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5 unusual facts about Sony Online Entertainment


Lodestone Games

Before the game could be finished Sony Online Entertainment halted the production and re-tasked Lodestone to develop network hosting technology as well as a real-time weather system for the massively multiplayer online game PlanetSide.

Sony Online Entertainment

Fastpoint Games CEO, Kelly Perdew, positioned Fortune League as a new category of "snackable" data-driven games that would help MMO franchises acquire users and tap new revenue streams.

The studio has since released an online version of the WizKids Pirates Constructible Strategy Game.

SOE also released Pirates Online Constructible Strategy Game, the online version of the WizKids Pirates Constructible Strategy Game.

Voxel

EverQuest Next and EverQuest Next: Landmark, upcoming MMORPGs by Sony Online Entertainment, make extensive use of voxels for world creation as well as player generated content


John W. Ratcliff

His most recent released title was as lead engine programmer for PlanetSide, published by Sony Online Entertainment.

Magic: The Gathering – Tactics

Magic: The Gathering – Tactics is an online turn-based strategy game developed by Sony Online Entertainment, and based on the Magic: The Gathering trading card game series.

Online identity

Recently, a user of a massively multiplayer online game called Everquest, which is owned by Sony Online Entertainment, Inc., attempted to sell his Everquest identity on eBay.

PlanetSide 2

Although the story is very similar to the original, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) announced that award-winning author Marv Wolfman has joined the SOE team to write the ongoing historic fiction for the game.


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