EverQuest marks its 25th anniversary — 84 original characters are still playing the game
It is EverQuest’s 25th anniversary, and the online game’s owner Daybreak Game Company is marking the celebration with some gifts for fans. It has...
Raph Koster’s real talk about a real metaverse
Not many people can say “been there, done that” on the metaverse. But Raph Koster, CEO of Playable Worlds, has been making online worlds...
Daybreak creates individual studios for EverQuest, DC Universe, and PlanetSide
Daybreak Games is making some big moves, creating three new studios that will each dedicate themselves to one of the company’s big MMO franchises....
Game devs have three choices interacting online: be a robot, log off — or risk the mob
I remember when I first went online as the representative of a big company. It was 2001, and I was working in the digital...
Gaming’s future is and has always been massively multiplayer
It’s the end of 2017 and World of Warcraft still dominates the western hemisphere as the most popular massively multiplayer role-playing game on the...
EverQuest Next dies, throwing series’ future into doubt
EverQuest Next was one of the largest MMOs coming, and its cancellation is further evidence that the once powerful genre is waning in popularity as more competitive PC games like League of Legends — which makes about $1 billion a year from in-game purchases — thrive.
Hero’s Song RPG is the first game from ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley’s startup
John Smedley, the former head of Sony Online Entertainment, has unveiled Hero’s Song, the first game from his new studio PixelImage Games. Smedley served at...
Daybreak used long-lost code to launch a surprise for — and keep a secret from — EverQuest II players
Game companies don’t often get to play a happy trick on their customers. EverQuest II‘s designers got an idea early in June: They would release...
Daybreak Game Company’s John Smedley steps down as chief executive officer
Just a few weeks after Lizard Squad took down Daybreak servers, one of the pioneers of massively multiplayer online games and the free-to-play strategy on home consoles is leaving his company.
The worst ideas you never saw in EverQuest — like the muffin zone
Developers of the 16-year-old massively multiplayer RPG tell us about epic failures: dragons-in-a-box, hidden ninjas, and a zone that was supposed to work like a clock.