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.

Curious to see how much I can fit on that 16GB memory card .

What do you think so far?

Known issues:

• Featured posts slider is broken on first slide during the first run.
• Featured posts slider breaks site validation.
• Rounded corners on images do not work in all browsers.
• Search submit button is out of place in Firefox.

If you find other bugs than the ones listed, or have solutions to those already mentioned, please, I would be happy if you left me a comment right here in this post.

Pixels

New York invasion by 8-bits creatures !
PIXELS is Patrick Jean’ latest short film, shot on location in New York.

Written, directed by : Patrick Jean
Director of Photograhy : Matias Boucard
SFX by Patrick Jean and Onemoreprod

I would highly recommend you to visit their site over at onemoreproduction.com and watch more of their inspirational work.

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?

Real life has started to pick up again with spring making it’s entrance. Been on a couple of hikes already which has been really great. This first photo is from last day of the easter holiday where me and Dan climbed Ulriken. Look at the view! :D

This one’s from just the other day when we climbed Løvstakken. The weather wasn’t completely on our side, but as usual the view from almost any mountain top is great.

Though my body is currently suffering greatly from the way it’s been treated over the past couple of years, I never regret going on these hikes even if I feel like vomiting upon reaching the summit. It’s always worth it watching the view, and I always feel good about myself when I come back down. I used to be a very active person, and my goal is to become one once again. Not to mention all the health benefits that follows. Thanks for asking me to join in on these Dan, let’s make a habit out of it please. As for everyone else reading this living nearby, feel free to tag along. :D

Some of you has asked me what happen to my A Year In Pictures project. Truth be told I wasn’t cut out for it. All I thought about was what to photograph, not in a good way, more like in an obsessed way. It’s fair to say it stressed me out to the max. But was it a complete waste? Certainly not. I got a couple of photos I’m happy with to add to my collection, I finally dusted the camera after about 3 years, or should I say my creativity, I had my first photo shoot with a model shortly after, and I’ve slowly started to get back in to the whole creative world again working on some new projects I mentioned earlier in this post. One of the best parts about it for me was to see that I hadn’t lost it. I actually somewhat felt like I had improved from this break instead.

What else is new? I sold my Les Paul Custom, (miss it already) and my Wacom Intuos3. Why? I’m downgrading to a smaller size as well as upgrading the model to Intuos4 yay! As for the guitar I couldn’t justify having such an expensive guitar considering how little I play it. So, I’m in a way downgrading that one too to a really cheap one. This way I can spend the money left from these priority changes, (included a lot of savings) on a long wanted for Full HD 40″ LCD Flat screen! Most likely it will be a Sony Bravia which I’ve always wanted *Insert big grin here*. The question remains; Where to place it? Yes that is how tight I live, i’ll figure something out though.

Ok that was a little summary of what’s been going on lately for me. What news have you got? Now my dishes, laundry, bathroom etc. looks at me with some serious evil eyes. Ack, I guess I just have to get started! :P

PS: I promise it wont take two months before I post my next blog post. ;)