Sony Online Entertainment is a game development and game publishing division of Sony that is best known for creating massively multiplayer online games, including EverQuest, EverQuest II, The Matrix Online, PlanetSide, Star Wars Galaxies, Free Realms, and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, DC Universe Online and other smaller games in development. In 2008 Sony Online Entertainment’s game Everquest was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for advancing the art form of MMORPG games. In 2011, the service was brought offline after it was determined that its user... accounts were compromised in attacks related to the ones that brought the PlayStation Network offline. Sony Online Entertainment's history can be seen as starting with Sony Interactive Studios America , an internal game development studio of Sony that formed around 1995. In 1996, John Smedley was put in charge of SISA's development of an online role-playing video game that would evolve into the MMORPG EverQuest.
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