As you’re sure to know the recent natural disasters that went down in Japan have really shaken up a lot of industries. The video game industry has felt the hurt from the quake as well as several companies have been forced to suspend various services. Square Enix, for one, announced that they would be taking down the servers for both Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV in lieu of the destruction.

Luckily, for those craving their online play time, it was just announced today that Square Enix will be rebooting the servers for both of these popular MMOs on Friday March 25th.

On a larger scope an important note to take away from this announcement is the fact that Japan is on its way to recovery. It will be a long and perilous road but lets hope we hear of more Japan-based companies resuming business as usual as times goes on.

What have you been doing while the FFXI and FFXIV servers were offline?

Final Fantasy XI was probably one of my favorite MMOs of all time, alongside WoW. I don’t play either of them any more (World of Warcrack) but when I did, FFXI was one of my favorite. I for one, chose to play it on the PC but there were other options as it was also out for the PS2 at the time.

Now, with Final Fantasy XIV‘s upcoming simulatenous release on both the PS3 and PC, the game is sure to reach a much larger audience. Despite access to this large audience, Square Enxi doesn’t seem to be taking full advantage of it recently letting us know that the public beta for the game will in fact be for the PC only.

Of course, there is no telling exactly when the beta will even hit with FFXIV’s director Hiromichi Tanaka telling us that the studio is aiming to have a small (10,000 people) closed beta up and running by Summer 2010 with a more widespread public beta soon to follow.

Read (Game Watch) via Joystiq

Square Enix held a press conference where they answered questions from the lurking E3 press. One of the questions were regarding Final Fantasy XIV, and whether it would come to the Xbox 360. Square Enix representatives said that the company is looking at “all options” when it comes to platforms for the game. This is despite what Sony said at their E3 conference, where they claimed exclusivity on the title. The game is currently only officially only coming to the PS3 and PC.