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DC Universe Online Celebrates Its 1 Year Anniversary with Free Cape

Sony has just revealed that, in honor of the 1-year anniversary of its DC Universe Online MMO, all players who have characters in the online game will get a special cape. DC Universe Online was released at the beginning of last year, offering a quality superhero online experience. At the end of 2011, Sony turned the...

13 January 2012
03:10 GMT

DC Universe Online Gets ‘Research and Development’ Crafting Mechanic Soon

DC Universe Online has gained a big number of new players once it went free-to-play last year, and Sony now wants to give them even more reasons to continue playing, thanks to a special “Research and Development” crafting mechanic that will be included in a new update. DC Universe Online became quite pop...

6 January 2012
03:15 GMT

Winter Holiday Events Now Available in Various Sony MMOs

Sony Online Entertainment has confirmed that a large number of its online games, from DC Universe Online to EverQuest 1 and 2 or Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, are now entering the winter holiday spirit by running various in-game celebrations and offering special content that will see the company donate to the Chi...

13 December 2011
20:31 GMT

DC Universe Online Deadly Double Cross Update Available to All Players

Sony Online Entertainment has just deployed a brand new update for its DC Universe Online MMORPG, called the Deadly Double Cross, available for all players of the title, even those who just joined it after becoming free-to-play.DC Universe Online delighted quite a lot of players earlier this year when it was released...

17 November 2011
04:00 GMT

EverQuest II Will Go Free-to-Play in December

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that its MMO EverQuest II is set to move to a free-to-play business model starting with December, when it will receive the Age of Discovery expansion.This means that there will be no fee required to download the game client and begin playing.There will be three membership level...

11 November 2011
10:02 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

New PSN Attacks Not Linked to April Hacks

The Sony maintained PlayStation Network has been yet again hit by a hacker attack which compromised no less than 93,000 accounts, although the company says that no credit card information has been compromised in the new hack attempt.Speaking to Gamespot John Smedley, who is the president of Sony Online Entertainment,...

13 October 2011
04:22 GMT

DC Universe Online Goes Free-to-Play This October

Sony Online Entertainment has confirmed that the recent DC Universe Online massively multiplayer online role playing game, released at the beginning of the year on the PC and PlayStation 3, is turning into a free-to-play experience.DC Universe Online impressed quite a lot of people earlier this year, with many player...

20 September 2011
13:31 GMT

Star Wars Galaxies Closure Explained by Sony

Star Wars Galaxies, the long-running online game based on the popular movie series, is set to be shut down later this year, so its administrator, Sony Online Entertainment, revealed some of the causes of this move, blaming it partly on the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO from BioWare. Online role-playing ...

13 July 2011
03:25 GMT

Cheaper SOE All Access Pass for all Sony MMOs Now Available

Sony Online Entertainment has decided to implement its own sort of "make good" offer for subscribers that were affected by the recent hacker attack, and has launched a special SOE All Access Pass, instead of the older Station Pass, which allows customers to play almost all of the major online games from the Japanese ...

30 June 2011
03:10 GMT

DC Universe Online Players Get Batman Mask, Free Access Month After Hacker Attack

Sony Online Entertainment has revealed just what players of its DC Universe Online MMO will receive after yesterday's news that the company's servers have been hacked and personal information from around 24.6 million users was compromised. After the hacking of the PlayStation Network, which forced Sony t...

4 May 2011
03:55 GMT

Sony Discloses Second Major Data Breach

Following recent revelations that PlayStation Network (PSN) was compromised by hackers who stole the personal information of millions of users, Sony Online Entertainment, another division of Sony Corporation, announced a computer intrusion that led to the exposure of over 24 million personal and financial records.San...

3 May 2011
09:49 GMT

Sony Online Entertainment Admits 24.6 Million User Accounts Compromised

Things are going from bad to worse for Sony, as after the recent hacking of the PlayStation Network almost two weeks ago, Sony Online Entertainment, the company's MMO division, revealed that its servers were hacked and around 24.6 million user accounts have been compromised. Yesterday, the Japanese company sa...

3 May 2011
02:15 GMT

PSN Data Leak Doesn't Affect Sony Online Entertainment MMO Players

In between the massive problems with the PlayStation Network, which is still offline for over a week due to a hacker attack, Sony Online Entertainment revealed that the customer information for all of its MMO players wasn't affected by the attack. Sony formally admitted yesterday that hackers might have stole...

28 April 2011
14:21 GMT

Sony Online Entertainment Confirms 200 Layoffs, Cancels The Agency MMO

Sony Online Entertainment, the company's MMO-oriented division, has just announced that it has made over 200 layoffs today, closed down three studio locations and stopped the development on The Agency MMO project. Sony Online Entertainment is known for online games like EverQuest, PlanetSide or the more recen...

1 April 2011
14:21 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 Catwoman Update Released for PC and PS3

DC Universe Online has just received its first major update and add-on, which not only fixes a lot of issues but also brings new quests and campaigns.DC Universe Online is Sony Online Entertainment's most popular online role-playing game, even if it was launched at the beginning of the year.Now, the super-hero M...

23 February 2011
14:21 GMT

EverQuest II Gets Destiny of Velious Expansion

Sony Online Entertainment has announced the launch of the most recent expansion for its MMO EverQuest II, called Destiny of Velious, adding end-game content for high-level players and a whole new area that players are able to explore at will. The events of Destiny of Velious follow those seen in Sentine's Fat...

23 February 2011
02:40 GMT

The Agency, New PlanetSide and PS3 Free Realms Will Arrive in 2011

Sony Online Entertainment has got its hands busy at the moment with the launch of the DC Universe Online, the superhero based MMO which offers gamers a chance to roll around with Superman and Batman, but the company also plans to release three new MMOs during 2011, the much-delayed The Agency, the PlayStation 3 versi...

20 January 2011
09:27 GMT

Free Realms Launches for Mac OS X

Free Realms, the free-to-play, online game from Sony Online Entertainment, is now available for Mac OS X, the game’s makers have announced in cooperation with TransGaming Inc., the company behind Cider, a technology that allows PC games to be enabled on Apple's Intel Macs.Sony Online Entertainment has issu...

4 November 2010
11:37 GMT

EverQuest II Goers Partially Free to Play with Extended

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it plans to launch a new EverQuest II service, called Extended, which is set to allow gamers to access more than five years worth of in game context for free. The new initiative will exist alongside the paid subscription model for the rest of the MMO, with players free to ...

28 July 2010
08:06 GMT

SOE Announces Star-Filled Voice Cast for DC Universe Online

Sony Online Entertainment has announced the voice cast of its upcoming massively multiplayer online role playing game, DC Universe Online. There are some very good news for the fans of DC Comics, as Kevin Conroy will be reprising his role as the Batman, while Mark Hamill will come back as the infamous Joker.“We...

22 July 2010
08:01 GMT

The Agency Might Not Feature Cross-Platform Play Between PC and PS3

This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was filled with big announcements, but one that managed to drop by under the radar was Sony Online Entertainment's recent game, The Agency. While the spy-theme and the fact that it will give players access to a huge number of customization tools might not have ...

8 July 2009
02:18 GMT

Sony Online Entertainment Gives 20,000 Dollars to Charity

Gaming, and gamers subsequently, have been accused of a lot of bad things over the years, such as being very violent or inclined to acts of selfishness. However, slowly but surely, companies in the gaming industry are beginning to show the mainstream media another side to this branch of entertainment. We've alr...

27 February 2009
02:40 GMT

Steam Adds Sony Online's MMO Lineup to Portfolio

Times change and so does the whole industry, which is very obvious with the game segment, as players are more and more drawn to online distribution networks, like Steam or GameTap, and prefer them to the traditional “brick-and-mortar” retail chains, like GameStop. But despite the claims of game store owne...

19 January 2009
02:45 GMT

Sony Online Entertainment Boss Confident in MMORPGs for the PlayStation 3

MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) are becoming more and more attractive to a lot of players. This is largely due to the fact that they find themselves in need to interact with other people just like them, and, through such online games where a lot of gamers participate, such a thing is possibl...

16 January 2009
02:22 GMT

Star Wars Galaxy Is Five Years Old

Star Wars Galaxies is getting old. Which, in the MMO world, is good news, as it proves that the game has stood the test of time and still enjoys a dedicated following. LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment, the developer and the publisher of the game, are planning quite a few events to mark the anniversary.On July ...

4 July 2008
16:06 GMT

The Agency Will Have In-Game Item Auction House

Micro-transactions will not be available in The Agency, the spy-themed MMO developed by Sony Online Entertainment that should be out by the end of the year. Rumors regarding such a system were sparked by the fact that SOE and Live Gamer entered into an agreement last month regarding real money trading services, that ...

16 June 2008
09:06 GMT

Trade for Real Money in The Agency

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that its upcoming spy-filled MMO called The Agency will allow the players to engage in real money trading in the game. The announcement is backed by a deal with Live Gamer, a company that specializes in implementing secure and clean ways for real money trading.What exactly does...

16 May 2008
03:22 GMT

EverQuest and EverQuest II Get Expansions Simultaneously - 'A Herculean Feat'

No, 'Herculean feat' is not the name of one of the two expansion packs, but what Russ Shanks, COO and Vice President of Sony Online Entertainment reckons they've achieved with launching two expansions for two franchise installments, simultaneously. EverQuest Secrets of Faydwer and EverQuest II Rise of ...

15 November 2007
07:38 GMT


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