James's 1UP Blog: Coming to you live, from Hollywood CA: The 2008 FFXI Fan Festival
New 1up.com interview with the Final Fantasy XI dev team should be up tomorrow (SE is preventing it's release until then). Should be an interesting read on the heels of fan fest.
Also, ignore the Bee Mage at thy own peril. (It's kinda an inside joke LS, you wouldn't understand... believe me, I still don't.)