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Sony Online Games Will Let Players Upload Items And Get Paid For Them

Over the past couple of years, Sony Online Entertainment has transitioned all of their MMORPGs into free-to-play games, relying on microtransactions and a cash shop to make their money. Now, they’ve announced a plan that would let players make real-world money from SOE’s cash stores too.


SOE’s E3 Line-Up Includes That Interesting Piece Of EverQuest II Technology

Publishers are rolling out their E3 line-ups just as the big convention rears its massive head. We’ve even had some somewhat-surprising, but really-not-that-surprising reveals come of these announcements, too.


Make Crazy Faces At Your Webcam And Your EverQuest II Character Will Soon Mimic Them

Emotes in MMOs are no new thing. Interacting with players online just isn’t the same if you can’t dance with them every once in a while.


How Fifteen Seconds Of Music Hooked Me For Five Years

It was a crappy, grey, rainy day in January, 2005. I was in New York visiting my then-boyfriend, on my the week of break left before my final semester of grad school started back home in Boston. Although I had the luxury of a student schedule, he had to go to work, leaving me to entertain myself for the day.


Dying Boy Gets Personal Virtual Wonderland Built By Game Community In 4 Days

Long-time Everquest II player Carri Hoover has a son not quite as old as the game is. Sadly, however, six-year-old John Hoover is terminally ill, with doctors estimating he has only weeks left to live.


Everquest II Sees A 300% Surge In New Players After Going Free-to-Play

In video game years, Everquest II‘s like the great grandpa to newer MMOs like The Old Republic or Rift. Launched in 2004, it’s got a faithful community that’s still questing around on its servers but the game’s days of accruing new players month after month seems to have ended a while back.


The Is The Very Best Reason To Go Back To EverQuest II

EverQuest II ushers in a new age of player-created content with its new Dungeon Maker system, a ridiculously easy and entertaining way to amaze and kill your friends.


This Is The Most Evil EverQuest II’s Freeport Has Looked In Years

From the generic fantasy city of the original EverQuest to the grungy spires of EverQuest 2, the city of Freeport has never quite captured the spirit of being the home to everything evil on Norrath. Until now, that is.


EverQuest II Fully Commits To Free-To-Play

Last year EverQuest II dipped its toes in free-to-play waters splitting its services into two separate games: the regular EverQuest II and the limited free-to-play EverQuest II Extended. Next month the game puts that silliness behind it and dives in head-first.


Playing Everything Sony Online Entertainment Has To Offer Just Got Cheaper

With the impending demise of Star Wars Galaxies and perhaps the dawning realisation that the best games it has to offer are free-to-play, Sony Online Entertainment ditches the Station Pass in favour of SOE All Access, allowing players to access nine online games starting at $US19.99 a month.


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