Heya just kicking off my Phantasy Star Universe blogging with a wrap up of today’s Newman Knights event, part of a series of race appreciation days for the four races of Gurhal.

Along with me and Eggshen, we had the assistance of two Phantasy Star testers, Bobby and Pam, playing Maya and Karen (I won’t tell you who was playing who and ruin your phantasies). While there are not that many special things we can do for in game events, we really appreciate Sonic Team giving us permission to use their story characters, who have never been seen before in the cities and lobbies of PSU.

Although we had some tough luck with hardware and other issues the event ran much smoother then last year’s Beast Bonfire. Considering the issues we have been dealing with since Ambition of the Illuminus launched, and the cheating panic just this week, I was actually pretty happy with how things went down today. To everyone who came it was fun hanging out with you. One of the best parts of the day was chatting with the players over what they would like to see in future online community events. I will take your ideas and share them with our team at SEGA while we brainstorm our next event.

Expect more PSU blogging to come soon, I will be discussing online cheating, scamming and griefing issues because I do take this game seriously and want to help keep this community together through both hard times and good.

-Jake (a.k.a. Chill Aura)