Sonic Team of Japan have announced that New Years lobby decorations, and a very special gift will be heading towards the way of all Japanese Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst players!

Server Maintenance occurs on January 1st 2007 where the above mentioned lobby decorations will be setup in the online lobbies! All players will also be recieving a very special gift containing one Photon Crystal! This item has aparently come straight out of the 'Dangerous Deal with Black Paper' Episode IV quest, and been swapped for something else instead... what could it be? There's only one way to find out! Happy New Year everyone!

Sonic Team of Japan have recently held Server Maintenance on the Japanese Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst servers, updating the place with two brand new quests!

• Team Quest: 'SUGOROKU'!
  • Episode I

Yes, it's a new guild quest from Sonic Team, and it's also got a hint of Episode III about it too, as in this quest is based around, rolling the dice! (Well... , the one die!). The Govenor-General has released a new simulation of which he's asking everyone to test, and it see's a competitive game known as 'SUGOROKU' make players roll a die of between 1 & 6, everytime you get closer to the goal of the quest! There's lots of parts to this quest to test all hunters well and good, so good luck! This quest is playable for between 1 & 4 players.

• Team Quest: Transaction 2
  • Episode IV

The merchant is after another item for which you might want to get youe guild together for! Quick, to the Crater, of where this item can be found! ...Found it? Good, then you can exchange it for something nice for yourselves at the end of it all! This quest is playable for between 1 & 4 players.

Also talking of things Sonic Team of Japan have done recently (Blimey, they've been bloody busy over christmas!), the GM's recently became santa (23rd - 24th December 2006), as seen below, dressing up in santa red coloured costumes. If you were in a game, you may have gotten a visit from a GM, and then given a pressie to open! Isn't that nice? Good ol' Santa!

At 14:00 - 17:00 (Japanese Time) earlier today, Sonic Team held server maintenance on the following Nintendo Gamecube games:

• Phantasy Star Online, Episodes I & II
• Phantasy Star Online, Episodes I & II Plus
• Phantasy Star Online, Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution

Being removed were the christmas decorations (Yes... it's all over ;_;), while i can only assume that being added were the New Years lobby deccies - Although the server maintenance post states nothing about having added anything!

Just a short few (two) words as the clock strikes midnight from all of us here at PSUniverse.net & Ragol.co.uk:

Merry Christmas!

Yes, it was probabily very predictable, but we hope you all have a good'un and get what all all were hoping for out of the next 24 hours regardless!

Cheers! ^_^

Sonic Team of Japan have announced that an all new item will be made available to Japanese Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst Internet Cafe players.

The new item is appropriately titled the 'Stealth Suit', and as you may be able to guess, it turns you... invisable! Not even your friends will be able to see you!

The item is available through the quest entitled 'Gallons Plan' which is the 3rd part of a series of quests entitled 'The Hiroshi Treasure' and is playable only for 1 player through Episode I, exclusively available in Internet Cafes.

The festive season is now upon us, with the second day of advent now in occurance, and as usual Ragol.co.uk is here to please your festive craves... no, we haven't gotten any presents, we've got crazy quizzes! Huzzah!

In our first christmas game, we've gathered several crazy video game/console TV advertisements from all across the globe for you all to enjoy! However upon uploading them, they've all become broken! Some have lost audio content, and some have lost video content in certain areas, but can you still work out what's being advertised?

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P.S. Don't forget, there's still time to enter our PSUniverse.net Phantasy Star Universe competition where you can win a copy of the game and/or a copy of the official soundtrack! It ends soon! Click Here!