planetside

Official Site: PlanetSide
Studio: SOE, now Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date: May 20, 2003
Genre: Sci-Fi MMOFPS Sandbox
Business Model: F2P
Platform: PC
See Also: PlanetSide 2

The MOP Up: 2008’s Grand Fantasia relaunches with a classic Origin server

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Anime MMO Grand Fantasia is relaunching on September 3rd with a classic edition called Origin that harkens back to the title's 2008 era: "New engine,...

PlanetSide 2 highlights updates to upcoming directives as the devs fight cheaters

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PlanetSide 2's new developer Toadman isn't only paying attention to gun sounds in its latest dev blog; it's also going to address some arguably...
Shooty bang-bang.

PlanetSide 2 dev letter promises sound update, seeks player survey input

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Few things are as satisfying in FPS games as a nice, meaty sound from a favorite weapon, and it looks as if PlanetSide 2's...

The MOP Up: Terraria gets all cool with its whip

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Terraria's latest state of the game post teased some interesting variations on a weapon that would get Indiana Jones' stamp of approval: "Observant Terrarians...

The Daily Grind: What MMO should Daybreak buy next?

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One of the surprise news bits out of July was the announcement that EG7-owned Daybreak - which had just been scrambling for cash, to...

The MOP Up: Grim Dawn spices up the endgame with a new mode

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OARPG Grim Dawn's third expansion is on the way with a brand-new game mode that should inject some extended life for its playerbase: "Ascendant Mode...

The MOP Up: Marvel Snap goes maximum effort with this month’s Deadpool season

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Deadpool's taken over Marvel Snap (just in time for his new movie) and is bringing a new game mode, several new cards (including Gwenpool),...
Image unrelated.

Daybreak bought Palia studio Singularity 6 and aims to bring the game to launch

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File this one under "did not see this coming in a million years but also not sad about it whatsoever": Daybreak has acquired Palia...

PlanetSide 2 addresses its recent Sunderer Rework blunder

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If you're going to be stuck in status limbo, it helps to at least show signs that you're still alive and kicking. So good...

PlanetSide 2’s latest update revamps warzone rotation and the friends list

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PlanetSide 2 has been in a state of limbo for the past several months following revelations that Daybreak had sold the IP for cash...
Create and destroy alike!

EG7 Q1 2024: Daybreak still mum on PlanetSide 2, new H1Z1 game hires lead designer

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It's not even been two weeks since Daybreak owner EG7 published its 2023 annual financial report, which of course omitted everything relevant that happened...

EG7’s 2023 annual report claims Daybreak and SSG collectively count 264 staffers

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Swedish gaming conglom EG7 released its annual report this week, and while there isn't a ton of new-new in it for those of us...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 466: Elder Scrolls Offline

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Justin and Bree discuss PlanetSide 2's new developer, Elder Scrolls Online's rollback situation, the revival of Life is Feudal, and the resurrection of Legends of Aria Classic, with adventures in LOTRO, ESO, and World of Warcraft, plus mailbag topics on Palia, Blade and Soul, Dragons Dogma Online, and MMOs that would work offline.

EG7 transfers PlanetSide 2 development from Daybreak to Toadman, posts 2024 roadmap

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Ever since Daybreak's February investor report that admitted the company had sold off a "noncore IP for USD 5.9 million" to " EG7 with...

PlanetSide 2 discusses new facility, continued Sunderer tweaks, and its next public test build

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The next several big things coming to PlanetSide 2 have been collected in a newsletter from last week, and they run a pretty wide...

Almost five years after killing Player Studio, Daybreak wants to revive a Creator Program

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It's weird enough to see a Daybreak press release in my inbox, but this one threw me for a loop as it's for a...

PlanetSide 2 acknowledges ‘earned consternation’ over its warzone continent

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It's always an unsettling feeling when a game -- or its IP, at least -- gets sold off but nobody really talks about it...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 458: PlanetSide 2 in limbo

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Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak selling PlanetSide, Nightingale's early access, Islands of Insight's launch, and NCsoft's financials with Guild Wars 2 and Throne & Liberty, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on features we want to see in features for Amazon's LOTR and ZeniMax's Star Wars MMOs.

It looks like the ‘noncore IP’ Daybreak sold for $5.9M is PlanetSide after all

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Yesterday, when we covered EG7's Q4 2023 financials, we highlighted the company's disclosure that Daybreak had sold a "noncore IP" for $5.9M, a move...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: The MMO franchises that can’t count past two

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Back in the day, there was a running joke about how Capcom had shown with Street Fighter that the company could not count higher...

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