Have a Phantasy Star Portable 2 save file? Good. Keep it on your Memory Stick. You’re going to need it for Valkyria Chronicles 2.

In the strangest Phantasy Star Portable 2 collaboration yet, Sega partnered with Weekly Young Jump to add gravure idols to the game.

In Phantasy Star Portable 2 you can equip a Famitsu magazine as a shield. Seriously. This isn’t an ordinary issue from a convenience store, it’s the Iron Wall of Famitsu.

Sega’s Phantasy Star Portable 2 collaborations continue, but these aren’t as irreverent as their Pizza Hut partnership.

Phantasy Star Portable 2 is going where no other portable “MonHun” game has gone, the Internet. You can play Phantasy Star Portable 2 in ad-hoc mode and online via infrastructure mode.

Toro and Kuro get around. Sony’s cat mascots made a cameo appearance in Disgaea 3. Now they’re scheduled to appear in Phantasy Star Portable 2.

But, only your custom designed character. Levels, meseta, and your collection of monomates from Phantasy Star Portable won’t transfer into Phantasy Star Portable 2.

The PSP has plenty of network RPGs and Monster Hunter clones, few of which support online play. Sure, you can use a PlayStation 3 and connect with distant gamers via Ad-hoc Party, but wouldn’t it be nice to play online without a PS3?

Sega was teasing a new RPG to be unveiled on Friday and Famitsu scans, as usual, preempted the official announcement. Sorry, if you were hoping for another Shining Force game.

The budget friendly re-release of Phantasy Star Portable is bundled with a UMD containing three episodes and supposedly a trailer for Phantasy Star Portable 2.