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Sony Allows You To Build In-Game Items With Player Studio

Sony Online Entertainment has revealed Player Studio, a program that allows players to build in-game items of their own for a select (and expanding) library of titles. As the official website explains it, you'll "download sample geometry, learn how virtual items are constructed, and try designing items." This also includes naming the...

Posted September 7, 2012
EverQuest 2 Expansion Chains Of Eternity Revealed

EverQuest 2 has been kicking around since 2004, and now Sony Online Entertainment is preparing to release the popular MMORPG's ninth official expansion pack, entitled Chains of Eternity. The content is due to arrive sometime in November 2012, adding an assortment new stuff for players to enjoy in their wanderings around Norrath. News of the...

Posted September 7, 2012
EverQuest 2 Gets SOEmote Tech -- Put Your Face In The Game

EverQuest 2 gamers are going to get a new way to express themselves. Sony Online Entertainment announced SOEmote at E3, and it's finally ready. It allows your facial movements to be tracked on your in-game character. You can even change the way your voice sounds too, making sure your character sounds exactly how you imagined. All you need is a...

Posted August 9, 2012
Everquest 2 SOEmote Gameplay Video With David Georgeson For E3 2012

This Everquest 2 SOEmote gameplay video for E3 2012 features startling new e-motion technology that lets players put their voice and facial expressions on their characters in gameplay. With this add-on for Everquest 2, you can manipulate your voice in-game to sound like specific races, such as halflings or ogres. Using facial tracking with your...

Posted June 8, 2012
Marriage Equality in Star Wars: The Old Republic - The MMO Report

Happy Thursday everyone! For us, Thursdays are special because we get bagels delivered to our office in the morning, but more importantly we also get to put up the latest episode of The MMO Report. This week Casey will show you what creepy locations are revealed in a new trailer for The Secret World, discuss the merits of marriage equality in...

Posted February 2, 2012
WoW Subscriptions are Down, But Profits are Up - The MMO Report

Happy Thirsty Thursday everyone! It's time for this week's edition of The MMO Report. Today Casey will tell you about Everquest II going free to play, how World of Warcraft can lose subscribers but still continue to make even more money, and announce the winners of our MMO Report Drinking Game Contest in Uncle Casey's Mail Bag! Now grab your...

Posted November 17, 2011
EverQuest 2 Goes Free-To-Play After 7 Years

The grandfather of MMOs, EverQuest 2 is going free-to-play sometime in December after a 7-year long run as one of the most popular RPGs on the market. After speaking with an enthusiastic Dave Georgeson, Executive Producer of EQ2, it seems that the transition will be a fantastic one all around and that longtime EQ2 players will especially be...

Posted November 11, 2011
Planetside 2 at Sony's Fan Faire - The MMO Report

Before there was World of Warcraft, there was Everquest. Before Blizzcon, there was Fan Faire. A couple weeks ago, Sony threw a huge party in Las Vegas to celebrate not only the still thriving Everquest community, but to also feature their other MMO games like DC Universe Online, which is getting a Green Lantern expansion pack. To top it all...

Posted July 21, 2011
Everquest 2 Offers Free-To-Play Option

In a telling announcement about the state of MMOs (that aren't World of Warcraft), Sony Online Entertainment today said it will be offering a free-to-play option in venerable MMORPG Everquest 2. EQ2 players will have a choice of either a subscription-based or free-to-play business model -- two "distinct experiences operating in...

Posted July 27, 2010
Sony Online Entertainment Lays Off 35 Employees

Sony Online Entertainment is the latest company to join the series of layoffs hitting the games industry. The company confirmed to me this morning they are laying off a total of 35 employees. Read More?

Posted July 15, 2010
The MMO Report: Thursday, May 27th

Oh yes, it's that time. Hike up your pants, tie your shoes, close the blinds, and prepare yourself. It's The MMO Report. This week we're showing off World of Warcraft's upcoming Remote Auction House, the planet Hoth in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and an extra large edition of Uncle Casey's Mail Bag. It's a bit swollen, and sore to the touch....

Posted May 27, 2010
The MMO Report: Thursday, February 18th

G4 is bringing you another very special guest host for The MMO Report, and this week you will be graced by the presence of the lovely Morgan Webb. She stopped by the MMO studio so she could let you know that NCsoft's profits have been soaring since Aion's release, how Star Trek Online was actually a risky venture, and that World of Warcraft...

Posted February 18, 2010
The MMO Report: Thursday, January 28th

Casey has returned once again to bring you all the MMO news you care about. Because he cares. This week we've got a new Star Trek Online trailer that reveals the inclusion of the Cardassians, a story about a creepy viral campaign for The Secret World, and how you can get the premium content for free when Global Agenda launches next week. Yeah,...

Posted January 28, 2010
The MMO Report: Thursday, February 26th

You're getting a double dose of the MMO Report this week. Consider yourself very, very lucky. In this episode, Casey covers the trailer for the upcoming EVE Online expansion Apocrypha, the story that Sony released four years of EverQuest 2 server logs to the scientific community for research purposes, and the fact that someone who won an Oscar...

Posted February 26, 2009| 8 Comments
The MMO Report: Thursday, January 22nd

Wow. The island is like a big record, and it's skipping. That's AWESOME! Anyway, this week The MMO Report is back, of course, and Casey is dropping the best kind of nerd knowledge on your ass, so you better recognize. This week we tell you about how EVE Online is finally getting rid of their Classic Client, how the IRS wants to tax monetary...

Posted January 22, 2009| 11 Comments