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EverQuest
''EverQuest'' is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) originally developed by Verant Interactive and 989 Studios for Windows. It was released by Sony Online Entertainment in March 1999 in North America, and by Ubi Soft in Europe in April 2000. A dedicated version for Mac OS X was released in June 2003, which operated for ten years before being shut down in November 2013. In June 2000, Verant Interactive was absorbed into Sony Online Entertainment, who took over full development and publishing duties of the title. Later, in February 2015, SOE's parent corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment, sold the studio to investment company Columbus Nova and it was rebranded as Daybreak Game Company, which continues to develop and publish ''EverQuest''. It was the first commercially successful MMORPG to employ a 3D game engine, and its success was on an unprecedented scale. ''EverQuest'' has had a wide influence on subsequent releases within the mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EverQuest II
''EverQuest II'' is a 3D fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) originally developed and published by Sony Online Entertainment for Microsoft Windows PCs and released in November 2004. It is the sequel to the original '' EverQuest'', released five years earlier, and features updated graphics and more streamlined gameplay compared to the previous entry, as well as an abundance of voice acting with contributions from actors such as Christopher Lee and Heather Graham. In February 2015, Sony Online Entertainment's parent corporation Sony Computer Entertainment sold it to investment company Inception Acquisitions, where it continues to develop and publish the game under its new name, Daybreak Game Company. The game is set in an alternate future 500 years after the events of the first ''EverQuest'', and is meant to run alongside its predecessor without interfering with the original story. It features characters and locations from the original that have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daybreak Game Company
Daybreak Game Company LLC is an American video game developer based in San Diego. The company was founded in December 1997 as Sony Online Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment, but was spun off to an independent investor in February 2015 and renamed Daybreak Game Company. On December 1, 2020, Daybreak Game Company entered into an agreement to be acquired by Enad Global 7. They are known for owning, maintaining, and creating additional content for the games ''EverQuest'', ''EverQuest II'', ''The Matrix Online'', ''PlanetSide (video game), PlanetSide'', ''Star Wars Galaxies'', ''Clone Wars Adventures'', ''Free Realms'', ''Vanguard: Saga of Heroes'', ''DC Universe Online'', ''PlanetSide 2'', ''H1Z1: Just Survive'', and ''H1Z1: King of the Kill'', along with more recent acquisitions ''Dungeons & Dragons Online'', ''Magic: The Gathering Online'', ''The Lord of the Rings Online'', and ''Palia''. History Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (1997–2005) Sony Online Ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inon Zur
Inon Zur (, ) is an Israeli-born American composer of soundtracks for film, television, and video games. He has composed soundtracks for over 80 video games, which include '' Dragon Age'', '' EverQuest'', '' Fallout'', '' Prince of Persia'', ''Star Trek'', the '' Syberia'' series, and '' Starfield''. He has received multiple nominations, including three BAFTAs, and has won several awards, including an Emmy. Various music awards for his soundtracks on '' Men of Valor'' (2004), '' Crysis'' (2007), '' Dragon Age: Origins'' (2009), '' The Elder Scrolls: Blades'' (2019), '' Syberia: The World Before'' (2023), '' Starfield'' (2024) and '' Rise of the Ronin'' (2024). Early life Inon Zur was born in Israel. At the age of five, he was trying to compose harmonies with his mother's singing, and became inspired by classical music. He learned to play the French horn as a child, studied piano by the age of eight, and was studying composition by the age of ten. He graduated from the Music Aca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad McQuaid
Brad McQuaid (April 25, 1969 – November 18, 2019) was an American video game designer who was the key designer of ''EverQuest'', a highly successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 1999. He later co-founded Sigil Games Online where he was CEO and executive producer of ''Vanguard: Saga of Heroes'' until Sony Online Entertainment's acquisition of Sigil Games Online in May 2007. On July 6, 2012, SOE announced the re-hiring of McQuaid to continue his work on Vanguard. On January 13, 2014, McQuaid announced his role of Chief Creative Officer at Visionary Realms, Inc. for the PC MMORPG, ''Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen''. Biography EverQuest Brad McQuaid's start in the video game industry came in 1989 when he co-founded MicroGenesis with Steve Clover. In their free time they created ''WarWizard'', a shareware role-playing video game that they released in 1993. McQuaid and Clover then developed a ''WarWizard 2'' game demo, demo in 1995, which caught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Massively Multiplayer Online Games
The history of massively multiplayer online games spans over thirty years and hundreds of massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) titles. The origin and influence on MMO games stems from Multi-user dungeon, MUDs, ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (D&D) and earlier social games. The first virtual worlds In 1974, ''Mazewar'' introduced the first graphic virtual world, providing a first-person perspective view of a maze in which players roamed around shooting at each other. It was also the first networked game, in which players at different computers could visually interact in a virtual space. The initial implementation was over a serial cable; however, when one of the authors began attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT in 1974, the game was enhanced so that it could be played across the ARPAnet, forerunner of the modern Internet. ''Colossal Cave Adventure, Adventure'', created in 1975 by Will Crowther on a Digital Equipment Corporation, DEC PDP-10 computer, was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Karpman
Laura Anne Karpman (born March 1, 1959) is an American composer, whose work has included music for film, television, video games, theater, and the concert hall. She has won five Emmy Awards for her work. Karpman was trained at the Juilliard School, where she played jazz by day and honed her skills scatting in bars at night. Early life and education Karpman was born in Los Angeles and grew up singing opera and jazz. Her mother, a painter and sculptor, wanted her to grow up to be a composer and surrounded Karpman with music even before she was born. Karpman began her first compositions at the age of 7. She worked with John Harbison at the Tanglewood Music Center, and attended Aspen Music School and the Ecole des Arts Americaines. At the University of Michigan, she graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Music degree studying with William Bolcom and Leslie Bassett. She received both her Doctorate and Master's Degree in Music Composition at the Juilliard School, where her pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game. As in role-playing games (RPGs), the player assumes the role of a Player character, character (often in a fantasy world or science-fiction world) and takes control over many of that character's actions. MMORPGs are distinguished from Online game, single-player or small Multiplayer online game, multi-player online RPGs by the number of players able to interact together, and by the game's persistent world (usually hosted by the game's video game publisher, publisher), which continues to exist and evolve while the player is offline and away from the game. MMORPGs are played throughout the world. Global revenues for MMORPGs exceeded half a billion dollars in 2005, and the western world's revenues exceeded a billion dollars in 2006. In 2008, the spending on subscription MMORPGs by consumers in North America and Europe gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob King
Rob King (born 1970 in Los Angeles) has (along with Paul Romero) composed the music for the Heroes of Might and Magic, Might and Magic series and additional music for the MMORPG Everquest. He also created music and character sound effects for Everquest: Gates of Discord for Sony Online. In the early 2000s (decade), he was a member of the alternative rock band Red Delicious. Rob King is the owner and operator of Green Street Studios, a private sound recording facility in Sherman Oaks, California Sherman Oaks (founded in 1927) is a neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles, California within the San Fernando Valley region. The neighborhood includes a portion of the Santa Monica Mountains, which gives Sherman Oaks a lower population density .... References External links *Green Street Studios [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
989 Studios
989 Studios was a division of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) that developed games for PlayStation consoles and Windows personal computers. Their games include ''EverQuest'', '' Twisted Metal III'', '' Twisted Metal 4'', '' Syphon Filter'', ''Syphon Filter 2'', '' Jet Moto 3'', '' Bust a Groove'', and others. History The 989 Sports name developed from a long history of name changes and corporate shuffling within Sony centered around operations in Foster City, California. In August 1995, the video game business of Sony Imagesoft was merged with the product development branch of SCEA, becoming Sony Interactive Studios America (SISA) In 1998, SISA was spun off from SCEA and was renamed 989 Studios. On April 1, 2000, 989 Studios was merged back into SCEA as a first party development group, in order to prepare for the then-upcoming PlayStation 2. SCEA continued to release sports games under the 989 Sports brand until the brand was retired in 2005. Games As Sony Interacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
