by Rainier on Feb. 2, 2015 @ 9:45 a.m. PST | Filed under
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New York Investment management firm Columbus Nova announced that it has completed its acquisition of Sony Online Entertainment, which will henceforth rebrand as Daybreak Game Company.
by Rainier on Jan. 22, 2015 @ 2:16 p.m. PST | Filed under
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A settlement has been reached with the Sony Entities about the illegal and unauthorized attacks in April 2011, on PSN, Qriocity, and SOE services.
by Rainier on June 4, 2012 @ 4:34 a.m. PDT | Filed under
E3 2012 - Pre-E3 2012
Sony Online announced its E3 product line-up, giving attendancees the chance to be among the first to get hands-on with PlanetSide 2, while also being treated to the latest updates from DC Universe Online, EverQuest II, Free Realms, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.
by Rainier on Oct. 22, 2010 @ 12:45 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Sony Online Entertainment will be summoning the spirits, spooks and skeletons with the upcoming Halloween-themed activities and in-game events taking place in several of its online titles including, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Free Realms, EverQuest, EverQuest II and Star Wars Galaxies.
by Rainier on July 14, 2010 @ 5:52 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Sony Online Entertainment announced its lineup of activities for the weekend of San Diego Comic-Con, July 22-25, where it will show off DC Universe Online, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures and Magic: The Gathering – Tactics.
by Rainier on July 13, 2010 @ 9:23 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Dire Wolf Digital announced the formation of its new game development studio in Denver, Colorado, founded by Scott Martins, previously founder of Worlds Apart Productions, and studio head of Sony Online Entertainment Denver.
by Rainier on July 17, 2009 @ 7:03 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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The recession is finally starting to catch up with the video game industry: Midway closed studios and was sold to Warner Bros. for a few shekels, software sales have slumped for the past few months, and there are layoffs left and right. Even though Free Realms is highly successful, Sony Online Entertainment today issued a statement that it had to lay off 41 people (5% of its workforce). "SOE looks forward to continuing its leadership role in the online games industry as it celebrates the highly successful launch of Free Realms, the 10-year commemoration of its ground-breaking EverQuest franchise, and the continued performance of the company's other games."
Check out the following new screens & trailers from SOE's E3 2009 lineup:
by Rainier on Jan. 19, 2009 @ 6:16 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Acquired by FUN Technologies in Jan. 2006, Octopi has now been assimilated by SOE and will henceforth be known as Sony Online Entertainment Tucson. Octopi is best known for PoxNora, a collectible trading card that combines tactical miniatures and fantasy RPG titles to create a unique online strategy game.
by Rainier on March 13, 2008 @ 4:07 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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In a strategic move to closely align itself with the strong growth of the worldwide online gaming market, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) announced today that Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) will report to Kazuo Hirai, President and Group CEO, SCEI, effective April 1, 2008.
by Judy on Feb. 20, 2008 @ 11:59 a.m. PST | Filed under
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In response to online survey findings, Sony Online Entertainment today announced the G.I.R.L. scholarship program (Gamers in Real Life) with The Art Institutes that's designed to educate and recruit more women into the video game industry. The prize is a $10,000 tuition scholarship for The Art Institutes school at which winner is currently enrolled and a paid internship of up to 10 weeks at an SOE studio. The entry deadline is May 31, 2008.
by Rainier on Aug. 10, 2006 @ 10:05 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Sony Online Entertainment today announced that it has acquired key assets of independent online trading card game developer Worlds Apart Productions. Key employees of Worlds Apart will form the core of the new SOE-Denver, integrating into SOE's worldwide group of studios.
by Rainier on July 20, 2006 @ 12:10 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Sony Online Entertainment today announced a licensing agreement with Epic Games to use their Unreal Engine 3 for the development of next-generation console and PC-based games. SOE will utilize this technology for a number of future projects, including the DC Comics-based game currently under development at SOE-Austin.
by Rainier on Jan. 1, 2006 @ 1:30 a.m. PST | Filed under
E3 - Post - E3 2003
by Thomas on Aug. 18, 2003 @ 10:54 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE) announced today that it is finalizing plans to create SOEGames.net , an online game matching service that will allow gamers to find each other and battle it out across the Internet. The first games to take advantage of SOEGames.net will be Lords of EverQuest and Champions of Norrath, two upcoming Sony Online Entertainment titles. SOEGames.net will also be the first game matching system designed to host both console and PC games.
by Rainier on May 19, 2003 @ 9:16 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Today we have a batch of screens from Sony Online Entertainment's E3 Lineup, featured titles are :
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