EverQuest was one of the first massively-multiplayer online roleplaying games to break ground, landing in 1999 and defining the landscape of gaming for generations to come. Modern titles like Final Fantasy XIV and World of Warcraft owe their existence to innovations first introduced in EverQuest. Since the game was originally released, its developer Verant Interactive
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Developer Daybreak Game Company, previously known as Sony Online Entertainment and Verant Interactive, has now split off into three new development studios: Dimensional Ink Games, Rogue Planet Games and Darkpaw Games. Each of the three new studios individually focuses on specific franchises: DC Universe Online, Planetside, and EverQuest, respectively. With this news comes a possible
In the day before Destiny and Warframe, there was PlanetSide. This sci-fi MMO series has always managed to have an impressive scale, even through its ups and downs. We are coming off a particularly rough year for the series as PlanetSide Arena divided fans of the series, flopped and subsequently shut down. That being said,
This past year has been very eventful for DC Universe Online and its team. Not only did the MMO go through new episodes like Justice League Dark, Metal Part I and Metal Part II, it also came to Nintendo Switch and the team behind the MMO was spun off into its own studio: Dimensional Ink
Dimensional Ink Games’ was recently founded as part of Daybreak Game Company’s “Franchise First” initiative, and its focus at inception is on both DC Universe Online and an unannounced action MMO. DC Universe Online is still going strong; in fact, Daybreak is pleased with the results from its recent Nintendo Switch release. While Executive Producer
The last year or so has been rocky for the PlanetSide franchise. While PlanetSide 2 still has a loyal player base and is going strong, PlanetSide Arena failed to catch on. With Arena behind them, the PlanetSide player base is eager to see what is coming next, especially now that PlanetSide has a dedicated studio
DC Universe Online is still going strong over nine years after launch. While it started out on PC and PS3, it has since branched out to current-generation consoles. In a somewhat surprising move, Daybreak announced and released a Nintendo Switch port of the popular licensed MMO on Nintendo Switch during Summer 2019. While the port
Daybreak Game Company, the developer formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment, juggles several different MMO franchises including PlanetSide, DC Universe Online and EverQuest. In order to give each of these franchises more creative freedom, Daybreak’s “franchise first initiative” has created dedicated studios created for all three of the aforementioned franchises. The three studios are now
H1Z1 has seen its fair share of updates this year so far, so it comes as no surprise to see even more starting to flood in given its success on the PS4. In the first 24 hours, 1.5M players came in to see what all the fuss was about and then 4.5 million players on PS4
The battle royale genre has become all the rage in the gaming community in the past year. For anyone that has been living under a rock for this time, the battle royale genre is focused around a multiplayer mode that drops a large number of players on a diminishing map, and the last player standing
If you’re still a fan of H1Z1 on PC and you’ve been waiting for some new content then you’re in luck, to say the least. Today, developer and publisher Daybreak Game Company released a brand new update for the PC version of the game, and, among other things, it adds a remastered version of a fan favorite
It’s only been a couple of days since launch, but developer Daybreak Game Company is already adding new modes to H1Z1: Battle Royale. The game has added a Duos mode for those looking to get lost in battle royale action, among other things in its latest update. Daybreak Game Company recently released H1Z1 v1.14 thanks to
It was a fairly big surprise that Daybreak Game Company’s PS4 beta of H1Z1: Battle Royale landed 1.5M players in its first 24 hours. However, much more shocking is the fact that the game is keeping up with that pace. In the first three days of launch, H1Z1: Battle Royale reported 4.5M players — and a surprise for those playing.
The Battle Royale genre is no stranger to competition at the moment thanks to the likes of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but the stalwart H1Z1 is already making a big splash thanks to the game’s console debut, and it appears many players are attempting to outlast one another on PS4. Developer and publisher Daybreak Games has announced
With every game on God’s green Earth getting a battle royale mode in some way, shape, or form, I think it’s really time for us to get back to our roots—to some of the earlier incarnations of the battle royale hype…aside from the Japanese movie and manga and Hunger Games, I guess. To wit, we
Battle royale-style games are experiencing a surge thanks to the likes of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Fortnite, and with the impending arrival of battle royale modes in AAA games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the phenomenon is only going to continue to grow into the phenomenon that it is at the moment. However, before that moment there was
After its period of Early Access development for several years and its recent release on PC, the popular battle royale title H1Z1 is making a new move to cast a wider net and bring in a larger playerbase as it will now be open to the masses in a free-to-play format. Developer and publisher Daybreak Game