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.


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.


April 27, 2011
PlayStation

What’s The PSN Downtime Mean For MMO Players?

The extended outage currently afflicting the PlayStation Network isn’t just stopping people playing Call of Duty and FIFA. It’s also stopping people from playing persistent, entirely online games like DC Universe and Free Realms.


March 31, 2011
News

Sony’s MMO Makers Close Three Studios, Lay Off One-Third Of Workforce

Sony Online Entertainment, makers of D.C. Universe Online and Free Realms, closed three studios and will lay off nearly a third of its workforce, Kotaku has learned.


March 30, 2011
PC

Why Free Realms PS3 Took So Long

Family-friendly casual MMO Free Realms makes its PlayStation 3 debut today, two years after the launch of its PC predecessor. Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley tells us what took so long, and says his game might be better for builders than indie sensation MineCraft.


PlayStation

Delicious Reminder That Free Realms Comes To PS3 Today

Sony Online Entertainment’s family-friendly, free-to-play MMO Free Realms hits the PlayStation Network today, a fact they celebrated with a dozen family-friendly, free-to-eat cupcakes.


March 12, 2011
PlayStation

PlayStation Network Gets Its First Free-To-Play MMO This Month

After nearly two years in operation on the PC and Mac, Sony Online Entertainment finally brings it’s family-friendly, free-to-play massively multiplayer online game Free Realms to the PlayStation 3 on March 29, making it the first free-to-play console MMO.


October 7, 2010
News

Free Realms Does The Mac, What About The PlayStation 3?

As Sony Online Entertainment reveals plans to release the free-to-play MMO Free Realms on the Mac later this year, fans are still wondering what happened to the PlayStation 3 version. We tapped SOE for an update on the console port.


June 2, 2010
News

Free Realms Meets Star Wars In Clones Wars Adventures

Sony Online Entertainment draws back the curtain on Clone Wars Adventures, taking the successful formula established with its free-to-play, family-friendly MMO Free Realms to a galaxy far, far away.


May 15, 2010

This Week In Comics

They sort of killed Batman last year. This week, they sort of brought him back.