John Smedley

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Planetside 2 Keeping Friendly Fire, Adding Offline Skill Training

4:00AM August 16, 2011 | Joel Johnson

Planetside 2, the massively multiplayer first-person shooter with persistent warfare between three competing factions, is shaping up to be a pleasantly hardcore experience, if a presentation by the team is anything to go by. More »

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Why Free Realms PS3 Took So Long

8:20AM March 30, 2011 | Mike Fahey

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. More »

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Is The Future Of PC Gaming Massive And Online?

10:20AM December 7, 2010 | Brian Crecente

This week, exceedingly popular computer game World of Warcraft undergoes a cataclysm, reshaping not just the game’s landscape but how you play in the game. More »

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A Hero Among Super Heroes

6:00AM December 4, 2010 | Brian Crecente

I want to be perfectly blunt with the team behind DC Universe Online, no allusions, so I tell them right off the bat: I haven’t really liked a massively multiplayer online game since Ultima Online’s late ’90s alpha. More »

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Everquest 2 May Be Getting Its Own Cataclysm Soon

4:00AM December 4, 2010 | Brian Crecente

Next week’s world-changing expansion for World of Warcraft may not be the only cataclysm to hit a major massively multiplayer online game soon. More »

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‘EverQuest Next’ Teased At Fan Faire

2:00AM August 8, 2010 | Owen Good

Appropriately enough, the next EverQuest installment is called – for now, anyway – “Everquest Next.” Sony Online Entertainment teased the new title, with two in-game images, at the publisher’s “Fan Faire” going on in Las Vegas this weekend. More »

SOE Prez Calls It ‘Planetside Next’ In Blog

12:00PM October 12, 2009 | Owen Good

Two weeks ago, word spread among Planetside fans that Sony Online Entertainment would be working on another iteration of the popular MMO FPS. Now John Smedley, the SOE president, has called it “Planetside Next” in a LiveJournal entry. More »

Survey, Web Site Indicate Planetside 2 Is In The Works

5:00AM September 27, 2009 | Owen Good

Huge buzz going around the Planetside community today as a survey email said to come from Sony Online Entertainment reveals plans “to expand the Planet Side universe with another game”. Also, someone found SOE registered Planetside2.com on September 21. More »

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More Than A Million Flock To Free Realms

2:40AM May 16, 2009 | Mike Fahey

Sony Online Entertainment’s new family-friendly online game Free Realms has exploded out of the gate, with more than one million registered users within 17 days of launch. More »

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SOE Boss Says, No, PC Gaming Is Not Dead

2:40PM March 15, 2008 | Luke Plunkett

PC gaming’s dead! PC gaming’s dead! The town crier runs down the street screaming that, ringing his fucking bell, on an almost daily basis these days, and while most townsfolk just nod their heads sombrely in agreement, one man’s having none of it. That man? Sonly Online Entertainment boss John Smedley:

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