Via PSO-World : KFC founder (and curser of Japanese baseball ) Colonel Harland Sanders will be appearing in the game Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity . The video may be found here with the colonel making an appearance around the 17:38 mark. Phantasy Star is no stranger to corporate deals, especially in Japan, where tie-ins with magazines like Famitsu, fast-food companies like Pizza Hut , and e...
At TGS 2010, Sega revealed Phantasy Star Online 2, which is scheduled for release in 2011, ten years after the original PSO came out on the Dreamcast. The new PSO2 is going to be released on the PC, and is currently assumed to be Japan-only. This will be the second PC PSO release after 2005's PSO: Blue Burst , and the first new PSO title after PS0 on the DS. Not many details are available right...
SOE revealed " EverQuest II Extended " as a free to play service with optional micro-transactions and optional subscriptions. There have been a number of titles going F2P, most recently LoTRO , but unlike Turbine, SOE seem to want to add F2P alongside their traditional subscription model. Free players in EQ2x will have access to all of the game except for the most recent expansion (which mostly...
The Guardians Advanced Content patch has been scheduled for July 19th, with the servers scheduled to be offline through the 20th. Sega have announced that players who own AotI will need to delete it, and then re-download it from the XBL marketplace in order to play online. So current players should delete their AotI install, then watch the website for details, then re-download the expansion whe...
Sega announced that the 'Supplemental Update' was being renamed 'GUARDIANS Advanced Content' and would be released on the Xbox 360 servers on July 19th, 2010. This also marks the end of 'classic' PSU, although now that the expansion is a free download , no one should be affected. There is a large article on PSUPedia which details the changes that are coming.
Sega announced today that the Ambition of the Illiminous expansion pack, which was formerly 800 points/$10 USD, will be available as a free download in the Xbox Live Marketplace. Since online service will be ending for all non-AotI users, this is a pretty nice thing for Sega to do, and will possibly help keep the users who haven't upgraded yet in the game.
Sega have announced that the ' Supplemental Update ' will be coming to the XBox 360 servers sometime this summer. They have also announced that as a result, online service for the base game without the expansion pack, (which they refer as PSU 1.0) will end on June 21st. This will not effect offline play for PSU 1.0. To continue playing, it looks like anyone who doesn't already have it will have...
If you try to sign up for Hello Kitty Online (to replace the hole left by The Matrix Online), you'll get asked a few questions to prove you're a real Hello Kitty fan (or know how to use google). Here's the answers: IS HELLO KITTY’S LAST NAME “WHITE”?: Yes WAS HELLO KITTY BORN IN TOKYO?: No DOES HELLO KITTY HAVE A SIGNIFICANT OTHER?: Yes Apparently Hello Kitty was born in suburban Cambridge, UK,...