Kotaku: Everquest 2

It's a Massively Multiplayer Online Halloween Spooktacular

Mike Fahey — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:00:00 EDT

With fewer and fewer children donning costumes and hitting the streets every year to celebrate all things sweet and spooky, the Halloween tradition is alive and well in the virtual worlds of today's massively multiplayer online games. More »

The Family That Plays (Online) Together, Stays Together

Owen Good — Fri, 06 May 2011 22:00:00 EDT

Research suggests that family communication improves if the group are playing online video games together, but if a single member is gaming, it suffers greatly as the gaming becomes a substitute for healthy communication. More »

Twelve Years Later EverQuest Still Soldiers On

Mike Fahey — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:30:00 EDT

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Today marks the twelfth anniversary of the original EverQuest. What keeps one of the original big massively-multiplayer fantasy games going after all these years? More »

Gold Farming Research Digs Up Similarities With Drug Dealers

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:30:00 EDT

A study by a student at the University of Minnesota suggests that gold farmers - the unscrupulous salt mine workers of the MMO world - have a lot in common with other undesirable lots, like drug dealers and street gangs. More »

Exploring The Shard Of Love In EQ2

Mike Fahey — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:20:00 EDT

The Shards of Destiny, The latest content update for EverQuest 2, is now live, opening up Erollisi Marr's Shard of Love to players and adding achievements to the game. More »

Study Shows MMO-Playing Women Overwhelmingly Bisexual

Mike Fahey — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:20:00 EST

The infamous Everquest 2 lying survey continues to make waves, as newly uncovered results reveal that the MMO has five times more bisexual women than the general populace. More »

MMO Players Surprisingly Adept At Lying On Surveys

Mike Fahey — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:20:00 EDT

MSNBC is running an interesting story on a recent survey conducted by researchers at the University of Southern California that indicates that MMORPG players rank among the most physically fit people in America. The data was pulled from more than 7,000 Everquest 2 players, enticed to answer the 25-minute survey with a limited-edition in-game item.

Still, players scored well on physical health compared to the rest of the nation. They reported exercising vigorously once or twice a week, as opposed to 62 percent of American adults who don't exercise for more than 10 minutes at any time.

They also found that MMO players are on average 10 percent leaner than the average American. Okay, so I ran the story as it was presented, now let's take a look at how we run it in reality land. More »

Magazine Offering Exclusive Everquest II Download

Mark Wilson — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:40:17 EST

In their issue hitting stands the week of November 28th, Massive Online Gamer magazine will be offering a code that can be redeemed for a limited edition Everquest II item—a portrait of warlord Venril Sathir. But for those with ants in their pants, new online subscribers can get the code emailed immediately upon writing that check. Not being Everquest II players, we can't really assess the importance or value of such a downloadable good. But it's a clever marketing strategy on MOG's part. While reading Kotaku, our readers are sometimes gifted with free syphilis, but the promotion hasn't been all that well received. More »

Rise of Kunark Screens

Mike Fahey — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:20:39 EDT

While I impressed over the demo of Everquest 2's upcoming Rise of Kunark expansion I was given at E3 this year, SOE's media kit put the ass in assets, with only a few meager images that didn't even count as screenshots. Finally they've released some beautiful images of the lost continent, with distinctively Sarnak architecture that has me looking back fondly to the days when I would sit endless hours outside the Sarnak fort in the Lake of Ill Omen, listening to people hate each other in the OOC channel. Ah, memories. More »

Everquest II - The Rise of Kunark

Mike Fahey — Wed, 09 May 2007 18:00:31 EDT

As a veteran EQ player, I can say that the thing I've missed the most from the early days of the game would have to be Lake of Ill Omen chat. You'd get class arguments, personal attacks, bad jokes, and even the odd bit of cyber broadcast over the OOC channel (*hides*). I'd say it was the place I spent the most time in EQ, and now it's back, as EQ Allakhazam introduces the next EQ II expansion, Rise of Kunark. More »

Sony Online Entertainment Podcast STINKS

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:21:29 EDT

And I'm being kind. It's worse—wooden, dull and way too slick. At some point, it's admirable, because I've always wondered what a press release read under creepy EverQuest music sounds like. Cutting them some slack, this is SOE's first podcast, and the guy at the end was okay, but still... Ease up on the PR hard-sell, guys. The point is to connect with players, not alienate them. More »

Improbable Leaps in EverQuest 2

brownlee — Wed, 24 May 2006 09:40:52 EDT

Over at Game Set Watch, we saw this entertaining video of naked EverQuest 2 avatars making improbable jumps across rooftops and gorges. Until a sequel comes out, this remains the only entertaining thing to ever have come out of EverQuest 2. - Florian Eckhardt More »

Fan Faire Hits Atlanta This Week

Brian Crecente — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:00:18 EDT

Sony Online's annual Fan Faire kicks off this week in Atlanta. The event gives players of Sony's online titles (EverQuest, EQ2, Star Wars Galaxies, The Matrix Online, PlanetSide and others) to meet-up in real life. More »

Schilling Flies His Everquest Guild Colors

Brian Crecente — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:00:33 EST

We knew Red Sox Curt Schilling was an Everquest II fan, but dark elves? At least he plays in the first level 40 guil to hit the Unrest server in EQ2. Three words for you Schilling: World of Warcraft. More »

Happy Birthday EverQuest II

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:13:49 EST

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The game launched a year ago today. To celebrate, Sony's offering a revamp. Futher info after the jump. More »

Everquest 2 Calls for Katrina Donations

Brian Crecente — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:32:39 EDT

In an incredibly thoughtful move, Sony has added the /donate command to Everquest 2. Typing it in while playing the massively multiplayer game jumps you straight to the Red Cross s Hurricane 2005 relief page where you can make donations. Sony goes on to say that they estimate that 13,000 of their players were effected by Katrinia and that they will be suspending their accounts until they can play again. More »