On Tuesday 17th October (Tomorrow), Microsoft will be switching Xbox Live off for upto 24 hours as they perform a service update.

Therefore, people will not be able to play any games through Xbox Live during this time.

The maintenance starts at midnight Pacific Time (Approx. 8am BST) and will be back online sometime within 24 hours of maintenance start.

During this time, Microsoft will be adding many exciting new features to the service, but are keeping them all to themselves at this time!

Xbox.com will also be unavailable at this time.

The Summer has come and gone, and you've had about 4 months to vote in our most recent poll! So it's about time we gave it a change, but before we do, let's look at how you did spend your summer of 2006:

• Is it PSO or OSP this summer?
  • Phantasy Star Online - That's where you'll find me!
    • 79.4% (417 Votes)
  • Outdoor Sunshine Pleasuring - Jeeez, who'd stay indoors on a day like today!
    • 20.5% (108 Votes)
      • 525 Total Votes

Thanks to all of you who placed your votes, with over three quarters of you choosing Phantasy Star Online over the sunshine - Good people!

If you've been living under a cave and just crawled out and logged onto us, then let me remind you of our most recent and biggest announcement, PSUniverse.net has launched, with all of the latest PSU news, reviews, game info and much much more finding itself a brand new home following on from Ragol.co.uk's success! But what do you think to it? Place your votes now and let us know! We're just so interested...

Yes, we're here! The evolution of Ragol.co.uk - The Foremost Phantasy Star Online Resource - has happened! Europe's biggest PSO community can now hail in the new era with PSUniverse.net!

It's an all new site, but with the same ol' site design and layout that you all know and love!

Be sure to check out all of the site's brand spanking new features, and be sure to keep on returning to PSUniverse.net in the run up to Phantasy Star Universe's European release on 24th November 2006 as the site will be constantly growing in size, with so much information soon to be added!

In the meantime, why not go around checking out the new site. Yes, a lot of it is empty, but as i said, those emtpy spaces are actually the ninja's of amazing PSU information yet to be unvieled to the general public! They'll be released into the daylight soon enough, just keep coming back!

Right now be sure to check out a couple of all new FAQ's containing exclusive screenshots and information from all new features to the Phantasy Star series from the closed American & even more closed European BETA versions of the soon to be released smash hit online RPG that is Phantasy Star Universe that PSUniverse.net was invited to participate in!

• FAQ: Online Play - Everything you'd need to know!
• FAQ: Item Synthesis - How to...
• FAQ: My Room - Everything you'd need to know!
  • FAQ page

But wait! There's more! Why rely on us to make the site content? You can now make some yourself with PSUniverse.net's all new features!

We've implemented a new PSU blogging system that let's you write a blog about anything Phantasy Star Universe, and get it onto PSUniverse.net immediately for you to share with the whole world!*

If that wasn't enough, when PSUniverse.net is released, you can also submit your snapshots of gameplay over to our Media pages! Why use any other kind of hosting facility when you've got the best right here, for free!*

And as if that wasn't enough, our community forums have only gone and expanded with us too! Ragol.co.uk's Community Forums now also incorporate PSUniverse.net so you can chat about everything Phantasy Star Universe whenever you like! It's all free membership and you can start chatting with our already huge forum community right now! Visit the forums! But wait! There's more of that as well! Our community forums have gotten so big that they're now the official European Phantasy Star Universe forums, affiliated with SEGA Europe Ltd! What are you waiting for?! Get over there right now... or take a look around here first - The choice, is your's!

So, in summary:

• Check out the awesome-tastic PSUniverse.net
• Travel to our community forums at Ragol.co.uk/forums/ and start posting
• Keep checking back to PSUniverse.net for worldwide PSU exclusives including site content and competitions!

Enjoy!

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