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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Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Biggest Disappointment of 2015
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the biggest MMO disappointment of 2015.
Last year, we gave this "award" to WildStar and ArcheAge in...
DC Universe Online reveals the conclusion to the War of the Light in Episode 20
The heroes and villains of DC Universe Online have been dealing with the War of the Light for a while now, but the arrival...
EverQuest’s anti-multiboxing progression server is now live
Classic EverQuest's latest time-locked progression server, Phinigel, successfully launched last night. Nicknamed "the true box progression server," it metes out expansion content at a...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Studio of the Year
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best MMO studio of the year.
Last year's award was won by SOE, you'll recall, a...
Ten years ago today, Star Wars Galaxies’ NGE made the New York Times
Hat tip to Redditor dejoblue, who's reminded everyone about the fateful day back in 2005 when SOE, struggling in the wake of World of Warcraft's...
David Georgeson and Jeremy Soule are working together on a mystery project
David Georgeson is best known, of late, for the work he did on both Landmark and EverQuest Next before departing Daybreak. Jeremy Soule is...
Landmark’s holiday patch introduces the Winter Holiday Party Zone
Landmark's been eerily quiet since Halloween, but good news, everyone: The game's just gotten a new holiday-themed update.
Senior Producer Terry Michaels told forumgoers that...
The Stream Team: Soloing on EverQuest II’s Stormhold progression server
MassivelyOP's MJ has talked about how difficult it was to solo in the group-centric early days of EQII, but have you seen it? With...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite voxel-based game?
Every time I play Space Engineers, or even write a post about it, I'm blown away by the recent planetary update. The sheer size...
The MOP Up: Players choose Lineage II classic server name (December 6, 2015)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
EverQuest II’s top 10 Player Studio items
Have you ever wondered which of those player-created items in EverQuest II's marketplace sold the best? Well let's just say if you've purchased the...
H1Z1’s booby traps look fairly painful
Have you ever trapped an actual booby? It seems like that would be pretty difficult. I won't get into the hows and whys and...
Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for the MMO hipster
I say this with nothing but love in my heart: Some of you guys are serious MMO hipsters. Heck, some of you guys were...
DC Universe Online’s Episode 19 is live for subscribers
If you're a DC Universe Online subscriber, you can now play the game's latest content patch, otherwise known as Episode 19. It's called The...
Massively Overthinking: Counting the hits and misses of our 2015 predictions
Every year, we lodge our predictions for the next. Funny, strange, and deadly serious, these predictions are a glance back on the naïvetés of 2014 and...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Games and education
We've got some really smart commenters here at MassivelyOP, and I think they help keep the fiercer trolls away. But when Joystiq itself went under,...
EverQuest II begins planning 13th expansion
We hope EverQuest II players aren't going to get too comfy in last month's Terrors of Thalumbra, as Daybreak is already hard at work planning...
Global Chat: Sifting the good raiders from the bad
Game designer and blogger Psychochild posited an interesting question recently: How can you tell the difference between a good raider and a bad one?
He...
The Stream Team: Antonican adventures on EverQuest II’s progression server
After nearly drowning in the sea of EverQuest II events these past couple of months, MassivelyOP's MJ realized she hasn't been back to the...
Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for EverQuest franchise and Daybreak fans
It's that time of year again: when you realize half-way through your indulgence of in-game festivals that you totally forgot to go out and...
