1up.com reports that Sega will be updating PSU's content weekly, starting with the December 8th, 2006 update. According to 1up's news update, we can expect the following content to be included:

Expert Classes: Fighgunner Guntecher Wartecher Fortefight Fortegunner Fortetecher Protranser Weapons: Card [Neudaiz] Grenade [Moatoob] Axe [Moatoob] Double Saber [Parum] Claw [Neudaiz] Twin Claw [Neudaiz] Laser Cannon [Parum] Crossbow [Moatoob] B and A-Rank Weapons (5-8 stars), gear and boards available in all shops SUV Weapons: Rafal Buster Sturm Buster Level Cap bumped up to 60, Photon Arts able to achieve level 30, for Expert Classes that support high-level PAs. 10+ S-Rank Missions will become available during the month of December, across all areas, including a new dragon.

Information regarding Expert classes can conveniently be found in this thread in our Gameplay Discussion, Guides and Walkthroughs forum. We invite you to discuss the content update in our PSU General forum.

All right, the counts are in, they've been examined, and we now have a winner!

So now, what we've all been waiting for: The winner of the Phantasy Star Extreme Beach Volleyball Fan Art contest is:

SephirothXer0 with "Wilson"

Congratulations, SephirothXer0! The members of PSO World have chosen you as the artist most worthy to receive a shiny, new and legal copy of Adobe Photoshop CS2!

For the sake of completeness, coming in second is Aeralea with "Thank You for the Memories" and tied for third is zakuman with "Rappy Babe", and Navci with "XBV Cover".

Thank You for the Memories by Aeralea

Rappy Babe by zakuman

XBV Cover by Navci

Thank you, everyone for participating in this contest!

This is just a quick reminder everyone, that the clock is ticking on the Phantasy Star Extreme Beach Volleyball Voting Gallery. I understand that there's a lot of voter-fatigue going on these days, especially in California, but I promise everyone that Governor Schwartzenegger's involvement in this contest has been kept to an absolute minimum.

So what're waiting for? Thursday is the last day of voting, so go vote before it's too late!

Image provided by Jared_T

The Fan Artists have been confined to Jared_T's Not-Island since July 20th now, furiously whipping pens, pencils, paint brushes and tablet styluses to get their contest entries ready. Our contestants include:

Aeralea	astuarlen	AzureBlaze	Dre_o
ElfKitty	Golvellius	Ian-KunX	Kupi
KuroNetsune	lamiacitara	LockemanX	Navci
Nisshoku	RayMaster	SabZero	SephirothXer0
Tingle	zakuman

They are all competing for an unopened, brand new, absolutely unused copy of Photoshop CS2.

Now the not-sea ports are open, and the cruise ships are coming and going on a regular schedule, so that the general public may choose their favorite works. The voting gallery is located here. The galleries are to remain open until 11:59:59PM PST on August 31, 2006.

Ryna also would like me to remind everyone that if anyone is found cheating, upon those individuals, we will release the dogs. Both of them. Furiously. Cheating is, of course, grounds for disqualification, or possibly banning.

I wish good luck to all of our contestants. Whoever wins, remember that we'll need your mailling address so we can send you your prize!