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Virtual-world role-playing series will get a new chapter for PlayStation 2 sometime next year.

According to the latest issue of Famitsu magazine, Bandai is making a new .hack game for the PlayStation 2. .hack //G.U. is slated for release in 2006, and is being developed by series creator Cyber Connect 2. According to the article, the game is currently 60 percent complete.

.hack is a role-playing series that takes place in a faux online universe where the main character is a player of the virtual-reality game "The World." G.U. will take place seven years after the previous installments, and will feature new gameplay elements and jobs.

News source: GameSpot

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