Pre-order opens for EverQuest II Sentinels Fate

Pre-orders are now available for EverQuest II Sentinels Fate and EverQuest II Sentinels Fate Collector’s Edition, the sixth expansion for Sony Online Entertainment’s popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game EverQuest II. You can get started by visiting www.everquest2.com. The expansion, scheduled to be available at retail on February 16, 2010, followed by the digital launch on February 23, 2010, is an all-in-one compilation pack which

EverQuest II Sentinels Fate takes players into the fabled lands of Odus, promising a new area to explore, epic quests, new dungeons and fresh new content in various forms for all types of players. The fancy Collectotrs Edition contains the new expansion pack and all five previous expansions and content, a level cap increase to 90, two new overland zones (The Sundered Frontier and Stonebrunt Highlands), 12 new dungeons, over 400 new quests, all new alternate advancement abilities, a 7-day headstart (if you buy the retail product), a stipend of 500 Station Cash, 30-day subscription for new accounts, more loot (2,000 new weapons, pieces of armor and items), Legends of Norrath (includes digital card game client and The Fall of Erudin scenario), a collectible Armored Highlands Stalker pet figurine, Guarding of the Reasoned in-game armor piece, Armored Highland Stalker in-game mount and the EverCracked Documentary featuring Jace Hall.

Both retail and digital versions will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.99 (plus applicable taxes). Additionally, a Collector’s Edition including exclusive items is being offered for $69.99 (plus applicable taxes).

Legends of Norrath: Travelers released

Sony Online Entertainment has launched Travelers, the eighth add-on to the Legends of Norrath online collectible trading card game based in the EverQuest universe. Travelers introduces all new challenges for players, complete with new characters and storylines that send players to the Planes themselves. Travelers Features new cards, an all-new 200 card starter that can be used to create four different starter decks, new loot cards including exclusive new encounters in EverQuest and EverQuest II that open all-new chambers and rewards of loot and XP and -In EQII - players can combine several key cloaks to create the game’s first wearable - a visible backpack, while In EQ three new collection items will grant players the Frozen Skull of the Cursed which equates to a unique mercenary.

Find out more about it by visiting www.legendsofnorrath.station.sony.com.

iMEvil for iPhone released

If you’re looking for something a little odd for your iPhone or iPod Touch, then you may be interested in checking out TechPad Productions’ iMEvil application. iMEvil is a soundboard application featuring the professional voice talent of David Sobolov that features 32 creepy utterances that you can use to scare your friends or just creep yourself out.

While the app may not be a game it is game related: Sobolov’s voice acting work has been featured in over 40 games including Halo Wars, Call of Duty 1 and 4, Red Alert 3, Transformers, Unreal Tournament 3, Chronicles of Riddick, Everquest II, Prototype, and upcoming games Brutal Legend, Dragon Age, Aion and Diablo III.

For more information, be sure to check out imevil.techpadproductions.com.

Sony Online Promotion Raises $20k for Charity

If you read the news here regularly, you might remember that back in January, we reported on Sony Online’s fundraising efforts for the Child’s Play charity. By buying certain specific Child’s Play in-game items in EverQuest and EverQuest II with Station Cash, Sony would donate $10 to the Child’s Play charity per item. Well, the month long promotion has officially come to a close and the totals have been tallied. So how much did gamers raise coming together for the sake of a good cause? In a statement released this week, Sony Online Entertainment announced that its Child’s Play 2009 Winter Charity Drive ended up raising more than $20,000 to the Child’s Play charity.

“The ability of our players to make a donation of this magnitude in these tough economic times is beyond anything we could have hoped for,” said John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment. “As we continue to diversify with programs like Station Cash we will be able to offer unique items that benefit not only our players, but other partnerships and organizations such as Child’s Play in this case.”

Founded in 2003, Child’s Play is a game industry charity that is dedicated to providing children with toys and age-appropriate games at more than 40 hospitals worldwide.

Sony Online Raises Money for Child’s Play

Sony Online Entertainment announced details this morning plans for a fundraising initiative utilizing the EverQuest and EverQuest II MMOs, allowing players to support the Child’s Play charity in its Child’s Play 2009 Winter Charity Drive, all while getting cool new in-game items in the process.

Staring this Tuesday, January 20th and running through the next month, SOE will donate $10 each time an EverQuest or EverQuest II player buys a specific Child’s Play item on the Marketplace with Station Cash, SOE’s recently introduced in-game currency. EverQuest players will be able to buy the Child’s Play Guktan Shield Ornamentation, and EverQuest II players can purchase the Child’s Play Bouncing Baby Bear Cub.

“SOE and our players have been staunch supporters of this charity since 2003, and with the integration of Station Cash into our online games, teaming up with Child’s Play for this online campaign was an easy decision,” said John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment.

Founded in 2003, Child’s Play is a game industry charity that is dedicated to providing children with toys and age-appropriate games at more than 40 hospitals worldwide. If you’re interested in finding out more about Child’s Play, or in making direct donations to the charity, more information is available at www.childsplaycharity.org.

EQII: The Shadow Odyssey Alive and Kicking

Sony Online Entertainment’s latest EverQuest II expansion, The Shadow Odyssey, is alive, kicking and ready for play. The Shadow Odyssey is the fifth expansion for EQII developed by Sony Online Entertainment. This all-in-one compilation pack is available at select retail stores and via digital download at www.station.com for the suggested retail price of $39.99 US.

The Shadow Odyssey features more than 20 new zones - including the new overland zone, Innothule, classic EverQuest dungeon themes (Najena,Mistmoore and The Sebilisian Empire), 18 goal-based dungeons such as Ruins of Guk and Befallen, an increase in the level cap to 200, a new Dungeon Delving mission system for players to replay content, 5 new Heritage Quests with unique rewards, new armor and equipment, new creatures, hundreds of new quests, two new deities and a whole lot more.

The EverQuest Universe Expands This Fall

As thousands of EverQuest fans invaded Las Vegas for the annual Sony Online Entertainment Fan Faire, the company revealed how it plans to keep the momentum going on its popular MMOs: EverQuest and EverQuest. At the annual event SOE announced the EverQuest Seeds of Destruction and EverQuest II The Shadow Odyssey expansions. The company also revealed that all Fan Faire attendees will get these expansion free of charge when they are released.

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