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Sony Online Entertainment Awards $10,000 Scholarship

Sony Online Entertainment’s Gamers In Real Life (G.I.R.L.) competition has been won by student Sylvia Liu. She has been awarded a $10,000 scholarship and a 10-week paid internship. G.I.R.L. aims to bring more women into the industry and overall encourage the creation of more women-friendly games. Liu, who is a student at Art Center College [...]

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SOE’s The Agency is now a Facebook Game

Sony Online Entertainment’s secret agent FPS-MMO The Agency is still on the horizon, but there’s good news: now you can play The Agency: Covert Ops on Facebook while you wait for the full product to arrive. The new Facebook app is a tie-in to the upcoming MMO, offering players the chance to get a preview [...]

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SOE Opens Up On Free Realms

Sony Online Entertainment’s casual-focused MMO Free Realms released last April, and now its developers have opened up on its development, discussing what went right and wrong. Over at Gamasutra, Free Realms creative director Laralyn Williams discussed a number issues the team faced–chiefly among them being a lack of iteration time. “It seemed like the right [...]

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Sony’s Free Realms Has 10 Million Registered Players

Late last week, Sony Online Entertainment announced that Free Realms has reached 10 million registered players. For an MMO that launched in just April of 2009, the kids’ game has become incredibly popular in a relatively short amount of time. For the title’s first birthday, Sony has planned a set of 15 new quests and, [...]

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Sony Online Entertainment Brings PoxNora to Facebook

Today, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE; most widely known for EverQuest) announced the launch of PoxNora on Facebook. PoxNora as a brand as been around since 2006, when SOE launched the game on a standalone website. The game is a combination of the real-time-strategy (RTS) and card-collecting genres, based in a fantasy setting that has seen [...]

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