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 MMO Blunder of the Year
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for biggest MMO blunder of the year.
Last year, we called developer hubris and obstinance the biggest blunder...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio maintains the best community presence?
Last week, when the Massively staff was debating internally which MMO company deserved our best MMO studio of 2015 award, I argued that overseas studios...
H1Z1 gets comfortable with food
What does H1Z1 and The Sims have in common? Other than being gruesome torture boxes for innocent video game characters, both games are focused...
Rokh offers a persistent multiplayer survival sandbox set on Mars
If H1Z1's zombies and ARK: Survival Evolved's dinos aren't your kind of survival sandbox, how about one set on the planet Mars?
Darewise Entertainment and...
Perfect Ten: The 10 best free-to-play MMORPGs
You know one of the reasons I like writing this column? Because one of these days I'm going to be able to make a...
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...
