As you may have heard, Phantasy Star Online 2 will be at the Penny Arcade Expo next week – for fans of the game, we know you’re eager to hear more, so let’s cut to the chase! Here’s what’s going on with Phantasy Star Online 2 at PAX:

Playable PSO2 Demo + Character Creator

Join other PSO2 fans and battle your way through part of the game, customized for PAX! Explore, battle through random events, work together with your ad-hoc PAX crew, and experience a boss fight!

We will also have the character creator on-hand – and we are looking forward to seeing what sort of fabulous creations you make at the show. The game’s powerful character creation tool is truly one of its more delightful aspects, and I have no doubts that the imaginarium of the Penny Arcade Expo’s hallowed halls will inspire you to wonderful creative heights. Please note the character creator and playable demo will be set up separately, so you can get in line for either if you’re attending.

PSO2: Rare Loot

For everyone who comes by the SEGA booth and plays the demo (or tries the character creator), we have an exclusive Phantasy Star Online 2 mousepad giveaway, featuring art from the game!

We have already sent the loot to Seattle in shiny, shiny red boxes, so we’ll post images when we’re there, but just imagine this image, only on a mousepad:

See you in Seattle!

We’re excited to announce a line-up of nine playable games, including one unannounced game, for this year’s Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. Alongside our upcoming blockbuster franchise titles Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed and Aliens: Colonial Marines, we are also showing off several digital titles, including Double Fine’s The Cave and Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit by indie developer Arkedo Studios. Phantasy Star Online 2, the popular multi-player online role playing game, which launched to more than 730,000 players in less than one month in Japan, will be making its Western debut at the show. Fans of the iconic blue hedgehog will also get to play the recently-announced HD version of Sonic Adventure 2.

SEGA’s full PAX line-up is below:

• Aliens: Colonial Marines
• The Cave
• Hell Yeah! – Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
• Jet Set Radio
• NiGHTS into dreams…
  
• Phantasy Star Online 2
• Sonic Adventure 2
• Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
• Unannounced digital title (new IP)

SEGA’s games will be showcased in booths 242 and 252 at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle, Washington, from August 31 through September 2, 2012.