Phantasy Star Online 2 has been such a long time coming outside of Japan, but this is it. This is the year. We're getting the tantalizing online RPG in spring 2020 on Xbox One, and before then, there's a beta to play. If you haven't registe...

Phantasy Star Online 2 arrived back in 2012 on PC in Japan, and...the momentum kind of stopped there. Although Sega hinted that it would shuffle westward for years it never came, then somehow, someway at E3 2019 we got confirmation that it ...

Phantasy Star Online 2 coming west might have been my news of the show for E3 2019. Sure, I get that a translated version has been available for a while, but if you've been paying attention for the better part of a decade, I've been ra...

Once upon a time Phantasy Star Online was, in part, synonymous with the Xbox platform. Back when it wasn't so easy to get online on every console, Xbox Live was there to shoulder the weight: so long as you were willing to pay for both Xbox ...

Xbox says that it wants its players to play the best games in the world. It's making good on that promise this afternoon. A bombshell from the Xbox E3 2019 press conference is that Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming west next year. You'l...

I am Sega's terror that flaps in the night. I am the "where's my spy camera" of Phantasy Star 2's western release begging: I even played it at TGS and asked a Sega developer (with a smile) to bring it west in person, in Japanese. So far my ...

Legendary video game developer Sega is asking fans across America for their opinions on some of the company's popular games and franchises. A new survey has been drawn up to gather voxpops and information to help shape the direction of futu...

Sega Forever, the ever-growing collection of free mobile games, has gotten some new additions today. Classic RPGs Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom and Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium have joined Phantasy Star II under the ...

Ever since I started blogging on Destructoid, I’ve not bothered to keep it a secret that I’m part of the furry fandom. I mean, yeah, it’s weird to say I like pretending to be a giant moth man with extraneous kaiju-like fea...

As part of the ongoing festivities of Fes 2018, which is currently underway in Akihabra, Tokyo, Sega have revealed a selection of classic titles are winging their way to Nintendo Switch.Sega Ages (a compilation branding they have used previ...

Phantasy Star Online 2 just arrived on Switch, but wait! There's caveats. First off it's only available on the Japanese eShop, which isn't that big of a problem if you have a cross-region account -- though the Japanese text might give you s...

MMOs are a wonderful medium for expression, especially as you create your own character. Customizing an avatar that represents yourself as a unique individual in a world of hundreds, thousands, millions of others invites us to explore count...

We knew that Phantasy Star Online 2 Cloud, the special version exclusively for the Switch, would be literally running off the cloud -- but thanks to some new info from Perfectly Nintendo, we have more of an idea what that entails. When you ...

I'm not really a Phantasy Star fan, good thing too, as I'd be permanently miserable about the lack of love shown in my region and elsewhere for the classic RPG series. The misery continues as Nintendo have announced Phantasy Star Online 2: ...

Sega just hit a milestone with Phantasy Star Online 2 on PS4, and it's celebrating with a collaboration with Gravity Rush 2. In Japan, naturally. At first it just looks like a simple costume, but it also enables the incredibly cute bir...

After enjoying the original Phantasy Star Online for many years, both offline by way of split-screen and online, I was thrilled to hear that there would be a true sequel on a modern day console. But likewise, years have passed sin...

Phantasy Star Online 2 is celebrating its fourth anniversary this July. Yes, that's four long years that the game hasn't arrived in the west, despite ports to the Vita and PlayStation 4. Today marks the launch of the latter, in fact, which ...

[From humble beginnings, David Jenkins managed to start a successful guild where nobody knew their organization was being led by children. ~Strider] Man, looking up photos for this blog post hit me with all kinds of feels and nostalgia. Abo...

The PlayStation 4 edition of Phantasy Star Online 2 will begin service on April 20, Sega says. Of course, the Sonic Boom company has no official plans to bring the new port to western shores, and it still has yet to make good on its four-ye...

It's been close to four years since Sega announced Phantasy Star Online 2 for a western release, but, despite the game being available in English throughout Asia, we're still without a localization. In an amusing turn of events, anime group...

Ah Phantasy Star Online 2. Why did you have to be so good when I played you at TGS on PS4? Will you ever see a true western release? It's a possibility, but in the meantime, Japan will enjoy the PS4 version this coming spring, Sega has anno...

It's no secret that I've been pining for a western release for Phantasy Star Online 2 for quite a while now. I'm hesistant to install the international version of the game, mostly because all of my friends are waiting on true localization o...

Back in July, BlazBlue invaded Phantasy Star Online 2. Now, Guilty Gear Xrd is getting a turn. Costumes for Sol, Ky (both male and female), Millia, May, and Elphelt are available as of the next update, scheduled for the fall. I lo...

Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to PlayStation 4 in Japan next year, Sega announced today. The free-to-play online role-playing game initially launched on PC in 2012 and came to PlayStation Vita the following year. Last spring, PSO2 spread...

[Update: The IP block has since been brought back for some reason. Bummer.] Phantasy Star Online 2 has been out since 2012 in Asia but never made the jump to English-speaking countries officially until now, sort of. The Southeast ...