We have completed the Item Findings lists, including the newly added Control Tower enemies. Due to the completion of the item findings database, we have closed the submissions form and will only accept Box rares submissions. We urge users to go through the current findings and confirm findings by clicking confirm.

A new view has been coded by numerous requests; it's a tabular view of the submissions with all findings for a difficulty level per page. Please let us know of typos and misplacements you may find.

Alot more coding work being completed and rolled out throughout this week so keep an eye out.

Sonic Team put up more East Tower quest information details:

"The door of Control Tower has been opened at last. Now the full-scale investigation by Hunters will be started. This time, you mission is to wipe out the ferocious enemy dwelling in Control Tower, together with reliable friends.


"I would like you to mop up monsters in Control Tower and to turn it into a place for research teams to enter safely." Now the new mop-up operation has started !


Advancing in Central Control District, "Control Tower" will come into view. This time, you will rumble into there along with your friends !!


The enemy in Control Tower is simply powerful ! Let's cooperate with your companions and annihilate the enemy !


"I'm currently looking for a Hunter who is going to Control Tower... " It seems this is that character who you know very well. It says it is looking for a Hunter who is heading for Control Tower.... Why on earth ?? "

Sounds like it'll be a mass Control Tower Mop Up. And hello Hopkins!!! As mentioned before, the quest will be online and playable for up to 4 players. Maintenance time for the quest is still unknown.

English Minhinro was also updated with new illustrations and screenshots. Be sure to check them out!



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Comment:I love chatting on Lobby! As I am laying back too much, a RAcaseal may sometimes make a cup of tea for me or not... (Not !)

Due to increasing member interest, PSOW has decided to restart our weekly C-Mode Friday Nights. The C-Mode nights will take place on Deneb 4 (The US & UK C-Mode Ship) every Friday, from 8:00 p.m. Pacific (11:00 p.m. Eastern). Our C-Mode nights are hosted by members: FluxGryphon and VulpesMundi.

This Friday's re-inaugural event however will start at 6:00 pm PST so that the people on the East Coast can join us. If we get enough people to show up this early, VulpesMundi might consider starting it early every Friday night.

We invite everyone to come join C-Mode Night, both people who are new to C-Mode and C-Mode veterans. Come online and meet fellow C-Mode players. Exchange tips and try to improve your time. Or be kind and teach someone new the ropes! Our first C-Mode night will start tomorrow. Hope to see you guys there!

We would also like to invite any other PSO forum, website or community to have C-Mode nights or gatherings on the same server and preferably also the same night so that we can get a big exchange of C-Mode players going on. If anyone is interested, please contact admin: LollipopLolita.

You can find C-Mode Info here and C-Mode maps here. Remember, we also have printable C-Mode Maps that you can access here.

You can read more info and participate in the discussion here.

Our JP affiliate Cotan reports that: "East Tower," a new GC quest will be available on Tuesday, May 27, JP time. News of this new quest was published in the current 5/23 Famitsu magazine.

East Tower will have you journeying in the Control Tower. This quest will introduce you to the eastern portion of the Control Tower. The western portion of the Control Tower was introduced in the last GC online quest: Seat of the Heart. East Tower will be an online quest and will be playable for up to 4 people. 2 NPC's, Paganini and Hopkins, will reappear in this quest. It is speculated that you might need to beat Seat of the Heart to play this quest.

There will be a server maintenance on Tuesday, May 27 to load the quest onto the servers. Please end all games before the scheduled maintenance and do not log onto the servers during the scheduled maintenance. The time of the maintenance is currently unknown.

Since all information right now is in Japanese, we'll post more info when and as we get them.

Join in the discussion on this upcoming quest in our forums here. You can find rare item drops for new enemies in Seat of the Heart here. 3 new items that you can get from the Seat of the Heart quest are: Flame Garment, Demonic Fork and the Il Gill's drop Nei's Claw.

ShadowDragon28 reported this news also and links www.ktplan.ne.jp/~Gheaven1 as his source. Thanks ShadowDragon28!

On an unrelated note: JP Xbox Live servers will be undergoing a server maintenance on Friday May 23rd, between 4:30 pm and 6:30pm JP time. You can read that news report here.

TerribleDeliMeat writes, "Sega has released their list for the 2003 E3. Among the title is Phantasy Star Online Ep. III. Following the trend of card games recently, Sonic Team has opted to make it a card based game.

"Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution" (Nintendo GameCube): "Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution" expands the "Phantasy Star Online" (PSO) universe, offering a new style of strategic combat. Combining the excitement of card collection and deck settings with team-based battle tactics, PSO Episode III allows users to chat in the lobby about status upgrades and tactics, and then journey to the planet surface to engage in strategic combat using a turn-based Card system.

The game continues the story arc of the previous PSO games, as players once again become Hunters and explore the mysteries of the planet Ragol. Featuring both online and offline play, as well as multiplayer modes, PSO Episode III adds new content and players to the ever-growing PSO community. "

You can read the full article here. I have to say that our next installment of PSO is looking real exciting guys!

Face it folks, this is not new. This is in fact very old news, which is why we haven't made a recent news post about it. We've known that PSOX has been hacked and "hackable" for months. It's very well known that PSOX has been hacked since it's JP release which was months ago. Our admin, LollipopLolita was on PSOX JP online, witnessed hacking and she has already disclosed and covered this topic many times in our forums. So please don't post "NEWS: PSOX Hacked" topics for the twentieth time because it's old news. If you want to sound off on this topic please participate here.

In other news: Go Beer! And at the time of this posting, 185 people enjoy looking up FOnewearl's skirts. Sick!

Egg rappies' appearance have been confirmed on PSOX. Now you guys on PSOX can enjoy it as well. Join in the discussion here. Happy hunting! And don't forget our handy dandy guide for hunting Egg Rappies solo here or the guide for hunting rappies multi player here.

Sonic Team posted today that the Ice Spinner Quest and CMode stages 5-6 will be up again and be available for play on JP Xbox on April 17th. There will be a server maintenance to put the quest and CMode stages on the servers. If you guys remember, they were taken down for being buggy previously. So now it's finally fixed and going back up. Hopefully this means they will soon come to US Xbox PSO. We have a guide for the Ice Spinner quest here and guides and maps for CMode here.

Moving on to GC PSO, those of you who were experiencing a weird glitch with your guild cards when playing Gallon's Shop quest since the last server maintenance on April 15, you can now rest assured. Sonic Team said today that they have fixed the weird glitch which caused people to lose some of their guild cards or have the display say that they have 0 guild cards regardless of the true quantity.

Just to let the EU players know, the EU servers are back up and normal again. You can now patch through to the other servers.