daybreak game company

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.

Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Games and education

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

The Game Archaeologist: Ultima X Odyssey

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I think any MMO veteran has a private list of prematurely canceled games that he or she deeply wishes had been completed and launched....

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for Marvel Heroes & superhero MMO fans

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If you're a superhero fan or close to someone who is, you are certainly not lacking for options as to where to spend gobs...

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for the shooter and console MMO fan

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Well, I'm still playing the hell out of Star Wars: Battlefront, despite its many (many) faults! It may just be the Star Wars feels, but this...

The best MMO deals of Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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You could give thanks on Thanksgiving, or gorge yourself on festive food alongside your bickering family members, but we say there's nothing like shopping from the comfort...

Daybreak gifts two weeks of All-Access membership to EverQuest II returnees

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Almost everyone knows that EverQuest II's newest expansion launched last week, but what you might not realize is that the very same day, Daybreak launched...

The Stream Team: Back to everyday questing in EverQuest II

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With so many festivals, events, and now the expansion, MassivelyOP's MJ hasn't had time to focus any on the core game of EverQuest II....

Free EverQuest II server transfers available in December

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With the big EverQuest II server merges all wrapped up, Daybreak is delivering on its promise of offering players free transfers between the Halls of...

EverQuest’s multibox-free progression server is coming December 9th

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We first heard about the possibility of a bot-free EverQuest progression server back at E3. Now on December 9th, that server will become a...

H1Z1 warns players of full server wipe happening tomorrow

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Can an apocalypse happen after the apocalypse? That's the ironic state of affairs for H1Z1, which will be experiencing a full server wipe tomorrow...
Full of sound and fury. Sadly.

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for the MMO peripheral junkie

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I'm not going to lie, folks: I love peripherals. Love 'em. As soon as I was introduced to the idea that you could have...

Star Citizen alpha 2.0 goes into testing

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Star Citizen fans have had a long wait for the game's big Alpha 2.0 update -- but that wait is just about over. CIG announced over...

MMO Mechanics: Three game-changing movement mechanics

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In order to create the most truly challenging MMOs that connect players with the specific virtual environments they're traversing, developers have always worked on...

One Shots: Transformations

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Guild Wars 2 and One Shots is a pairing as old as time immemorial. Thus, it's great to bring this good-looking MMO back into...

The Game Archaeologist: Shadowbane

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Way back when I used to haunt the corridors of Gamestop and had yet to shun the place due to its stinky evil, I remember...

The Stream Team: Get a gift for PlanetSide 2’s anniversary

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Careful now, that's not candlelight on a cake you see for PlanetSide 2's birthday -- that's the glow of gunfire! But that won't deter...

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