It's no secret that things at Sony Online Entertainment haven't been gumdrops and lollypops. While EverQuest has been a bonafide success, Star Wars Galaxies has been an enormous screw up. The massively-multiplayer online version of the popular George Lucas films has been a fiasco, costing SOE players and money.

A mole sends us word that Raph Koster has left the SOE to start up a new games studio. Cindy Armstrong, head of Business Development, has taken an offer to become the new USA honcho for Webzen. Moreover, Lucas Arts is not extending their Star Wars license. Yikes.

The rot has started to set in, and the mole implies that it's only a matter of time before SOE's prez. John Smedley is sent packing. "Place has been falling apart for a while," writes our mole. "Smedley is not long in his job." May the force be with you, John.

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