Our latest coverage of EverQuest.
Daybreak Games has officially opened pre-orders for the upcoming EverQuest expansion – Torment of Velious. The 26th expansion will bring players back to the continent of Velious where the ice is mysteriously transforming the continent’s inhabitants into icy zombie-like beings. "The lands and denizens of the continent of Velious are suffering. The icy landscape has seemingly come to life and [...]
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In spite of the recent round of layoffs and realignments at Daybreak Game Company last week, the EverQuest team still seems to be on track for the Torment of Velious expansion release in December. According to a letter from producer Holly “Windstalker” Longdale, the 26th expansion for the classic fantasy MMORPG will be heading into Beta sometime next week. “As [...]
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Crossover events and promotions seem to be the trend these past couple of months. We’ve had Resident Evil 2 crossing over with PUBG Mobile, TERA with PUBG, and Nier Automata with Final Fantasy XIV. This time EverQuest makes an appearance in PlanetSide 2 in celebration of the MMORPG’s 20th anniversary. Starting today, Auraxis soldiers will gain access to a new [...]
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EverQuest officially turned 20 years old on March 16, making it one of the longest running MMORPGs of all time along with other oldies like Ultima Online and RuneScape. To celebrate the occasion the game launched 2 progression servers titled Selo and Mangler. As with previous EverQuest progression servers, players need an active subscription to access these. Celebrating 20 Years [...]
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The previously announced 'The Burning Lands' expansion for EverQuest went live earlier this week and with it comes the following new features: Expanded Lore: The longstanding peace between the elemental creatures of the planes known as the jann is over, and war has broken out between the djinn from the Plane of Air and the efreeti from the Plane of [...]
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EverQuest and EverQuest 2 may be old games (released 1999 and 2004), but both games are still getting a lot of love from Daybreak Games. EverQuest's 25th expansion - The Burning Lands will be launching on December 11, 2018 and is available now to those who pre-order the expansion. While both EverQuest games are technically free to play, expansions and [...]
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It's been a busy week in financial and industry news and to make it even busier Daybreak announced today that it received a strategic investment from NantWorks to develop H1Z1 and EverQuest for mobile. “NantWorks, a diversified holding company, today announced that it has made a strategic investment in Daybreak Game Company, a leading developer and publisher of multiplayer online [...]
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Daybreak Games released the 24th expansion to EverQuest today titled Ring of Scale. Yes, you read that correctly - this is the 24th expansion to the game. While EverQuest (1999) was a pioneer in the MMORPG space it's still relevant even today and is one of the longest running MMORPGs out there. The Ring of Scale expansion increases the game's [...]
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EverQuest just announced its 24th expansion titled "Ring of Scale" in its latest Producer's Letter today. The expansion is slated for release sometime in December, 2017 and takes players back to Kunark to finish off the storylines introduced in last year's expansion Empires of Kunark update. As with any EverQuest update, players should expect new monsters, new gear, spells, and [...]
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Daybreak Games launched a new EverQuest progression server called "Agnarr" yesterday and this one is a bit different than the others. Whereas the other progression servers would slowly progress through all eras of EverQuest, Agnarr will only progress as far as the Planes of Power era, specifically Lost Dungeons of Norrath, before becoming permanently progress-locked. This effectively creates a Planes [...]
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