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psosaladwood writes, "Sega's PSO EP 3 website is up and available in both Japanese and English versions here. The Japanese version has a little bit more information compared to the English one.
Release dates for the game are as follows for Nintendo Gamecube: JP: 4th Quarter 2003 North America: 1st Quarter 2004 Europe: 1st Quarter 2004
You can read more at the website.
Update: Sega also released their own PSO E3 EP 3 webpage. They reiterate that GC EP 1 & 2 will have access to the same visual lobbies of GC Ep 3 because Ep 3 will have similar Ep 1 & 2 visual lobby setup. Meaning: players of the two different games will be able to idle, converse and meet in the same visual lobby. Players on Ep 3 will still be able to hang out and chat with their old buddies on Ep 1 & 2.
There is also the E3 2003 exhibition promotion movie on the site."
psosaladwood writes, "Easter lobby decorations are finally up on the Gamecube, signalling the arrival of Egg Rappies!! 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.
Egg rappies are out and about dropping Easter Eggs in VR Temple! More pictures in our Screenshots section. Our Snapple finally found them!
Remember that you can do a soft reset (Start + Y+ X + B) offline to "shuffle" between the Easter Egg items. It is also safe to travel through JP and US lobby servers with it. We now have pictures for all the new items and all item stats have been updated. You can join the discussion in our forums here. Be advised that this is just on the Gamecube, we just checked out Xbox and they have Cherry Blossoms up in the lobby. "
psosaladwood writes, "Sonic Team posted today that 2 new battle rules, Battle 7 and Battle 8, are going up on Friday, April 25th. There will be a server maintenance starting from 2pm and ending at 3pm.
Battle Rule 7: Player with highest amount of Meseta Wins. Meseta only shows up at the back of the map. Race each other to get to the Mesetas! Open to 4 players.
Battle Rule 8: Highest kill wins. Map has various large exploding timed mines. Open to 4 players.
psosaladwood writes, "Sonic Team posted today that due to limited server room, pictures on the Visual BBS dating from September 2002 until October 2002, will be deleted. Old pictures will be deleted routinely from now on to free up server room for new pictures.
Easter lobby decorations is also going up! The lobby decoration will be in place on Monday, April 21st until Wednesday, April 30th (JP). Get ready to start hunting those much anticipated egg rappies and getting those Easter eggs!
Sonic Team also posted saying that a completely new quest "Bottom of the Heart," is coming. The quest will be added on Wednesday, April 30th, right when the Easter event ends. This is an exciting quest as it's storyline will serve to solve mysteries and answer PSO rumors. This extensive quest will have you going through several Episode 2 areas. Elly, from the offline quest "Knowing One's Heart" will also be present and will journey with you through the quest while you protect her. This is going to be quite a challenging quest and will require you to be skillful and you will need to have previously cleared the CCA. You will also be possibly facing a new enemy (bottom picture says Del Lily!!). Looking at the last picture shown here, could this quest possibly introduce us to the control tower itself? While we can now speculate on the contents of this new exciting quest, Sonic Team has promised that we will get more information on this new quest in a week so we will be getting more definite information and details soon.
Please note that the above parts of this newspost is only applicable to GC PSO. Thanks to Atax for submitting information on the new quest.
On an unrelated note, US customers have reportedly begun receiving their Datel Powerboards since yesterday. You can join the discussion here."
psosaladwood writes, "The Mag, Quest, Item and Section ID Discussion forum is back up and running. We will now be working on moving all the related threads that are in General back to the the Mags, Quest forum where it belongs. The forum search is also now back and functioning. Thank you for being patient with us while we worked on the problem.
Kalbelgarion writes, "According to IGN: "An official Phantasy Star Online keyboard adapter will be available for free with a shipping & handling charge of $6.95 with the launch of PSO on April 15. The offer expires December 31, 2004. The PSO keyboard adapter will work with any USB-enabled keyboard. For those curious if keyboard functionality will be possible with other Xbox titles, the adapater 'is for use exclusively with Phantasy Star Online.' Though the offer is not currently on the site, check back here on April 15 for the full skinny.""
psosaladwood writes, "We realize that the Mag, Quest, Item and Section ID Discussion forum is currently down right now, and we're trying to rectify the issue with Gamespy. Thanks for bearing with us while we get this fixed! Until then, please feel free to post in the General forum."