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Agriculture Evolves The Virtual World: Free Realms® Introduces Farming

Players Customize Crops, Chase Critters and Lend a Hand to Friendly Farmers The days of “kill-ten-rats” and kitschy collection quests are numbered. Virtual world, hunter-gatherer existence has evolved and agriculture has once again come to the forefront of [online] civilization with the introduction of FARMING to the popular free-to-play, family-friendly virtual world game, Free Realms®! Recently introduced to agrarian life and the cultivation of food plants and farm vegetation, all...

Sony Online Entertainment Announces Open Registration for Fan Faire 2011

WHAT: Mark your calendars and get ready to celebrate this summer at Sony Online Entertainment (SOE)’s annual Fan Faire event with your fellow gamers and the creators of your favorite SOE games! Fan Faire is the prime time to meet up with old friends and make plenty of new ones while getting a behind the scenes look at your favorite SOE titles, participate in live game tournaments, experience live quests, attend developer panels and more! WHEN: July 7-9, 2011 WHERE: Bally’s Hotel, Las...

SOE Unveils All-New Planeswalker Vlog for Magic: The Gathering – Tactics

In Sony Online Entertainment's Magic: The Gathering - Tactics, players will join forces with the five iconic Planeswalkers of Magic: the Gathering. Each iconic Planeswalker specializes in a color of mana (red, white, black, green and blue) and has unique abilities and strengths. Today, SOE released a new video that highlights these characters and players' interactions with them. Players battling within the Magic: the Gathering - Tactics universe can join the ranks of all five icons to take...

Free Realms Now Available on PlayStation®Network

Sony Online Entertainment’s Family-Friendly Virtual World Becomes First Free-to-Play Massively Multiplayer Online Game on Any Console Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today announced that Free Realms®, the popular free-to-play, family-friendly virtual world game, is now available as a free download on the PlayStation®Network. Free Realms, originally launched in 2009 for the PC and in 2010 for the MAC computer, has quickly grown into an online community of nearly 17 million registered...

SOE Unveils All-New Spellbook Vlog for Magic: The Gathering – Tactics

Today Sony Online Entertainment unveils an a new video showcasing how players can strategically build their spellbooks to dominate in Magic: The Gathering - Tactics, the free-to-play online animated grid-based tactical strategy title out now for the PC. With commentary from Executive Producer Mark Tuttle, the video focuses on the importance of building a powerful yet balanced spellbook by utilizing the game's versatile tools, which track helpful stats for players, such as mana production rates...

SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINM​ENT’S FREE REALMS BREAKS NEW GROUND MARCH 29 AS THE FIRST FREE-TO-PL​AY VIRTUAL WORLD GAME ON THE PLAYSTATIO​N NETWORK

With Nearly 17 Million Registered Players on the PC and MAC, Free Realms Will Be the First Family-Friendly Massively Multiplayer Online Game to Hit Any Console Sony Online Entertainment LLC announced that free-to-play, family-friendly persistent virtual world game, Free Realms®, is scheduled for release in North America on March 29 for the PlayStation®3 Computer Entertainment System.  "Free Realms continues to break new ground in the gaming industry– it will be the first...

Facebook Game: James Patterson’s: Catch a Killer Review

If you like the famous thriller author James Patterson, you are sure to be interested in James Patterson’s: Catch a Killer, the puzzle-adventure casual game on Facebook from Sony Online Entertainment. I love this genre with the essential elements including storytelling, exploration, and puzzle solving, like Big Fish’s Mystery Case Files series. Actually, the puzzle-adventure games are much more successful in the download space for gameplay experience of a single player. Now Sony Online...

F2P Games News: Acceleration of Suguri X Edition Now Available on The PlayStation Network

Sony Online Entertainment and Rockin’ Android Team Up to Provide the Ultimate in Doujin Action WHAT: Sony Online Entertainment and Rockin’ Android have collaborated once more to bring Acceleration of Suguri X Edition (AoSXE ) to the PlayStation®Network. Now available, AoSXE is the ultimate in anime-style robot-fighting and is set to a high-energy techno-trance soundtrack that is sure to get players ready for battle. FEATURES: In this captivating doujin-style game, players wield...

F2P Games Event: Sony Online Entertainment Gets Hit By Cupid’s Arrow

Love is in the Air and Online with SOE's Gaming Catalog this Valentine's Day Sony Online Entertainment is love-struck! This February, SOE brings Valentine’s related updates and special items to Free Realms™, Star Wars®: Clone Wars Adventures™, EverQuest®, EverQuest® II and Star Wars Galaxies™. Free Realms™ Tales of love abound in Merry Vale with the return of the Festival of Hearts, but not everyone in Free Realms is feeling the hugs and kisses this time of year. While the...

F2P Games Video: SOE Unveils All-New ‘White Mana’ Trailer for Magic: The Gathering – Tactics

Today Sony Online Entertainment reveals an all-new White Mana trailer for Magic: The Gathering - Tactics, the free-to-play online animated grid-based tactical strategy game available now for the PC. Focusing on kind-hearted characters - including the Planeswalker Ajani Goldmane - the gameplay trailer showcases how players can unleash healing spells and summon self-sacrificing beasts upon the tactical battlefield to battle opponents. Magic fans will take the role of an animated Planeswalker...