Posts tagged phantasy-star-online-2 
Company of Heroes 2 shipped 380K in five days
Sega's consumer division, which handles its video game business, reported a small operating profit of ¥39 million, or just under $400,000, thanks in part to Company of Heroes 2, which shipped 380,000 copies in five days. MMORPG Phantasy Star Online 2 chipped in, reaching the 500,000 mark on Vi...
Sega Sammy posts fiscal net profit, Aliens: Colonial Marines shipped 1.3M [update]
Sega Sammy reported financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31 2013 today, noting a net profit of ¥33.5 billion, which converts to $331 million. The figure represents annual growth of 53.3 percent. However, the company's operating profit decreased year-on-year by 67.3 percent, down n...
Phantasy Star Online 2 notches 1 million registered players
Phantasy Star Online 2 has 1 million registered users in Japan, Sega today announced. Considering the online RPG has yet to reach Western shores, it's an impressive figure. Having said that, registration stats aren't the best indicator of active players; in July Sega announced 730,000 registrations...
Phantasy Star Online 2 is free-to-play on Vita
Phantasy Star Online 2's Vita version will also be free-to-play when it comes to Japan next spring. The PSO2 team revealed this information during a presentation at Tokyo Game Show, translated by the Phantasy Star Fan Blog. Vita players will be able to play with users of the PC version, but only c...
Relapsing with Phantasy Star Online 2 for Vita and mobile
Back in early 2001, my last year of high school was laced with an addiction: I just couldn't stop playing Phantasy Star Online. I know, it's not exactly the sort of thing worthy of an after-school special or a heart-warming episode of Blossom. Still, I churned away many, many hours with friends &nd...
Monster Hunter 4 playable at TGS, Capcom and Sega unveil lineups
A playable version of Monster Hunter 4 is coming to this year's Tokyo Game Show, Capcom announced on its newly launched TGS portal. The company also unveiled its current lineup for the show, with Resident Evil 6, DmC, Lost Planet 3 and EX Troopers joining the 3DS Monster Hunter. Meanwhile, Sega als...
Sega won't confirm Vita or phone Phantasy Star Online 2 for the West yet
Today's announcement of a North American and European release for Phantasy Star Online 2 named only the free-to-play PC version, with no mention of the announced PlayStation Vita release or the connected smartphone apps. We asked Sega if the announcement also referred to those versions. "We can't c...
Run through Phantasy Star Online 2's Western announcement trailer
It's official, y'all: Phantasy Star Online 2 is headed West, and we've got this announcement trailer to prove it....
PSA: PSO2 character creator online, available for everyone
That Phantasy Star Online 2 character creator we caught wind of back in March is now online; ready and waiting to be downloaded, unzipped and utilized to forge a character you'll probably never use if you don't import it or live outside Japan. The character creator can be downloaded by hittin' the ...
Try Phantasy Star Online 2's character creation April 5
On April 5, PC gamers will be able to indulge any cautious optimism they may have about Phantasy Star Online 2 with a character creation demo. Of course, it'll be in Japanese, but we don't anticipate too many problems adjusting hair color on a slider. That'll be open to all; a beta test held later ...
