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Saturday, Jan 9
Another Sentinel's Fate preview: Vasty Deep
The latest look at the upcoming EverQuest II expansion Sentinel's Fate is Vasty Deep: The Conservatory, and the lead creative mind behind this area offered a closer look at the area and the thoughts behind it. More information on the area can be found on the official site.Another Sentinel'...
Tuesday, Dec 22
EverQuest II reveals The Sundered Frontier
Sony Online Entertainment has gifted us with an armload of new pictures of the zone, so go on down below and check out our gallery of high resolution screenshots to see what Norrath has to offer in this upcoming expansion. We think you'll like what you see.
Thursday, Dec 10
One Shots: A decidedly un-dungeonlike dungeon
While the EverQuest II servers were down earlier today for maintenance to bring in the Frostfell Winter Event, some of our readers decided to go through their screenshot folders and send in some images for us. One of these beautiful pictures was this one which comes from inside the Poets Pa...
Saturday, Nov 14
Evercracked! looks back at EverQuest history
Hosted by Jace Hall, the series is slated to include interviews with veteran players and designers, behind-the-scenes footage, and a general collection of trivia and recollections. The first episode is now available, with new episodes going live every week until December 10th, so rea...
Tuesday, Sep 29
See the mines of EQ: Underfoot zone "The Underquarry"
The next EverQuest: Underfoot zone preview is up at the EverQuest Players community site, this time giving us a sneak peek at an area called "The Underquarry". The Underquarry's main feature is two large sinkholes that were made by some intense waterflow. When the water stopped coming, th...
Saturday, Aug 8
One Shots: The bay of Everfrost
While the Everfrost region in EverQuest II is largely considered to be nothing more than a desolate, frozen wasteland full of monsters intent on making a meal of brave adventurers, there are still moments of frosted beauty to behold. One such example is this gorgeous image sent in to us by R...
Wednesday, Jul 22
One Shots: Just a little bit further
Much like any long and dogged day, there are times you just have to reach out and go for something to recharge your batteries. Alternately, if you're caught in a beautiful but largely barren landscape, a cool drink of water is right up there in terms of awesome. Today's One Shots gives us a look...
Wednesday, Feb 18
Download: Eurogamer pits Vanguard vs. EQII in first head-to-head MMO battle
The first competiion was between EverQuest 2 and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes ... and the result is not what you might have expected. Despite being welcomed into an EQ2 guild early in his career, writer Oli Welsh found that Vanguard was ultimately the more engaging world. A different twist on the ty...
Tuesday, Feb 17
Download: SOE says no private info was included in EQ2 research logs
Sony Online Entertainment released a statement today concerning the buzz surrounding their database research for EverQuest 2. Apparently this information is not entirely true, according to SOE, as the personal information in these logs was not included. What does this mean for those c...
Saturday, Feb 7
WRUP: Who isn't playing EVE edition
It seems there's been some excitement in EVE Online this week. At the dawn of the week, everyone was talking about the PVP tournament assassination and by the end of the week everyone had something to say about Band of Brothers disbanding. The end result? More of your Massively staff are in EV...
Wednesday, Jan 21
Download: Significant aggro changes on the way for EQII
Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest II, Classes, Game mechanics, Patches, GroupingThere's a fairly hefty set of changes to EverQuest II's hate/aggro system currently being ironed out on Test, and they aren't to everyone's liking. Due to the the complexity of the changes, developer Chris...
Saturday, Nov 29
The Daily Grind: How are those expansions going?
So you've had a couple of weeks to run around in EverQuest II's The Shadow Odyssey, Lord of the Rings Online's Mines of Moria, and World of Warcraft's expansion Wrath of the Lich King. This morning we thought we'd check back in with you and see how those expansions were going for you? Are they a...
Wednesday, Nov 26
Download: Massively Speaking Podcast Episode 33
Filed under: Fantasy, Podcasts, EverQuest II, Expansions, Interviews, MMO industry, Massively SpeakingMassively Speaking Episode 33 visits the world of EverQuest 2 this time around as Michael and Shawn sit down with Bruce Ferguson and Paul Melina from the Everquest 2 development t...
Thursday, Nov 20
World of Warcraft's birth and development chronicled by video retrospective
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Video, Culture GameTrailers put together a three-part series of Warcraft retrospective videos in the days leading up to the launch of World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and WoW was the focus of the third and final episode. In ove...
Tuesday, Nov 11
The Daily Grind: Do expansions cheapen all that hard work?
Filed under: World of Warcraft, EverQuest II, Lord of the Rings Online, Expansions, Opinion, The Daily Grind It happened with The Burning Crusade -- players had spent months raiding at level 60 to get the very best gear, and when TBC came out, people were getting green drops with better st...
Wednesday, Oct 29
Download: Massively Speaking Podcast Episode 29
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Tuesday, Oct 7
EverQuest subscribers get an early go at Seeds of Destruction
SOE has announced that starting October 7th, which would be today, EverQuest players who locate the herald of Druzzil Ro in the Plane of Knowledge will be transported to a time rift leading them to the new zones from the upcoming expansion, Seeds of Destruction. They've also released the p...
Wednesday, Sep 10
Download: Massively Speaking Podcast Episode 22
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A walking tour of EverQuest 2's new Veksar dungeon
There's tons of stuff to do in Norrath today. What are you waiting for? Go Check out Game Update 48 >>. Gallery: EverQuest 2 Tour of GU 48. The Veksar Entrance Hall Water Golems It's a Trap! Nice Arches Squallic Destroyer ...
Sunday, Sep 7
One Shots: Crossing the Commonlands
Today's One Shots takes us to the sunny lands of Norrath in EverQuest II. If you look very closely, you can see a lone Shadowknight standing on a bridge near the crossroads, looking off into the distance. This particular screenshot came ...
Tuesday, Jul 1
Legends of Norrath Living Legacy Photo Contest
EverQuest and EverQuest II are getting the lion's share of the attention in SOE's Living Legacy promotion. But they are reserving something special for their massively collectible card game, Legends of Norrath. Win the Living Legacy Photo Contest, and not only will you get your picture p...
Wednesday, Jun 25
EQII "Become a Legend" contest gets you to prove your epicness
Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, EverQuest II, Contests, News itemsYou know how epic you are. You know that you're the best dragon-slayer there is, you've saved the most maidens, and have shiny gear that blinds mere mortals as you ride past. It's time to show the world what a hero you are -...
Tuesday, Jun 24
Download: Testing begins on EverQuest II's new voice service
Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest II, PatchesAs we noted just a few days ago, Vivox integration will be coming to EverQuest 2 in the upcoming Game Update 47. Greg Spence, a designer on the EQ2 team, states on his personal blog that voice chat is already rolling out to the test servers. They don'...
Tuesday, Jun 17
Download: Sealed-deck tournament marks Oathbreaker's release this weekend
Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Contests, Events, in-game, Launches, Trading card gamesThe Oathbreaker set will be added to the growing Legends of Norrath library this weekend, and the EQ2Players website has announced that a special tournament will take place to cel...
Monday, Jun 16
Download: EverQuest 2 Game Update 46 goes live
Filed under: Fantasy, Video, EverQuest II, PatchesThe tempest is gathering. Runnyeye, a storied dungeon since the days of the original EverQuest, is now a more dangerous locale. EverQuest 2 Game Update 46 is now live on the game servers, and we have some new media to go along with it. We've be...
Tuesday, Jun 3
The Daily Grind: Going back to EverCrack?
For those of you who haven't heard, Sony Online Entertainment has handed out 60 day subscriptions to all former EverQuest and EverQuest II subscribers -- even trial accounts! The whole initiative is part of this summer's Living Legacy marketing campaign, which will be including event...
Tuesday, Apr 22
Player vs. Everything: I look hot in leather
Filed under: World of Warcraft, EverQuest II, Classes, Culture, Game mechanics, Guilds, Raiding, Opinion, Player vs. Everything Continue reading Player vs. Everything: I look hot in leather Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Sunday, Apr 13
Download: Saga (MMORTS) Trailer: What WoW should have been
Filed under: Fantasy, Video, New titles, PvP, Trading card games, Saga, MMORTS Years ago when Blizzard sounded the trumpets and announced that WoW was in the works I dreamt RTS and MMORPG mechanics would fuse together to whisk in a new era in massively online gaming. I swore that if Blizzar...
Tuesday, Apr 8
Patch: EQ2's GU44 now live, bringing the Hate to Norrath
Filed under: At a glance, Fantasy, EverQuest II, Patches, Endgame, PvEThe fourty-fourth game update to Sony Online's EverQuest 2 is now live, bringing with it a wave of negative emotions, angst, and loot. GU44's biggest gift to the community is the Shard of Hate, a high-level instanced r...
Tuesday, Apr 1
Massively Spring Event coverage in pictures (and a video)
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Galleries, Screenshots, Video, EverQuest II, Final Fantasy XI, Lord of the Rings Online, Events, in-game, Guides, Quests, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Second Life, Massively highlights, Massively Hands-onSpringtime brought many eve...
Wednesday, Mar 26
Download: Interview with Thomas Sincich, EQ2 character artist
SOE recently posted a new video developer chat. In this month's edition, Midori "Momochi" McDaniel chats with EverQuest 2 character artist Thomas Sincich, about his work on EQ2's fifth expansion and Legends of Norrath, his character work on the Arasai and Sarnak races, and his designs f...
Friday, Nov 23
EverQuest: Secrets of Faydwer downloadable maps
Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest, Expansions, Maps With any new expansion comes the fun of running through a new area for the first time. Of course, this also generally involves getting horribly lost, or running smack into things that may prove to be a smidge too powerful for you. As we under...
Thursday, Nov 1
Podcast looks back at Meridian 59 history
Filed under: Fantasy, Meridian 59, Interviews, MMO industry, PvP Want to work on your old-school cred? Check out Virgin Worlds' "Online Gamer's Anthology" podcast episode #5 and learn a bit about the history of arguably the first graphical MMO ever, Meridian 59.
