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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Whatever happened to Ascent: the Space Game, Aura Kingdom, and Fragmented?
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The Daily Grind: Are we due for a good cyberpunk MMO?
I am a generally big fan of the cyberpunk genre, especially when it works in a healthy dose of '80s aesthetics for that clunky,...
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Yesterday's update in DC Universe Online expanded players' abilities to include...
Massively Overthinking: Tackling our hoarding problem in MMORPGs
By coincidence, two articles in my feeds this past week both centered on video game hoarding - not hoarding the actual games but hoarding...
EverQuest and EverQuest II tease plans for 2018
Daybreak has lavished the EverQuest and EverQuest II websites with community letters from producer Lauren "Mooncast" McLemore. Both MMOs just came off a pair...
Camelot Unchained lands $7.5M investment to hasten development: Our chat with Mark Jacobs on funding, VR, and beta one
If you know one thing about indie MMORPG Camelot Unchained, it's that CEO Mark Jacobs appears to dwell perpetually in internet comment sections amiably...
Crowfall’s Raph Koster goes into insane depth on the cost of creating video games
If you have an exceptional memory, you might recall that a couple of months ago, Crowfall and Star Wars Galaxies designer Raph Koster wrote...
Just Survive wipes and starts over for the sake of ‘fair play’
Yes. There is indeed a yeti with a sniper rifle in the header. Let us all pretend that he doesn't exist and he might...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2018
This is, bar none, the column I hate doing most on a regular basis. None of the games I highlight in here is something...
City of Titans drafts volunteer to build metro landmarks
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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best camping system?
The first MMORPG I ever played had a camping skill. You chopped down some wood for kindling, clicked to build a fire, and then...
The Stream Team: Cheers to seven years, DC Universe Online
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Massively Overthinking: What’s the smallest MMO you’re willing to play?
A comment on Reddit about the current size and viability of Kritika Online got me thinking about MMO playerbases in general lately. We all...
DC Universe Online celebrates seven years and you get the gifts!
Today marks the seventh anniversary of DC Universe Online, and players are getting some goodies in honor of the occasion. Lead Producer Leah "Katnikov"...
Tamriel Infinium: Three things MMORPGs could learn from Elder Scrolls Online
Looking at the title, you might think that I believe Elder Scrolls Online is the perfect MMO, and in that case, you'd be incorrect....
EverQuest trots out a new lizardy lockbox
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Saga of Lucimia widens its testing pool while hoping that its community will ‘play nice’
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Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2018?
It's tradition around here to take stock of Daybreak's MMO offerings every year, thanks to the fact that one of the first big stories...
