Last week was an exciting week for Final Fantasy XIV fans as the team at Square Enix released some great new information for us. You can read the news we collected over the 3 days of E3 here: Day 1, Day2, and Day 3. Here’s a rundown of the news released at E3 from Square Enix:

• A new trailer was released.
• An official FFXIV Benchmark Utility was released.
• Alpha testing came to an end this week, and the beta phase of testing is expected to begin in less than a month.

To go along with the move into beta, Square Enix was demoing the beta version of the client at E3. A few news sites posted video from the event, here’s a list of a few of them:

Character Creation:

• Guided walk-through of the character creation process (Gametrailers)
• Lalafell character creation
• Hyur and Miquo’te character creation
• Character creation video released before E3 (Square Enix)

Gameplay / Combat:

• Guided walk-through of combat and basic game-play as a Gladiator (Gametrailers)
• Introduction to beta combat changes (Square Enix)
• Lancer combat video

Beyond the videos, ZAM has put together excellent summary of the more fine-grained details that were discussed this past week.