planetside

Official Site: PlanetSide
Studio: SOE, now Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date: May 20, 2003
Genre: Sci-Fi MMOFPS Sandbox
Business Model: F2P
Platform: PC
See Also: PlanetSide 2

Daybreak’s new game is PlanetSide Arena, and yes, it’s a battle royale

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Earlier this week, Daybreak began sending emails to players and former players teasing a new game being worked on within the studio's walls and...

Daybreak is announcing a new game on Thursday

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Some Daybreak fans, including our own MJ Guthrie, are receiving a cryptic note from Daybreak this week - best check your old email accounts! Apparently the MMORPG company, most recently in the news for a major round of layoffs and best known for the EverQuest and H1Z1 franchises, aims to announce a new game this week on Twitch starting at 1 p.m. EST.

Ask Mo: The hits and misses of Massively OP’s 2018 predictions

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As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later? So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.
Cool.

Planetside 2 is celebrating Christmas with an array of high-powered festive weapons

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It's time once more for Planetside 2 players to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas by engaging in an endless three-way factional war while wearing...

Rumor: Daybreak might be building a new PlanetSide game

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So who else had "the PlanetSide franchise gets a class-based battle royale" in the predictions pool? Welp, looks like it's happening. We've gotten several...
Boldly gone.

The MOP Up: Star Trek Online engages Battle at the Binary Stars

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Continuing with its push deeper into the Age of Discovery arc, Star Trek Online has warped in the Battle at the Binary Stars task...
Awesome toy banned.

PlanetSide 2 previews upcoming ‘neutral’ Nanite Systems Operatives faction

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In a game like PlanetSide 2, it can be a major challenge to maintain faction balance and ensure that no one faction is overwhelmingly...

Happy sixth birthday, PlanetSide 2 – Here’s what Daybreak’s got planned for the players

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It seems hard to believe that the sequel to SOE's original MMORPG sandbox shooter PlanetSide is itself already six years old, but here we...

MassivelyOP’s guide to MMO Halloween 2018

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Whether or not you consider yourself too old to put on that Hulk or Sparkle Twilight costume and prance ("HULK PRANCE") around the neighborhood...

PlanetSide 2 Producer Nick Silva addresses Halloween event connection issues

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Last week, Daybreak Games updated PlanetSide 2 with its Halloween event, Nanite of the Living Dead V: Seeds of Terror, but unfortunately, not everything...
Spooktacularist!

PlanetSide 2 hosts Nanite of the Living Dead event for Halloween

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You can travel to another world, but even in PlanetSide 2 the dead of Halloween will chase you. Yes, it's time to celebrate the...
It's clear now.

Perfect Ten: Failed MMOs that could have succeeded with more love

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Hindsight is 20/20. Unless you're blind in one eye from nostalgia, in which case hindsight is 0/20. In any case, you understand that it's...

The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s starbase defense

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With the Age of Discovery pack on its way this fall, players of Star Trek Online are probably curious what the studio has up its sleeve...

Daybreak announces new investment, new H1Z1 and EverQuest mobile titles, and a new esports arena

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Today does seem to be the day for big financial bombshells, doesn't it? Turns out Daybreak had a card up its sleeve too. The...

There’s a brand-new continent coming to PlanetSide 2

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For those concerned that PlanetSide 2's development had slowed to a standstill, here's some encouragement: Daybreak has a brand-new continent in the works for...
And then there was the time we shot them. And the time they shot us. And... that's it, really.

PlanetSide 2 is rolling out some classic lore

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This might astonish you, but there is actually more to the lore behind PlanetSide 2 beyond "our faction is good, the other two factions...

PlanetSide 2 disables anomalies while Daybreak figures out what their deal is

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Let's check back in with the war efforts over at PlanetSide 2 today. Daybreak's pushed out a hotfix this week that disabled anomalies while...

EverQuesting: The history of the EverQuest franchise

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Back in 2013, I took a walk through the annals of the EverQuest franchise's history. What started as one title not only blossomed into...
Baby were born to run from the other side.

Rend’s Jeremy Wood on how Frostkeep borrows from Blizzard, Dark Age of Camelot, and PlanetSide

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GameDaily has an interview with Rend's Jeremy Wood this week that covers a bunch of meta topics of interest to MMO players and watchers...

The MOP Up: PlanetSide 2 throws a summer rager (August 5, 2018)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

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