Official Site:Â PlanetSide
Studio:Â SOE, now Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date:Â May 20, 2003
Genre:Â Sci-Fi MMOFPS Sandbox
Business Model:Â F2P
Platform: PC
See Also: PlanetSide 2
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PlanetSide 2 announces the return of its Outfit Wars PvP tournament in December
If you have a "mixed success," try, try again. That's (probably) the line of thinking being taken by PlanetSide 2, which has confirmed the...
EverQuest, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, and more fundraise for this year’s Extra Life push
It's the season for the annual push by gamers and game studios to support Extra Life, the charity that raises money for Children's Miracle...
PlanetSide 2’s Halloween event, Nanite of the Living Dead, is back through October 31
Lest you think that Daybreak had forgotten about PlanetSide 2 in its mad rush for announcements and releases for its five other MMORPGs this...
EG7 and Daybreak: DCUO’s volatility, EverQuest’s stability, Cold Iron’s new game, LOTRO’s canceled remaster
Last night, we covered EG7's video pitch to investors, which among other things included a segment during which EG7 and Daybreak boss Ji Ham...
EG7 Q2 2023: Daybreak’s MMORPGs are ‘predictably stable’
It's starting to look as if the Daybreak-run EG7 conglom is finally at the end of its bonkers revenue run: According to the Swedish...
PlanetSide 2 adds new implants and construction targeting lasers, heralds double XP weekend
Summer events are reinforced in Daybreak's PlanetSide 2 today with the launch of the July 19th PC update. The release reiterates the ongoing Tides...
PlanetSide 2 continues to tweak implants and construction on PTS and kicks off a summertime event
We're sorry to report to our PlanetSide 2 enjoyers that the game's latest PTS build isn't really working toward anything major. Even so, there...
Massively Uplifting: Spring and summer philanthropy and farewells in MMOs
'Tis the season! What season? Why, spring and summer! Spring is a time of growth, and our gaming-verse certainly saw growth of the generous...
Massively Overthinking: Why don’t MMOs try harder to foster great guilds?
MOP reader Mahaf1089 posed an interesting question beneath a WoW Factor column earlier this month, one that clearly resonated with our readers because it...
PlanetSide 2 PC tests some new implants, patches in UI updates and bug fixes
Last week saw PlanetSide 2 open up its PTS so players could kick the tires of seven new implants, all of which are being...
The MOP Up: Neverwinter buffs its companion healing factor by up to 100%
Neverwinter's medically minded companions received a massive infusion of green numbers this past week, as Cryptic buffed those particular pets by a significant amount.
"We...
PlanetSide 2’s Michael ‘Wrel’ Henderson has left Daybreak and the game
There's been a changing of the guard at Daybreak's Rogue Planet: Michael "Wrel" Henderson is leaving his post at the top of PlanetSide 2.
Wrel,...
PlanetSide 2 celebrates the franchise’s 20th birthday with the Fortification update and an album release
Daybreak successfully released PlanetSide 2's Fortification update for PC yesterday, ringing in what will - in two days, anyhow - be the franchise's 20th...
EG7 Q1 2023: EG7 pulled in a record $54M last quarter, and Daybreak is a huge chunk of it
Enad Global 7 aka EG7, the company that owns Daybreak, Standing Stone Games, and Piranha Games and is effectively still being run by Daybreak...
PlanetSide 2 brings improvements to base construction and a series’ 20th anniversary event on May 17
Whether you're the kind of player who wants to build bases or an old salt that's ready to mark 20 years of frantic FPS...
PlanetSide 2 lowers price of Pride decals and applies fixes to the NSO repair drone for PC players
We haven't entered Pride month yet - that's in June - but PlanetSide 2 players who wish to share pride in or support of...
PlanetSide 2 adds new abilities and MAX unit tweaks, previews developing construction updates
Did you miss out on PlanetSide 2's testing of tweaks to abilities and MAX units? Well don't worry too much about it because that...
PlanetSide 2 is testing out server improvements, faction-specific abilities, and gameplay tweaks on PTS
There's a new PTS build available for PlanetSide 2 and regular players of the large-scale FPS are probably going to want to take notice...
Ex-Blizzard execs Jen Oneal, J Allen Brack, and John Donham form Magic Soup Games
Now here's an interesting collab. Yes, it's yet another "ex-Blizzard people form a new studio and investors give them stacks of money" studio, but...
PlanetSide 2 posts St Patrick’s Day patch, continues server performance investigation
With just over a week to go until St Patrick's Day, those rare MMORPGs that celebrate the occasion are about to start rolling out...
