Tag Archives: soe


DCUOPvP

Fight And Flight

If you’re a DC Universe Online fan who’s been waiting for more reasons to bash your fellow heroes and villains over the head, you’re in luck. The next DLC patch for the game, The Last Laugh, and will be “purely for the players [...]
WildstarComputer

Running Wild

Carbine Studios‘ Lead Client Engineer Jon Wiesman wrote a broad and lengthy piece about how addons will work in WildStar, which basically boils down to, “Other games’ addons are hard to create and use. Ours won’t be.” Citing [...]
Planetside 2 Taking Aim

Prepare To Fire

Sony Online Entertainment is hard at work on the free-to-play MMOFPS PlanetSide 2, but that didn’t stop Creative Director Matt Higby from taking a little time out to answer our questions about the game. You’ve been revealing various roles [...]
DCUODoomsday

Black Monday

It’s not exactly the end of the world — that’s later this year, according to the Mayans — but for fans of Sony Online Entertainment‘s games, Monday might as well be the apocalypse. SOE will be taking its games offline from [...]
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Guild Wars 2 & Tera Prepare To Launch

As you might already know Guild Wars 2 fans, if you have pre-purchased the MMO, you will get a chance to play starting April 27th and ending April 29th. Our panel on The Week in MMO hopes that we will get to see the brand spanking new races, the asura [...]
DragonOracle

Dragons, Dragons, Dragons!

EverQuest II keeps chugging along, as Sony Online Entertainment launches Update 63: Skyshrine today. Skyshrine introduces a city chock full o’ dragons who need your help to fend off — you guessed it — more dragons! The new content isn’t [...]
DCUOSuperman

Faster Than A Speeding Reset

Sony Online Entertainment‘s introduced a spate of new features for Legendary subscribers to DC Universe Online. But the one that’s garnering much of the attention — and controversy — is the introduction of Replay Badges. Replay [...]
PS2-alpha

Base Bustin’

PlanetSide 2 stunned the audiences at GDC this year with in-game footage from its alpha testing. The developers at Sony Online Entertainment revealed this footage to the rest of the world yesterday. Forgive me for the lack of descriptive words, but wow. In [...]
FanFaire2011

It’s A Live!

There will be no SOE Fan Faire this year. But fear not, brave fans of Sony Online Entertainment‘s games — this isn’t another BlizzCon! The shindig formerly known SOE Fan Faire has been renamed SOE Live, and it’ll have the same [...]
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E3 Sucks

We aren’t saying it, but apparently E3 sucks. Multiple MMO gaming developers — even some already on the west coast — are shunning the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which surprises many people at our offices considering that a couple [...]
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Free EQ

A few years ago, “free-to-play” was a dirty set of words in MMO speak. Today, the MMO world’s flagship franchise, the original EverQuest, took the plunge, going free-to-play on the 13th anniversary of its launch. Sony Online Entertainment [...]
copernicus

Copernicus Rising

With Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning in the rear-view mirror, 38 Studios is ramping up its focus on its upcoming Amalur-based MMO, aka “Copernicus.” To that end, the company recently announced the hire of two new executives with experience in [...]