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"Sony Online Entertainment has launched The Agency: Covert Ops, its first game for the social network world of Facebook.
The game is free-to-play, with optional transactions found in the Black Market. Players may choose from five classes, customize their character with an array of clothing and other choices, and recruit their Facebook friends to join their spy network."
"Many senior staffers, including the studio head, for Sony Online Entertainment’s Seattle Studio, the team behind the much delayed, The Agency, have suddenly left their positions. Studio director and executive producer Matt Wilson, art director Corey Dangel, and producer John Smith all decided it was time to move onto greener pastures, and, in doing so, formed their own company, Detonator Games."
"The public hasn't seen much of The Agency since it was first revealed in 2007. When questioned about the lack of updates on the ambitious PC/PS3 online espionage game, SOE's Hal Milton told us: "We don't want to keep having hype sessions just showing movies and crap. We need to make the game and not just keep promoting it."
GDC continues that idea, with Sony Online Entertainment revealing nothing more than a distant release window for both The Agency and DC Universe Online. John Smedley, p..."
"You may know that Sony Online Entertainment's two upcoming MMO's, the shooter The Agency and RPG DC Universe Online, are coming to both the PC and the PS3. Guess SOE feels pretty good about how the development is going and it looks like more of their MMOs will appear on consoles in the future."
"The Agency is promising to have some cool locations. I say cool because one of the hub cities in the game is Prague where I live.
There are some really interesting aspects about The Agency that I quite like and I think will give it a cool niche. When you start out you choose which agency to join and then move on to start completing missions. The competition is friendly and so while you can PvP against them you dont have to and at times might even have to team up."
"ony Online Entertainment's upcoming game the Agency is full of Why hasn't anyone else thought of this, gameplay concepts and ideas. As though the thought of playing an MMO shooter in a slick world of superspies and mercenaries isn't cool enough, the game adds a collectible (and actually functional) Operative system and seemingly plenty to do between intrigue-filled missions. We spoke with lead designer Hal Milton about the game and got him to talk us through a mission, explain how the game g..."
Sony are looking to implement a micro-transaction policy in pricing with The Agency, Sony Online Entertainment's new spy-based MMO. Similar to games such as Guild Wars, micro-transactions are payments made for in-game items, and pay only areas, rather than paying a lump sum for a time period. However, sceptics remain critical of the possibility that end users could end up paying more through micro-transactions than a monthly fee system.
"In the press announcement on the game it was mentioned that SOE is looking to take the online gaming industry to new places with The Agency in terms of its design - could you elaborate?
HM: We're attempting to evolve the genre by taking the things that work and enhancing those, while minimizing some of the things that make a standard online game feel more like a going to work simulator than a fun experience.
We're addressing things like character creation and progression complexity and ..."
The New York Times takes a look at Sony's bid to revitalize their ailing presence in the online gaming world, now dominated by heavy hitters like World of Warcraft. Sony Online Entertainment has already revealed The Agency, a spy/action MMOR FPS. The company will make other MMORPG's that reach out to wider audience, like Free Realms for younger gamers (particularly girls). SOE also confirms will expand its nearly non-existant operations in Asia outside of Japan.
"The Agency, a massively multiplayer online game casting players as James Bond-a-like spy characters, is the first confirmed MMO for PlayStation 3. Our sister magazine PSM reveals several juicy details in its latest issue. The mag expects a holiday 2007 release date, but publisher Sony Online has clarified with GamesRadar that no official date has been set yet.
Developed by Sony Online Entertainment, the brains behind EverQuest Adventures on PS2, The Agency will offer "action, adventure an..."