Daybreak Game Company, colloquially known as just Daybreak, is what remains of the formerly Sony-owned studio SOE. The company was renamed following its purchase by investment firm Columbus Nova in early 2015. It is known best for the EverQuest and PlanetSide franchises, as well as Star Wars Galaxies, DC Universe Online, H1Z1, Vanguard, Dragon’s Prophet, The Matrix Online, Free Realms, and Clone Wars Adventures.
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Ahead of Star Wars Galaxies’ 20th birthday, the Legends and Resto rogue servers are on the move
The Star Wars Galaxies emulator and rogue server community is surely eyeing the game's 20th anniversary later this month and is already cueing up...
The Daily Grind: What is your favorite non-minipet pet in an MMO?
I've mentioned in the past that it took me a long, long time in MMOs before I became a "pet" person, largely because pet...
EverQuest and EverQuest II hand out free Pride-colored lion pets
This year's Pride Month has been celebrated across multiple MMOs and MMORPGs with free cosmetic items, and it looks as if both EverQuest and...
Jack Emmert confirms that NetEase’s Warhammer 40,000 MMO is being built in Unreal Engine 5
Hopefully you didn't miss the fascinating announcement last month that Jack Emmert's new Austin-based, NetEase-owned game studio is working on a Warhammer 40,000 MMO...
DC Universe Online reruns a summer celebration, hands out Pride cosmetics, and boosts artifact XP
There are multiple events happening in the latest update to DC Universe Online that are casting a pretty wide net of interest, so if...
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,...
MMO Business Roundup: SEGA’s layoffs, Diablo Immortal’s fines, and MY.GAMES’ Middle East ambitions
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent gaming industry news!
SEGA: Sega's issued yet another round of layoffs this week, slashing 121...
The Daily Grind: What do you hope Amazon’s LOTR MMO does differently from LOTRO?
In the comments of our pieces on Amazon's second go-round with the Lord of the Rings IP in the MMO space, multiple MMO gamers...
Perfect Ten: 10 old MMO promises that never happened
Developers like to talk a big game. It's expected, it's encouraged by all parties, and it's part of the fun. When a game or...
An investor group is trying to mangle Daybreak’s EG7 for shareholder payouts
Just a week ago, we covered EG7's first quarter financial report, and you know what, it was good. Like real good. Like record-setting for...
The MOP Up: Don’t fear Last Epoch’s Reaper form
Last Epoch's Reaper is getting a glow-up with this week's update! The studio said that it's improving the visual effects, outfit, and groovy scythes...
LOTRO Legendarium: Amazon plays at making a Lord of the Rings MMO… again
Weren't we just here?
I mean, that's what everyone's thinking, am I right? It was just three years ago that I penned a column about...
Vague Patch Notes: The power of perspective in MMOs
So now that Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is out, there is a very funny meme that is going around, but it...
Massively Overthinking: Solving the MMO gear obsolescence problem
Last weekend, Amazon told players in a New World Discord Q&A that the expansion still on the way will essentially nullify existing gear to...
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...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 422: Two Lord of the Rings MMOs to rule them all
Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's new LOTR MMO (again), LOTRO's King's Gondor, WoW's Fractured in Time, official WoW Classic hardcore, Diablo IV, FFXIV, and financials for NCsoft, Square, and Pearl Abyss, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and SWG Legends.
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...
The Daily Grind: When has an ‘improvement’ in an MMO made it much worse?
I haven't taken any German since college, but I did recently learn a new word: verschlimmbesserung, which essentially translates to "disimprovement" - specifically, an...
Several thousand gamers put indie MMO Monsters & Memories to the test in April
At the end of April, Niche Worlds Cult ran a stress test for throwback MMORPG Monsters & Memories, and the MMO community apparently came...
