GameSpot's Planetside preview is online, offering some hands-on impressions of this long in development MMOFPS. Seventeen new screenshots are included.

Developer Interview Part 1 is a very brief Q&A on Planetside Universe, asking someone from the Planetside team about day/night cycles in this MMOFPS. Thanks Blues News.

HomeLAN Fed's latest Planetside team member interview is up, and this time artist Joe Marulla is questioned about his background in game development and his work on Sony Online's MMOFPS.

The official Planetside website now allows you to sign up for the first beta test of this massively multiplayer first person shooter. Applications are accepted until the 8th. Thanks Pie4Foo.

HomeLAN Fed continues their PlanetSide developer Q&A feature with an interview with Scott Martin, one of several programmers on this MMOFPS. Scott answers questions about his background in computer programming, previous games he worked on, what a typical day for him his like and more.

A brief PlanetSide development update is available on the official PlanetSide site. Producer Dave Georgeson writes about all the things they have been working. PlanetSide is an upcoming MMOFPS. Thanks Blues News.

The PlanetSide website has a new team comments update. Producer Dave Georgeson talks about the new features in the game. PlanetSide is an upcoming massively multiplayer FPS game. Thanks HomeLAN Fed.

HomeLAN Fed has another Q&A with one of the Planetside team member. This time JCal interviews producer Dave Georgeson about his involvement in Verant's upcoming MMOFPS.

GameSpot has a new PlanetSide Q&A, showing that they are still working on this massively multiplayer action game. They ask Verant producer Dave Georgeson about the development, the delay, major changes since last year, character development, if we can upgrade the ingame vehicles, minimum specs for the game, what we can expect from E3 and more. New screenshots are included as well.

GS: Have there been any major changes to the game's overall design from last year? Is the underlying premise of the game--team combat, overrunning enemy bases, and so on--still the same?
DG: The underlying premise is still the same--total global war across 10 continents with thousands of players playing all the roles needed to achieve victory for their empire. But many details have changed. Since those details weren't discussed earlier, I'm not certain you'd notice the changes. A lot of work was done creating systems that would keep the players involved for an extended war, as well as economic systems and some reorganization of the global tactics areas.

HomeLAN has an interview this morning with the PR monkey for Planetside. There isnt anything new about the game but if you feel like getting to know someone new, now is your chance! I guess if you want something Planetside related here are some purty pictures?

HomeLAN Fed has posted a Planetside Q&A, chatting with senior programmer Don Neufeld about his work and hobbies.

Also on Computer and Video Games is an interview with Dave Georgeson, producer on PlanetSide. This interview is the 3rd part of C&VG series of Sony Online interviews. Dave answers five questions about Verant's upcoming massively multiplayer FPS.

HomeLAN Fed has posted the first of a series of Planetside employee profiling interviews. In the first interview, JCal asks art director Trammel Isaac about his work on the upcoming MMOFPS.

Havent seen any new shots of Planetside in a while, well now you have. Verant has just pushed out 5 new screenshots of the game, and you can look at the entire archive here.

The Planetside website has been updated with a new producers letter, written by Dave Georgeson. Dave talks about how the team is working on the server architecture of the game, character databases, vehicle physics, artwork and "the really fun bits like figuring out new ways to blow up other players.". Planetside is Verant's upcoming massively multiplayer online first person shooter.

Bummer of the evening... Looks like Planetside which was looking quite good at E3 is not going to be showing up for a while still. A recent update from Verant (Thanks Sean) mentions a 2003 expected release date: In addition, Dave Georgeson made a messageboard post (Thanks VE) which gives a little more on the matter (Well, not much)

Update: PlanetSide is little behind that of Star Wars Galaxies. McDaniel expects the game to be ready for release in Q1 2003.

D. Georgeson: The information in that thread is in no way official. The game will take as long to make as it takes. That's very grey, but it's the only answer I'm prepared to give at this time.

So uh... yeah I guess that means we wont bee seeing Planetside for a while. Bummer because it's purty and I was looking forward to finding out what is so $10/month special about it.

Verant has posted a little bit of info about the upcoming Planetside beta testing that will require 18+yr olds to sign NDAs before participating in the approx 4 month beta testing cycle. Thanks Moogles

XGR sent word they'll have a new interview tonight, talking to Danny Han who is working on Planetside, the upcoming Verant MMOFPS. The interview starts at 8PM Central.

According to a few places, Dave Georgeson known for his work on the TRIBES stuff has taken up a new home working with Verant on the Planetside project. You can see Blake Hutchins confirm it here if you wish. Thanks MikeD, [Zed], and Ukuri

PlanetSide Center has an interview with Kevin McCann, lead designer on PlanetSide. There are 26 Q&As on this massively multiplayer FPS game. Some pretty good actual game specific questions in there, with things covered like world size, ingame hacking, armor, demo recording, the use of money, the community system and a lot more.

Mystifier : Q7. [Appartments] "Will our apartments be customizable, shape and size wise (ala Anarchy Online)?"
StrykerPS : "The shape and size of the apartments won’t be customizable. As to furnishings, this hasn’t been decided yet."

Mystifier : Q26. [Player/Model] "In June's producer's letter, Steve George discussed how you guys were now able to blend two player animations at the same time. Can this technology be comparable to TF2's parametric animation?"
StrykerPS : "To be perfectly honest, I don’t know how TF2’s full animation system works, so I don’t know. Our blending of animations basically means that you can see a soldier walking, running, crouching, etc while reloading a weapon, and so on. It looks really good. It also looks great when you see a soldier running along aiming up or down"

Thanks Blues News.