Cranberry writes, "Sonic Team has loaded the White Day theme onto the Gamecube servers. This will likely be the last official holiday event on Gamecube PSO since the official servers will be shutting down at the end of the month. Since the webpage does not list an ending date for this event, it can be assumed that White Day may run until the server shutdown. "

In a recent announcement on the official Sega of America / PSO message board, Sonic Team confirmed the shutdown of the PSO GameCube servers. It was also stated that new account registration would no longer be available as of this week. As mentioned before, players who have active accounts may continue playing until March 31st, 2007, with the final month (March) being free. In the announcement, Sonic Team thanked everyone for the good times on PSOGC and encouraged anyone who enjoyed the game to check out Phantasy Star Universe.

Thanks to Cranberry for the news!

On November 28, the Christmas theme was activated on the Gamecube servers. It will be available until December 26th. During this time period, you will be able to obtain Christmas Presents off the ever-elusive Saint Rappy. If a Christmas Present is opened, you will receive a random mag cell! Also, the Pioneer Christmas quest is making its seasonal appearance.

In the meantime, the North American XBox servers are celebrating the first-year anniversary of the "Eternal Christmas". For the last year, the Christmas theme has been active. Despite the best efforts of several forum members, it looks like the XBox servers will never been updated again.

There has been no official announcements about the Christmas theme being activated on the US/EU Blue Burst servers.

The Gamecube servers went down for maintenance on September 26th to activate the Halloween theme. It is scheduled to remain up until November 7th. While the Halloween theme is up, you will be able to hunt for Jack-O'-Lanterns in the Temple area of the game. You can also earn them by completing the Pioneer Halloween quest and trading cakes with other players. Opening a Jack-O'-Lanterns will give you a random mag cell. Remember to open the Jack-O'-Lantern offline and reset if you do not get the mag cell that you want!

The Gamecube servers will be going down for maintenance on August 29th between 14:00 and 17:00 Japanese time to activate the Fall theme. The Fall theme is set to last until September 26th. This maintenance will affect Episode 1&2, Episode 1&2 Plus, and Episode 3. Please do not try to connect during this period. If you are online when the maintenance starts, you will be given a ten minute warning before you are automatically disconnected.

doublejg3288 writes, "As of approximately 3PM Pacific Standard Time, the US login server was up and running. Players have confirmed that everything seems to be running just fine. Sega has yet to announce any form of compensation due to the extended down time.

For more information please view the messages here. "

About time, no? The servers were down for around two weeks! You can discuss this update in our forums.

ClumsyOrchid has posted an update on the US Gamecube server situation on the Sega's forums. According to his post, a server maintenance issue is preventing people in the United States from logging on to the servers. Sega is aware of the issue and will try to get the servers back online as soon as possible. This announcement may come as little comfort to those that have been waiting for almost two weeks to get online, but at least the issue is being addressed. If you wish to express your displeasure about this situation, please post in this thread.

The PSO Gamecube servers have been offline for the past day or so due to a power outage. Sonic Team will have the servers back and online as soon as possible.

You can read the offical announcement here and discuss it in our forums here.

The Gamecube lobbies were updated on June 6th with the June wedding theme. In this theme, the decorations for lobby 10 are replaced with Japanese wedding decorations. The June wedding theme will remain up until June 27th. This update affects Episode 1&2, Episode 1&2 Plus, and Episode 3 players.