GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
New DC Universe Online expansion on the way, Mark Hamill returning as the Joker
Sony Online Entertainment recently revealed details for its latest downloadable content pack for DC Universe Online called the Last Laugh. Surprisingly, actor Mark Hamill will reprise his role as the Joker.
Free Realms turns three years old with more than 20 million players (exclusive)
Free Realms, the free-to-play family-friendly online world created by Sony Online Entertainment, has turned three years old. To celebrate, Sony is inviting the game’s...
Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures “Gold Death Watch armor” giveaway
Here’s our latest GamesBeat giveaway. Sony Online Entertainment is giving away 10 Gold Death Watch armor sets (pictured above) to 10 GamesBeat readers for...
Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures actually doing better after The Old Republic’s launch (exclusive)
Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, an online gaming world aimed at younger (eight- to 12-year old) fans of the animated TV show, has crossed...
Classic online game EverQuest celebrates 13th birthday with switch to free to play business model
Boy, they grow up so fast: March 16 will mark the 13th birthday of Sony Online Entertainment‘s (SOE) massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORG)...
DC Universe Online exec talks about the game’s future and competition from Star Wars (interview)
Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is celebrating DC Universe Online’s one-year anniversary today. All current players (with characters created on or before today) will receive a...
Free-to-play transition brings seven-fold revenue increase for DC Universe Online
The potentially risky move of taking DC Universe Online , the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game from Sony Online Entertainment, to a free-to-play model,...
DC Universe Online gains a million new players with free-to-play transition
A million new players have signed up for Sony Online Entertainment’s massively multiplayer online game DC Universe Online following its transition to a free-to-play business model last...
Sony Online’s Free Realms picks up a whopping 20M users
Sony Online Entertainment’s Free Realms online game has pulled in 20 million registered users since its launch in the spring of 2009, the company...