• GamesCom 2010, Live Blog Coverage


    Gamescom is well underway and SquareEnix has a pretty big lineup of games to show off this year, including Final Fantasy XIV. We've been lucky enough to gain access to this convention, and one of our staff, Calaelen, will be on the scene to provide us with some live coverage of the event through his live blog. He'll be providing full coverage of his day at Gamescom, including any FFXIV coverage he can get his hands on.

    Calaelen will start streaming at 4:00 AM GMT+1. For us Americans who want to catch the preshow, the stream starts tonight at 10:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM PST.

    Main coverage of Gamescom won't begin until early morning, Thursday, August 19 at 3:00 AM EST/12:00 AM PST (9:00 AM GMT+1) or you can follow us on Twitter and get updated when the stream starts.

    That means it'll begin in the wee hours of the morning for us Americans and end at 8:00 AM EST / 5:00 AM PST. But don't worry if you can't make it. You'll be able to replay the entire live blog below to catch up on what you missed. When the broadcast goes live, it will be in German, but Cover It Live provides real time translations, so it's simply a matter of clicking on the language icon to view the live stream in English once the broadcast starts. The language icon won't appear until the stream starts, so please wait until then if you're having any issues. You'll be able to check out the Live Blog below when the stream finally starts.


    Gamescom 2010 Live Blog with Calaelen

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    Comments 5 Comments
    1. Calaelen's Avatar
      I hope you liked it :o

      Was fun to do. I had to recharge my iPhone 3 times that day (><);
    1. Orophen's Avatar
      I think you did a good job. :p We didn't get to see as much about ffxiv as I hoped but you did what you could, not your fault. Hopefully we can have more things like this in the future!
    1. Calaelen's Avatar
      I am right now writing a short post with more pictures.

      But Square wasn't really doing much at the gamescom:
      - 15min of creating your char and playing the tutorial mission
      - new: I was able to choose one of the 3 cities, not just Limsa
      - a new Trailer exclusive to the gamescom audience. Cams not allowed :(

      And well... thats all. No printed Infos, no media, no keynotes.. nothing (;_;)
    1. Elithriel's Avatar
      Hi Calaelen, I'm interesting in one of your comments "Gamepad >>> Keyboard !!! #FFXIV"... can you elaborate a little? ;)
    1. Calaelen's Avatar
      @Elithriel: The game is designed to be played with a gamepad. The software cursor of your mouse is slow and delayed and you have to switch between mouse and keyboard with one of your hands all the time.

      With a gamepad you can handle the movements and actions completly.

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