john smedley
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Planetside 2 Keeping Friendly Fire, Adding Offline Skill Training

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.

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.

December 7, 2010
News

Is The Future Of PC Gaming Massive And Online?

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.

December 4, 2010
News

A Hero Among Super Heroes

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.

News

Everquest 2 May Be Getting Its Own Cataclysm Soon

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.

August 8, 2010
News

‘EverQuest Next’ Teased At Fan Faire

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.

October 12, 2009

SOE Prez Calls It ‘Planetside Next’ In Blog

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.

September 27, 2009

Survey, Web Site Indicate Planetside 2 Is In The Works

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.

May 16, 2009
News

More Than A Million Flock To Free Realms

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.

March 15, 2008
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SOE Boss Says, No, PC Gaming Is Not Dead

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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