planetside 2

Official Site: PlanetSide 2
Studio: SOE, now Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date: November 20, 2012
Genre: Sci-Fi MMOFPS Sandbox
Business Model: F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, PS4
See Also: PlanetSide

PlanetSide 2 boss hedges on existence of PlanetSide 3 in new interview

Bree Royce - February 19, 2020 7

It's a bit out of date, since it refers to the launch of Escalation as if it were happening today (MMO players have known...

Jack Emmert isn’t sure Daybreak will publish his next MMO, says DCUO is as big as it was four years ago

Bree Royce - February 18, 2020 17

In January, Daybreak finally announced the fruits of its "realignment" that we'd been covering since last summer: It was splitting off new substudios for...

PlanetSide 2’s Escalation update is pushed back to February 26

Chris Neal - February 17, 2020 1

It would seem that reaction to the recent PTS build of PlanetSide 2's Escalation update is forcing Rogue Planet Games to work a bit...

PlanetSide 2 brings Escalation adjustments to the test server after a brief delay

Chris Neal - February 13, 2020 0

The much ballyhooed Escalation update due to arrive to PlanetSide 2 got a few notable tweaks yesterday on the test server, which could be...

Valentine’s Day 2020 across the MMO universe

Bree Royce - February 13, 2020 2

Per tradition, we've been covering the launch of Valentine's Day events in MMOs and MMORPGs over the last couple of weeks, but tomorrow is...

PlanetSide 2 celebrates Valentine’s Day, hypes Escalation

Chris Neal - February 10, 2020 1

Admittedly, there probably aren't many ways a game like PlanetSide 2 can mark a holiday around love like Valentine's Day other than let players...

PlanetSide 2 brings Escalation to the live servers on February 19

Eliot Lefebvre - February 7, 2020 5

Normally, escalation of a conflict is kind of a bad thing. In the case of PlanetSide 2, though, the upcoming Escalation update is arguably...

Global Chat: Do you binge-play MMOs?

Justin Olivetti - February 2, 2020 13

With TV streaming services that dump entire seasons of shows on us at once, we have become a society that is used to binging...

PlanetSide 2 provides an update on server hardware replacements for eastern US players

Chris Neal - January 30, 2020 3

This past Tuesday, nearly all of the servers for PlanetSide 2 got replaced. I say "nearly all" because the eastern US servers did not...

Daybreak formally announces the new substudios for PlanetSide, EverQuest, and DCUO

Bree Royce - January 21, 2020 51

Last year was riddled with rumors coming out of Daybreak Games, as last summer the once-glorious MMORPG company registered multiple websites and trademarks for Darkpaw Games, Rogue...

PlanetSide 2 patches in weapon changes and major shifts to continent lockdowns

Eliot Lefebvre - January 15, 2020 0

The latest patch for PlanetSide 2 does not contain some of the database migration that was originally planned for the title. That's the bad news....

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020

Eliot Lefebvre - January 15, 2020 65

This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...

At one point, this seemed like a big deal.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 254: New year mysteries

Justin Olivetti - January 7, 2020 11

Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Camelot Unchained, Guild Wars, the Bless franchise, City of Heroes, LOTRO, SWG Legends, and The Witcher, with mailbag topics on CoH on console, PlanetSide's mismanagement, and a celebratory haiku that prompts some follow-up site discussion!