Gaming Industry To Support Japan

The earthquake in Japan and the resulting flood as well as the threatening nuclear crisis now also induced the gaming industry to take some servers offline to save engery.

It is still unknown how high the radioactive exposure of the damaged nuclear plant Fukushima 1 is, which is about 250 kilometers north of Tokio. However, because of the earthquake as well as the tsunami, energy runs short. Therefore the publisher Square Enix took some servers offline, which will stay offline for the whole next week at least. This means that the Final Fantasy servers as well as the Play Online servers are down.

Konami also plans to shutdown the Metal Gear servers in order to support Japan.