Sony and MLG will make PlanetSide 2 into a competitive e-sport with huge teams

As an eSport, PlanetSide 2 will probably have the biggest matches of any competitive game.

GamesBeat 2012 interview vault: Check out our archive of conversations with industry leaders

Here's the full year's worth of interviews with the movers and shakes of gaming.

Sony Online Entertainment chief says online frag game PlanetSide 2 is a smashing success (interview)

And by the way, don't hack the game. Because John Smedley hates cheaters with a passion.

Gamers at Work reveals the risks and emotional complications in entrepreneurship (interview)

Gamers at Work is a collection of interviews with some of the game industry's most iconic founders, developers, and entrepreneurs. It's also a handy guide for aspiring business people hoping to break into games.

Sony’s free-to-play online shooter Planetside 2 will pack 2,000 players in an arena (interview)

First-person shooter games have become a multibillion-dollar market. But no one has really succeeded in the massively multiplayer online space with high-end hardcore shooters. Sony Online Entertainment hopes to change that with the upcoming launch of Planetside 2. John Smedley, …

Free Realms turns three years old with more than 20 million players (exclusive)

Free Realms, the free-to-play family-friendly online world created by Sony Online Entertainment, has turned three years old. To celebrate, Sony is inviting the game’s 20 million registered users to a variety of in-game activities and new content.

Free Realms is …

Classic online game EverQuest celebrates 13th birthday with switch to free to play business model

Boy, they grow up so fast: March 16 will mark the 13th birthday of Sony Online Entertainment‘s (SOE) massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORG) EverQuest. Sometime during March the business model for the fantasy classic will change from subscription fee …

Free-to-play transition brings seven-fold revenue increase for DC Universe Online

The potentially risky move of taking DC Universe Online , the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game from Sony Online Entertainment, to a free-to-play model, seems to have paid off, with large increases in revenue being reported .

Earlier this month, …

Sony Online’s Free Realms picks up a whopping 20M users

Sony Online Entertainment’s Free Realms online game has pulled in 20 million registered users since its launch in the spring of 2009, the company said today.

That’s a pretty big milestone for a fantasy massively multiplayer online game. Sony Online …