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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The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs
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EverQuesting: First impressions of EverQuest II’s Planes of Prophecy
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Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017
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Guild Wars 2 defends new mount price, Zadorojny stays on as Game Director, S4 plans brisk cadence
There's a bit of a kerfuffle over Guild Wars 2's new mount, which is a gorgeous peacock reskin of the raptor. ArenaNet has put...
Global Chat: Saying goodbye to Marvel Heroes
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The Stream Team: A first peek at EverQuest II’s Planes of Prophecy
Norrath has expanded! EverQuest II's Planes of Prophecy expansion launched today, and Massively OP's MJ just has to explore it. Can she find her way...
Saga of Lucimia dev argues that minimaps destroy MMORPG immersion
Saga of Lucimia has made a name for itself during its long development as a hardcore old-school indie MMO with a focus on grouping...
Raph Koster takes Rolling Stone to task over vanilla World of Warcraft
Don't ever test Raph Koster on MMORPG history, because you'll probably lose.
The Star Wars Galaxies and Crowfall designer challenged a recent Rolling Stone article and...
EverQuest II takes you inside a volcano base for next week’s expansion
What would it be like to live and work inside a base located at the center of a volcano? Hot, you think? Probably hot....
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EverChaosing: Counting my EverQuest II and Secret World Legends blessings
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The Daily Grind: Do you want to see the return of experience-loss-on-death in MMORPGs?
Last week, I mentioned experience-loss-on-death in EverQuest that was particularly irritating when caused by so-called GM events. Yes, that was in the long long...
H1Z1’s latest patch adds a new insta-respawn map and new dailies
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The Stream Team: PlanetSide 2 turns 5
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EverQuest II previews the Bastion of Thunder
Really, no one should be building a stronghold just to control portions of the weather. It leads to all sorts of problems later on....
The Daily Grind: Are you thinking of WoW Classic as a totally new MMO?
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The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you recommend to Marvel Heroes refugees?
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DC Universe Online patches in Earth-3 adventures today
This morning, the DC Universe Online servers went down to apply the game's next major patch. They may or may not be back up...
Hyperspace Beacon: Assessing SWTOR one week after the big server merges
Many people believe that server merges are innately bad because in games like ArcheAge (or even all the way back to Star Wars Galaxies),...
