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Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is a game development and game publishing division of Sony that is best known for creating massively multiplayer online game, including EverQuest, EverQuest II, PlanetSide, Star Wars Galaxies and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes which have gained hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers link.
Sony Online Entertainment and Verant's history can be seen as starting with Sony Interactive Studios America (SISA), an internal game development studio of Sony that formed around 1995. In 1996, John Smedley (known to the gaming community as "Smed") was put in charge of SISA's development of an online computer role-playing game, or MMORPG that would evolve into EverQuest. Smed hired programmers Brad McQuaid and Steve Clover who had come to Smedley's attention through their work on the singleplayer RPG Warwizard.
In April 1998, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) was formed by merging parts of Sony Online Ventures with Sony Pictures Entertainment'. Within a matter of...
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