e3 2012

Sony’s Got A New Multiplayer Shooter In Development

Sony has tasked German studio ACONY Games with the development of Bullet Run, an upcoming multiplayer shooter that’s based on the premise of a reality TV series gone bad.


April 24, 2012
In Real Life

Sony Wants MMO Players To Meet Each Other In Real Life

Sony has applied for a strange little patent that streamlines the process via which online friends in an MMO can meet up in the real world and become real friends.


March 17, 2012
PC

After 13 Years, Original EverQuest Goes F2P

One of the longest-running subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing games has finally succumbed to the sweet, sweet lure of the microtranscation-based business model, as EverQuest celebrates its 13th anniversary by going free-to-play.


March 15, 2012
In Real Life

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.


March 3, 2012
PC

March 13: DC Universe Online’s Battle For Earth

Brainiac is going down, but he’s not going down without a fight. Players looking to help serve the metal menace his final comeuppance should hit up DC Universe Online on the PlayStation 3 or PC March 13, when The Battle for Earth expansion goes live.


February 21, 2012
Retro

You Know You Play Too Much EverQuest When These Jokes Are Still Funny 10 Years Later

These days you can tell you play too much of Sony Online Entertainment’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game EverQuest by the simple fact that you play it at all. Ten years ago, when hundreds of thousands of people played the game on a regular basis, there were different standards of measurement.


February 16, 2012
PC

Brainiac Falls And A Shocking New Threat Rises In DC Universe Online’s Battle For Earth

Heroes and villains alike have been dealing with the vile machinations of that vile machine Brainiac since the launch of DC Universe Online. With the game’s third major downloadable content pack his chapter finally ends and a new evil rises.


January 31, 2012
PC

The Original EverQuest Goes Free-to-Play For Its 13th Birthday

After more than a decade of dedicated fans paying a monthly fee to adventure in the lands of Norrath, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game that got the MMORPG ball rolling back in 1999 is going free-to-play come March.


December 23, 2011
PC

Remember Star Wars Galaxies With This Poignant Memory Book

A week ago Star Wars Galaxies closed down for good. Today, the MMO published its official “memory book,” a whale of a tome at more than 200 megabytes in PDF form, recalling all of the worlds, races and principal events of the MMO’s eight-year run.


PC

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.