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EverQuest II faces the Showdown at the Diaku Corral in today’s patch
Over the course of your adventures in EverQuest II you've gotten to do a lot of things, but the odds are good you haven't...
EverQuest opens up its progression servers to everyone for a month
While Daybreak is about the most enthusiastic studio you'll ever see when it comes to rolling out alternate ruleset servers for its MMORPGs, the...
EverQuest II’s GU 114, Showdown at Diaku Corral, mixes westerns with fantasy next week
Daybreak's Darkpaw Games has some fun planned for EverQuest II players during quarantine: It's releasing GU 114 Showdown at Diaku Corral next week, complete...
EverQuest II discusses solo content, crafting, and auto-attack updates in a podcast
Kyle "Kander" Vallee, creative director for EverQuest II, has recorded and shared the third episode of his Kander's Candor podcast, which talks about, among...
Global Chat: High adventure in Dungeons and Dragons Online
If there was ever an MMO that was made for parties to adventure together, it is Dungeons and Dragons Online. Telwyn over at GamingSF...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that were ahead of their time
Timing is, as they say, everything. A good idea presented at the wrong time (and perhaps in the wrong way) might fizzle hard when...
Global Chat: Is Animal Crossing New Horizons an MMO?
One trend that we have noticed over the past decade or so is the blurring of lines between "regular" video games and MMORPGs. It...
EverQuesting: Looking back at EverQuest’s 21st year
There are landmark years, and then there are landmark years. (Not to be confused with Landmark, which has been gone for years.) You can...
The Bristlebane Day April Fool’s event returns to EverQuest II
Fizzlethorpe be praised, the silly season has returned once more to EverQuest II! As of this past Friday and running all the way until...
EverQuest bungles new overseer system, infuriating fans
Sometimes, Daybreak's just gotta Daybreak, and there's nothing we can do but shake our heads and laugh mirthlessly.
A black cloud is spreading over EverQuest's...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 264: Don’t feel blue, MapleStory 2
Justin, Bree, Eliot, and Chris discuss the pandemic's positive impact on gaming, MapleStory 2, Guild Wars 2, EverQuest, and Warhammer Online, with adventures in Animal Crossing, Star Trek Online, GW2, SWG Legends, Dauntless, and FFXIV, and an epic lightning round mailbag.
EverQuest activates a short bonus period, releases a cappella album
Even as EverQuest's team transitions to working from home, it doesn't mean things are slowing down for the title during its anniversary month. In...
Perfect Ten: Original MMOs that never came to be
"What could have been" is a path that I travel frequently, especially when I write The Game Archaeologist column. It genuinely haunts me that...
EverQuest’s birthday includes free level 85 boosts and word of new progression servers
Even with a change in leadership, EverQuest is roaring right into its 21st birthday this month. To celebrate Daybreak has turned on a 50%...
The Stream Team: EverQuest hits drinking age!
There are birthday's and then there are 21st birthdays! And EverQuest just hit the big one. The original Norrath is commemorating turning 21 today...
Battle Bards Episode 164: Away with the fairies
If you ever walked into a forest glade at the light of the first full moon of the year, you may spy an impish...
Daybreak’s new EverQuest and EverQuest II boss Jennifer Chan addresses players in new dev blog
Last week, Daybreak's Holly Longdale stunned players of EverQuest and EverQuest II when she announced she'd be leaving the Daybreak team she's headed up...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 262: Holly Holly oxen free
Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak's Holly Longdale's departure, City of Heroes' Homecoming video ban, PlanetSide 2's Escalation, Black Desert's birthday, Cryptic's chat nuke, Guild Wars 2's next episode, changing MMO opinions, and MMO automation, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, and SWG Legends.
Interview: Saga of Lucimia on themepark design, SWG inspiration, and the MMO genre
Last week, we ran an interview with Stormhaven Studios' Tim Anderson, the boss behind upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia. That interview was focused on...
The Daily Grind: Are you worried about the fate of EverQuest right now?
Ever since last Friday's latest Daybreak drama - the announcement that longtime EverQuest franchise head Holly Longdale was leaving the studio for some big...
