Sega is promoting Phantasy Star Zero pre-orders with a pack of guest weapon trading cards. These special items are: Selvaria’s Spear from Valkyria Chronicles, Valiant from Blazer Drive, and the Gunsword Blade Cannon from Shining Wind. Sorry, if you were expecting the gun from Shadow the Hedgehog or anything like that. The only comical [...]

Sega’s Tokyo Game Show demo of Phantasy Star Zero was immediately familiar sans the cutesy art style. Three players and one helpful attendant from Sega linked up for one multiplayer game session. I got to play as a FOnewearl, a female magic wielding Newman sporting a fancy pink cowboy hat. She could smack Rappys [...]

Sega released some footage of Phantasy Star Zero and this trailer demonstrates how the game works online. Combat looks pretty fluid and the Pictochat text bubbles don’t seem to get in the way. The big surprise in this clip is Gonzo, the animation studio behind Afro Samurai, is making animated movies for Phantasy Star Zero. [...]

When Sega said Phantasy Star Zero was coming out this winter in Japan they meant December 25. The release date was announced at a Tokyo press conference where Sega focused primarily on RPGs. One of the novel features in Phantasy Star Zero is it’s visual chat system. Using the touch screen players can draw, [...]

The official Phantasy Star Zero site is up and it’s light on new information. The character concept art is clearer and now we can identify eight possible characters.From left to right they are: FOmarl, HUmar, RAcast, HUnewearl, HUcasel, RAmar, FOnewm, and HAnewm. There are a total of three races and fourteen different characters to [...]

Phantasy Star Zero does not have voice chat, but Sega thought of an intuitive way for players to communicate in Nintendo Wi-Fi games. You write what you want your character to say on the touch screen with a handful of brushes. After you hit send the scribbled message is displayed in a text bubble [...]