SEGA revealed several updates for free-to-play online action RPG Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis launching throughout February 2025. The first update of the month will bring a collaboration with Kazuma Kamachi’s A Certain Magical Index light novel series, which was also adapted into an anime.
On February 5, the AC Scratch Ticket: A Certain Magical Index Style bring avatar cosmetic items to Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis based on characters from the anime. This includes avatar items that allow players to cosplay as Toma Kamijo, Index, Mikoto Misaka, Little Misaka, Kaori Kanzaki, and Accelerator. Free rewards will be given as login bonuses as well.
The February 2025 updates for Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis also include the following content:
- February 5
- New Urgent Quest: And the Stars Fell
- Level cap raised & Hunter updates
- New equipment
- February 11
- Limited-time Quest: Drill: Ruinus Grand Battle Series
- New difficulty levels added to Extra Duel
- AC Scratch Ticket: Sweet Bitter Fashion
- February 19
- Leciel Exploration updates and more
- February 25
- New difficulties added to Extra Duel: Fictitious Beam
- AC Scratch Ticket: Neon Cat Martial
Check out the new trailers below:
All three seasons of the A Certain Magical Index anime and the anime movie adaptation are streaming on Crunchyroll. Here’s an overview of the anime series from the streaming platform:
Kamijo is a student in Academy City, where people use science to develop supernatural abilities. The guy’s got a lot of heart – luckily for a young nun named Index. She’s on the run from a sorcery society that covets the astonishing 103,000 volumes of magical knowledge stored in her memory. When Index stumbles into Kamijo’s life, she find a faithful friend and protector, and while Kamijo’s easily the weakest kid in Academy City, he’s got something else going for him: the Imagine Breaker, an unexplainable power stored in his right hand that negates the powers of others.
Lastly, Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis is available now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Epic Games Store, Windows, and Steam. It’s also backwards compatible on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
