


The Final Fantasy XIV beta running at 5040×1050 presents quite a spectacle.
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Massively multiplayer rat-bashing grind Final Fantasy XIV will not be appearing on the Xbox 360 “because Microsoft doesn’t want it,” says Square Enix.
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The video of the moment a World of Warcraft maniac, who professes to having spent 5 of his 34 years and 24,000 hours of his life playing the hit MMORPG, finally breaks his crippling addiction and deletes his army of alts has recently been attracting a great deal of comment.
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Whatever its other shortcomings, Final Fantasy XIV at least manages to approach the holy grail of RPG character customisation – the ability to change the breast size of the player character at creation.
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The strain of porting the graphical finery of the PC version of Final Fantasy XIV to the ageing hardware of the PS3 appears to have proven too much for Square Enix – after delaying the PS3 version’s release to March 2011, 6 months after the PC version, Square Enix has admitted they are struggling with a host of technical problems trying to get the game running on the PS3.
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In its transition from alpha to beta Square Enix are claiming some improvements to Final Fantasy XIV, the game derided as “pathetically boring,” saying they have sped things up, but some doubt remains as to whether they have gone far enough in what must be close to the retail version…
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A boy engrossed in online gaming failed to notice his mother falling and subsequently dying, even though she was in the same room as him.
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Action-packed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV has been revealed to have hugely degraded graphics on the PS3 as compared to the PC, with textures a quarter the size and the usual pathetically low resolution – fortunately PS3 gamers need not worry, as Square Enix assures them “You won’t even notice.”
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A girlfriend who sadistically deleted her boyfriend’s MMORPG characters without his knowledge and secretly filmed his explosive reaction has been the subject of no small opprobrium.
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Eager MMORPG maniacs awaiting Final Fantasy XIV are aghast at early gameplay footage showing battles as exciting as Final Fantasy XIII is non-linear.
Update:
Square Enix were so embarrassed by the videos that they forced YouTube to take them down (the videos had been available for several weeks prior to becoming famous, and strangely they left other less controversial gameplay videos alone); by way of replacement, here are two alternative versions, which should be just as exciting:
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Japanese web MMO sim “Destare” has earnt itself notoriety for some unusually cheeky plagiarism – rather than go the trouble of making their own backdrops, the designers opted to sneakily take screenshots of Oblivion and use those in the hopes nobody would notice.
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Hysteria over children being led astray by the temptations of MMORPGs has prompted Korea to enact legislation banning youths from late night MMORPG sessions.
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