God writes, "This is just your friendly reminder, the Art Contest is STILL going on. We need more submissions in order to truly deem it a contest. Everyone has until the end of this month to submit their work. Please send all submissions to [email protected]>[email protected]
The winner has the option of having their work featured on one of the official PSO World T-Shirts!

Good luck!"

God writes, "Along with many new items/weapons. We are proud to unleash the MAG [email protected]#$. This is still a work in progress, but please.. check it out. Also the SectionID Calculator has been changed to reflect what type an ID is. We hope you like our newest additions and we would like to give a thank you to nozedive for his generous submission to PSO World. Without which the MAG Guide would have not been possible. Also we would like to thank Lynx for his continual submission of top quality images.

-The PSO World Team

MAG Guide
Section ID Calculator"

God writes, "It is a sad day when any part of the community is lost. Tonight Yue closed the doors to his great PSO site, http://www.ruri-w00t.org/pso.htm. While this is a considerable loss to the community, it is not the end for him! Among other projects, Yue will be donating his talents to PSO World. Together, with this newest addition to the PSO World Team, we have much planned for everyone in the coming weeks.. including server stability .

One of his other projects mentioned, an online comic called Skewed View. MUST be checked out. Good stuff: http://www.ruri-w00t.org/ "

God writes, "Unfortunately... PSO World has reached the point where it must start to feed itself. We plan to use small unobtrusive advertisments that shouldnt affect your browsing (NO POPUPS).

If you are interested in advertising with a site that recieves 60,000++ pageviews of highly focused traffic a day, please contact us: [email protected]>[email protected]"

There was a rumor going around in Japan about an outer space level being accessible in Phantasy Star Online when you max out your experience points. Unfortunately, the rumor retains no truth. This doesn't mean that we won't see any new levels, but it's not looking too likely. I'm just waiting for some more missions... (GODFREE from PSO)

Mrgrfx writes, "Just wanted to let everyone know that they do not have to run out and buy this guide. I looked at this weekend, and I must say it is not all that perfect. It is however, one of the best ones out. Here are a few things I found to be missing: Special Mags like Chao, or Nightoopian, or any of them really, a special weapons list (aside from the 4 or 5 they list), tips on raising each mag (like the guide a gamefaqs that someon posted earlier). This guide is great to have as a reference and for someone who wants to find out some great information, but for the hardcore gamers, that want everything the game has to offer, your best bet is to stay right here and read the forums, and find the latest info. from the website."

Roscoe writes, "Just came back from the gamestop.com store (formerly Funcoland) and picked up the PSO Strategy Guide (see a few news items down to purchase your own from amazon).

The guide is quite encyclopedic, has pictures of nearly all mags (though the only two MagCell mags they show are the Opa Opa and MechaChao, which is even leeter than that crazy angel one you can see on the PSO Jazz site), all weapons, all different face/hair/body styles etc., maps for all levels and all guild quests. Most of it is information that can be found on this site -- in fact this site offers more info than the official book does -- but it's still nice to have it all illustrated and analog.

Plus there's a gargantuan poster included that I think I just might be nerdy enough to put on my wall.

One correction though, the Holy Ray item as commented on a few news items down is not a mag but a rare weapon. And has anyone gotten an Egg Blaster in the game? It's a sort of modified looking handgun with the Dr. Robotnik/Eggman logo on the end of the barrel. I want one."

Buy it now at Amazon.com!

godfree writes, "Last Night I went online to play and I was in the lobby. Everybody were talking about a crash that happened a couple of times. Also I notice that not alot of People were online. On Oberon only had 668 people and that never happened. Well a few mins later a big server crash happened last night and everybody gotten kick off. I lost all my money, people lost items, and alot of people were mad. So becareful try to save your game to your email (for more info read and older news how to do that in PSO world). Peace (Godfree from PSO)"

Faded writes, "--- Cut from Dailyradar.com --- (edited a bit)

Charles Bellfield, Sega of America's vice-president for marketing and communications has brought good little children everywhere the news that Sega would be releasing Phantasy Star Online 2 for the Sega Dreamcast by year's end.

-- End Cut --

Well it seems as if we'll all be playing PSO for a long time to come. "