Ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley starts Amazon game studio after Kickstarter failure
John Smedley, the former chief of Sony’s online business, has joined Amazon to create a new game studio in San Diego, Calif. The move...
Former Sony Online Entertainment boss’s Pixelmage Games studio shuts down
The Hero’s Song isn’t over until the rubenesque hero lady sings. Pixelmage Games, the studio responsible for Hero’s Song, has shut down, according to...
Pixelmage’s Hero’s Song fantasy role-playing game hits early backers in November (update)
John Smedley, former head of Sony Online Entertainment, is getting ready to ship another game. But this new game, Hero’s Song, is different because...
Ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley cancels Kickstarter campaign for Hero’s Song role-playing game
John Smedley, the former head of Sony Online Entertainment, has canceled his Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Hero’s Song, the first game from his new Pixelmage Games studio....
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 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.
Lizard Squad lashes out after Daybreak Games CEO threatens cyberattacker group
Yesterday, the chief executive officer of publisher Daybreak Games made headlines for threatening a group of cyberattackers. Today, the company’s website and games are experiencing outages.
Beware the dark: H1Z1 players switch off when night falls on the zombie apocalypse
The massively multiplayer online zombie game has a realistic day-and-night cycle, but developer Daybreak Game Company — formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment — crunched some data and found a much higher percentage of players log out when it gets dark.
After Sony spinout, H1Z1 developer Daybreak Game Company is free to publish on new platforms
After spinning out of Sony, Daybreak can move its online games to Xbox One or any platform it wants.
H1Z1 ‘pay to win’ critics can get their money back from Sony
Public perception is turning against H1Z1, and Sony is working to make everyone happy.