Years on Steam. Now it's available for digital purchase for $16 / € 14.49.
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years is the sequel to Final Fantasy IV and takes place 17 years after the 1991 classic where classic characters make their return alongside several new characters. This port is based on the iOS and Android versions (and has been enchanced), which resembles the Nintendo DS version of Final Fantasy IV.
Posted by Zidane007nl on 1 May 2015, 23:24 - 0 comments
Square Enix has teamed up with NVIDIA and Microsoft and developed a tech demo showing what DirectX 12 can do. The tech demo, called WITCH CHAPTER 0 [cry], was showed on Microsoft Build 2015 and featured Agni, who was also shown in Square Enix's previous tech demo Agni’s Philosophy 3 years ago.
Posted by Zidane007nl on 29 April 2015, 23:43 - 0 comments
Square Enix is developing an update to the Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae demo that was released in March together with Final Fantasy Type-0 HD. This has been announced during a special Active Time Report, where the feedback of the survey that Square Enix opened for everyone who has played the demo was discussed.
The update, which is called Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae 2.0, is aimed to be released mid-to-late May and will feature the following updates:
AXB (Active Cross Battle) enhancements (possibly including more combo attacks and a dodge roll);
Camera and targeting system enhancements;
Additional combat actions/balancing and bug fixes;
Increased range of actions for each weapon;
MP recovery and usage tweaks;
Titan bug fix.
Square Enix has also announced that Final Fantasy XV will not have a major presence at E3, but the next major reveal will be at gamescom in August 2015.
More news can be found in the Active Time Report which can be viewed below. Another Active Time Report will be held around the end of May when all survey results have been collected and possibly when the Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae 2.0 is released.
Played Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae, but not entered the survey? You can still take part in it till the end of May be going to this website.
