The Age Of Adventure Has Come

Official Site
http://finalfantasyxiv.com/

Comes out in two editions

• Final Fantasy XIV – 30 September 2010
• Final Fantasy XIV Collector’s Edition – 22 September 2010

Pre-order the Standard Edition and get an exclusive in-game item.

Collector’s Edition Content

• Game
• Special in-game item
• Adventurer’s Branded Tumbler
• Behind the Scenes Bonus DVD
• Final Fantasy XIV – Branded Security Token
• Map of Eorzea
• Adventurer’s Notebook

Price

• The North-Amierica site gives us $49.99 and $74.99 for the Collector’s Edition.
• The European prices are to be determined.

Subscription

• £8.99 / $12.99 – 30 days.

Languages

• English
• French
• German
• Japanese

Minimum System Requirements (subject to change)

Operating System

• Windows® XP SP3 *2
• Windows® Vista (32-bit/64-bit) SP2 *3
• Windows® 7 (32-bit/64-bit) *3

CPU

• Intel Core™ 2 Duo (2.0GHz)
• AMD Athlon™ X2 (2.0GHz)

RAM

• Windows® XP: 1.5GB or higher
• Windows® Vista / Windows® 7: 2GB or higher

HDD/SSD Space

• Installation: 15GB or more
  Download: Space on the hard drive where My Documents is located should be 6GB or more *4

Graphics Card

• 512MB NVIDIA® GeForice® 9600 series or higher
• 512MB ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series or higher

Sound Card

• DirectSound® compatible sound card (DirectX® 9.0c or higher)

Internet Connection

• Broadband Internet connection or higher

Screen Resolution

• 1280 x 720 or higher; 32-bit

DirectX®

• DirectX® 9.0c

Other

• Mouse, Keyboard, Gamepad *5

*2 Windows XP users must have administrator access when installing and running the software, as well as performing version updates.
*3 On a 64-bit OS, the software will run via WOW64 (Windows on Windows 64)
*4 The drive containing ‘My Documents’ must use an NTFS file system.
*5 Gamepads are not required.

1. A couple of birthdays.
2. Norway’s national day.
3. Eurovision Song Contest.
4. Two weeks of hospital.
5. Additional treatments.
6. Started a new project.
7. Resumed another project.
8. E3

2.) This year I spent most of our national day at my uncle’s together with some of my family as well as my uncle’s girlfriends family. Lots of lovely food, and by that I mean LOTS! I was in heaven hehe. One of those days where you wish you could eat forever. One of the reasons it probably was so much extra goodies this year is because it also happen to be my uncle’s 40th birthday.

3.) Eurovision Song Contest. Now, most of you outside Europe now probably goes “Say what?!”. However in Europe this is a pretty huge thing which you can get more in depth info about here. Nobody actually watches this show (so they say), but the fact is most do (1 billion), it’s tradition after all. This year we (Norway) won the whole thing setting a massive score record, meaning, we get to host it next year. You can pretty much say it’s been crazy lately, with the winning song playing over and over EVERYWHERE, newspapers and magazines writing pages up and down about Alexander Rybak (the winning artist), debates about what town getting to host it etc. I feel like strangling somebody when I hear the winning song haha. But on the other side I watched it, was happy when we won, and will watch it again next year. I just don’t like things being milked to the very last drop ack.

4.) Oh the fun, two weeks at the hospital. No I have to disappoint you, I didn’t get to ride an ambulance with flashing lights and use the siren. Two times a year I got a scheduled control, and once every couple of years, or if things get really unbearable, then I’m in for an extended control like this time. Most of it is actually somewhat lovely, like the swimming, heat treatment and massage/physiotherapy. Though the swimming and massage/physiotherapy can be rather painful at times, it in general is pain relieving.

The annoying part is all the doctors and tests like needles here and there, X-rays, CAT Scans, MRI and the more nasty ones including scalpels and biological injections etc. *shivers* I’m sure the doctors there are set on giving me a 3rd arm coming out of my stomach, a tail, super powers or making me glow in the dark. The radiation I’ve got over the past eight or so years is ridiculous high.

So what did I get out of this control? Pretty much nothing more than more radiation and more pain hehe.

6.) Yes, I started a new project. And as often, I can’t or won’t really say what it is ;) However I can tell you this! It’s already nearing it’s first release, and if lucky you can get your hands on it already within a week! I’ll reveal this much: It’s a small software that will help you ***** your files in a ***** on a webhost.

7.) The resumed project is still a secret! ;)

8.) Past couple of days I’ve been following the annual E3 show in Los Angles and I have to admit, my inner gamer is jumping of joy of things to come, while my wallet is going into cardiac arrest! I think this year there are more games that I want than I DON’T want. Here are some links to trailers of the ones I already got on my watch list in addition to some revealed at E3. Final Fantasy XIII (horrible English dub, give us Japanese with subs!), Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Final Fantasy XIV Online, Heavy Rain, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassins Creed 2 (even though the first flopped big time for me), Alan Wake, The Saboteur, Star Wars: The Old Republic, White Knight Chronicles, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, The Last Guardian, Mini Ninjas, this list will probably grow throughout the next few days as a reminder to myself. Eeeeek!

So what are you up to?

The hype machine for the game is just beginning, as this is but the first of many countdowns to come in the future. However, will Final Fantasy loyalists be able to handle the long wait to 2010?

Via Joystiq

For HD quality visit Square Enix’s own FF XIII website.

After been having Little Big Planet for roughly two weeks I can honestly say that to me, this is the Game of the Year 2008. Just as the Super Mario and Zelda series were to me back in my Nintendo days, (they still are). Like the creators over at Media Molecule said themselves; ”We are working hard to bring you The Next Big Thing on PS3“, and I believe that this is exactly what they’ve done.

We are working hard to bring you The Next Big Thing on PS3

From the moment I pressed start in this game I was sold. It somewhat gave me a feeling of being taken back over 20 years in time. The childish feelings of a 5 year old sparked inside me straight away. I can now build all the cardboard castles, go-carts, costumes, obstacle courses, hey even whole worlds I still wanted to make before life caught up with me. And just like when we were kids you can invite your friends over to play it with you without having some parent getting angry if you tag, make a mess, get dirty or stay up late! Now isn’t that just a dream coming true? Hehe…

Age doesn’t matter in this game. No matter if you’re 5 or 50 years old I believe you will have a good time enjoying this game and explore it’s endless possibilities. The creator mode is so massive that you probably can create just about anything your imagination holds and more.

If you want to join me in game feel free to add me. My PSN ID is as follows: jcolsen

For anyone interested wanting to add me to your PS3 my PSN username is jcolsen Litte Big Planet is fuuuun! Come join me ;) Been playing a little already with some of the guys over at Naature. I can recommend it greatly. Expect some collaborated levels coming your way.

On a side note; I guess the cycle is completed once again. I’ve been going back and forth between Nintendo and Playstation a few times already hehe.

Mmmmmmmm car crashes…