PlanetSide 2 News from N4G

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  Sony announces MMO convention SOE Live

  Sony has announced the debut of a new convention devoted to Sony Online Entertainment MMOs, SOE Live. The convention will be located in Las Vegas, NV from the 18th through 21st October this year. The convention will take place at the Bally's Casino. The games that will be showcased at the convention include DC Universe Online, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Free Realms, Magic: The Gathering - Tactics, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. The convention will also ...

  - Mar 26, 2012
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  SOE responds to player concerns over ProSiebenSat.1 and Alaplaya EU deal

  SOEs director of global community relations, Linda Brasse Carlson, has responded to various concerns over the possible EU publishing switch of eight MMOs, which would have ProSiebenSat.1 and Alaplaya handling the titles in Europe.

  - Feb 24, 2012
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  New Planetside 2 video shows new engine, factions and gameplay

  Here is a brand new gameplay video of Planetside 2. It shows some of the SOE development team detailing the games new engine, the factions within it and some new gameplay towards the end. The MMOFPS does not have a release date yet.

  - Jan 06, 2012
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  PlanetSide 2: Beta Registrations Are Now Open

  DSOGaming writes: "We bet that some of you cant wait to get their hands on PlanetSide 2? Oh yeah, the sequel to one of the most promising FPSMMORPG will be unveiled in 2012 and PC gamers can go ahead and sign-up for the beta program. Thats right guys. Those interested can visit the games website and sign up so waste no time."

  - Dec 22, 2011
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  PlanetSide 2's weapons, vehicles and armour revealed

  Sony have today released a new video of PlanetSide 2 revealing details of the weapons, vehicles and armour of each of the three factions in the game.

  - Nov 24, 2011
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  Smedley Responds To PlanetSide 2 Interview

  TSA writes:
  
  "Yesterday afternoon we ran a story on SOE president John Smedleys interview with Chinese site 17173, outlining a number of features present in upcoming MMOFPS, PlanetSide 2. With only a rough translation available at the time, we took a pinch of salt with a number of statements from Smedley, some of which have been proven misquoted by the man himself."

  - Sep 10, 2011
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  Planetside 2 not coming to PS3

  IncGamers: The game's creative director confirms no release is planned for PS3. New screens included in article.

  PC - Aug 17, 2011
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  Planetside 2 details show its still hardcore

  FPSGURU: John Smedley and Producer Matt Higby were part of the SoE team that presented Planetside 2 at SyndCon, the annual guild meeting of The Syndicate, a guild that has been in existence since 1996 and works together to provide professional alpha and beta testing services as well as the writing for print as well as website game guides.

  PC - Aug 16, 2011
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  "Planetside 2 will have urban maps and balanced ratio of indoor and outdoor environments" - Sony

  Forge Light, Planetside 2s built-from-scratch graphics engine looks like itll be able to fill our online shooting frenzy with some serious visual candy. But the change in rendering power will also mean a change in gameplay. SOE wants to use the new graphics engine to build PS2s battlefields with a much better balance of indoor and outdoor environments, according to president John Smedley. Hed like to see the maps have a 50/50 ratio, or maybe even 60/40, in favor of ...

  PC - Jul 13, 2011
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  Will PlanetSide 2 Be Heading For PS3?

  TheSixthAxis writes: Maybe a minor gaming topic, but one which has been popping up throughout the latter portion of this week is whether Sony Online Entertainment has plans to launch their upcoming sci-fi MMO FPS for the PlayStation 3. The game debuted during SOEs open conference at its Fan Faire in Las Vegas, promising to support huge-scale persistent online environments and class-less, skill driven gameplay; PlanetSide 2 is SOEs most ambitious project to date and certainly worth keeping an eye ...

  PC - Jul 10, 2011