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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 »
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As the custodians of games that are completely unplayable during Sony's massive network outage, Sony Online Entertainment has an especially tough job winning back MMO players who have sat idle for 22 days and counting. SOE has now posted its full list of goodies for subscribers to nine MMOs; free subscription time, in-game content and special XP events are all planned. More »
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The extended outage currently afflicting the PlayStation Network isn't just stopping people playing Call of Duty and FIFA. It's also stopping people from playing persistent, entirely online games like DC Universe and Free Realms. More »
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Sony Online Entertainment, makers of D.C. Universe Online and Free Realms, closed three studios and will lay off nearly a third of its workforce, Kotaku has learned. More »
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Family-friendly casual MMO Free Realms makes its PlayStation 3 debut today, two years after the launch of its PC predecessor. Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley tells us what took so long, and says his game might be better for builders than indie sensation MineCraft. More »
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Sony Online Entertainment's family-friendly, free-to-play MMO Free Realms hits the PlayStation Network today, a fact they celebrated with a dozen family-friendly, free-to-eat cupcakes. More »
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After nearly two years in operation on the PC and Mac, Sony Online Entertainment finally brings it's family-friendly, free-to-play massively multiplayer online game Free Realms to the PlayStation 3 on March 29, making it the first free-to-play console MMO. More »
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As Sony Online Entertainment reveals plans to release the free-to-play MMO Free Realms on the Mac later this fall, fans are still wondering what happened to the PlayStation 3 version. We tapped SOE for an update on the console port. More »
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Sony Online Entertainment draws back the curtain on Clone Wars Adventures, taking the successful formula established with its free-to-play, family-friendly MMO Free Realms to a galaxy far, far away. Check out the first trailer here! More »
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They sort of killed Batman last year. This week, they sort of brought him back. More »
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What happened to the promised PlayStation 3 version of the massively successful free-to-play MMO Free Realms? On this, the first anniversary of the PC release, Sony Online Entertainment gives Kotaku the skinny on the console version's E3 2010 appearance. More »
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Free Realms continues to be an unrelenting engine of family-friendly fun and frivolity, reaching the 10 million player mark just short of its first birthday, with Sony Online Entertainment doubling Station Cash purchases this weekend in celebration. More »
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It's time to learn the date of the annual gathering of Sony Online Entertainment players, who will be flocking to Las Vegas this August to awkwardly realize that no one is really a Wood Elf, and the world is sad. More »
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Sony Online Entertainment continues to add everything you could ever want to its free-to-play MMO Free Realms, with the addition of dragon and dinosaur mounts, now on sale in the in-game marketplace. More »
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It's been awhile since we checked in with the player population of the free-to-play, family-friendly MMO Free Realms, and Sony Online Entertainment snuck in more than five million additional users while we weren't looking. More »
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Sony Online Entertainment rallied its players in support of earthquake-ravaged Haiti last weekend, leveraging the allure of exclusive in-game items to raise $25,000. More »
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Sonic, Star Wars, Free Realms and Starcraft comics, all sprung from video games, hit comics shops in North America today. Click each thumbnail for more information. More »
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Sony Online Entertainment drops a massive end-of-the-year update on its free-to-play MMO Free Realms today, adding holiday Snow Days, fishing, player housing, and new pets, including dinosaurs, dragons, unicorns, and pegasi. More »
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Lots of video game comics hit comics shops in the U.S. this week. That includes an adaptation of one of the least-discussed Zelda games ever made: The Minish Cap. Plus, Sonic is back. Yes, Sonic comics! More »
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Halo and a double-dose of Blizzard hit comics shops in the U.S. this week. Sadly, it's a week without Sonic comics. But don't be too sad about that. They'll be back! More »
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Many MMO games host special Halloween events, but only Sony Online Entertainment's Free Realms has the guts to use the words Super Spooktacular, which is at least 10 times as awesome as a normal Spooktacular. More »
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This week, Kotaku brings you the Sony and Nintendo-themed comics hitting shops this week. Plus Sonic. Always, plus Sonic. More »
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Those soccer fields sprinkled about Sony Online Entertainment's Free Realms now has a purpose, 3-on-3 footy matches and 20 levels worth of Soccer Stardom now available. More »
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DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint will publish anything video game-related, as evidenced by the new comic based on Sony Online Entertainment's family-friendly MMO Free Realms. More »
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Free Realms might have had a lot to offer players in terms of game play, but it lacked one major massively multiplayer feature, until today that is. More »
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Sony Online Entertainment's Free Realms just surpassed 3 million players, leading us to suspect that perhaps the original million is just creating new accounts to get more free celebration gear. More »
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With insane amounts of people flocking to Free Realms, what does Sony Online Entertainment have planned to keep them all occupied? I probed Senior Producer Andrew Sites and PR specialist Ryan Peters for answers. More »
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First they hit one million players within weeks of release. Then they hit 2 million a week and a half later. Where does the Free Realms population stand right now? More »
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A week and a half after reaching the million player mark, Sony Online Entertainment's Free Realms has gone and doubled it. More »
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Sony Online Entertainment's new family-friendly online game Free Realms has exploded out of the gate, with more than one million registered users within 17 days of launch. More »
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Sony Online Entertainment's new free-to-play online game Free Realms launched last week, and now it's time for the pay-to-play collectible card game. More »
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What better way to herald the launch of Sony Online Entertainment's new family friendly online game Free Realms than a launch trailer narrated by a flying squirrel with a mohawk? More »
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After only a few weeks of closed beta testing, Sony Online Entertainment has taken down the servers for Free Realms in preparation for tomorrow's official launch. More »
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In advance of the release of their family-friendly online multiplayer game Free Realms, Sony Online Entertainment has release a booklet explaining the benefits that games like Free Realms offer children. More »
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Sony Online Entertainment's free-to-play, family-friendly massively multiplayer online game Free Realms enters closed beta testing today, with early registrations for April's open beta now being accepted. More »
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Sony Online Entertainment has teamed with trading card masters Topps to bring the Free Realms digital trading card game into the physical world. More »
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Sony Online Entertainment has launched the beta sign up website for their upcoming family-friendly MMO Free Realms, and being an MMO that's trying to draw in a whole new audience to the genre, SOE of course has to do a little hand-holding when explaining the whole beta process. This leads directly to the image seen here, which clearly shows us what a bug is. More »
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Could full-on, traditional MMO games play a part in the future of Sony's PSP? Speaking with MTV Multiplayer at the New York Games Conference on Friday, Sony Online Entertainment president John Smedley expressed great interest in the PSP as a MMO-delivery device. More »
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I'm not sure if it is a good thing that the best MMO at E3 2008 could be a game aimed at 9-14 year-olds, but I am sure that Sony Online Entertainment's Free Realms is a very good thing indeed. There are plenty of free MMOs aimed at the kid market out there, but they all tend to share certain bad traits. Shoddy graphics, poor-quality interfaces, and an overall lack of polish. SOE is taking the social children's game concept, applying a World of Warcraft level of polish, packing it with personality and mini-games, and unleashing it upon the computing family for free. They are going to tear the kid's MMO sector apart. More »
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Last month Sony Online Entertainment announced that upcoming titles The Agency and Free Realms would be utilizing the Live Gamer service for real money transactions, which many people took to mean that players would be able to buy weapons and equipment to enchance their gameplay. In an interview published over at Eurogamer, lead designer Hal Milton explains that this isn't the case at all. More »
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