by Rainier on June 8, 2022 @ 9:12 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Playable Worlds has appointed MMO trailblazer Gordon Walton as Executive Producer and Chief Product Officer.
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 Dec. 17, 2014 @ 2:47 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Sony Online Entertainment is kicking off its annual winter seasonal events and promotions for players across its games portfolio, including DC Universe Online, Dragon's Prophet, EverQuest, EverQuest II and PlanetSide 2.
by Rainier on Oct. 17, 2014 @ 1:26 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Sony Online Entertainment is kicking off its annual Halloween seasonal events and promotions for players across its games portfolio, including DC Universe Online, Dragon's Prophet, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Landmark, and PlanetSide 2.
by Rainier on Jan. 25, 2014 @ 3:33 a.m. PST | Filed under
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Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it will be shutting down four of its MMOs. Free Realms, Clone Wars Adventures, Vanguard and Wizardry Online have all been suffering from declining player population and as such are closing down.
by Rainier on July 24, 2013 @ 10:52 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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New developer/publisher Molten Games has received a multimillion-dollar investment from Korean publisher NCSOFT.
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 Feb. 6, 2012 @ 11:27 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Valentine's Day is around the corner, and SOE is celebrating with activities and events in a handful of its games such as Free Realms and EverQuest II.
by Rainier on May 2, 2011 @ 5:19 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Earlier today SOE issued a short statement that its servers had been breached/hacked and as a precaution it had taken down its services until it could determine the damage caused. After initially stating that no customer data had been stolen, but now Sony Online confirmed that thousands of SOE's 24.6 million customers had their credit card information compromised.
by Rainier on May 2, 2011 @ 9:53 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Not only is Sony having issues with the PS3's Playstation Network, but Sony Online Entertainment seems to have been invaded as well, issuing the following statement, "We have had to take the SOE service down temporarily. In the course of our investigation into the intrusion into our systems we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately. We will provide an update later today (Monday)."
by Rainier on Dec. 16, 2010 @ 4:22 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Sony Online Entertainment is gearing up for winter by spreading holiday cheer across its online gaming catalog with festive in-game events, activities and more in Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Free Realms, EverQuest, EverQuest II, and Star Wars Galaxies.
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. 29, 2009 @ 6:15 a.m. PST | Filed under
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SOE has signed a publishing agreement with PopCap Games that will bring five hit titles to the PlayStation Network, starting with Bejeweled 2. Fan favorites, Zuma, Heavy Weapon, Peggle and Feeding Frenzy will become available shortly thereafter.
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 Jan. 16, 2009 @ 12:15 p.m. PST | Filed under
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Sony Online Entertainment has signed a distribution agreement with Valve to bring its MMO titles to Steam, starting with the EverQuest and EverQuest II collections, as well as Vanguard: Saga of Heroes and Pirates of the Burning Sea.
by Rainier on Oct. 15, 2008 @ 5:48 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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EverQuest, EverQuest II, Star Wars Galaxies, Legends of Norrath, Vanguard Saga of Heroes, EverQuest Online Adventures and The Matrix Online players can celebrate All Hallows Eve by participating in themed quests, donning avatar costumes and masks, and trick-or-treating for loot and candy!
by Judy on July 20, 2008 @ 9:31 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Check out the following new screens and trailer from Sony Online's E3 2008 lineup:
by Rainier on May 14, 2008 @ 5:08 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Live Gamer, marketplace for real money trading of virtual items, has entered into an agreement with Sony Online Entertainment to offer real money trading (RMT) in The Agency and Free Realms.
by Rainier on April 22, 2008 @ 5:03 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Citing Hollywood executives, the
LA Times claims that Sony has been in licensing talks with movie/tv studios the past few weeks in order to launch an online video service through its PS3 game console, as early as this summer. While Sony of course did not comment on the matter, SCEA's senior vice president of marketing Peter Dille said "we'll be offering a video service for PS3 in a way that separates the service from others you've seen or used." The service will have to compete with Microsoft's Xbox Live which currently offers 350 movies and more than 5,000 episodes of TV shows.
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.
