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PlanetSide 2 Dev SOE Is Now Daybreak Game Company
Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) will now be known as Daybreak Game Company after being acquired from Sony by investment management firm, Columbus Nova. SOE is the studio responsible for games...
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Lively: H1Z1 Has Sold Over 1 Million Copies
“That’s nice, dear,” is my usual response to boasts of big business numbers. They rarely reveal much interesting unless you’re really into the nitty-gritty of #business (in which case, fair play to...
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H1Z1 Invitational Set For TwitchCon, You Can Join In
H1Z1 [official site] is to hold its first official tournament on September 26th at TwitchCon, the streaming service’s new event highlighting their community and broadcasters. It will use the Battle...
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Steamfont Prison Experiment: EverQuest II Prison Server
One novelty punishment for cheats and blaggards nowadays is to imprison them with their ilk, from Dota 2 matchmaking folks who leave games with their fellow quitters to Max Payne 3 pitting cheaters...
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Planetfall: Layoffs At Everquest/H1Z1/Planetside Dev
A name change to the awkward-sounding’Daybreak Game Company’ isn’t the only consequence Sony’s recent shock sale of its MMOy division SOE to management firm Columbus Nova. Barely more than a week...
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Ridealong: The EVE Online Invasion of H1Z1
Ridealong is a new monthly feature where Brendan travels deep into game worlds to meet, question and journey with the inhabitants that dwell within. This week, the EVE Online pilots that are...
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H1Z1 Splits Into Separate Survival & Competitive Games
Multiplayer open-world zombie sandbox crafting building survival etc. H1Z1 [official site] is splitting in half, like a zombie’s who got stuck in a door and its torso is crawling onwards ever hopeful...
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MMOh, Awww: EverQuest Next Cancelled, “Wasn’t Fun”
EverQuest Next was one of the more interesting MMORPG ideas I’ve seen in a fair while. I dug the idea of introducing a touch of Minecraft with a world built in collaboration with fans, and...
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The RPG Scrollbars: EverQuest Next Killed The MMORPG
Light a candle for the genre, it’s basically done. Oh, it’ll keep ticking along, of course. This month we’ve seen Black Desert Online, there’s others on the way, and there’ll always be some audience...
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Premature Evaluation: H1Z1 – Just Survive
There’s an archetypical plot running through a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction, and particularly zombie fiction, where the survivors realize that they never before felt as alive as they do in the...
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Watch The Dying Seconds Of PlanetSide
“This is the way the world ends,” wrote T. S. Eliot, “Not with a bang but a whimper.” They didn’t have video games then, see. The world of PlanetSide [official site?] ended on Friday with meteors...
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H1Z1: King Of The Kill Battle Royaleing In September
Survival isn’t enough for the youth of today, oh no, they must make sure everyone no one else survives. Battle Royale ’em ups have spun off from open-world survival games, bringing a faster, learner...
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EverQuest Landmark is closing down next month
EverQuest Next could have been the MMO to make me love MMOs. I didn’t have a World of Warcraft phase or a City of Heroes phase, or even much of an Ultima Online phase, so these big multiplayer worlds...
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H1Z1 King Of The Kill’s next update revamps hit detection, shotguns & inventory
The goal for the folk behind H1Z1’s battle royale spin-off King Of The Kill [official site] is a game that is “consistent, competitive, fair, and fun to watch”, but there a few bumps in the road to...
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PlanetSide 1 And Legends Of Norrath To Close Down
PlanetSide 1 and Legends of Norrath are closing down. This news comes from developers Daybreak Games Company, in two posts made on each game’s respective forum. It brings an end to two long-running...
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Good Coop, Bad Coop – H1Z1: King Of The Kill
Good Coop, Bad Coop is our new series in which Graham and Brendan will be bonding in co-operative games through teamwork, friendship and shared trauma. This week, the rapid, open-world deathmatch of...
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H1Z1: King of the Kill Q&A outlines future changes
H1Z1: King of the Kill [official site] appears week-in, week-out in both our Steam Charts and in the list of the most played games on Steam, but it’s come under increased competition and criticism for...
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Have You Played… Planetside 2?
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Pew pew pew. Zap zap. EXPLODE. Those are the sounds of Planetside 2 [official...
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Update Night – H1Z1: King of the Kill
Update Night is a new fortnightly column in which Rich McCormick revisits games to find out whether they’ve been changed for better or worse through ongoing development. I had assumed that, were I...
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