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SOE Strips, Hustles, and… EverQuests?

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted May 10, 2007 7:57 pm PT

Sony Online Entertainment announces High Stakes on the Vegas Strip PS3 poker game, Kung Fu Hustle online fighting game, EverQuest II: Rise of Kunark expansion.

Sony Online Entertainment, once known almost solely for its massively multiplayer online role-playing games, has recently branched out with online trading card games, downloadable retro arcade games for the PlayStation 3, and several PlayStation Portable projects. Today, the company further expanded its development slate with the announcement of three more projects: an original downloadable game for the PS3, an online fighting game based on a popular Hong Kong film, and another expansion to its EverQuest II MMORPG.

Set for release this summer, High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition will bring together five different variations of poker for up to six players online. It also supports PC Web cameras (as well as the PlayStation 2 EyeToy) so that players can judge their bluffing opponents' poker faces and hear their voices tremble. High Stakes includes versions of Texas hold'em, super hold'em, billabong, Tahoe, and Shanghai, as well as detailed stat tracking. High Stakes on the Vegas Strip: Poker Edition will sell for $9.99.

The next game comes from out of left field--or the Far East, anyway. SOE has charged its Taipai-based development studio SOGA to create a Kung Fu Hustle game for the Chinese market. Released in the US in 2005, Kung Fu Hustle was the most successful in a string of actor-director Stephen Chow's kung fu comedies (which also included Shaolin Soccer, God of Cookery, Forbidden City Cop, and Royal Tramp). According to SOE, the game will blend elements of traditional fighting games with the film's cast of characters and online action for up to eight players. The game will be free to play, but players will be able to buy items and extra lives for a fee.

In more familiar fare, SOE also announced the fourth EverQuest II expansion, Rise of Kunark. Those who purchase the game at retail will also receive the base EverQuest II game, the three previous expansions, and an in-game pet. As for the expansion's features, it includes a new playable race in the dragonlike Sarnak, as well as new quests, weapons, armor, zones (many based on original EverQuest locations), and even new deities to worship. Rise of Kunark will launch "on or around" November 13 in stores and online for $39.99.

53 Comments

  • DepressionMoon

    Posted Dec 13, 2008 7:04 pm PT

    Kung Fu Hustle That movie's kinda old did the game get scrapped?

  • Vraeth

    Posted Oct 2, 2007 8:11 pm PT

    People seem to think just because WoW only has one expansion a year that games previous to it didn't have multiple expansions. It's funny how WoW players think they're oldschool. EQ 2 expansions have WAY more content than a WoW patch. Not quite as much content as BC itself did, but I'd estimate about 2/3 the content. I really hate the EQ 2 haters in WoW and the WoW haters in EQ 2, because generally you can tell neither has played the other game. Since I've played both it's obvious to me that they're just talking out of their ass. Same with EQ 1 expansions- People were playing that content 3-4 expansions later. Raid content in WoW is obsoleted as soon as an expansion comes out. MC, BWL, AQ, etc. all that stuff can hardly be counted as mainstream WoW content anymore, just as Kara, Gruul's, SSC, Mag, BT, etc. will be added to that list when the next expansion launches.

  • Demon-Draco

    Posted Jun 16, 2007 8:59 am PT

    Paying for ingame content . . . -.

  • DanC1989

    Posted May 11, 2007 6:23 pm PT

    Strip Poker should be good.

  • Pete5506

    Posted May 11, 2007 6:03 pm PT

    lol different

  • cuitexcutei

    Posted May 11, 2007 4:05 pm PT

    Kung Fu Hustle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • conkertheduke88

    Posted May 11, 2007 1:37 pm PT

    EQ 2 was the worse peice of trash i ever played... i made it to 20 and then it seemed like it to weeks to lvl after

  • BIGboss600

    Posted May 11, 2007 12:52 pm PT

    stilll no mmo on the ps3 why sony im gonna start asking that question more often.

  • tk1080

    Posted May 11, 2007 11:19 am PT

    "EQ2's 4th expansion? That's funny.

    Most other MMO's just call them "patches" or "updates" and are FREE."

    Every MMO gets expasions, and they cost money. EQ2 has probably the largest free updates from all MMOs. Stupid people."

    Theyre not free, cos the majority of the time you pay monthly to play an MMORPG. The money you pay them goes towards patches.

  • Undercova

    Posted May 11, 2007 11:15 am PT

    "EQ2's 4th expansion? That's funny.

    Most other MMO's just call them "patches" or "updates" and are FREE."

    Every MMO gets expasions, and they cost money. EQ2 has probably the largest free updates from all MMOs. Stupid people.

  • eViL_kA

    Posted May 11, 2007 10:58 am PT

    Free Kung Fu Hustle 8 plyr online! Sounds interesting.

  • GGCrew_basic

    Posted May 11, 2007 10:54 am PT

    Quote: ---- EQ2's 4th expansion? That's funny. Most other MMO's just call them "patches" or "updates" and are FREE. ----

    Yes, just like Burning Crusade was free.
    Or Factions, Nightfall, or the upcoming Eye of the North will be free.
    Or DDO: Forsaken Lands.
    Or Zilart, Promathia, or Urhgan.

    The $40 for this EQ2 expansion also provides the original game and the previous three expansions (Desert of Flames, Kingdom of Sky, Echoes of Faydwer). As some one who skipped a couple expansions, I think this is a great value.

  • icym

    Posted May 11, 2007 10:50 am PT

    EQ shall never die!

  • codepunk

    Posted May 11, 2007 10:47 am PT

    Kung Fu Hustle! Heck yeah, sweet movie. Heck, they could just make a deal with the folks that made Rag Doll Kung-Fu and have it on the market real quick.

  • snozberry

    Posted May 11, 2007 10:16 am PT

    Actually one of the rare cool things SOE is doing, if it wasn't for having to zone, I would probably play eq2. Anyway playable sarnaks very cool.

  • RiseFM

    Posted May 11, 2007 9:59 am PT

    How about a MMO version of Poker Ladies?

  • goddessakasha

    Posted May 11, 2007 9:58 am PT

    Yay!!! A new EQ2 Expansion! I can't wait... yes I'm serious.

  • Bgrngod

    Posted May 11, 2007 9:47 am PT

    EQ2's 4th expansion? That's funny.

    Most other MMO's just call them "patches" or "updates" and are FREE.

  • kyo_tetsuei

    Posted May 11, 2007 9:23 am PT

    Seriously, please run your articles through a spellchecker, I'm pretty sure Taipei is included in whatever spellchecking software you're using. Other than that, I'd love to play that Kung Fu Hustle game, and I'm definitely sure that the Eye Toy poker could be used for strip poker purposes, but... would you really want to see most of the people you would be playing against in the nude? I wouldn't.

  • Generic_Dude

    Posted May 11, 2007 9:16 am PT

    Oh, I thought it was strip poker, lol... I thought SOE had completely lost their minds. Of course, with Eye Toy support, it might go that way regardless, lol.

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