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Phantasy Star Universe is dead. After the PS2 and PC servers were shut down two years, players have been enjoying the Xbox 360 version of the game. Unfortunately, that has now been closed, meaning the title is no more.

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Sega’s announced the online servers for PC and PS2 versions of Phantasy Star Universe will close in March.

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Phantasy Star Universe Portable’s still lording over Japanese software sales, with Fire Emblem on DS punching up quickly into second place. Story of the week, though, has to be 360-exclusive Tales of Vesperia, with 108,000 units sold. The hardware figures are going to be worth watching this week.

Week ending August 10. Last week’s here. Thanks, NeoGAF.

01. [PSP] Phantasy Star Universe Portable (SEGA) 148,000 / 490,000
02. [DS] Fire Emblem (Nintendo) 145,000 / NEW
03. [DS] Rythem Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) – 130,000 / 343,000
04. [360] Tales of Vesperia (Namco Bandai) – 108,000 / NEW
05. [DS] Dragon Quest V (Square Enix) – 73,000 / 1,019,000
06. [DS] Sangokushi Taisen Ten (SEGA) – 33,000 / NEW
07. [DS] Summon Night 2 (Namco Bandai) – 30,000 / NEW
08. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 27,000 / 2,470,000
09. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 23,000 / 1,656,000
10. [PS3] Soul Calibur 4 (Namco Bandai) 23,000 / 97,000

PSP’s still going strong in Japan, it seems, with Phantasy Star Universe going top in its first week in the charts. If you look close enough, you’ll see that there’s a 360 title thrown in there too: Soul Calibur IV to be precise. Nintendo however, still has an iron grip on the scene, making up half of the Japanese top ten.

List below. Thanks NeoGaf.

01. [PSP] Phantasy Star Universe – (Sega) – 342,000 / 342,000
02. [NDS] Rhythm Heaven Gold – (Nintendo) – 213,000 / 213,000
03. [NDS] Dragon Quest V – (Square Enix) – 112,000 / 946,000
04. [PS3] Soul Calibur IV – (Namco Bandai) – 75,000 / 75,000
05. [PS2] Powerful Pro Baseball 15 – (KONAMI) – 37,000 / 121,000
06. [360] Soul Calibur IV – (Namco Bandai) – 35,000 / 35,000
07. [Wii] Fatal Frame IV – (Nintendo) – 33,000 / 33,000
08. [Wii] Wii Fit – (Nintendo) – 32,000 / 2,442,000
09. [Wii] Mario Kart Wii – (Nintendo) – 23,000 / 1,633,000
10. [PSP] Gundam Battle Universe – - (Namco Bandai) – 21,000 / 201,000

By Mike Bowden

British firm Avanquest has announced a furthering of a deal with Sega that will see Phantasy Star Universe, Virtual Tennis, Sega Rally and Medieval 2: Total War released (again) for PC in the UK.

The company already distributes a bunch of old Sega games in Britain, including Sonic Mega Collection and Rome: Total War.

The titles will end up in major retailers, like GAME, PC World, WH Smith, Amazon.co.uk, Play.com, Zawi, Morrisons and Tesco.

Press release after the link.

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