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Sony Bans more than 700 Everquest Cheaters

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it has banned about seven hundred Everquest accounts, with the players guilty of using cheats in order to advance faster than normal in the MMO.Piestro, who is a community manager working on the MMO, stated on the official forums, “Remember that these suspensions are...

16 December 2011
12:01 GMT

EverQuest Plans Crackdown on MMO Cheaters

The team working on EverQuest has sent a final warning to those who play the venerable MMO, saying that all those who are engaged with practices that can be described as cheating need to stop in the near future or become the target of an upcoming crackdown.The message, written by community manager Piestro, says: &ldq...

7 December 2011
12:11 GMT

Sony Announces Halloween Events for DC Universe, Everquest and More

Video game developer and publisher Sony Online Entertainment has announced a number of special Halloween themed events for its line-up of MMOs, including DC Universe Online, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Free Realms, Magic: The Gathering -Tactics, PoxNora and Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures.In the DC comics powered MMO a...

26 October 2011
04:20 GMT

GDC Online Awards Honor Rift, Minecraft and Sony Online Entertainment

The CGDC Online Awards were revealed and the biggest winners were Minecraft and its developer Mojang, Sony Online Entertainment with a number of its products and Trion Worlds with its MMO Rift.Here's the full list for the awards:Best Online Game Design: Spiral Knights from Three Rings Design and SegaBest Online ...

13 October 2011
09:00 GMT

Return Date for DC Universe Online and Free Realms Not Yet Known

Sony Online Entertainment, the branch of Sony which deals with publishing and maintenance of MMO titles, has announced that it does not yet know when popular games like Free Realms and DC Universe Online will be playable once again, although Sony has said that it plans to have the PlayStation Network up and working a...

5 May 2011
08:35 GMT

Rumor Mill: Big Cuts Coming to Sony Online Entertainment

A number of sources inside Sony Online Entertainment have said that the company has closed down three of its development studio and that a third of all the people it had employed have been laid off. The rumor has been given some credibility by George Broussard, a video game developer that has worked on Duke Nukem,...

31 March 2011
04:59 GMT

DC Universe Online Is the Fastest Selling Sony MMO Ever

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that the recently released DC Universe Online, the MMO based around superheroes, has become the fastest selling video game in its portfolio, with the company working hard to make sure that all those who are interested in getting a boxed copy of the game can do so. The official...

26 January 2011
09:29 GMT

R.A. Salvatore Believes MMOs Should Have Clear Death Penalties

One of the most interesting future projects in the world of MMOs is the Copernicus development handled by 38 Studios, which has a team of veterans working with well known fantasy novel writer R.A. Salvatore, the man behind the success of character Drizzt Do'Urden. And some details related to how Copernicus is sh...

16 March 2010
14:01 GMT

Afraid That He Might End Up Killing Himself, a Gamer Sues World of Warcraft

After being banned from Resistance: Fall of Man by Sony for being a repeat offender found guilty of trolling, Erik Estavillo sued the company for its unjust action. When the courtroom dismissed the case, he moved on to Microsoft and Nintendo, accusing that a broken Xbox 360 caused him undue stress and that a Wii syst...

25 November 2009
05:01 GMT

Blizzard, Sony and Turbine Sued Because of MMOs

PalTalk Holdings, a New York company that claims to be holding several patents that are related to how data is shared amongst connected computers, has filed a law suit against major video-gaming companies like Sony Online Entertainment, Activision Blizzard and Turbine, saying that they infringe on its property by imp...

18 September 2009
03:23 GMT

Matrix Online Closing Down in July

Sony Online Entertainment has decided to close down The Matrix Online, the MMO that it has been operating for no less than three years. The game will shut down all the servers on July 31. The news was broken by one of the community liaisons on the official forums.Daniel Meyers stated that “Now we’ve ...

3 June 2009
04:22 GMT

EverQuest Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary

Sony Online Entertainment is proud to announce that EverQuest, the oldest of the modern MMOs, is now 10 years old and that it plans quite a few events to celebrate this. The game was initially released on March 16, 1999, and developed by Verant Interactive, which was a subsidiary of 989 Studios, a Sony subsidiary tha...

17 March 2009
15:31 GMT

Star Wars Galaxies Prepares for Wookiee Life Day

As if Christmas wasn't crowded enough in real life, with all the food available and the huge family reunions, most MMO developers are also hurrying to create special events in their games designed to draw players into the Christmas feeling by offering something named differently but in the same spirit.Sony Onlin...

18 December 2008
17:21 GMT

Avi Arad Talks about Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Movie Details

Hollywood is certainly interested in making movies based on games. Probably because it's so hard these days for script writers to come up with a decent movie idea and it's much easier to just copy one from a game and add some side stories. Most of the recent movies based on games that we saw weren't O...

3 October 2008
02:34 GMT

MMOs Coming to the PlayStation Portable

The PlayStation Portable is not in the best position in the world right now. Sales are going down, even in Japan, where  the platform has been on top of the hardware chart this year, and Sony has acknowledged that the gaming handheld is not supported by independent developers. But it's clear that the compan...

30 September 2008
06:28 GMT

Warhammer Online Will Have Around 250,000 Players

An analyst says that Electronic Arts is targeting to get “around 250,000 subscribers” for the Mythic developed Warhammer Online. He believes that the subscription numbers are set for a substantial drop after the initial month of free playing time expires at the middle of October for most of the people who...

29 September 2008
18:21 GMT

Survey Shows That MMO Players Have Other Problems Than Obesity

We all know the stereotype for a MMO player, a fat guy sitting all day at his computer, with only item statistics on his mind and no social life. But according to a recent joint study made by the University of Southern California and the University of Delaware, things are completely different in real life. The survey...

19 September 2008
21:31 GMT

Play Everquest for Free Until the End of July

As Everquest nears its 10 year anniversary, Sony is pretty consistent in its attempts to bring players back to the game that once was amongst the most successful MMOs on the market. One of the recently unveiled initiatives in this regard is the launch of the Living Legacy program, which is designed to bring old playe...

3 June 2008
02:49 GMT

SOE Now under Hirai's Watchful Eye

Sony Online Entertainment is the developer and publisher of a multitude of MMO games. Among its titles are Everquest, Everquest II, the ill-fated and update-nerfed Star Wars Galaxies and the more recent Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, originally developed by Sigil and then acquired by SOE.But SOE does much more than simply...

14 March 2008
05:29 GMT

Everquest Is Nine Years Old

Everquest might not be the best MMO out there. It may not be the prettiest or the most subscribed to MMO in the bunch, but there's one sure thing: Everquest is one of the longest running MMO that's still active. And it was, between 1999 and 2004, the most beloved and most played on-line game, even getting t...

13 March 2008
14:06 GMT

Counter Strike and EverQuest Banned in Brazil

It is really strange to hear such a piece of news, having in mind that we are talking here about some pretty old games (indeed, still very popular) - both of them are about NINE years old! Well, it seems that it's never too late to go on a banning spree in Brazil. According to AFP, this ruling was made in Octob...

21 January 2008
05:25 GMT

EverQuest - Edward Castronova and the Platinum Piece

We've heard of titles saying "Play Counter Strike for hard Cash," or "Play games and win cash prizes," while there are even more attractive titles allowing you to win cash, such as Project Entropia, where you can directly convert virtual money earned within the game, into real money. Today, we'll talk abou...

10 May 2007
19:16 GMT


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