everquest
PC

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.

November 1, 2011
PC

It’s A Massively Multiplayer Online Halloween Spooktacular

With fewer and fewer children donning costumes and hitting the streets every year to celebrate all things sweet and spooky, the Halloween tradition is alive and well in the virtual worlds of today’s massively multiplayer online games.

October 13, 2011
In Real Life

Game Developers’ Choice Online Awards Honor Rift, Minecraft, And Everquest

Tonight at the second annual Game Developers’ Choice Online Awards in Austin, the GDC honored the best in online gaming. Three Rings Design’s won Best Online Game Design with their charming MMO Spiral Knights. KingsIsle Entertainment’s Wizard 101 won the Audience Award, and Minecraft won both of the categories in which it was nominated, Best Community Management and Best Live Game.

June 30, 2011
News

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.

May 14, 2011
PlayStation

Sony Online Entertainment Finalises Post-Crash Prize Patrol Plans

As the custodians of games that are completely unplayable during Sony’s massive network outage, Sony Online Entertainment has an especially tough job winning back MMO players who have sat idle for 22 days and counting. SOE has now posted its full list of goodies for subscribers to nine MMOs; free subscription time, in-game content and special XP events are all planned.

May 12, 2011
News

Sony Online Entertainment Loses Development Chief To Zynga

John Blakely, a nine-year veteran of Sony Online Entertainment and most recently its vice president of development, has apparently left the company for casual-games behemoth Zynga.

May 7, 2011
News

The Family That Plays (Online) Together, Stays Together

Research suggests that family communication improves if the group are playing online video games together, but if a single member is gaming, it suffers greatly as the gaming becomes a substitute for healthy communication.

May 3, 2011
News

More Than 12,700 Credit Cards Stolen From SOE

Sony’s security problems continue to mount, as the intrusion that brought down Sony Online Entertainment this morning is linked to the theft of more than ten thousand customer credit card numbers.

March 17, 2011
PC

12 Years Later EverQuest Still Soldiers On

Today marks the 12th anniversary of the original EverQuest. What keeps one of the original big massively multiplayer fantasy games going after all these years?

December 24, 2010
PC

Former Sims Head Becomes The Boss Of Second Life

First Rod Humble worked on EverQuest. Then he headed the EA Play label, which manages The Sims franchise. After those jobs becoming the new CEO of Second Life creator Linden Lab seems like a natural progression.

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