Back from the brink

If you haven’t been keeping up with the tumultuous development of Final Fantasy XIV, then, well, we don’t blame you. But with the game on the verge of a re-release – and still allegedly planned for PlayStation 3 – it’s probably time you started to pay attention.

Alongside a new trailer – conveniently embedded below – Square Enix has announced that the updated version of its MMORPG will carry the subtitle “A Realm Reborn”. It’s a damn sight better than the previous extension, “Version 2.0”.

According to the publisher, the game has been “rebuilt from the ground up” and features “a new world to explore and storyline to experience”. So, basically it's Final Fantasy XV – unless you count Final Fantasy XIII-2 as Final Fantasy XV, in which case it would be... Oh, we give up!

A Realm Reborn is set to launch on PlayStation 3 next year, with a public beta repeatedly touted for Christmas time. We’ll eat our hat if it ever actually emerges.