In 2012, when I first started to really become interested in Phantasy Star Online 2, I didn't think it would ever hit western shores. And I definitely did not imagine Epic Games starting their own store to rival Steam. And I absolutely...

So for a few months now, Sega has been promising more information for Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis. We got a basic FAQ rundown, but this past week, the publisher has really let loose as to what New Genesis is in its entirety. As...

The time has come for the western edition of Phantasy Star Online 2 to meet the original Japanese release. As announced on Sega's official blog, PSO 2 is getting its major Episode 6 update on December 9. The main sticking points: ...

Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis immediately shot up on my "most anticipated" list when it was unveiled. This "not-a-replacement" (not the momma!) for Phantasy Star Online 2 proper is coming in 2021 on PC and Xbox One in the US (and...

We knew it was coming, but thanks to a recent trailer from Sega, it's more real now. Phantasy Star Online 2 will be hosting a Senran Kagura crossover this month. Like most of the lighter crossovers that don't involve significant bits o...

Sega's giving us more news next week about Phantasy Star Online 2's glow-up. What better place than Tokyo Game Show? Next Friday, there's a big Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis stream where Sega will show the first gamepl...

Phantasy Star Online 2 recently arrived on the Xbox One this year in the west, then swiftly migrated to the Windows 10 platform, followed by a proper Steam release. It seems as if that fairly big western push paid off, as Sega is repor...

As someone who got into the Persona series with the original game, it's wild to see the landscape completely dominated by Persona 3-5 and nothing else. I mean, it makes sense! The re-releases of those titles were very popular and ...

The time has finally come for Phantasy Star Online 2 to be free of the Windows launcher and arrive on Steam. When that day arrives (August 5, by the way!), it'll bear some gifts for Steam users. According to the official PSO2 blog...

[Update: Sega has confirmed that PSO2 will arrive on Steam on August 5, which will allow you to link your existing account and cross-play with Windows/Xbox One users. On that same day, Episode 4 (a huge content update) will arrive on b...

Yesterday, Sega announced Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis. It was both confusing and exciting. Exciting as it looks like a modern version of PSO2, which launched all the way back in 2012, but confusing as Sega didn't really explain upfr...

Today's Xbox Games Showcase featured an exciting and action-packed trailer for New Genesis: Phantasy Star Online 2, which is headed to Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC.PSO2: New Genesis is to be considered a complete, from-the-ground-up over...

Phantasy Star Online 2 launched on April 14 of this year on Xbox One, and although there's a few quality of life upgrades on my wish list, things were mostly stable. The PC edition that arrived just this past week on May 27: not so muc...

After many long years, Phantasy Star Online 2 finally arrived in the west this past April in Xbox One form. But just releasing on Xbox One alone was never the plan, as a muddled marketing message inadvertently stated when the localization w...

Has someone made a Phantasy Star Online podcast called HUcast yet? Get it? Aw man, I can’t believe this game is finally out.

I've been waiting for this moment for years. Roughly eight years to be exact. That's how long I've been covering Phantasy Star Online 2, when it was first released in Japan on PC. Over time Sega rolled out the launch to the PlaySt...

Finally! The time has come where we don't miss out on those awesome Phantasy Star Online 2 collaborations. After posting them for many, many years and feeling an intense sense of FOMO, the collabs are coming westward thanks to the impe...

Anytime I can pour one out for the Vita, it's a good day. Well, it's not a great day for the Vita for sure, but it's nice that we can at least remember the good times we had with it on a regular basis. All good things must eventually come t...

I can't believe that it's nearly here. I've been waiting literal years for Phantasy Star Online 2 to come west, and in the meantime I managed to play the fan-translated client and even test out the PS4 version at TGS in Japan years bac...

A lot of people have been waiting nearly a decade to finally play Phantasy Star Online 2. In those first minutes with the game, why not make things weird and dress up like a low-rent Sonic the Hedgehog cosplayer? Sega's immediately monetiz...

You may have missed out on the first opportunity to play Phantasy Star Online 2 for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, it was a closed beta, so maybe you weren't lucky enough to get in. But, even if you got access, maybe scheduli...

Booting up the Phantasy Star Online 2 Xbox One beta (which is only running through tonight) and looking through the class choices sight unseen can be daunting. Not only do you have to sort through all of the not-so-D&D terminology ...

As more and more news comes out about the Phantasy Star Online 2 western beta, it all seems like the localization team is doing right by it. Not only did we learn recently that the game will support both English and Japanese audio, but...

Normally when a game like Phantasy Star Online 2 is announced for localization, we get a ton of bad news slowly drip-fed in like a monkey's paw type situation. Not this time: so far, at least. The localization team has been taking to T...

I still can't believe that Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming west. After years of hoping and even playing the damn thing with the fan-made launcher and live at TGS on the PlayStation 4: I was starting to think it would never happen. But...